Thursday, October 31, 2024

Happy Halloween With Vampirella

A happy Halloween to one and all, here with a pair of covers from the Harris' Vampirella Halloween Special from 2006..

....one by Amanda Conner, and the other by Tommy Castillo.

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Terror Illustrated


Here, a couple of magazine sized issues from the 1950s with covers by Reed Crandall...with adult tales of terror illustrated!

Inside these two magazines (Terror Illustrated #1 from November-December, 1955 and #2 from April, 1956) were prose stories by Al Feldstein, John Larner and Jack Oleck with accompanying art by Reed Crandall, Joe Orlando, George Evans, Graham Ingels, Johnny Craig, Charles Sultan and Jack Davis...with a third issue planned at the time, but not published until 2006, with the collection of the first two issues.




Monday, October 28, 2024

Shocking Weird Mystery Tales

Just a little electrical horror here, with a pair of Nick Cardy covers to Weird Mystery Tales (#3, November-December, 1972 and #7, August-September, 1973)...just to keep things grounded.


Sunday, October 27, 2024

Remembering Artist Bernie Wrightson

Remembering artist Bernie Wrightson on his birthday (October 27, 1948 - March 18, 2017)...

...with a couple of his more Halloween inspired covers to Secrets Of Haunted House (#5 and #44, December-January, 1975/1976 and January, 1982).


Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Fear The Funhouse Toybox Of Terror

Archie Comics gets into the horror market, with this entry from December, 2023, and the two variant covers (one by Ryan Caskey and a little girl doll, the other by Sweeney Boo with an Archie doll) in their anthology....Fear The Funhouse: Toybox Of Terror #1!

Sunday, October 20, 2024

Remembering Artist Nick Cardy

Remembering artist Nick Cardy on his birthday (October 20, 1920 - November 3, 2013) with some of his rarely seen art...

..covers featuring the Spectre!



Spectre #8 and #9 (January-February and March-April, 1969)

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Spectre #10 and Secret Origins #5 (May-June, 1969 and November-December, 1973)

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....and read about Spectre's Secret Origins here!


Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Tales Of Terror Annuals

Horror from the 1950s!

Here, with covers by Al Feldstein, are the three EC annuals for Tales Of Terror...and, horror of horrors, each issue could be different, as they just contained bound volumes of 4 unsold EC issues from 1951, 1952 and 1953!