# Help me identify a story from a horror comic, please? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 2, 2011, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-story-from-a-horror-comic-please/591160 "2011-08-02T07:50:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-story-from-a-horror-comic-please/591160/1 "2011-08-02T07:50:49Z")
I think I might’ve seen this story a year or so ago but I’ve forgotten where, and the sketchy details I do recall are driving me batcrap trying to remember the whole thing or place it. The story was kind of sad, for a horror comic: there was a little girl in it whose father was such a _bad_ bad guy that he had a demon as his personal assistant:eek:. The fiend’s duties included babysitting the boss’s kid – who loved him and didn’t know he _was_ a demon, and a particularly ugly one at that (think jackal-spider hybrid with mange)–and the demon loved her back, and the innocence of their relationship enabled the fiend to fly…until somehow the girl found out that her devoted pal and protector was a fiend of the foulest stripe. Tragedy inevitably ensued {I think}. Doesn’t anyone know what story I’m talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-story-from-a-horror-comic-please/591160/2 "2011-08-02T10:46:33Z")
My god. This sounds like a bedtime story by Jack Chick. ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Time\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Stranger)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-story-from-a-horror-comic-please/591160/3 "2011-08-02T14:58:50Z")
I don’t know the answer, but I work at a comic shop with two people really into horror comics, so I’ll ask them and get back to you. Do you remember anything about the formatting at all? Color vs. b/w, magazine vs. anthology, American vs. foreign, etc? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-story-from-a-horror-comic-please/591160/4 "2011-08-02T15:58:11Z")
Was it a single-panel strip, and was the little girl’s name “Dolly”? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-story-from-a-horror-comic-please/591160/5 "2011-08-02T16:29:18Z")
> [@Time\_Stranger](#): > > I don’t know the answer, but I work at a comic shop… How much do you have to pay to work at a comic shop? (Less than $7/hr and it’d be worth it…) ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Time\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Stranger)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-story-from-a-horror-comic-please/591160/6 "2011-08-02T17:50:36Z")
> [@digs](#): > > How much do you have to pay to work at a comic shop? > (Less than $7/hr and it’d be worth it…) Hah! This is close to reality. I only work weekends when the normal crew doesn’t always want to come in. It’s half-vinyl and half-comics, so I work for store credit and cool-kid points. I think they only finally caved and let me work because I’m a girl. (No response yet on comic ID ideas, but I’ll try to keep you posted.) ---
**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-story-from-a-horror-comic-please/591160/7 "2011-08-04T03:53:04Z")
house of secrets or house of mysteries? ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-story-from-a-horror-comic-please/591160/8 "2011-08-05T03:30:08Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#): > > house of secrets or house of mysteries? Naah, I’m pretty certain it was neither of those, but it was probably a Vertigo book. The art was black-and-white except for red bloodshed (of which there was quite a lot), and very shadow-heavy. I think the climactic moment might’ve shown the arachno-canid demon in flight, maybe carrying the little girl whom he/it had just saved from some awful fate or situation, and something happened that made the girl see or realize how ugly and horrible her playmate (who was depicted as loving the kid like a faithful dog, probably much more than her wicked papa did) actually was, and she screamed – which knocked poor ol’ InFido out of flight. He might’ve been killed, or maybe he just became the boss bad dude’s _even more_ brutal and ruthless demon henchman. I can’t recall the name of the damn story, its artist, or its writer…but I do remember that my throat was uncomfortably tight and my eyes a little misty by the last few panels, unlike the usual ghoulish delight I take in the things which befall most of the characters in the horror comix I read. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-story-from-a-horror-comic-please/591160/9 "2011-08-05T03:38:09Z")
> [@Time\_Stranger](#): > > Do you remember anything about the formatting at all? Color vs. b/w, magazine vs. anthology, American vs. foreign, etc? It was an American TPB that was printed in black and white, with lots of red blood.