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Strange Fairy Tales #1 - (One Shot) - cover

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Strange Fairy Tales #1 - (One Shot)

Steve Mannion, Andy Marinkovich

Publisher: Asylum Press

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Summary

Steve Mannion (Fearless Dawn, The Bomb) serves up a 40-page giant comic issue containing two stories which offer a humorous and quirky approach to the classic fairy tale genre. "The Tale" is a rollicking chronicle about love, heroism, friendship, and mowing down evil demons with machine guns. "Little Dead Riding Hood" is a warped retelling of the classic children's story, with a gruesome "twist" ending reminiscent of the finest pre-code horror comics of the 1950s.
Available since: 03/31/2016.

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