COLEY On Voodoo Island, Pt. 3

(Continued from  COLEY On Voodoo Island, Pt. 2)

Here we go with the final chapters of the "Origin" story of John Blackburn's Voodoo Sex-God character, Coley Cochran.  As far as I know, there's only 50 copies of this book that were printed, and I've been lucky to have one of them.

As I've re-read and processed these pages, I can't shake the feeling that they were done over a long stretch of time, possibly not even in the order they were printed.  I've read online somewhere that Blackburn created Coley sometime in the 1970s, yet this book was printed in 1989.  I've also read that he did work that appeared in a number of men's magazines.  I wonder if any of this was published before Blackburn put out this limited-editon book, and if so, when and where?

As I was polishing off this little side project for the blog, I kept thinking how much I wish Blackburn was still around.  I would have LOVED for him to see what I'm doing with his character.  Once again, if at some point I find myself in a position to RE-publish this, the first thing I would do is get in touch with his estate, to strike a deal to SPLIT any profits.  This is HIS character, after all, NOT mine!

In the meantime, I've still got a LOT of pages to clean up and COLOR.

ENJOY!

COLEY ON VOODOO ISLAND
cover by JOHN BLACKBURN   (John Blackburn  /  1989)

"VOODOO SEXGOD  Part 3  FIRE DANCER"   (Chapter 5)
     Story & Art by JOHN BLACKBURN
Page 26  /  "And now... the EPIC conclusion!"

Page 27

Page 28

Page 29

"FAREWELL TO VOODOO ISLAND"  (Chapter 6)

Page 30

Page 31

Page 32

Page 33

Page 34  /  pin-up

Page 35  /  pin-up

John apparently cut up the original art when the books were printed and included a panel in the back of each copy.  Here's the one included in mine.

Page 36  /  original art panel

I recently saw the hilarious low-budget film, "KING OF THE ZOMBIES" (1941).  This horror-comedy, which starred Dick Purcell and John Archer as the obvious heroes, and Henry Victor as the villain, really had comic actor Mantan Moreland as its center of attention.  Also in the cast was Madame Sul-Te-Wan as Tahama, the old cook, who was an expert on VOODOO.  As soon as I laid eyes on her, it struck me she could well have been the model for the old woman in Blackburn's story.

Copyright (C) 1989 JOHN BLACKBURN.
New COLOR Copyright (C) 2020 HENRY R. KUJAWA.

Scans from MY collection!

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa

For more:
Read about John Blackburn at the Prism Comics site.
Read about "Coley Running Wild" at the Graphic Novels Info site.
See my detailed indexes of these books at the GCD site.
See my COLEY overview at this very blog!
Read GreyIrish' review of "Dagger Of Blood" at the
     Deep Cuts In A Lovecraftian Vein blog.

Read COLEY ON VOODOO ISLAND in COLOR!
Read COLEY: WILD IN THE STREET in COLOR!

(Continued in COLEY: Wild In The Street)