Frankenstein (Prize Comics)

Frankenstein
The monster, from Prize Comics' Frankenstein #12 (April 1948), art by Dick Briefer.
Publication information
PublisherCrestwood Publications
First appearancePrize Comics #7 (Dec. 1940)
Created byDick Briefer

There have been many comic book adaptations of the monster story created by Mary Shelley in her 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Writer-artist Dick Briefer presented two loose adaptations of the story in publisher Prize Comics' successive series Prize Comics and Frankenstein from 1940 to 1954. The first version represents what comics historians call American comic books' first ongoing horror feature.