Boris Karloff's Gold Key Mysteries #2

Boris Karloff’s Gold Key Mysteries #2 brings the iconic horror host back to comics, and Kraig Rasmussen is along for the ride with a four-page World War I nightmare called “Trenchfoot.”

Set during the Battle of the Somme, “Trenchfoot” drops readers into the mud and horror of the trenches, where German scientists have been performing aggressive mutations on soldiers — turning the war itself into a laboratory for the monstrous. Rasmussen handles script, pencils, and inks on the story, with letters by Kyle Arends, and his dense, cross-hatched style is a natural fit for the period dread and body horror. It’s the kind of short that makes you wish every anthology ran four pages this hard.

The issue, published by Gold Key Comics on February 14, 2024, is a full anthology of vintage-flavored terror: it also features “Where House” by Michael W. Conrad and Kelly Williams, and “The Town with a Million Eyes” by Matt Harding, with a cover by Johnny Dombrowski. Release databases like Fresh Comics list Rasmussen among the issue’s writer and illustrator credits, and League of Comic Geeks and Key Collector Comics track the issue across their databases.

A must for Karloff completists, war-horror fans, and anyone who loves watching a great pen-and-ink artist cut loose on four perfect pages. Check the Gold Key Comics shop for print availability.