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Friday, October 17, 2025

Frightful Friday Fun DRACULA Dracula One-Page Tales #3

The English-language reprints of the 1970s Spanish Dracula magazine didn't have any Dracula...

...because they left out these kool, wordless, one-page features from the back cover of the original Spanish editions!

Note these two also feature Frankenstein's Monster!

Both England's New English Library and America's Warren Magazines (who licensed the translated NEL version) left out these entertaining pieces...despite the fact no translation was needed!

Written and illustrated by Alfonso Figueras, these one-pagers now make their American debut!

Be here every Friday in October for more kool vampire humor!

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Dracula

the Trade Paperback

(from 1971, featuring the first six issues of the translated-from-Spanish Dracula magazine...but not these Dracula humor strips...nor any Dracula content!)
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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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Ten-Cent Plague

Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HP LOVECRAFT'S THE CALL OF CTHULHU "Call of Cthulhu" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Elder Gods...

...our intrepid explorers into the unknown approach an island...where none should exist...and see...R'lyeh...a city that shouldn't be there...

Once more, we present several pages with the truly unique, moody coloring used only in the Spanish-language publication of the tale...

Cthulhu Lives!

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Call of Cthulhu
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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Tales Twice-Told WITCHES TALES "Thing That Screamed!"

Once More, We Present the Re-Drawn Version of a "Tale Twice-Told" First...

...because it is a total re-visualization of the original story!

In fact, this version from Eerie Publications' Witches Tales V6N6 (1974) by Alberto Macagno is so visually-different, it's a full page longer, even though the script hasn't been altered!
But the pacing and the emphasis on gore are quite different...as you'll see on Thursday!

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