Frankenstein #24
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeEgmont Ehapa's German-language 'Frankenstein' reprint series belongs to a tradition of bringing Dick Briefer's groundbreaking Prize Comics work to European audiences. Briefer's Frankenstein feature, launched in Prize Comics #7 (December 1940), is regarded by comics historians as the first ongoing horror feature in American comic books — a distinction that makes any faithful reprint edition historically significant. The series is also notable for its genre-shifting arc: Briefer moved the same character from visceral Golden Age horror through absurdist comedy and back to pre-Code horror, a creative range unmatched by any contemporary title. Reprinting these stories in German gives the Egmont line a genuine place in the broader international rediscovery of Briefer's work.
# Frankenstein #24 The issue contains at least two stories. In the first, a group of men discovers the sleeping Frankenstein monster and attempts to kill it with a sledgehammer, but the creature awakens and attacks them, proving difficult to defeat. In the second story, a sea captain's crew is killed by dynamite, and a man named Olaf takes command of their ship to rescue a woman named Hilda trapped on an iceberg; later, a ghostly figure appears to guide the troubled Lester, revealing connections to Hilda and the ship's fate. Several weeks later, Lester drives with a woman named Lana, who confesses her difficulty in moving past her husband's death, while a spirit claiming to be her deceased husband Richard appears to guide her troubled mind.
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Dick Briefer — writing and drawing under the pseudonym 'Frank N. Stein' in his earliest installments — introduced the 'New Adventures of Frankenstein' in Prize Comics #7 (December 1940) for publisher Prize Publications. He ran the feature almost single-handedly through the entire Prize Comics run and then through the standalone Frankenstein title (1945–1954), alternating between horror, comedy, and propaganda-inflected wartime storytelling. Egmont Ehapa, the German arm of the Scandinavian Egmont Group and a market leader in German-language comics since 1951, has periodically packaged classic genre material under its 'Fantasy Classic' and related imprint lines; the Frankenstein series on its catalog is consistent with that reprint-anthology tradition. Specific editorial or production details for the 2025 Egmont Ehapa Frankenstein #24 could not be located in any online source.
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- The Egmont Ehapa 'Frankenstein' series is listed as an active title in the publisher's catalog on comicshop.de, under its 'Fantasy Classic / Diverse' imprint grouping.
- The source material for any Egmont Ehapa Frankenstein reprint is almost certainly Dick Briefer's Prize Comics / Frankenstein run, published by Prize Publications (USA) from 1940 to 1954.
- Briefer's Frankenstein feature is considered by comics historians to be 'America's first ongoing comic book series to fall squarely within the horror genre,' debuting in Prize Comics #7 (December 1940).
- Prize Comics #24 (October 1942) — a potentially reprinted issue — is historically notable as the installment where Bulldog Denny rallied every Prize Comics superhero (Black Owl, Green Lama, Dr. Frost, Yank and Doodle, and others) to unite against Frankenstein, one of the earliest publisher-wide crossover events in Golden Age comics.
- Briefer's standalone Frankenstein title ran 33 issues: a humor phase (#1–17, 1945–1949) in which the monster became 'The Merry Monster,' followed by a horror revival (#18–33, 1952–1954) that ended with the Comics Code Authority's creation.
- Frankenstein Comics #24 in the standalone Prize series (1953) falls within the horror-revival phase (#18–33), for which Dick Briefer provided story, cover, and interior art throughout.
- No specific contents, creative credits, ISBN, or publication date for the 2025 Egmont Ehapa Frankenstein #24 were found on any key-issue database, collector forum, GCD, Key Collector, GoCollect, or retailer article consulted.
- Briefer's full Frankenstein run has been reprinted in English by IDW/Yoe Books (2010) and PS Artbooks; the Egmont Ehapa edition represents part of the broader international rehabilitation of this overlooked Golden Age body of work.
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