Countdown to Halloween 2023 MONSTER TIMES "EC Comics"

In the early 1970s, there was a kool bi-weekly newspaper devoted to horror/sci-fi...

...and, for October, we've unearthed a slew of the paper's never-reprinted features from #10, an issue from half a century ago, dedicated to EC Comics!

Be here every Tuesday (including Halloween itself) for a terrifying tidbit!

You've been warned!

Hearts and Horror BEYOND "It Happened on Valentine's Eve"

Sometimes what happens in the hours before Valentine's Day is more exciting...

...than what happens on Valentine's Day, as this tale from Ace's Beyond #4 (1951) demonstrates!

The unknown scripter laid the prose on thick in this tale illustrated by John Belfi and Charles Nicholas.

Was it originally-intended to run a page longer, but cut/re-edited to fit the page count?

Sure feels like it!

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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!

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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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!

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Holiday Horror VAULT OF HORROR "...and All Through the House...." PLUS Video Holiday Presents!

Here's not one, not two, but three versions of a horrifying holiday tale...

...starting with it's initial appearance in EC Comics' Vault of Horror #35 (1954)!

This horror-day classic (sorry, couldn't resist) written and illustrated by Johnny Craig had been reprinted numerous times and been adapted twice, once as part of the 1970s anthology movie Tales from the Crypt...

...and as the second episode of the 1990s Tales from the Crypt TV series...

We'll be back after the New Year with more terrifying tales from the 1950s!

Merry Christmas

&

Happy New Year!

Countdown to Halloween 2020 / Twice-Told Tales TERROR TALES "Jury of Skeletons"

Yesterday, we presented a 1950s tale grounded in the real-life horror of the Holocaust...

...now, here's a remake from the 1970s, since the original couldn't be reprinted due to the Comics Code!
Note: May be NSFW!

South American artist Enrique Cristobal illustrated this redo from Eerie Publications' Terror Tales #V6N1 (1974), 21 years after the never-reprinted original's publication.
We hope you've enjoyed our Countdown to Halloween 2020 blogathon contribution featuring 1950s tales so ghastly they couldn't be reprinted and had to be re-illustrated for 1960s-1970s publication!

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