Good call, thanks for the advice man.

5- LILITH



Dracula's Daughter. What more can you say? Created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan, her first appearance in Giant Sized Chillers #1, I became a fan of this character. She's different than her father and just a deadly. Love the costume as well...

5. Frankenstein (as depicted by Dick Briefer in Prize Comics and Frankenstein)

I was introduced to this series indirectly, in The Comic Book Book, a paperback collecting essays on old comics (the sequel to All In Color For A Dime). Frankenstein aficionado Don Glut made this sound like one of the coolest things ever, and when I finally got the opportunity to read it, I wasn't disappointed!
Briefer's Frankenstein was initially a literal giant, an evil creation that cribbed much of the classic Universal version, but was ultimately distinctly its own thing. Briefer's monster was a rampaging, bloodthirsty menace, pushing the boundaries of good taste, but loads of crude fun. The early run ("The New Adventures of Frankenstein") had an ongoing continuity linking its installments, leading eventually to a rehabilitation at the hands of the military, who neatened his appearance and put him to work as "Mr. Frankenstein", and the series quickly mutated into a humor strip!
But after a few years in his own comic, operating as a mild-mannered funny character, Briefer pulled another turn-around. In 1952, after the comic had been dormant for 3 years, he revived it again as an all-out horror comic. 

What followed in the 16 issues was a roller coaster ride of imaginative horror, with dinosaurs, mummies, brides, murderers, all the unleashed terrors you could fit into a 50's horror comic! Absolutely astounding stuff, always highly readable and enjoyable. 

I've read a few issues from the humor stretch. It really was quite funny.

I've read the second issue of Grim Wit, but I apparently blocked Horrilor from my memory. Thanks for the reminder

I seriously considered another of Corben's narrators, Mag the hag, but she just got edged out by Skeletor in the end

I enjoyed the initial 4 issue mini series featuring Elsa by Dan Abnett, but it came after Stern used Ulysses in a story featuring Dr. Druid, Wakanda, The Mole Man and Fin Fan Foom in the Marvel Universe anthology series and while it was a great story, it did set Ulysses firmly within the MU as a whole.

Elsa was then features in Nextwave by Warren Ellis and another Bloodstone offsrping (a son I think) was part of the Marvel Now Avengers Arena title, but I didn't read it. Bloodstone was then part of the team featured in the Avengers 1959 mini by Howard Chaykin I believe, which again was a good story on its own but again used Bloodstone as part of the bigger MU in the past, as Stern had done in Marvel Universe. But it all started with Mark Gruenwald using the Bloodstone legacy for a stry arc when Cap went bi-weekly for the summer in the late 80s in the Bloodstone Hunt arc, which is where it was established that Ulysses was part of the larger MU. So your instinct is correct that the Bloodstone mythos was moved into the MU, but it was done with Ulysses, not Elsa. In fact her initial mini was more apart from the main MU in feel than any of the the appearances of Ulysses since the 80s. After that mini, not so much though.

-M