FRANKENSTEIN, BY DICK BRIEFER SUCCESSFULLY STRADDLED THE FENCE BETWEEN HORROR AND HUMOR. ALTHOUGH THE STORIES OCCASIONALLY USED HORROR TROPES, LIKE WEREWOLVES, VAMPIRES AND MUMMIES, THE TALES WERE OFTEN FUNNY. THE DEPICTIONS WERE SIMULTANEOUSLY ABSURB AND GROTESQUE, WHILE REFLECTING POST WORLD WAR TWO SENSIBILITIES. DICK BRIEFER’S VERSION OF FRANKENSTEIN ORIGINALLY APPEARED AS PART OF THE LINE UP IN THE ANTHOLOGY SERIES PRIZE COMICS. THE CHARACTER WAS SO POPULAR THAT IN 1945 FRANKENSTEIN WAS GIVEN HIS OWN COMIC BOOK SERIES.