Legion of Monsters: Werewolf by Night

    (Marvel, 2007)
™ and © 2007 Marvel Characters, Inc.

In the early 1970’s a revision of the Comics Code Authority allowed previously banned characters like vampires and werewolves to return to comics. Marvel responded with an entire monster line, including Tomb of Dracula, Frankenstein and Werewolf by Night, which lasted most of the decade.

In this title, one of a series of 3 one-shots, (the other two being Morbius and Man-Thing), Marvel revisits Werewolf by Night in name if not in character. With stunning art by Greg Land, writer Mike Carey’s story features Rhona a small-town girl living in Salvage, Alabama whose lycanthropic curse is no secret to her fellow townsfolk. The self-appointed arbiters of justice in Salvage systematically killed all of Rhona’s family and Rhona seems strangely resigned to her fate. But when stranger rides in one night, she discovers that her life may hold something other than the inevitable dead-end that her family accepted.

A second story about the Frankenstein monster is a study in pathos. The monster has been given sanctuary in a church but when the church hierarchy needs him to solve a problem with one of their fellow priests, the monster has no choice but to agree to their wishes. It will signal the end of his asylum, but he is after all, just a monster.

— George Haberberger
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April, 2007
Cover Price: $2.99
5 copies available from $7.95 		Mike Carey, Skottie YoungGreg Land, Skottie Young