Number 2257: The Frankenstein puppet

Writer/artist Dick Briefer breaks the fourth wall, and appears to us in his Frankenstein story from Prize Comics #30 (1943). He claims he hasn’t heard from the monster in some time, and does not know what he is up to, so what we get is a story of a Frankenstein puppet.

Briefer identifies himself in the splash panel as “the guy that does this strip,” and includes some apparent co-workers at Prize Comics. I don’t know whether they are actual caricatures, but Briefer’s version of himself is of a handsome young man. Of all the other characters and many pages he drew for comic books, the Frankenstein character is what he is known for. His Frankenstein went through different versions until his comic book, The Monster of Frankenstein, was finally canceled in 1954: the first an evil villain, the second the funny Frankenstein, and the third the wandering Frankenstein monster who roams the countryside, having encounters with humans.

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