Monday, December 20, 2021

Holiday Horror MARVEL TALES "Third Ghost"

This is basically Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"...
...but with a plot twist you'll never see coming!
Written by Carl Wessler and illustrated by Larry Woromay, this never reprinted-tale from Atlas' Marvel Tales #112 (1953) turns the classic Yuletide ghost story on it's ear with the Scrooge surrogate triumphing over the specters!

Friday, May 28, 2021

Asian Horror WEB OF EVIL "Terror in Chinatown"

Behind this art which has nothing to do with the cover-featured tale...
...lies a story not as lurid or sensationalistic as the cover art would indicate!
But it is rather kool...
Illustrated by Charles Nicholas, this cover-featured tale from Quality Comics' Web of Evil #17 (1954) is actually quite mild, compared to some of the incredibly-gruesome material being published bo other companies in those pre-Comics Code Authority days!
BTW, The cover by Chuck Cuidera is an unabashed reworking of the cover for Quality's Ken Shannon #8 (1952)...
...which was inked by Cuidera, but penciled by Reed Crandall.
It matched the issue's story, which had no supernatural elements, about a tong in Chinatown!

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Friday, February 5, 2021

Hearts & Horror MENACE "Fake!"

Remember the old adage "Don't judge a book by it's cover"?
 Here's the codicil; "It goes both ways"!
Illustrated by Al Eadeh, this tale from Atlas' Menace #10 (1954) follows the classic trope of golddigger tripped up, not by her own greed, but by the fact her husband (who still loves her) is not even human!
Remember, the target audience for horror (as opposed to romance) comics was 8-14 year old boys, to whom girls were "yukky".
They were also the audience for whom Lois Lane , the nosy reporter who was always trying to either expose Superman's secret identity or trick the Man of Steel into marrying her, was the typical woman!