Robert Bloch - Comic Adaptations

Comic Adaptations

A number of Bloch's works have been adapted in graphic form for comics. These include:

• "The Beasts of Barsac" (aka "The Living Dead") in Vampire Tales
• "The Past Master" in Christopher Lee's Treasury of Terror. NY: Pyramid, 1967.
• "The Shambler from the Stars"
• a. in Journey Into Mystery 3 (Marvel Comics, Feb 1973). Script by Ron Goulart, art by Jim Starlin and Tom Palmer.
• b. in Masters of Terror 1 (Marvel large size b&w, July 1975).
• "The Man Who Cried Wolf" (as "The Man Who Cried Werewolf!") in Monsters Unleashed 1 (Marvel Comics, large size b&w, 1973), PP27–35. Script by Gerry Conway, art by Pablo Marcos.
• "The Shadow from the Steeple" in Journey Into Mystery 5 (Marvel Comics, June 1973)
• "The Fear Planet" (as "And the Blood Ran Green") in Starstream 4 (Whitman, 1976). Script by Arnold Drake, art by Nevio Zaccara.
• Hell on Earth. Standalone graphic adaptation by Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming, based on Bloch's story from Weird Tales (1942). DC Comics, 1985.
• "A Toy for Juliette" in Deepest Dimensions 1 (1993).
• Lori Standalone graphic adaptation by Ben Templesmith. (IDW, 2009).
• "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper"
• a. in Journey Into Mystery 2 (Marvel Comics, Dec 1972). Script by Ron Goulart, art by Gil Kane and Ralph Reese.
• b. in Masters of Terror 1 (Marvel large size b&w, July 1975)
• c. as three-issue mini-series (IDW, 2010) and also collected as trade paperback (IDW, 2011). Scripted by Joe R. Lansdale.
• "Final Performance" in Doomed 1 (IDW, 2010). Adapted by Kristian Donaldson and Chris Ryall. Also included in Completely Doomed graphic anthology (IDW, 2011).
• "Warm Farewell" in Doomed 2 (IDW, 2010)
• "Fat Chance" in Doomed 3 (IDW, 2010).(Also includes a remembrance of Bloch by Jack Ketchum.)
• "Ego Trip" in Doomed 4 (IDW, 2010).
• "That Hellbound Train". 3-issue mini-series. (IDW, 2011). Scripted by Joe R. Lansdale

The comic Aardwolf (No 2, Feb 1995) is a special tribute issue to Bloch. It contains brief tributes to Bloch from Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Julius Schwartz and Peter Straub incorporated within a piece called "Robert Bloch: A Retrospective" compiled by Clifford Lawrence. The first part of the text of Bloch's story 'The Past Master" is also reprinted in this issue.