How did the cover-featured tale from Avon's Strange Worlds #4 (1951)...
...end up being used (almost verbatim) in Eerie Publications' Weird Worlds #V1N10 (1970)?
Eerie Publications had been using photostats and negatives from defunct comics companies as the source material for their b/w magazine line.
About
a year in, they started using South American artists eager to break
into the comics market and American artists like Dick Ayers and Chic
Stone who were losing work as the Silver Age ended and comics companies
cut back their lines, to re-do old stories with a more contemporary
style.
Some
illustrators totally-redid the art, using new "camera angles" and
clothing/technology designs reflecting contemporary tastes.
In this particular case, artist Cirilo Munoz just lightboxed and re-inked the existing Wally Wood/Joe Orlando artwork!
Editor
Carl (Golden Age Human Torch) Burgos rewrote the opening captions and
changed the hero's name, but otherwise left Gardner Fox's original
script intact.
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