The Big Book of Urban Legends was the first "Big Book" in DC Comics' now-defunct imprint dealing with non-superhero, non-fantasy-basically non-conventional-comics as far as débuts go, The Big Book of Urban Legends does a rather good job of setting the standard for what would come, even if it had a few snags, that the editors eventually worked out.Īdapted from the folklore studies of Prof. For a more scholarly look at the urban legend phenomenon, check out his books - The Choking Doberman: And Other Urban Legends, The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends, Curses! Broiled Again!, and more.
*from the introduction by Jan Harold Brunvand. I'm guessing her hairdresser's sister heard it from a guy who's her cousin's bartender's mechanic. She insisted that someone had tried to steal a child from the local Kmart by dragging the girl into the dressing room, changing her clothes, and cutting and dying her hair. It wasn't until I read this book that I realized my mother once told me one of these legends. What makes this book unique is that the 200 "true" tales of horror, humor, and revenge are told in a graphic format: They're all here! The Convertible Filled with Cement, The Vanishing Hitchhiker, Kentucky-Fried Rat, The Killer in the Back Seat, Spiders in the Beehive, and The Call is Coming from INSIDE the House! - every urban legend I'd ever heard, and plenty I hadn't. Urban legends are true stories that are too good to be true, and they are always said to have happened to a Friend of a Friend.*
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