They Came from the 50’s #[nn]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis trade paperback collects the three-issue miniseries from Malibu Comics, a satirical homage to 1950s sci-fi B-movies. The story follows a group of teenagers and a scientist as they battle alien invaders, mutant creatures, and government conspiracies, all rendered in a style that mimics the campy, atomic-age aesthetic of the era.
"Death Lies Ahead" delivers a chilling, straight-up sci-fi horror tale in Malibu’s They Came from the 50’s #nn, where John Blane’s obsession with immortality leads him down a path of murder, defiance, and endless suffering. Written and illustrated by Charles Nicholas, the story unfolds with a grim, relentless pace, exploring the terrible cost of eternal life through a man who cannot die—only endure. Ron Wilber’s cover captures the eerie, grotesque tone of the tale, perfectly framing Blane’s descent into a living nightmare.
"Violence!" explores the rise of a man consumed by an insatiable hunger for power and domination, tracing his descent into tyranny as he crushes the weak beneath his heel. The story unfolds with chilling precision, following his ascent and the cost of his unchecked ambition—no heroes, no redemption, just the weight of his choices.
In "The Man Who Cheated Death," John Blane, a man obsessed with defying time, drinks a serum promising eternal life—after killing the scientist who refused to give it to him. Sentenced to die in the electric chair, he survives, only to escape and commit a violent bank robbery. After a brutal car crash leaves him permanently confined to a hospital bed, his quest for immortality becomes a living nightmare.
In "Devil Cat," Sophia Drake encounters a mysterious man and his enigmatic feline companion, a creature said to grant wishes—though each miracle comes with a hidden cost. As Sophia's desires for beauty, wealth, and health grow, so does the price she must pay, leading to a public unraveling that ends with her confined to a mental hospital.
In the grim stillness of Potter's Field, the executed gangster Reynolds awakens—trapped in a nightmare where the dead walk and his own past refuses to stay buried. As skeletal figures surround him, he fights to reclaim a life he never truly lived, only to confront a truth far darker than execution.
In "Crimson Death," the struggling dance duo Jack and Daisy try to revive their act with a risky twist—incorporating voodoo rituals into their performance. But as their show gains attention, the supernatural begins to take notice, and the line between stage illusion and real terror blurs. Paranoia sets in as Jack and Daisy start seeing death in every shadow, until their fear spirals into something far more dangerous.
In the sleek, hushed elegance of a new French restaurant, a tense couple grows increasingly desperate as their waiter—silent, unnervingly precise—delivers nothing but delays. As hunger twists into something darker, their patience shatters, and the meal they’ve waited for becomes something far more unsettling than they ever imagined.
In "The Ghosts' Revenge," James Kendall, a man who makes his living purging others of their fear of the supernatural, finds his own past catching up to him—literally. Haunted by the ghost of the young woman he betrayed and murdered, Kendall must face the consequences of his crime in a chilling tale of guilt and retribution.
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