Celebrating in 2025: the 115th anniversary of Edison’s Frankenstein (1910), the 90th anniversary of Bride of Frankenstein (1935), the 80th anniversary of Dick Briefer’s Frankenstein for Prize Comics (1945-54) and the Frankenstein adaptation in Classic Comics #26 (December 1945), the 60th anniversary of Milton the Monster (1965–67), the 50th anniversary of the film version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the 10th anniversary of Graham Nolan and Chuck Dixon’s Joe Frankenstein.

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Frankenstein in Comics New Scholarship

Apologies for tooting my own horn, but I recently had three items published based on my ongoing work on adaptations of Frankenstein the comics.

The citations are as follows:


Torregrossa, Michael A. “Building a Better Bride: Female Frankenstein Monsters in the Comics.” Proceedings of the 2020 Science Fictions Popular Cultures Academic Conference, edited by Timothy F. Slater, Carrie J. Cole, and Greg Littman, Pono Publishing, 2020, pp. 165-73. ISBN 979-8689344874 (paperback); eBook ASIN B08NT97MFD. 

Torregrossa, Michael A. “Frankenstein and Its Legacy in the Comics.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 23, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2021, pp. 432-40.

Torregrossa, Michael. “She Lives: Bringing the Bride of Frankenstein to Life in the Comics.” Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Far West Popular Culture Association Conference, edited by David G. Schwartz, Digital Scholarship@UNLV, 2021, digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/fwpca/33rdannual/fourtwo/3/.