H P Lovecraft's "Music of Erich Zann" Served as the Basis For This Terror Tale...
...which featured the return of an EC Comics stalwart to horror comics!
Adapted by writer Roy Thomas and illustrated by Johnny Craig (with some redrawing by Marie Severin), the story from Marvel's Chamber of Darkness #5 (1970) is pretty successful...within the limitations of the Comics Code Authority's restrictions.
(Ironically, the Code "loosened up" with some major revisions after this story was created and published.
As pointed out HERE at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's site: "The 1971 code relaxed the restrictions on crime comics and lifted the ban on horror comics [while still prohibiting the use of “horror” and “terror” in titles].")
Note: You may have noticed a b/w splash page just before the end of the story.
When it was reprinted in Marvel's b/w magazine Masters of Terror #2 (1975), the spash was inserted into the story with the last two captions from the previous page's final panel.
Plus, the reprint changed the title to the Lovecraft prose tale's "Music of Erich Zann".
(Ironically, the Code "loosened up" with some major revisions after this story was created and published.
As pointed out HERE at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's site: "The 1971 code relaxed the restrictions on crime comics and lifted the ban on horror comics [while still prohibiting the use of “horror” and “terror” in titles].")
Note: You may have noticed a b/w splash page just before the end of the story.
When it was reprinted in Marvel's b/w magazine Masters of Terror #2 (1975), the spash was inserted into the story with the last two captions from the previous page's final panel.
Plus, the reprint changed the title to the Lovecraft prose tale's "Music of Erich Zann".
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