Descrizione
GLI ALBI DEI SUPER – EROI
collana
eterogenea, instabile, variegata, assortita, poliedrica e mista, a
carattere di vero e proprio cronicario di super-eroi di scarto, tutti
iscritti alle liste di collocamento e con domanda di prepensionamento
già compilata ed inoltrata, e che altrimenti non avrebbero trovato
collocazione neanche nelle liste del partito democratico
serie LICANTROPUS N. 1
UNA NOTTE DI TERRORE
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1973
CONDIZIONI : BUONISSIME, MINUSCOLA SIGLA A BIRO NELL’ANGOLO SUPERIORE SINISTRO DI COPERTINA, L’ALBO NON E’ DI RESA
LEGENDA STATO DI CONSERVAZIONE
condizioni ECCELLENTI (o anche EDICOLA e/o MAGAZZINO) = si intende un oggetto nuovo e perfetto oppure usato senza difetti e praticamente ancora come nuovo, tenendone per quest’ultimo caso in conto ovviamente la datazione ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 8,5 e 9,8 (non assegniamo punteggi superiori a 9,8 perchè trattasi di tipi ideali a ns avviso più teorici e scolastici che reali e concreti, ogni manufatto umano in natura ha una percentuale insita e congenita seppur infinitesimale di imperfezione)
condizioni OTTIME = oggetto nuovo (o talora anche usato ma maneggiato e conservato con molta cura) in cui non si riscontra alcun difetto rilevante e degno di nota, tutt’al più qualche minimo segno di lettura o di uso ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 7 e 8,5
condizioni BUONISSIME = oggetto usato (ed in taluni casi anche fondo di magazzino soggetto a piccole usure del tempo) con lievi imperfezioni e difetti poco vistosi, generalmente molto marginali ed appena percepibili ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 5,5 e 7
condizioni MOLTO BUONE = oggetto usato con imperfezioni vistose e difetti abbastanza spiccati, pur se non completamente invalidanti (generalmente specificati nel dettaglio alla voce CONDIZIONI nella parte inferiore della descrizione di ogni singolo oggetto); corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 4 e 5,5
condizioni PIU’ CHE BUONE / MEDIOCRI = oggetto usato con imperfezioni e difetti evidenti, smaccati, madornali ed invalidanti, assolutamente non collezionabile tuttavia idoneo per la semplice lettura o documentazione ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale inferiore a 4
per eventuali ulteriori dettagli aggiuntivi e specifici si prega di fare sempre riferimento alla voce CONDIZIONI nella parte inferiore della descrizione di ogni singolo oggetto
Featured Characters:
- Werewolf by Night (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Laura Russell (Only appearance; dies)
- Lissa Russell
(First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Philip Russell (First appearance)
- Maxwell Grant (Only appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- L.A.P.D.
- Gregory Russoff (Only in flashback)
- Doctor Allen (First appearance)
- Terri (First appearance)
Locations:
- California
- Los Angeles
- Malibu (First appearance)
- Pacific Ocean
- Transylvania (Only in flashback)
Items:
- Darkhold (Behind the scenes)
Vehicles:
- Laura Russell’s Rolls Royce (destroyed in this issue)
Synopsis
In Los Angeles, a mugger skulks about the alleyways in search of
prey. He is not the only hunter lurking in the shadows this evening
however. A snarling werewolf leaps out and attacks the mugger, killing
him. A motorcycle cop chances upon the scene and fires two shots towards
the creature. The werewolf bounds off into the night, but one of the
policeman’s bullets manages to graze its arm. The werewolf races
frantically down back alleys in the light of the full moon.
The next morning, young Jack Russell awakens in his bedroom with a
start. He cannot understand why he had a dream that he was a werewolf.
