Addams would enjoy the Presbyterian Cemetery on Mountain Avenue in Westfield as a child, where – according to author and Addams expert Ron MacCloskey – he would wonder what it was like to be dead.[5] In the cartoons, his ghoulish creations lived on Cemetery Ridge with a dreadful view.
A house on Elm Street and another on Dudley Avenue – into which police once caught him breaking and entering – are said to be the inspiration for the Addams Family mansion in his cartoons. College Hall, the oldest building on the current campus of the University of Pennsylvania, where Addams studied, was also an inspiration for the mansion.[6] One friend said of him: "His sense of humor was a little different from everybody else's." He was also artistically inclined, "drawing with a happy vengeance", according to a biographer.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Addams
Original Morticia from her grave (his first wife):
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208438556/barbara-jean-hersey
Original model pack by Charles Addams: https://archive.org/details/adamsfamilymodelpack/page/n49/mode/2up
This is great, I really appreciate you posting this.
It's available on Internet Archive
It only shows a few pages for me and then goes to "limited preview."
Maybe I should scan my copy...
I think you're getting into copyright infringement territory. There's a reason it's on the limited preview, someone blocked them from showing it.
Yes, I've changed my mind!
I’m sorry, complete mindsplosion by the fact that, although the comics were black and white, the cover is in full colour!?!
It’s a completely different feel!