Thursday, September 28, 2006

Halloween Countdown: Mort Number Two


The Grim Ghost (at least the one pictured below) was a character from the Atlas comics company who was created in 1975. He wins the award for the Mortiest Mort I have featured, only appearing in 3 issues before not only the series but the whole company of Atlas was cancelled. The synopsis of his story was that he was a highwayman in Colonial America who was hanged and then became a mercenary for Satan, capturing evil souls and returning them to Hell. This seems to be almost its own archetype in comics, with the origins of Marvel's Ghost Rider, DC's Blue Devil, and McFarlane's Spawn all having origins that are similar in nature. None of those characters shared GG's keen fashion sense, however.

Halloween Mort Number Two is in a different vein. Have fun.

2 Comments:

Blogger KeeperOfBooks34 said...

Is this Dr. Occult again?

11:07 AM

 
Blogger Phylemon said...

No, it is neither of those individuals, but ironically enough I did recently see this Mort in a graphic novel alongside those two individuals and others in the "Trenchcoat Brigade".

1:58 PM

 

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