Okay, do I really need to read these issues carefully and offer up all the details? No. It’s not that they’re bad–it’s Steve Gerber horror-and-alienation writing, after all–but they’re not important to the Marvel mythology and they’re not really all that interesting. They’re kind of dated.
Simon Garth wanders around, taking on voodoo priests and showing a vague proclivity to protect his daughter and the occasional connection to his own past, but, in all, almost no mental capacity or human-ness at all. And there’s an amulet that some people use to control him.
He’s a zombie. There’s not a lot to tell here.
Issue #6 adds a Brother Voodoo story where he gets crucified. And Doug Moench writes a Simon Garth story in #7.
This kind of thing is totally in Steve Gerber’s wheelhouse. It’s fine for what it is. But he leaves after issue #8.
Some Marvel monster concepts like ‘Dracula’ and ‘Man-Thing’ are really interesting, and some just…………………aren’t. ‘The Living Mummy’, ‘It, the Living Colossus’, and ‘The Zombie’ all just sort of lay there on the page. Just because I said that, now they’re all gonna come out to my house looking for me.