Vortex coffin

This pre-Code comics image plays neatly with both the “coffin stuffer” and “tube girl” themes so loving explored in the pulp era less than a generation earlier. It is reblogged from this 28 September 2015 post at Infernal Wonders. The now-dead tumblr (“Malignantly Useless,” a fine Thomas Ligotti-derived name!) on which the image first appeared attributed the image to Issue #6 of Marvel’s Astonishing series (1951-1957), and a trip to this series’s entry in the Grand Comics Database does indeed turn up the cover.

Malignantly Useless attributes the cover to Norman Steinberg.

Poll results

After running the slider poll as the top post here for a week I have results, and it appears that about 60% of people responding to the poll prefer the long page to the slider format for comics archives. Following this feedback I shall be continuing the Tales of Gnosis College archives in the long page format, as I just have for the most recent published chapter of The Adventures of Ashley Madder.

People who like sliders, however, should not despair, as I there are some projects for which sliders may be well suited, such as the forthcoming updated English and foreign-language editions of Bait (yes, I am that crazy) for which the more compact slider format will load faster and work better on mobile devices. I am also still considering offering sliders as a secondary archive option on Tales chapters published in the future.

I am grateful to each and every one of you who participated in the poll, offered comments on site or e-mailed me on this issue, whatever your opinion. It is always gratifying to hear from readers, and your weighing in has made this an easier decision for me. Thank you.