The Mistress of the Dark teams up with a number of classic horror monsters in Elvira: Mistress of the Dark #28, which will be included in the upcoming Elvira Mistress of the Dark: The Classic Years Omnibus Vol. 2.
Courtesy of Dynamite Entertainment, CBR can present Elvira: Mistress of the Dark #28 in its entirety. Originally published in 1995, the issue comes from Frank Strom, Tom Simonton, Louis Lachance, Brent Carpenter, Richard Howell, Lou Mougin, Dave Cockrum, Jim Mooney and Susan Dorne. The main story sees the Mistress of the Dark attempt to rescue a kidnapped writer, while the backup story pairs her with teenage versions of Frankenstein and Dracula, among other monsters, for an extraordinary tale.
The synopsis for Elvira: Mistress of the Dark #28 reads, "Elvira's TV interview of best-selling compulsive novelist Steven Sting reveals more than she thought; that Sting's compelled to write because of his overactive muse...and that he's got writer's block because his muse has been kidnapped. Elvira must try to rescue the muse from Sting's jealous rival Anne Spice...before she steals all his ideas. No kidding. It's all in "An Eye for an Eye, A Muse for a Muse," by Frank Strom, Tom Simonton and Louis Lachance. Also, in the back-up, Elvira's quest to help her pals Teen Frankenstein, Teen Werewolf and Teen Dracula leads her to infiltrate the empire of media mogul Ted Turnip in "Back to the Bloodbank, Part Two," the new serial by Lou Mougin, Dave Cockrum and Jim Mooney."
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark #28 is one of many issues featured in the Elvira Mistress of the Dark: The Classic Years Omnibus Vol. 2. Featuring a number of different stories originally published by Claypool Comics from the 1990s and onward, Elvira Mistress of the Dark: The Classic Years Omnibus Vol. 2 launched a campaign on Indiegogo and has so far raised over $40,000 at the time of this article's publication. Having passed the first goal of $36,666, the collection will now come with a collector's promotional trading card featuring Elvira. Should the campaign reach $66,666, all backers will receive an exclusive Elvira bookmark accompanying the 600-page omnibus.
Elvira Mistress of the Dark: The Classic Years Omnibus Vol. 2 features work by Cockrum, Mooney, LaChance, Strom, Simonton, Howell, Mougin, Neil Vokes, David Day, Dan Day, Bruce Patterson, James Fry, Anna-Maria Cool, John Heebink, Peter Sanderson, Yvonne Mojica, Tom Smith, Al Vey and more. Hardcover and trade paperback options are currently available for pre-order and are expected to ship by Halloween. For more information, visit Indiegogo.
Source: Indiegogo, Dynamite Entertainment