HALLS OF HAMMER: 'THE MUMMY' COMIC STRIP ISSUE 22

'THE DEVIL HAS SENT ME TWINS OF EVIL' HAMMER FILMS VAMPIRE CLASSIC IN SEVENTEEN PAGES

CAST:

Peter Cushing (Gustav Weil), Madeline Collinson (Frieda Gelhorn), Mary Collinson (Maria Gelhorn), Damien Thomas (Count Karnstein), David Warbeck (Anton Hoffer), Kathleen Byron (Katy Weil), Dennis Price (Dietrich), Isobel Black (Ingrid Hoffer)

PRODUCTION:

Director – John Hough, Screenplay – Tudor Gates, Producer – Harry Fine, Photography – Dick Bush, Music – Harry Robinson, Special Effects – Bert Luxford, Makeup – George Blackler & John Webber, Art Direction – Roy Stannard. Production Company – Hammer Films. UK. 1972.

SYNOPSIS:

After the death of their parents, the Gelhorn twins, the sensual and cunning Frieda and the timid, conservative Maria, go to live in the village of Karnstein with their puritanical uncle Gustav Weil. Gustav is head of the witch-hunting Brotherhood and opposes the current Count Karnstein. The Count, bored of petty Satanic rituals, offers his soul to the Devil in return for greater pleasures. The blood of a woman he has just killed drops down into the crypt of his ancestor Mircalla and she appears to him as a wraith, putting the bite of vampirism on him as they make love. Karnstein then seduces and makes a vampire of Frieda. 

HOUSE OF HAMMER MAGAZINE: THE LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES COMIC STRIP

PETER CUSHING HOUSE OF HAMMER MAGAZINE: ORIGINAL ALBERTO CUYAS ARTWORK

Original artwork page and panels from House of Hammer magazine: Comic strip of The Curse of Frankenstein. A 20-page comic strip published in two parts in the December 1976 and January 1977 issues of the magazine The House of Hammer (volume 1, issue #'s 2 and 3, published by General Book Distribution). It was drawn by Alberto Cuyas from a script by Donne Avenell (based on the John Burke novelization). The cover of issue 2 featured a painting by Brian Lewis of the Baron being attacked by his creation. How many of us remember this?