DC's REAL ORIGIN

Okey, okey. If it’ll make you happy. I’ll now make a confession. I did too, have a source for Devil Car. It was an old, old black and white film which I saw during my younger days on the late show on TV. Or was it in color and just our TV set which was still only in black and white? I can’t recall. Anyway, it was an old fashioned horror flick called “THE HEARSE”. It was about an antiquated black funeral car, plain and simple, that somehow got possessed by evil, became “alive”, and started killing anyone who happened to cross its path. I don’t even remember how the story itself ran. So you see, it was really just the idea of the Hearse’s morbid qualities that I “borrowed”, changed everything else, and came up with my own story. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if I found out that Knight Rider or Christine – or maybe even both—might also have been “inspired” by “The Hearse”.