Reading Room/Tales Twice Told TALES FROM THE TOMB "Living Corpse"

Last Tuesday, We Showed You the Original Version of This Story!

Now Witness How Another Artist Re-Interpreted It for a Cover-Featured Tale...and Needed an Extra Page to Do So!

This new version of the Simon & Kirby Black Magic story appeared in Eerie's Tales from the Tomb V6N5 (1974), illustrated by Alberto Macagno.

What's odd is that most of the reworked versions that appeared in Eerie Publications' b/w magazines (which weren't restricted by the Comics Code Authority) were gorier than the originals.
Yet this tale would've easily passed the looser Code, then in effect, which allowed "traditional/classic" monsters (Frankenstein, Dracula (and other vampires), werewolves, mummies)...without too much blood!

Heck, Marvel had just released their own Living Mummy series in Supernatural Thrillers!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WOLFF "Beginning of the End"

It Has All Come to This...

...the Final Chapter in the Saga of Wolff, the Post-Apocalyptic Barbarian, seeking his long-lost wife and tribe!

This never-seen-in-America finale from New England Library's Dracula V1N12 (1972) is melancholy at best.

But it holds the potential for a sequel...which was never realized!

Next Wednesday...

We Present a Far Different WORLD OF WONDER than You've Seen the Past Three Months!

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Wolff et la Reine des Loups

(aka Wolff and the Wolf Queen)

French Graphic Novel reprinting this storyline with superb printing!

and/or

Dracula Annual

The Incredibly-HTF British Hardcover with all 12 issues of the Comic, including the Complete Wolff Saga!

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Space Hero Saturdays FLASH GORDON: THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ALL

Before Flash Gordon the Movie came to movie screens in 1980...
...another Flash-related project came to fruition!
No, not the animated TV series!
A self-contained, feature-length, animated movie!

It was conceived and written by Sam (Classic Star Trek "Where No Man Has Gone Before") Peebles as a prime-time live-action feature, not a Saturday morning animated kiddie series!
But the budget required for the script would've been $30,000,000 (almost $100,000,000 in 2024 dollars!)!
So, it was decided to do the project using classic cel animation, including rotoscoping for both character movement and spaceship action!

Note: Heavy Metal; the Movie, in production at the same time, utilized the same approach!
But they had to use several different studios, working together, to complete their feature film!
Though a lot of the footage from Greatest Adventure of All was recycled, over half is exclusive to the feature, including Flash in a Doc Savage-style torn shirt and jodpurs for the first 2/3rds of the film!
That footage was re-drawn for the series with Flash in his red and blue Mongo uniform.
It's the way Flash was drawn in the first few weeks of the newspaper strip, and Buster Crabbe followed suit in the first couple of chapters of the first movie serial!

BTW, the film starts out in Warsaw, Poland at the beginning of World War II before heading to Mongo, and all the Earth-based technology, including Zarkov's ship, are contemporary to what was shown in sci-fi magazines and flix of the era!

Now, with pardonable pride, we present the complete feature film which is unavailable on American physical media sources and only aired once, on late night TV in 1982.

Note the cameos by Adolph Hitler, to whom Ming is supplying weapon and rocket technology!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WOLFF "Lair of the Witches"

Wolff leaves Katerina and her father the sorcerer...

...to begin his final quest...to discover what had become of his tribe...and his wife!

Next Wednesday...

The Fateful, Fearsome Finale!

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Wolff et la Reine des Loups
(aka Wolff and the Wolf Queen)

French Graphic Novel reprinting this storyline with superb printing!
and/or

Dracula Annual

The Incredibly-HTF British Hardcover with all 12 issues of the Comic, including the Complete Wolff Saga!

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Monday Madness PSYCHO "Weird Way It Was"

If ever a story qualified as "mad" (as in "insane")...

...it would certainly be this never-reprinted terror tale from Skywald's Psycho #12 (1973)

Written by Psycho's editor, Al Hewetson, and illustrated by Pablo Marcos, this story has plot elements from and visual references to Lewis Carroll's surreal Alice tales.

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WOLFF "City in the Clouds" and "Return of Sadya"

We Have Already Seen...

...Wolff rescues Katerina, who brings him to her sorcerer father's kingdom...in the sky!

Will Wolff and Katerina survive Sadya's attack?
Let's See...

Where's the conveniently-placed synopsis to explain everything going on in this post-apocalyptic world where magic rules and technology is all but forgotten?

Oh, it's at the top of Page 2!

Carry on...

Now the story makes sense!

Interestingly, this concludes the major plotline in the Wolff strip, with Wolff's final adventure beginning...

NEXT WEDNESDAY

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Wolff et la Reine des Loups

(aka Wolff and the Wolf Queen)

French Graphic Novel reprinting this storyline with superb printing!
and/or

Dracula Annual

The Incredibly-HTF British Hardcover with all 12 issues of the Comic!

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