Thursday, October 16, 2025

Tales Twice-Told BLACK MAGIC "Screaming Doll!"

You Saw This Tale on Tuesday...

...to be more precise, you saw a re-illustrated version of the same script!
This is the first, never-reprinted, rendering of the story!




Illustrated by Bill Benulis, and scripted by a currently-unknown writer (Though it could be Simon & Kirby Studio bosses Joe Simon and/or Jack Kirby) this story from Prize's Black Magic V4N4 (1954) has some oddly-unique attributes!
It's only 5 pages, when most of the stories are 6-8 pages.
(The re-drawn version is 6 pages!)
There's no half or full-page splash panel, though almost all Black Magic stories (except for one or two-pagers) have them!
Was the original story condensed/re-edited for space or content?
At the time (early 1954), there was a rising rage against comics in general and horror comics in particular due to Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent witch-hunt!
Sadly, we'll never know...

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