He grows concerned however as he looks down and sees a cut across his
left shoulder; the same area that was struck by the officer’s bullet. As
Jack gets dressed, his mother, Laura, enters the room. Today is Jack’s
eighteenth birthday, and Laura wants him to spend it with his
stepfather, Philip. Jack never cared for Philip, and he despises the
dominating hold that the man appears to have over his mother. As Jack
comes downstairs, he sees his mother having an argument with Philip’s
chauffeur, Max Grant. Frustrated, Jack leaves.
That evening, Jack goes to a friend’s house in Malibu. As the
full moon begins to rise, sharp blisters of pain surge through him, and
he is forced to run from the house. He runs down to the beach just as he
transforms into a werewolf. Staring down into the water, the fleeting
remnants of Jack’s personality begin to realize that he didn’t have a
dream the night before. He truly is a werewolf.
Instinctively, the werewolf finds himself drawn to a beach-house.
He smashes through a patio door where he finds a growling guard dog.
The dog attacks him and the werewolf struggles with the beast for
several minutes before hurling it outside. The werewolf leaps out the
window and bays at the moon.
The next morning, Philip Russell finds Jack unconscious on the
beach. He brings him back to the house where he finds his sister, Lissa,
crying hysterically. Philip explains to Jack that his mother went out
last evening looking for him and was in a serious car accident. She has
been admitted to a local hospital and is in critical condition. She is
not expected to survive the night. Philip has Doctor Allen give Jack a
strong sedative and tells him to get some rest. Through the haze of
drugs, Jack overhears Philip talking with the chauffeur, Max Grant.
Philip agrees to meet Grant at an abandoned warehouse later that evening
for a payoff. Unable to concentrate on the issue any further, Jack
falls asleep.
Hours later when Jack awakens, he rushes down to the hospital to
see his mother. She is barely conscious, but she is strong enough to
warn Jack that a curse has been placed upon him – a curse that forces
him to transform into a monster on the night of his eighteenth birthday.
Jack presses her for an explanation.
Laura explains that twenty years ago she was a student on holiday
in Transylvania. She met, fell in love with, and ultimately married a
Baron named Gregory Russoff. For three nights out of every month,
Russoff would seal himself inside of a tower room in his castle with
instructions to never be disturbed. He told his young wife that he was
studying. One evening however, a lightning storm swept through the
Baltic nation and a stray bolt blasted a hole in the side of the tower.
That same night, witnesses claimed to have seen a werewolf prowling the
countryside. Several of the town elders visited Russoff Castle to
inquire with the Baron, but when Laura inspected the tower room, he was
nowhere to be found. Still later, a group of hunters, armed with silver
bullets cornered the werewolf and shot him. It was then that they
discovered that the werewolf was actually the Baron.
As she concludes her tale, Jack realizes that Laura married
Philip in the hopes of wiping out his true father’s bloody memory.
Seeing the anger rising within him, Laura makes Jack promise that he
will never raise a hand in anger to his stepfather. Jack swears a vow,
and Laura passes away.
The full moon rises, and Jack feels the change begin to take
effect. He races outside of the hospital and begins prowling the city.
Instinctively, the werewolf heads towards an empty warehouse where he
finds Max Grant. Max is a large, muscular man and does not believe that
Jack is a true werewolf. He tackles the creature and holds his own for
several minutes. During the melee, Grant confesses that Philip owes him
ten-thousand dollars for sabotaging the brakes on Laura’s car. With
Laura dead, Philip stands to inherit the entire Russoff fortune. Even as
a werewolf, a small part of Jack’s subconscious recognizes what he
hears and sinks his teeth into Grant’s neck. Max falls to the ground,
dead.
Moments later, a
car pulls up and Philip Russell enters the warehouse. The werewolf is
poised to attack, but Jack’s mind recalls the deathbed promise he mad to
his mother. Running off into the night, the werewolf angrily howls at
the moon.
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“The Thing in the Cellar!” / LICANTROPUS DI NOTTE
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Agatha Timly
- Kraig (Only appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- Nathan Timly (Only appearance; dies)
- Philip Russell
Locations:
Synopsis
Agata Timly captures Jack Russell and tries to get the location of the Darkhold from him.
