Friday The 13th Pamela's Tale

Celebrating Friday the 13...with this two issue mini-series from September and October, 2007, by Marc Andreyko and Shawn Moll, with covers by Dustin Nguyen....wherein tales of a young Pamela and Jason are told at Camp Crystal Lake in Friday The 13th: Pamela's Tale.

Saluting Our Veterans

Saluting our veterans on Veterans' Day with Our Army At War #269 (June, 1974) by Joe Kubert, featuring Sgt. Rock and Easy Company, Johnny Cloud and Hunter's Hellcats from Our Army At War #196 (August, 1968), All-American Men Of War #101 (January-February, 1964) and Our Fighting Forces #114 (July-August, 1968), plus a few miscellaneous war tales.

Remembering Artist Howard Purcell

Remembering artist Howard Purcell on his birthday (November 10, 1918 - April 24, 1981) with a couple of his covers for All-American Comics (#25 and #26, April and May, 1941) featuring Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern as he fights ordinary criminals with his power ring.  

Celebrating Artist Vince Locke

Celebrating artist Vince Locke on his birthday (November 7, 1966) with his 3 covers for the Image version of Deadworld...issues #1, #2 and #3 from April 2005, September 2005 and March 2006.

Celebrating Artist Jim Steranko

Celebrating legendary artist Jim Steranko on his birthday (November 5, 1938) with a couple of his more recent covers, featuring Captain America...from Captain America: Steve Rogers #1 (July, 2016) and Civil War II #2 (August, 2016).

Nurses In Our Army At War

Sgt. Rock of Easy Company was always helpful during the war, and worked to save a nurse in Our Army At War #104 (March, 1961) and was saved by one in Our Army At War #159 (October, 1965), both covers by Joe Kubert.

World War Stories

Stories from World War I, as only Dell could tell them, in World War Stories.

The cover from #1 (April-June, 1965) was painted by Vic Prezio, and Sam Glanzman provided the covers for #2 and #3 (July-September and December, 1965).

Horrors Of War

A few all too rare covers by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, featuring the supernatural at war, with Weird War Tales #41 (September, 1975) and Weird War Tales #48 (September-October, 1976).

Happy Halloween From Riverdale

A happy Halloween, here from Riverdale, as Archie and the gang celebrate a couple of Halloweens (from 2018 and 2025), with an Archie Halloween Spectacular from each year...both drawn by Dan Parent.

Swamp Thing Gets The Point

Swamp Thing gets the point in two of his earlier covers (#15 and #16, March-April and May, 1975), both drawn by Nestor Redondo.

Strange Tales Of Doors

Doors mean nothing to undead menaces, as evidenced by these two covers by Sol Brodsky, for Strange Tales #21 (August, 1953) and Strange Tales #23 (October, 1953).

Celebrating Artist Jan Duursema

Celebrating artist Jan Duursema on her birthday (October 27, 1954) with a couple of her Warlord covers, featuring Travis Morgan and Tara facing an old Aquaman villain, the Scavenger, who was transformed into a magical menace as the Scavenger of Souls in Warlord #124 and #125 (December, 1987 and January, 1988).

Celebrating Artist Paris Cullins

Celebrating artist Paris Cullins on his birthday (October 26, 1960) with a couple of his Blue Beetle covers, featuring his Legends crossovers, and a battle with Chronos.  (Blue Beetle #9 and #10, February and March, 1987).

The Frankenstein Monster Meets Werewolf By Night

The Frankenstein Monster met the Werewolf By Night (Jack Russell) in Giant-Size Werewolf #2 (October, 1974) by Doug Moench, Don Perlin and Vince Colletta (and cover by Gil Kane and Tom Palmer, with alterations on the Frankenstein Monster by John Romita).  Here, Jack's sister was kidnapped by the Brotherhood of Baal to be a sacrifice, while the Monster was seeking Danton Vayla for help.  Vayla happened to be the leader of the brotherhood, and while Jack was trying to free his sister he turned into the Werewolf, leading to the Werewolf By Night and Frankenstein Monster fighting (eventually leading to her freedom and the death of Danton).

Clayface Is Back

Clayface is back...or so the cover said....but was he really?

Not so much, as it was scientist Preston Payne, distilling a sample from the second Clayface (Matt Hagen, more on him here), who triggered his own cellular degradation, forcing him to absorb others and live in a strength enhancing exoskeleton to stay alive.  This brought him into conflict with Batman, in these two issues of Detective Comics (#478 and #479, July-August and September-October, 1978) by Len Wein, Marshall Rogers and Dick Giordano.

Marvel Tales

Long before Marvel Tales became a home to Spider-Man reprints, it was host to horror, as shown by these two Harry Anderson covers for Marvel Tales #123 and #124 (May and June, 1954), featuring people falling victim to the undead.

Remembering Artist Nick Cardy

Remembering artist Nick Cardy on his birthday (October 20, 1920 - November 3, 2013) with a couple of scary brides...one from Witching Hour #18 (December-January, 1971/1972) , and another from Ghosts #14 (April, 1973). 

Menacing Monkeys

In the early days, anything could be a menace, including monkeys, as evidenced by Cholly the Chimp in House of Mystery #55 (October, 1956) with cover art by Leonard Starr, or an organ grinder's pet, as in House of Mystery #58 (January, 1957), with cover by Bill Ely.

Remembering Artist Luis Dominguez

Remembering artist Luis Dominguez on his birthday (October 17, 1923 - July 1, 2020) with a couple of his covers featuring people under a watery threat...from Ghosts #38 (May, 1975) and Unexpected #165 (June, 1975).

Chamber Of Chills

A couple of creepy covers by Gil Kane and Tom Palmer for Chamber Of Chills #2 and #16 (January, 1973 and May, 1975).