This is a collection of stories from the first 10 issues of the classic Vampirella series. The graphics are all shown in b&w. Authors and artists include Forest J Ackerman, Tom Sutton, Don Glut, Neal Adams, Bill Parente, Jerry Grandenetti, Mike Royer, Jack Sparling, Dan Adkins, Steve Engelhart, and others. The rear cover of the book and the inside of the rear cover show color reproductions of the covers of the first ten issues.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Crimson Chronicles "Maximum" for 2008!,
By Babytoxie (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Vampirella: Crimson Chronicles, Volume 1 (Paperback)
I am very grateful when a publisher dusts off some old material from my childhood for me to enjoy again. The thing is, even though I'm all grown up and have a steady income, I don't have thousands of dollars available to drop on high-end collections. Archives, Masterworks, Absolute Editions, Omnibuses... some may love these more permanent, high-quality editions, but I prefer to get more material for my dollar through the black and white "phone books" being put out by more and more publishers. This format is tailor-made for reprinting the numerous b&w mags that populated the newsstands of the `70s (Savage Sword of Conan, Rampaging Hulk, and others have received the treatment), but even then, money-conscious shoppers can get shafted. Case in point: the recent hardcover edition of CREEPY ARCHIVES, which reprints the first 6 issues of Warren Publishing's Creepy magazine. Yes, the b&w art looks spectacular in high-resolution, but when I saw how much it cost, I put aside my hopes for enjoying any of the old Warren series in an inexpensive format. Luckily, Harris Comics stepped up to the plate with VAMPIRELLA: CRIMSON CHRONICLES MAXIMUM VOLUME 1, and they hit a home run.Reader, take note: this review is for a different collection than the smaller "Crimson Chronicles" trades released by Harris Comics several years back - it's just posted here since Amazon does not have VCCM VOLUME 1 on its website. VCCM VOLUME 1 is a 2008 release collecting all of the Vampirella tales from issues #1, 2, & 8-37 of the original black and white Warren magazine. It's a very affordable 448-page collection, similar in format to a Marvel Essential, combining the aforementioned out-of-print trades. Featured writers include Forrest J Ackerman, Archie Goodwin, Steve Englehart, and Len Wein, with art by Tom Sutton, Jose Gonzalez, and Jose Ortiz, with Goodwin and Gonzalez providing the majority of the work. There's a nice thread of continuity running through all the stories, with some interesting character development for supporting players such as Conrad and Adam van Helsing, Pendragon, and even Count Dracula. This is the original sci-fi version of Vampirella (from the planet Drakulon), and the stories are chock-full of cosmic horror. Honestly, I read these stories back in the `70s, and I don't remember then being nearly this good. Even though the writers rotate fairly frequently, the work as a whole is surprisingly solid, even when writer "Flaxman Loew" arrives near the end of the collection to take Vampirella on some truly cheesy adventures. But regardless of the story, the quality of Gonzalez' art is astonishing. It's interesting to compare this work to what is passed off as Vampirella these days and see just how far the character has fallen. The only downside I see to this collection is the cover by Jim Silke. Silke is a great artist, but he had nothing to do with the original Vampirella series, and his image of a dull-eyed Vampirella in a little soft-core BDSM action is something that may fit the tone of the modern stories but doesn't fit any of the material within this book. Better that Harris had gone with one of the original covers from Sanjulian, like they did on the back cover.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Silly and sexist but kind of fun,
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This review is from: Vampirella: Crimson Chronicles, Volume 1 (Paperback)
The adventures of a space vampiress on Earth. I personally never liked this as a kid. I found her costume ridiculously skimpy (even for an adult comic book) and I didn't find alcoholism funny (Pendragon constantly getting drunk was more disturbing than amusing). But, reading them as an adult, I grudgingly admit they are SOMEWHAT fun. I think the artwork is terrible and some of the stories really go overboard but I'd be lying if I said I hated it. Vampirella comes across as an intelligent, take charge woman while most of the men are helpless jerks. I also did like Adam van Helsing falling in love with her but he disappears halfway through the book only to reappear during the last two tales! That's another problem--there's NO continuity between stories. I'm assuming stories weren't cut out but it seems that way. Still it's a somewhat fun enjoyable way to spend a few hours for vampire fans (like me).
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