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    From Will Dockery@21:1/5 to Kishin on Sat Nov 21 05:58:53 2015
    On Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 5:39:52 PM UTC-5, Kishin wrote:
    Will Dockery wrote:
    The Gold Key Dark Shadows was so weird and perplexing to regular
    followers of the show at the time, it was almost as if the writers&
    artists didn't even watch the television version! This was also true
    of the paperback novels, but they were fun, and I remember looking at
    them as another alternate universe of Collinwood, which the official
    series often went into, anyhow...

    This story comes from Dark Shadows No. 30, February 1975. The cover
    was painted by George Wilson. The fine script is Arnold Drake, and the
    art is Joe Certa:

    http://www.goldkeystories.com/2009/12/dark-shadows-weekend-witch-hunters.html

    Thanks for posting that! I've never read a DS comic before. I can't say
    I feel like I missed much, but it was interesting none-the-less.

    --

    Kishin

    Yes, they were some odd comic books even by the odd standards comics had back then,

    Here is issue #6, which deals with a Mummy at Collinwood, of all things:

    http://monstermemories.blogspot.com/2008/12/dark-shadows-issue-6.html

    "...In the story, a downright hefty and obviously well-fed mummy ends up in Collinsport. Barnabas, turning into a detective, only needed to don a deerstalker cap and smoke a pipe, while wielding a magnifying glass to be Sherlock Holmes. There's a lot of
    running, and finger-pointing, and Barnabas is suspected; while he blames poor lycanthropic Quentin for the mummy's misdeeds. Ol' Barney, being the good guy that he is, prepares to poison his pal to help him out. After all, what are friends for, if not to
    show tough love? Quentin has a killer hangover and just wants to be left alone. As for the mummy's murderous ways, there's never any reason for the bandaged one to attack those random people, but I guess it's just what he does, being a mummy and all.
    Maybe his weight causes him to be insecure and the killing is just a way of compensating."

    And so it went.

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  • From Will Dockery@21:1/5 to Will Dockery on Sat Nov 21 06:18:23 2015
    On Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 12:06:51 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
    The Gold Key Dark Shadows was so weird and perplexing to regular
    followers of the show at the time, it was almost as if the writers &
    artists didn't even watch the television version! This was also true
    of the paperback novels, but they were fun, and I remember looking at
    them as another alternate universe of Collinwood, which the official
    series often went into, anyhow...

    This story comes from Dark Shadows No. 30, February 1975. The cover
    was painted by George Wilson. The fine script is Arnold Drake, and the
    art is Joe Certa:

    Here seems to be all that is left of that Gold Key website:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20100308182200/http://www.goldkeystories.com/2009/12/dark-shadows-weekend-witch-hunters.html

    Dark Shadows - "The Weekend Witch Hunters"

    Dark Shadows was the coolest soap opera that was ever on television; and Barnabas Collins was television's first sexy cool vampire. Gold Key had a knack for bringing the strengths of the TV source material straight onto pulp paper. What's cool here, of
    course, is that the residents of Collinwood - including the family vampire and werewolf - are the most interesting, decent, honorable people in the story.

    This story comes from Dark Shadows No. 30, February 1975.

    I did get one page, so far:

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iL6ciL0GqvY/SzoeurQ22XI/AAAAAAAAHBU/7UMMNrvJ7rM/s1600-h/Weekend013.jpg

    Looking around the Wayback machine to see what can be salvaged...

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