Tales Twice Told TALES OF VOODOO "Devil's Machine"

If you're a faithful reader, you've already seen the 1950s version of this story on Tuesday!

Now here's a retitled, redrawn (and only slightly rewritten) retelling from Eerie Publications' Tales of Voodoo V4N5 (1971)!

Why was the story redrawn when so little was changed from one version to another?
It's not like they made it even more gruesome...as some of Eerie Publications' reworkings did, since they weren't under Comics Code Authority restraints like color comic book were!
Note: illustrator Walter Casadei started his career as a humor and "good girl" artist.

But when he proved he could handle any genre, Walter's assignments became predominantly horror/sci-fi!

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Tales Twice Told STRANGE GALAXY "Terror Asteroid"

With a really kool title like this...

...you can bet there'll be thrills and chills aplenty in the dark void of space..where no one can hear you scream!

If you think this story from Eerie Publications' b/w magazine Strange Galaxy V1N11 (1971) has a curiously-1950s retro feel to it, you'd be right...sort of.

Though the art by Antonio Reynoso is new, the story itself is lifted, with only minor caption and dialogue changes, from a tale in Avon Comics' Strange Worlds #9 (1952)!

We'll bring you that one on Thursday!

Note: Reynoso was one of numerous South American artists used by Eerie to re-interpret old comics stories in an updated, usually gorier, style for the b/w magazine market.

In fact, he did more stories (over 80 of them) than any other artist!

And, unlike most of their other illustrators, he worked exclusively for Eerie in the American comics business!

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It's a Tale THRICE-Told! WEIRD "Eye of Evil!"

Remember when we ran these two stories last week?

A run of the mill sci-fi tale...

...and it's original, more horror-oriented, version...

As you might have guessed, Eerie Publications got its' claws on these two versions of a story from a defunct publisher Ajax-Farrell and...

...reprinted the heavily-edited, Comics Code-approved version...

...and redid the original story in a rather...unique...way!

Antonio Reynoso brought his surreal style to this redo which appeared in Eerie Publications' Weird V8N2 (1974).

Reynoso was one of numerous South American artists used by Eerie to re-interpret old comics stories in an updated, usually gorier, style for the b/w magazine market.

In fact, he did more stories (over 80 of them) than any other artist!

And, unlike most of their other illustrators, he worked exclusively for Eerie in the American comics business!

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Tales Twice Told WEIRD WORLDS "Green Horror"

We presented the 1950s version of this tale HERE...

...now here's the redrawn 1970s version...with the script taken almost verbatim from the original!

"They went beyond the stars only to find terror that could destroy everything"

That was the contents page description from Eerie Publications' Weird Worlds V1N10 (1970) for this reworking by artist Walter Casadei of "Planet Eaters" from Key's Weird Mysteries #1 (1952).

Casadei started his career as a humor and "good girl" artist.

But when he proved he could handle any genre, Walter's assignments became predominantly a horror/sci-fi illustrator!

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Tales Twice Told STRANGE GALAXY "Planetoid Monsters"

On Tuesday, we brought you a kool tale...

...which predated Chariots of the Gods by a couple of decades.
Today, we present a re-visualization of the exact same script from the 1970s!

Illustrated by Oscar Stepancich, this story from Eerie Publications' Strange Galaxy #10 (1971) is an almost word-for-word retelling of "Space-Gods of Planetoid 50!" from Avon's Strange Worlds #7 (1952)!

Eerie both reprinted 1940s-50s material from defunct publishers like Avon and Gilmor, and did new versions by South American artists when the originals weren't "graphic" enough!

B/w magazines didn't follow the still-restrictive Comics Code Authority, so they could do more risque material (blood/violence/mild nudity) than color comics!

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Tales Twice Told WEIRD WORLDS "Creature"

What happens when you take a 1950s comic story, and redo the art 20 years later...

...but re-use the original dialogue and captions?
Read for yourself...

With a script taken almost verbatim from the (then) 20 year-old tale "Lost Kingdom of Althala" (which we showed you Tuesday), this story from Eerie Publications' Weird Worlds V1N10 (1970) had a complete redo on the art by Argentine illustrator Oscar Fraga, whose work in the American comics market was exclusively for Eerie Publications and consisted solely of re-dos of 1950s stories!

Tales Twice Told STRANGE GALAXY "Moon is Red"

In the late 1960s-early 1970s, numerous b/w comic magazines popped up...

...to publish the risque material the Comics Code Authority banned from color comic books!

Despite being drawn in 1970, this tale from Eerie Publications' Strange Galaxy #V1N8 (1971) has the feel of a 1950s tale, which wouldn't be surprising since the publisher both reprinted stories from defunct publishers when they could find photostats/printing film or re-illustrated stories using old scripts nearly verbatim.
In fact, this story's script is adapted from a tale in Avon's Strange Worlds #4 (1951) called "A Nation is Born", which we'll re-present Thursday so you can compare them!

BTW, this issue, despite being #8, was actually the first issue under that title.
What it was before then is unknown, since the publisher did numerous titles in various categories including astrology, romance, crime, etc.

"Oswal" was the pen-name of Osvaldo Walter Viola, an Argentinean writer/artist who began his career in the early 1960s creating Argentine's first super-hero, Sónoman.

His only American comics work was for Eerie Publications' titles.

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