THE KOLCHAK : THE NIGHT STALKER comic book timeline (unfinished)
So it feels like this project will never get finished. It started out as a timeline of the KOLCHAK comic books and text stories but spread out to be synopsis and details of the stories in depth. I have too many projects going at one time to be honest and I'm rapidly losing interest in most of them. What I really want to do is start up my fanfiction stories again and focus on those, even though I have a severe writer's block right now about one particular story. New ideas do keep coming to me though. For better or worse here is what I have so far for the KOLCHAK comic book and text story timeline:
KOLCHAK: TALES OF THE NIGHT STALKER issue 2
Date of publication: 2004
Story: KYRIE
Carl’s new story about senility being associated with being
able to communicate on a higher level with house pets as a result of collective
community consciousness that all living things have because of ancient man’s
contact with space aliens. Tony mentions stories about plant monsters and man
eating shadows. Up in Seattle, the mayor’s son was missing and a cult was
suspected. In two days, Carl gets the mayor’s son home. Miss Emily appears. Ron
appears. Carl has a cat named Twinkles that he has Emily watch in the office.
Lorelei is the name of the girl that gave Carl a lead to the kidnapped teen(s).
She seems to know about past stories (a bull man for one). Publisher Morgan
Slate appears. The mayor’s political rival used a satanic cult and kidnapped
the son to make it look like the Mayor’s family did it. Or was involved in a
cult.
Good Morning, America is mentioned by Emily.
Carl has a dream about being back in New Orleans, attacked
by the man eating shadow (last issue). Charlevoix is seen as a ghost, telling
Carl he’s seen the light. Carl contemplates returning to Chicago. When the
Mayor’s son Toby calls Carl to give him info on a devil, Carl realizes it is
Lorelei and sets a trap for her with three Catholic priests. One is named
Father Lewis, who tells Carl that the warning letter came from a guardian angel.
Morgan offered Carl the job that Tony has as the Hollywood Dispatch. Carl turns
it down. Carl wants Tony to let him do the final piece on the spaceships. Carl
once worked Tony’s job for Tony. He claims he can’t stand Tony. He turned down
the job because, “It would be hell for me.”
The editorial, WELCOME TO MY WORLD has Dave Ulanski discuss
a story where “Carl retires and starts a pachyderm farm in Wyoming where he
discovers a secret underground race of cucumber people bent on world domination
via sending mind control waves on sunbeams to humans while they slept. In
April, Carl runs into Creatures of Habbit. Ron Frenz is the special guest
artist next issue.
Oddity: Carl seems to be kissing Lorelei at the bottom of
one page, or almost about to and…has his hand on her throat!?
Quote: “Was that possible? Were the police thanking me and
shaking my hand?”
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER FILES issue 2
Date of publication: 2011
Story: SWAMP THINGS part 1
Fictional Month and Day: August 17th.
Notes: Carl is seeking employment in Miami, Florida. He
mentions the Fourth Estate that he worked for.
The Fourth Estate is a jargon term for the portions of the
United States Department of Defense that are not the military Services or
Intelligence Community agencies including: the Office of Economic Adjustment.
Fourth Estate entities are all organizational entities in DoD that are not in
the military departments, IC agencies, or combatant commands. Archibald Leach
was editor in chief of The World Bulletin, a weekly newspaper, which makes the
Hollywood Dispatch look like the NY Times. Carl mentions Korea.
Erin Cho was working on the beat Carl will now get. She was
working for four years on that beat. She calls Carl by the name of Kojak. Carl
corrects her, “Kojak’s the bald one.” Carl’s narration mentions a practice he would
recommend: a child looking for monsters under his bed every night.
Bernie Fain, who was there when Carl drove a stake through
Janos Skorzeny, appears. Carl tells Bernie he tracked down Gail and Carl tracked
her down. She is in St. Louis, married and a couple of girls. He thinks she’s
happy. Bernie read a book Carl wrote. Bernie apparently describes Fox Mulder,
who he met before he left the Bureau. He calls him a real spooky kid who had
some of Carl’s clippings on his wall. Sandra Anne Baen is an editorial intern,
age 24. Carl takes his coffee black.
Possible monster: attacks have been made and Archie mentions
the Florida skunk ape.
Erin loves Carl’s hat.
Quotes: “Who is this guy, Archie? He looks like a refugee
from a summer stock production of the FRONT PAGE.”
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER FILES issue 3
Date of publication: 2011
Story: SWAMP THINGS part 2
Fictional Month and Day: August 18th or 19th?
Marshall Potter was on the hunt for two weeks. One of the
criminal victims had a wife whose grandfather tells Carl the legend that the
female Earth that the next one, either Skunk Ape or Seminole Native to spill
blood would be removed from this world. He believes the Skunk Ape cannot kill
people. Marshall asks about a giant mutant deer. Carl tells Marshall Potter a
story about a casino that was possessed, not just the roulette table. He called
an old high school buddy who was a priest now. The craps table was stubborn.
Potter is killed by an amphibian man thing but skunk apes come to kill it.
Apparently, it stole their nest. No bodies were found.
Quote: “There are monsters even among monsters. And some
monsters…really aren’t so bad.”
