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Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho                  Comics Lot
Writers: Felipe Echevarria & Matt Thompson
Artist: Felipe Echevarria
Calligraphy Lettering by: Vickie Williams
Editor: David Campiti
All Covers by: Felipe Echevarria

Marion Crane is a restless woman. Her life is unsatisfying and tedious, but that’s nothing that a large influx of cash couldn’t fix. When the opportunity unexpectedly presents itself, she impulsively flees with $40,000 of her employer’s money. By the evening of the next day she has left her old life far behind, and if she had any second thoughts about her actions, her arrival at the run-down Bates Motel is destined to remove any chance of self-recrimination.

This adaptation of the classic Alfred Hitchcock film maintains the unsettling sense of paranoia that pervaded the movie. The specifics of the plot are all but common knowledge to today’s pop culture fan, so the telling of the story is even more important. Artist Felipe Echevarria is more than up to the task. His paintings portray the subtle nuances of doubt, fear and anxiety on faces that are striking likenesses of Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins.

Story/Spoilers (featuring the full Psycho 1960 Movie Synopsis for nostalgic remembrance)
During a Friday afternoon tryst in a Phoenix hotel, real estate secretary Marion Crane and her boyfriend Sam Loomis discuss their inability to get married because of Sam’s debts. Marion returns to work, steals a cash payment of $40,000 entrusted to her for deposit, and sets off to drive to Sam’s home in Fairvale, California. Marion hurriedly trades her car en route, arousing suspicion from both the car dealer and a California Highway Patrol officer.

Marion stops for the night at the Bates Motel, located off the main highway, and hides the stolen money inside a newspaper. Proprietor Norman Bates descends from a large house overlooking the motel, registers Marion under an assumed name, and invites her to dine with him. After Norman returns to his house, Marion overhears Norman arguing with his mother about Marion’s presence. Norman returns with a light meal and apologizes for his mother’s outbursts. Norman discusses his hobby as a taxidermist, his mother’s “illness”, and how people have a “private trap” they want to escape. Marion decides to drive back to Phoenix in the morning and return the stolen money. As Marion showers, a shadowy figure in a dress appears and stabs her to death. Soon afterward, Norman cleans up the murder scene, putting Marion’s body, belongings, and the hidden cash in her car, and sinks it in a swamp.

Marion’s sister Lila arrives in Fairvale a week later, tells Sam about the theft, and demands to know her whereabouts. He denies knowing anything about her disappearance. A private investigator named Arbogast approaches them, saying that he has been hired to retrieve the money. Arbogast stops at the Bates Motel and questions Norman, whose nervous behavior and inconsistent answers arouse his suspicion. He examines the guest register and discovers from her handwriting that Marion spent a night in the motel. When Arbogast learns that Marion had spoken to Norman’s mother, Arbogast asks to speak to her, but Norman refuses it. Arbogast updates Sam and Lila about his search and promises to meet them within an hour at Sam’s home. After he enters the Bates home to search for Norman’s mother, the shadowy figure emerges from the bedroom and stabs him to death.

Sam visits the motel with Lila when they hear nothing from Arbogast, worried something went wrong. He sees a figure in the house who he assumes is Norman’s mother. Lila and Sam alert the local sheriff, who tells them Norman’s mother died in a murder–suicide ten years earlier. The sheriff suggests Arbogast lied to Sam and Lila so he could pursue Marion and the money. Convinced that something happened to Arbogast, Lila and Sam drive to the motel. Sam distracts Norman in the office while Lila sneaks into the house. Suspicious, Norman becomes agitated and knocks Sam unconscious. As he goes to the house, Lila hides in the fruit cellar, where she discovers the mother’s mummified body. She screams, and Norman, wearing women’s clothes and a wig, enters the cellar and tries to stab her. Sam appears and subdues him.

At the police station, a psychiatrist explains that Norman killed his mother and her lover ten years earlier out of jealousy. Unable to bear the guilt, Norman mummified his mother’s corpse and began treating it as if she was still alive. He recreated his mother as an alternate personality, as jealous and possessive towards Norman as he felt about his mother. When Norman is attracted to a woman, “Mother” takes over. He had killed two other missing young women before Marion and Arbogast. The psychiatrist concludes that “Mother” has now submerged Norman’s personality. Norman sits in a jail cell and hears his mother saying the murders were all his doing. Marion’s car is retrieved from the swamp.

Comics lot contains: Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1992) Issues #1-3.  Innovation

Comics are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

All First Printings
Publisher: Innovation
Publication Date: 1992
Format per comic: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.5″
UPC: None Stated

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics 1,2,3 are in Fine to Very Fine condition.  Nice Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and/or Horror collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended.

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