Frankenstein (1931 film) the deliberately farcical "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948). Though it is unrelated to the Universal series, the later "Frankenstein 1970" has the scientist Frankenstein, here played by Karloff, animate the Monster using a nuclear reactor. Although Frankenstein's hunchbacked assistant is often referred to as "Igor" in descriptions of the films, he is not so called in the earliest films. In both "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein", Frankenstein has an assistant who is played both times by Dwight Frye who is crippled. In the original 1931 film the character is named "Fritz" who is hunchbacked and walks with the aid
Castle of Frankenstein the first published comics page by Marvel artist-writer-editor Larry Hama. "Castle of Frankenstein" also carried an unusual original comic strip, "Baron von Bungle", by Richard Bojarski, who gave a humorous twist to the world depicted in Universal horror films. Beck, with an editorial assist by fantasy fiction scholar Haywood P. Norton, assembled the paperback anthology, "The Frankenstein Reader" (Ballantine Books, 1962). The two brought together a roster of vintage horror-fantasy tales by E.F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Robert W. Chambers, Ralph Adams Cram, Charles Dickens, Amelia B. Edwards, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Richard Middleton, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H.G.