‘Abbott and Costello Meet The Monsters’ In New Comic Book Series

‘Abbott and Costello Meet The Monsters’ In New Comic Book Series By Empress Eve | @ | Friday, October 2nd, 2026 at 8:00 pm Comedy duo Abbott and Costello will meet Cthulhu, the Morlocks, and The Night Stalker in their first new comic book series in 50 years In the 1948 comedy-horror film Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott’s character tells Costello’s character, “Everything comes in threes.” That declaration is about to apply to the duo once more, as next year will see the release of a new 3-issue comic book series featuring the legendary comedy team. Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters, from indie publisher Monstrous, will be the first new comic book series in more than 50 years to feature the Golden Age comedians. In it, Abbott and Costello will face off against three new antagonists: The Night Stalker from the 1970s TV show Kolchak: The Night Stalker; the Morlocks from H.G. Wells’s 1895 science fiction story The Time Machine; and Cthulhu, the cosmic entity from H.P. Lovecraft’s universe. While actors Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are probably best known for their 1945 “Who’s On First?” routine, the entertainers made a big box-office splash with their hilarious showdown...