Fright Night (comics)
| Fright Night | |
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Fright Night #1
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Now Comics |
| Format | Monthly |
| Genre | Horror |
| Publication date(s) | October 1988 – August 1990 |
| No. of issues | 22 +5 special issues |
| Creative team | |
| Written by |
Tony Caputo Katherine Llewellyn Diane M. Piron-Gelman James Van Hise Joe Gentile Matthew Costello |
| Artist(s) | Dell Barras Hannibal King Eric Brant Jeff Starling Alan Freeman Ken Call Corey Wilkinson Jim Reddington |
| Penciller(s) | Lenin Delsol Neil Vokes Kevin West James Lyle Doug Murphy |
| Inker(s) | John Stangeland David Mowry Damon Willis Nick Sigismondi Jeff Dee Mark Pennington |
| Letterer(s) | Dan Nakrosis Kurt Hathaway Patrick Williams Joseph Allen Katherine Mayer |
| Colorist(s) | Katherine Llewellyn Tammy Daniel Nanette Injeski Tom Gianni Suzanne Dechnik Patrick Owsley |
| Editor(s) | Katherine Llewellyn Tony Caputo |
Fright Night is a comic series spun off from the film of the same name by NOW Comics.
Charley Brewster is an average teenager who finds his world turned upside-down when vampire Jerry Dandrige moves in next door. He enlists the aid of horror movie star/TV host Peter Vincent to kill Dandrige and they're successful—but not before Charley's best friend, Evil Ed, is transformed into a bloodthirsty monster whom delights in tormenting his former buddy. Soon Peter and Charley team up to fend off a variety of monsters, including squid-men, a spider boy, aliens, a minotaur, an evil sorceress and the nefarious Legion of the Endless Night, a vampire coven which later resurrects Jerry Dandrige.
Aiding Peter and Charley on their adventures are Charley's girlfriend, Natalia Hinnault, whose father has ties to the vampire underworld; Natalia's eccentric Aunt Claudia, who is the reincarnation of Greek Princess Ariadne; and hapless bartender Derek Jones, who seems to have a magnetic attraction to unworldly beings—much to his chagrin. Frequently featured are Evil Ed's minions, freelance reporter Dana Roberts and bartenders Donna and Jane, who all work in the nightclubs that he owns and perform in his band, Eddie and the Vamps. Also regularly seen are a group of mindless, nameless hippies who are continuously in search of a savior to follow, be it good or evil.
The February 1988 issue of Now Comics News announced that the popular film Fright Night was being spun off into a comic book series by Now Comics, a small publishing company that licensed a variety of popular television and movie characters and which had a reputation for being plagued by various financial and creative difficulties. In the original announcement, the adaptation of the first film was going to be released as a high-quality "prestige format" book, issue #1 would be an adaptation of the second film, and that would be followed by new stories. What ultimately happened, however, is the adaptation of the original movie got split across the first two issues and Fright Night II was issued as a stand-alone prestige format book featuring a story which was not canonical with the rest of the series.
The series endured a lot of growing pains both technically and artistically. The second issue abruptly picks up where the first story left off with no indication that a story preceded it except for the page numbering, which begins at 22. Eight of the first nine issues include short stories unrelated to Fright Night, including six chapters of Rust, the post-apocalyptic tale of a disfigured cop which originally ran from 1987-1988, that the publishers were preparing to relaunch for the second of three incarnations.
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