However, whilst the Burton films are deservedly praised (whether or not they’re his best works is a bone of contention), there was something inbetween them – in 1992, to be precise – that is worth mentioning. Fortunately, the Tim Burton movies of the 90’s managed to not only salvage the brand, but elevate it to the same glory of its heyday in the 60’s. The Addams Family, in their ubiquitous perversity, carried on not too long after the death of their creator there was the NES game Fester’s Quest, which in a stroke of what The Addamses would consider genius, had almost nothing to do with The Addams Family (Fester fights aliens, with cameos from his relatives throughout the game) and was absurdly difficult to the point of being almost unplayable. After the various attempts during the 70’s to revitalise The Addams Family brand, it was followed by a time of relative quiet for Charles Addams he had his tenth anthology of cartoons (entitled Creature Comforts) published in 1981, made the occasional appearance at comic book conventions, and died of a heart attack in late September 1988, just over six months after my birthday.
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