Showing posts with label Eerie Publications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eerie Publications. Show all posts

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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Thursday, October 9, 2025

Tales Twice-Told STRANGE GALAXY "Vampires from Dimension 'X' "

 We Have Already Seen...

...this exact story, but presented, in color, by a different illustrator, who did it almost 20 years earlier!

Inspired by the success of Warren Publications' b/w horror magazines (CreepyEerie, and Vampirella), schlock publisher Myron Fass dropped his line of poorly-selling color comics and decided to do a line of b/w horror magazines uncensored by the Comics Code Authority.
Though some of the material was pure reprint of b/w stats and photo negatives from defunct comics companies like AvonFawcett, and Farrell, Fass' supply of them was limited.
So he had new material produced based on stories in printed comics from those same out-of-business companies, employing South American artists who worked for lower rates than American or European artists the major companies used!
Illustrated by Argentinian artist Antonio Reynoso, this re-telling of Tuesday's story was, itself, reprinted several times throughout the Eerie Publications line after it's premiere in Strange Galaxy V1N11 (1971), though I suspect Reynoso was paid only for its' initial publication!
Eerie Publications continued from 1969 to 1980, when the birth of the Direct Market and comic book stores (who didn't carry the Eerie Publications titles) doomed it to diminishing sales.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Reading Room / Tales Twice Told TERROR TALES "Flesh Ripper"

We Present Another  Pair of Stories with the Same Script...

...drawn two decades apart, this time with the re-worked, gorier, version first!





Taking the script almost verbatim from the original 1953 four-color comic book, Argentinian artist Martha Barnes totally-redrew the story, using different "camera angles" and lighting effects as well as re-imagining the visuals for the creature in Eerie Publication's Terror Tales V6N6 (1974)!
It's damn near impossible to figure out where the tale was derived from!
But you'll see the original version...by one of the "Big Names" in the field...on Thursday!
Note: Martha Barnes was the premier female horror/crime/war illustrator in the Argentinian comics industry from the late 1940s to the late 1970s.
Besides Eerie Publications, she also did work for another American publisher, DC Comics
on G.I Combat!

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Thursday, September 11, 2025

Reading Room / Tales Twice Told STRANGE WORLDS "Sabotage on Space Station 1"

...now you'll see where that "flavor" came from!
Damn, we humans are good at this sort of world-saving stuff, eh?
This Norman Nodel-illustrated tale from Avon's Strange Worlds #7 (1952) could have been the basis of an episode of Space: 1999 or Classic Star Trek with just a couple of tweaks!
As to why it was reworked...
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 Nodel artwork!
Editor Carl (Golden Age Human Torch) Burgos eliminated the opening captions and modified a couple of captions and dialogue balloons, but otherwise left the unknown writer's original script intact.
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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Reading Room / Tales Twice Told WEIRD WORLDS "Terror on Station One!"

Here's an early 1970s sci-fi space opera tale...
...that reads and "feels" like a 1950s sci-fi space opera story!
And there's a good reason for that!
Wonder why this Cirillo Munoz-rendered tale from Eerie Publications' Weird Worlds V1N10 (1970) feels so...out of date in an early 1970s magazine?
Perhaps because it's almost a line-for-line, panel for panel, re-do of a 1950s story!
Be here Thursday to see the original four-color version by a different artist!
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Monday, January 27, 2025

Monday NSFW Madness VOODOO "Corpses of the Jury" & TERROR TALES "A Jury of Skeletons"

On the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz...

...we're combining fictional horror with the real-life horrors of the Holocaust and concentration camps!
Warning: NSFW!

Memories of World War II and the Nuremberg Trials were still fresh in peoples' minds when this tale was published in 1953 in Ajax/Farrell's Voodoo #5.
There were stories aplenty of hidden Nazis being tracked down, but most involved them being tried and executed by Allied (American/British/French) law-enforcement, not spectral beings, and certainly not in so gruesome, yet poetic, fashion.
BTW, the identities of any of the Iger Studio creatives associated with this tale are, sadly, unknown!
Now, here's a b/w remake from the 1970s (using the same script), since the original couldn't be reprinted in color comics due to the Comics Code Authority!
South American artist Enrique Cristobal illustrated this redo from Eerie Publications' Terror Tales #V6N1 (1974), 21 years after the never-reprinted original's publication.
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