WORLD PREMIER: LES GHOULS - locked away in the vault of Roy Thomas, released for the first time in 65 years for your viewing pleasure! Les Ghouls is a 12½-minute, mostly black-&-white film made circa 1958 by a group of six teenagers in Jackson, Missouri, including Roy Thomas and Gary Friedrich, who went on in the 1960s to become writers and...
Every Marvel character has a secret origin, even Marvel Comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe itself, and before you watch Werewolf by Night on Halloween, you can catch up with a silent amateur short film from the 1950s called Les Ghouls. Why should you be interested? It was made by and starring two teenagers named Roy Thomas and Gary Friedrich. Thomas would become Marvel's second editor-in-chief after Stan Lee stepped down, and Friedrich became one of the major writers at Marvel.
It's a goofy comedy homage to characters from the DC Comics humour series Fat and Slat and MAD Magazine, as well as Abbot and Costello and classic monster movies. Guess what? Thomas played the werewolf long before he would create Werewolf by Night at Marvel Comics. It's all slapstick comedy with a bunch of teenagers with a movie camera. Now the POPX! Channel on YouTube, which features videos and interviews with comics creators, has helped clean up and post Les Ghouls online.
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