Nothing But The Tooth
From the archives!
Here's a letter that never saw publication in The Tooth letters column. The letter (and the response from all three Tooth creators) only surfaced yesterday. It is printed here for the sake of expanding the rich history of this great horror classic.
Dear Nothing But The Tooth,
Try as I might, I have yet to find issue #41 of The Tooth , so I must ask my burning question directly! Back in issue 36, Graham mentioned he could taste the gore when the Tooth returned to his mouth! In issue 38, the Tooth then fought Vampires! Now, frequently, people are turned into vampires by drinking the blood of a vampire (well, in the movies at least), and the last issue I could find, it was still the same night as the vampire fight. Come the next morning, did Graham find the sun unbearable because the Tooth unwittingly caused him to ingest Vampiric essence?!
–'Molar' less at the end of my wits over this 'cavity' in my knowledge, please 'fill' me in
In response, Matt Kindt writes:
Finally somebody's asking the right questions!!!!!!
Shawn Lee writes:
Dear Molar,
The Tooth wasn't back in Graham's mouth until after the titanic battle with the reanimated Dragon of Ares. A more sensible question would be "Is the God of War's prize pet now an undead vampire dragon?!?" Wait, that's not sensible at all. What writer would dare pen such a ludicrous concept? Put your hand down, Cullen Bunn!
And I throw my bloody two cents in:
Dear Molar,
One can only assume you are consulting a magic eight ball in order to divine future Tooth story-lines. Your prophetic powers are well-honed, my friend, because the story "This Tooth, This Vampire!" was published in a crossover event with The Tooth's sister publication, Mr. Morbid's Mag-GHOUL-zine! Sadly, that story is almost impossible to find. Some believe it never really existed at all. Still, some collectors are willing to dig up family plots and pry gold fillings from their dead Uncle Mortimer's skull in order to pay for that hard-to-find collectible.
There you have it–a bit of history, a piece of the puzzle that might help to solve some of the mysteries surrounding The Tooth! If you uncover additional "lost" letters, please send them in so we can share them here!
While individual issues of The Tooth may be hard to find, you can still order them from your local comic shop or online.