The inside back cover advertises a pocket thriller called
THE LOST CITY, which was changed to THE LOST WORLD.
HONEY WEST AND KOLCHAK issue 1
High Heels and Hedonism
Date of publication: 2013
THE PHANTOM DOUBLE SHOT: KGB NOIR plus: KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER
Kolchak: Dichtomy
Date of publication: 2010
Honey West notes for timeline: Honey West in a series of
novels spanned the years: 1957 to 1961; 1964; she retires?; the TV show was
1965 to 1966; the two novel comeback 1971; her adventures appear to be
contemporary to when they were published or TV aired.
Carl is a copyboy here AND a virgin. Jeff Rice was a copy
boy in 1963. Carl meets Honey here, at a diner. They both save a young girl
Consuela from a cult of Thoth run by Arden Absolute, who is using Ibis Club as
a cover to kidnap virgin girls. It seems he’s done this before in other clubs
he owned.
When Carl’s hair goes on fire, Honey slaps the straw hat on
his head and it’s implied this is the first time he wears it. Carl mentions her
legs. He is working for Chicago Independent. When Honey avoids telling him her
name, Carl jokes it could be Erica, Madeline, or Hortense.
“What do you know, a lady dick, isn’t that an oxymoron?”
Story: It is Nov. 12th 1:15 pm in LA. Story ends
on Nov. 13th. The experiments on Dimitri and the work of his Russian
father happened in the 1980s when Dimtri was a baby. Dimtri looks to be about
25 to maybe 30? So this might be 2005? Possibly 2010?
KOLCHAK TALES: BLACK AND WHITE AND READ ALL OVER
Publication date: 2005
Stoned: The framing seems to be that Carl knows Tony a long
time and is still working with him. Stoned is a story he recounts to Tony’s
therapist. He claims he was in NY “a few years ago”. The story starts Oct 17th
and 18th. Carl’s car is 23 years old. He has an old friend named
Hodges as the Daily News. Clash of the Titans is one of Carl’s guilty
pleasures. Carl vs a Medusa (or a Gorgon).
The Spike:
A framing story in a framing story? The LA stuff seems to be
with Tony and Carl and on Oct 12th. Tony talks about 25 years ago.
Carl goes looking for info 20 years ago and finds a NY story. Tony was a
reporter but shortly left NY and became an editor. Carl tries to find out about
the monster the Whisperer.
The Stuff I Leave Out
KOLCHAK: TALES OF THE NIGHT STALKER issue 5
Publication date: 2005
Proxmity part one
Eric James Stalton was born in the 1960s (the tombstone has
the date’s last two numbers blocked by a leaf). Carl is writing for a Halloween
Feature so it is around that time of year. It is confirmed it is October. Carl
and Tony are working in Los Angeles. Santiago Hernandez has worked a year on
the burial tomb exhibit.
Monique Marmelstein “ was just an intern back in the days of
the INS. She’s a reporter now” and “another of us unlucky souls who’ve found
our way to Los Angeles under the loving wing of Tony Vincenzo.” Not sure why the need to make things in LA
instead of Chicago but there you go. They work for the Hollywood Dispatch.
“Over the next couple of days…”
Carl has a nightmare with a mummy in it. Carl sees a Dr.
Regis. In his narrative, Carl mentions: zombies, werewolves, aliens, plant
monsters, mirror witches, minotaurs, man eating shadows, nanobots, killer
viruses, gremlins, and a “love affair with the devil.” Later, Carl has
hallucinations about Peremalfait. Carl has been suffering for about two weeks
and thinks it could be the curse of Imjah Ra. He seems to have an apartment
over a bar. Carl appears shirtless in his apartment in one frame.
A week ago, according to Geraldine Weiss, the exhibit was
shipped back. A day or so later, Carl hits on her or compliments her to get her
to call Santiago.
A couple of days later. Emily and Ron appear. Morgan Slate
is mentioned. The story ends on a cliffhanger with Carl and Santiago at a diner
seeing images of Egyptian monsters: a jackal, a mummy and a vaguely goblin like
being with Egyptian garb. Santiago has one arm.
KOLCHAK: DAWN OF THE DEMONS was an advertised forthcoming
comic book which I’m not sure ever made it to publication. The ad was in FOXY
LADY issue one, which was published in 2016.
DAN SHAMBLE, ZOMBIE PI/KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER
Unnaturally Normal
Publication date: 2016
“This year the holiday (Halloween) falls on a Friday.”
Carl works for the Hollywood Dispatch. Henry Hornkamp is a street source who visits Carl every Halloween. Carl’s been to the Irish Pub Harrington’s and the last time he was there it was less than a pleasant experience. An actor got shot there a few years back. Henry is the first one who didn’t want money from Carl but a story! Carl is not liked by officer Lasutta but an officer Camille sets him on a witness of a werewolf attack. Carl meets Dan. Carl accidentally activates the Skull of Sythnoxx. When returns from the Big Uneasy world, the unnatural quarter, a slightly different Earth, he finds he lost two whole days. When Kolchak returns, a vampire named Vlad comes with him but is now human. Vincenzo asks Carl where he was all weekend so Nov 1 and 2 have probably passed and it is either Nov
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