We Presented the Later Telling of This Tale HERE...
...now here's the earlier (and never-reprinted version) from Key Publishing's Weird Tales of the Future #3 (1952)!
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Showing posts with label Haunted House Reading Room. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haunted House Reading Room. Show all posts
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Reading Room / Tales Twice Told WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Desert Castle"
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Reading Room / Tales Twice Told TALES FROM THE TOMB "Weird House"
Usually, We Start With the Earlier (1950s) Version of a Story...
...but in this case, it's the later (1970s) telling of the tale!
(BTW, isn't it odd that scientists of 2995 use the technology and dress in clothing from the 1950s?)
Illustrated by Oscar Novelle, this story from Eerie Publications' Tales from the Tomb V3N5 (1971) is a simple, effective "haunted house/castle" story.
The jarring aspect is placing it over a thousand years in the future!
Why?
Thursday's re-presentation of the never-reprinted original version might hold the answer!
BTW, the author of both the original and reworked versions is...unknown!
Why?
Thursday's re-presentation of the never-reprinted original version might hold the answer!
BTW, the author of both the original and reworked versions is...unknown!
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Haunted House Reading Room JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY "House!"
Here's a late Halloween...or on-time Dia De Muertos treat...
...one last haunted house tale to wrap up our Haunted House Reading Room series!
And it's a never-reprinted story at that!
In 1971, the Comics Code loosened restrictions on many of the banned horror comics tropes that caused the "Seduction of the Innocent" witchhunt of the mid-1950s that almost destroyed the comics industry.
Vampires, werewolves, maniac killers, and their ilk, limited to b/w magazines for the last couple of decades, returned to four-color comics...along with adaptations of classic horror stories and new tales by enthusiastic writers and artists who were big EC Comics fans and never thought they'd have a chance to create similar color comics again!
Marvel jumped back into the horror comic business with a slew of new titles like Tomb of Dracula, Monster of Frankenstein, Marvel Spotlight (which featured Werewolf by Night, Ghost Rider, and Son of Satan, all of whom got their own books), Man-Thing in Adventures into Fear and then his own title, a revival of Strange Tales with The Golem and Brother Voodoo, and a trio of anthologies, Chamber of Chills (a title used by Harvey Comics in the 1950s), Supernatural Thrillers, and a revival of Journey into Mystery!
Marvel jumped back into the horror comic business with a slew of new titles like Tomb of Dracula, Monster of Frankenstein, Marvel Spotlight (which featured Werewolf by Night, Ghost Rider, and Son of Satan, all of whom got their own books), Man-Thing in Adventures into Fear and then his own title, a revival of Strange Tales with The Golem and Brother Voodoo, and a trio of anthologies, Chamber of Chills (a title used by Harvey Comics in the 1950s), Supernatural Thrillers, and a revival of Journey into Mystery!
Quite a bit of the new material from these anthologies (all of which went reprint in a year or so) has never been reprinted, so when we searched through the archives for rare haunted house-themed stories, this long-unseen tale from Marvel's Journey into Mystery V2#1 (1972) all but jumped up at us!
Enjoy this half-century old bit of long-lost comics history!
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Thursday, October 27, 2022
Haunted House Reading Room TALES OF SUSPENSE "I Speak of the Haunted House!"
This haunted house tale features two Silver Age greats...
...taking a twice-told tale, and proving "third time's the charm!"
Since it was backing up an Invincible Iron Man story in Atlas/Marvel's Tales of Suspense #42 (1963), this tale remained unseen for almost 50 years (unless you had this issue) until finally reprinted in the book available below!
You'll note the comic book fanboys of the previous two versions (HERE and HERE) are replaced with adults, one of whom looks amazingly-like a middle-aged Peter Parker!
Not suprising, since writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko co-created Peter and his costumed alter-ego, The Amazing Spider-Man!
Note: When I first ran this post years ago, reader Rowdie Richie pointed out "...it was reprinted around 1970 in a British UK Annual hardcover.
I am really hoping to find it also in a cheap early 70s reprint comic, since Marvel was heavy into horror at the time."
Sadly, it didn't appear in any of the 1970s Marvel horror reprints, and the UK reprint in IPC's Fantastic! #5 (1967) was cut to 3 1/2 pages (eliminating the kool splash page) and ran in black and white!
Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics!Note: When I first ran this post years ago, reader Rowdie Richie pointed out "...it was reprinted around 1970 in a British UK Annual hardcover.
I am really hoping to find it also in a cheap early 70s reprint comic, since Marvel was heavy into horror at the time."
Sadly, it didn't appear in any of the 1970s Marvel horror reprints, and the UK reprint in IPC's Fantastic! #5 (1967) was cut to 3 1/2 pages (eliminating the kool splash page) and ran in black and white!
The hardcover UK annual he mentions, IPC's Fantastic! Annual (1970)...
...shows this edited version...but in black and white with red tones added, not full color!
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Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Haunted House Reading Room JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY "I Spent the Night in a Haunted House!"
...now let's look at how Stan Lee, his brother, and a Silver Age superstar artist re-told the tale a decade later!
Stan Lee turned the previously-used plot over to his brother, writer Larry Lieber and artist Don Heck who modified it slightly for this story from Atlas' Journey into Mystery #80 (1962).
Trivia: When this story was reprinted in Marvel's Monsters on the Prowl #26 (1973), the comics the kids were reading were updated to then-current titles...
Trivia: When this story was reprinted in Marvel's Monsters on the Prowl #26 (1973), the comics the kids were reading were updated to then-current titles...
...but the last panel still showed the kid reading Journey into Mystery...because that title had just been revived!
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Journey into Mystery
Volume 4
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Haunted House Reading Room UNCANNY TALES "I was Locked in a...Haunted House!"
Here's a tale that was so kool...
...Stan Lee and the artists at Atlas/Marvel told it three times...with variations, of course!
Written by Stan Lee, illustrated by Joe Maneely, this story from Atlas' Uncanny Tales #7 (1953) featured comic book fanboys as the protaganists.
(Note they only read Atlas titles like Mystic, Marvel Tales, and Uncanny Tales!
None of that EC crud for these guys!)
Be here Tuesday when Stan Lee and another Silver Age great re-tell this tale!
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Haunted House Reading Room ADVENTURES INTO WEIRD WORLDS "House of Horror!" / DEAD OF NIGHT "House of Fear!"
While today's haunted house tale was the cover feature...
...the art, by the amazing Bill Everett, didn't quite get it right...as you shall see!
Why Everett did a demon/werewolf on the cover instead of the Jim Mooney-rendered skeleton shown is unknown!
When this story from Atlas' Adventures into Weird Worlds #6 (1952) was reprinted as the cover featured tale in Marvel's Dead of Night #1 (1973)...
...artist John Romita Sr got the skeleton right!
Thanks to early 1970s revisions in the Comics Code, the tale was reprinted almost verbatim!
But for some reason, the title was altered...
Nobody knows why...
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