Abelmar Jones: 'Bad Day 'Cross 110th Street'
by Bill Dubay and Alex Nino
from Eerie #92, May 1978
Vintage Ghetto Action, including 'right - on' 70s phrases like:
"hot 'nuff t' fry chitlin's on the roof"
"Honkieland"
"Jeezus Lawd !"
and ending the adventure of our two young homeboys (actually, the term 'homeboy' was not in use in 1978....) with a bottle of Gallo 'Ripple' brand pop wine......
Abelmar Jones was a recurring character in several Eerie issues in the late 70s. His adventures involved supernatural phenomena that happened to take place in the ghetto, as opposed to Transylvania or the desolate heaths of England.
The comic's title is a play on the 1972 gangster movie Across 110th Street, which since has gone into legend as one of the best movies of the 1970s.
'Bad Day 'Cross 110th Street' was the first of the Abelmar Jones stories. It showcases imaginative artwork by Alex Nino. If any artist could impart a sense of the otherworldly into the ghetto, it was Nino.
