Hellcow Week, Day 5: Milking This Character for One Final Day

When we last saw her (yesterday), Hellcow had returned to life to face off against the Merc with a Monthly Comic or Two, Deadpool! Which begs the musical question...how will the 'Pool survive?





Panels from Deadpool Team-Up #885 (April 2011), script by Rick Spears, pencils and inks by Phillip Bond, colors by Dan Brown, letters by Jeff Eckleberry


Special Hellcow Bonus! Altho' it's general convention wisdom that you don't get an entry in The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Handbook unless you've made at least three appearances in Marvel Comics, check out all these entries for Hellcow in the OHOTMU!


"Vampires" entry from Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe v.1 #14 (March 1984), text by Mark Gruenwald, pencils by Kyle Baker, inks by Joe Rubinstein, colors by Andy Yanchus


Half-page from Marvel Legacy: The 1970s Handbook one-shot (2006)


Half-page from Marvel Pets Handbook one-shot (2009)

Hellcow Week, Day 4: Do the walk, do the talk, don't be fool, call the school

Three dozen years after her previous and only appearance (aka four-and-a-half months Marvel Universe time), Hellcow at long last returned in the pages of Deadpool Team-Up! (Well, where else?)






Panels from Deadpool Team-Up #885 (April 2011), script by Rick Spears, pencils and inks by Phillip Bond, colors by Dan Brown*, letters by Jeff Eckleberry

Oh no! Will Deadpool escape? (Yes.) Tune in tomorrow for the answer! (Yes, he will escape.)


*How does he find time to color comics between his research and writing all those Tom Hanks Mystery Conspiracy Therapy novels?

Hellcow Week, Day 3: The bull is a vampire, sent to drain

Today: not a Bessie the Hellcow story, but a tale from the Marvel Atlas Age of Comics which has a similar bite to it!


Panels from "The Man Who Cried Vampire" in Strange Tales #21 (August 1953),
pencils and inks by Joe Maneely

Hellcow Week, Day 2: Can you steak my heart?

Panels from Giant-Size Man-Thing* #5 (August 1975), script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Frank Brunner, inks by Tom Palmer, colors by Glynis Wein, letters by Annette Kawecki


*giggle giggle

Hellcow Week, Day 1: If I was your vampire, certain as the moo

The Mid-Day Matinee this week, all week: Hellcow! If DC's favorite animal is monkeys, then the Marvel Universe loves cows! Bova, the nanny of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch! (Ah, so she's to blame for how they turned out!) Those Skrulls that were turned into cows! And.....and....okay, and some other cows! But my favorite cow of the Marvel Universe has only made appearances in two stories (the last one only last year). Even so, I predict fame and a movie deal in her future! Prepare to meat meet Bessie...Hellcow!



Panels from Giant-Size Man-Thing* #5 (August 1975), script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Frank Brunner, inks by Tom Palmer, colors by Glynis Wein, letters by Annette Kawecki


*tee hee