Yet none of those compare to the 1987 release of Freddy’s Greatest Hits, which is just too strange to exist.

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A release by a group known as the Elm Street Group, Freddy’s Greatest Hits is comprised of nine poppy, upbeat covers of old songs with Freddy laughing maniacally and occasionally yelling something threatening in the background. These are mainly songs that you can skew the titles as having something to do with Freddy Krueger, such as “Do the Freddy,” “Wooly Bully” and “In the Midnight Hour.”

Goddamn, Freddy was popular in the ’80s.

1. THE UNIVERSAL MONSTERS GET REIMAGINED AS SUPERHEROES

Dell Comics (1966)

Dell Comics used to be one of the biggest deals in the comic industry, and a lot of it had to do with their use of licenses. They had Disney, Warner Bros, Hanna Barbera, you name it. In the early 60’s, they made a deal with Universal to do comics based on the Universal Monsters. Basically, while Dracula and his like are public domain characters that could appear in any comic, Dell had the rights to use the most iconic pop culture representations of them. And so, they released comics that retold the stories of the various monster movies such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, and The Creature From the Black Lagoon. Then they hit a big roadblock in the form of the Comics Code Authority.

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The Comics Code had a ruling against using monsters in comic books. Some comics were able to get past this by including Dracula, but depicting him as a completely incompetent fool so as to appease the Comics Code Gods. Dell didn’t take part in the Comics Code, but there was heavy pressure to do so. Instead, they policed themselves and fell victim to the same rules, effectively caving in. But what of all these monster properties they were sitting on? Easy! They just turned them all into superheroes! Kids love superheroes, right?

Instead of Dracula the lord of vampires, we get Dracula, the scientist in purple tights with the power to turn himself into a bat while living in America under the assumed name Al U. Card. He’s actually the descendant of the original Dracula, but it’s only alluded to. Terms like “vampire” and “Transylvania” are completely absent. Eventually, he gets a love interest/sidekick named Fleeta and they dedicate themselves to rooting out liars who prey on the innocent.

Frankenstein is even weirder, as the creature finds his way into inheriting a ton of money and changes his name to Frank N. Stone, disguising himself with a flesh-colored mask. For some reason, only his head is green. Also, Castle Frankenstein was in America all this time. He’s a straight-up crime fighter, going around fighting giant spiders, mad scientists, evil robots, and a really angry deaf guy.

In all of this, both the Dracula and Frankenstein comics start at #2, as Dell considers the film adaptations to be #1. They also released a comic for Werewolf, which had zero ties to the Wolf Man film, but was also noticeably bonkers. It deals with a secret agent who wears a set of black tights that is “one molecule thick” and can hypnotize himself into changing his facial structure. To nobody’s surprise, all three of these superhero comics lasted three issues each.