Wait!
Doesn't the header read "Horrific"???
Yes, it does, but the story's first appearance, in Comic Media's Horrific #6 (1953) wasn't cover-featured...and the reprint in Comic Media's Weird Terror #13 (1954) was, with this kool Don Heck art!
Now, on with the tale...
Illustrated by Marty Elkin, this tale was reprinted in Weird Terror with a modified, retitled splash panel...
In 1970, Eerie Publications took the script and had artist Antonio Reynoso redraw it!
If you're a horror literature aficionado, you might recognize the story as an unauthorized adaptation of the legendary Robert (Psycho) Bloch's story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper", which was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1943!
We'll be running the official comic adaptation, published in 1972, in November...
Join us next week as we present another tale your grandparents didn't want your parents to see!
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That was cool. The first (Weird Terror) was a better version, to me. Hadn't heard this story before. I liked it, even though I kind of figured it out before the reveal.
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