Frankenstein #8

When Awful Annie and Frankenstein decide they need some zombies to complete their household, they send their ghouls to dig up bodies from the local cemetery—only to find all the graves mysteriously empty. Frankenstein discovers the bodies have been turned into zombies enslaved at a nearby house, and sets out to free them with Annie's experimental antidote, but Dr. Gideon Feldman's arrival threatens to uncover a far more mundane explanation for the whole affair. A humorous tale from 1947 that proves things aren't always as supernatural as they seem.

Frankenstein receives a mysterious package of Gorgonzola cheese from his old friend Pierre Limburger in France, but the pungent aroma proves so powerful that it attracts thousands of rats to the town of Hamline—and Frankenstein himself becomes their unwitting leader when his musical playing seems to charm them away. What the townspeople don't realize is that their gift of gratitude, the prized Tockinetti Clock, will become caught up in the chaos that follows.

In this playful 1947 humor tale from Frankenstein #8, Jerry Seagull and Joe Shoestring—clever parodies of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster—insist that Frankenstein has the power of flight, just like their own comic creation, Blooperman. The story leans into the absurdity of their belief, blending satire and whimsy in a short, tongue-in-cheek adventure.

When Frankenstein washes ashore on a tropical island, the locals mistake him for their prophesied king—a confusion born from a scheming seer's rigged fortune-telling and a name pulled at random from a mystical book. Frankenstein finds himself swept up in island politics, royal expectations, and an impending marriage to the island's princess, all while his mysterious disappearing-ink signature keeps complicating matters. It's a rollicking tall tale that explains how the good-natured monster became royalty, told with humor and heart by Dick Briefer.