Psycho: The Comic Book in Three Issues

I sort of "buried this" in another thread, so I'm separating it out here:

http://www.the13thfloor.tv/2016/09/01/four-color-psycho-the-one-and-only-time-norman-bates-appeared-in-a-comic-book/

Let's see if the link above works.

It links to an article about a comic book, released in three issues (I was only able to buy the first one, which stops before the first murder!) that encapsulated Psycho start to finish in a weird comic form. I believe it came out in the 80's....in any event, before Anthony Perkins died in 1992 because he wouldn't let them use his face for Norman. (Or maybe it was after he died, and his estate wouldn't let them use his face. I can't remember.)

If the link works for you, you can see how the comic book makers were unable to secure permission to use his image for the drawings of Norman Bates, so they created a whole other face for Norman. The other actors (Leigh, Balsam, Miles, Gavin) or their estates, all allowed their faces to be drawn.

As always(it seems to me), the shower scene on paper looks abstract and absent of brutality but -- the Arbogast murder looks much more brutal, certainly here. The comic book makers don't have Bernard Herrmann's shrieking score to accompany that murder, so we get Arbogast's reactions throughout the murder: "No!" "Urrk!" "Aaagh" and "Uff!" when he hits the foyer floor. Plus "chk, chk, chk" for the knife blows and "crack!" for Arbo's back breaking when hits the floor(Hitchcock's description in the trailer) These comic book guys really knew how to write sound effects.

This comic book imagery is more brutal than the rather "pure" painting poster by Adam Gibson(elsewhere on this page), and in ways, more brutal than what is on screen in Psycho the movie. But...it is there, yet another "frame by frame" representation of Psycho in what seems to be an steady supply of them (not endless, but steady.)