Reading Room THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED "Secret of the Walking Dead"

With the return of AMC's The Walking Dead...

...we thought we'd present a shocker involving someone deliberately creating a scientific zombie!

Could this be similar to how the walkers on AMC's Walking Dead came to be?

This tale from Fawcett's This Magazine is Haunted #6 (1952) was illustrated by Ed Waldman who worked on-and-off in comics from 1941 to 1954.

The tale's writer is sadly, unknown!
However, the cover artist is Sheldon Moldoff!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WALKING DEAD ZOMBIE SPECIAL "Dead Mass"

We've reached the finale of the original Walking Dead series...

...but keep reading!

There's more to see after this surreal tale!

The final tale by Walking Dead's creator/writer/artist Jim Somerville went into realms inconceivable in the original science fiction-themed story (as shown HERE)!

Somerville went on to other projects, including series based on the Alien and Predator movies at Dark Horse, but Aircel wasn't through with zombies..specifically these zombies!
A year later, they ran a sequel series...

...which didn't specifically state it was a sequel, but did follow up on the original Walking Dead's premise by introducing the two alien races whose space battle resulted in the crashed starship whose cargo created the zombies!

It also introduced a concept so over the top, that we can't present the series here!
But, if there's a demand for it, we'll run in in our adults-only blog Not Safe for Work Comics!

What say you?

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WALKING DEAD ZOMBIE SPECIAL "Dead or Dead" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Sheriff in the Zombie Apocalypse...

...again, not that sheriff, but a delusional teenager who perceives zombies and threatening humans (like bikers) as classic Western baddies, thus explaining the story's title which is a riff on the old-style wanted poster caption of "Dead or Alive"!

There's one more never-reprinted tale of the original Walking Dead, and you'll see it here...

Next Wednesday...

along with info about an unauthorized sequel from the same publisher!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WALKING DEAD ZOMBIE SPECIAL "Dead or Dead" Part 1

Besides the characters in the plotline of the four issue mini-series... 

...a one-shot Walking Dead Zombie Special in 1990 featured this tale of other humans battling zombies...and each other!

"Sheriff" Scav's mental "coping mechanism" of perceiving threatening enemies as classic Western villains might just get him killed!

Find out if he survives...

Next Wednesday!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WALKING DEAD "Beginning of the End" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Former Law-Enforcement Officer Battling Zombies in a Post-Apocalyptic World...

...no!
Not that LEO..

...this LEO!
Mortally-wounded Sgt Joe Barker faces off with zombie leader (Yes, the zombies in this universe have a leader!) Jak...

The final scene of the final issue of Aircel's Walking Dead (#4 in 1990) truly defines "apocalyptic" as everyone (live and undead) is now kaput!
There are two more short tales involving different groups of characters than the main series.
You'll see them over the next few weeks.
Created by writer/artist Jim Somerville and published by Malibu/Aircel in 1989, it was vastly-different from the 2003-present graphic novel series created by writer Robert Kirkman, and artists Tony Moore & Charles Adlard..
For collectors, there's good news and bad news...

Good news: There's only a four-issue mini series and a one-shot Special to collect!

Bad news: Because it didn't sell well (and has never been reprinted), it's HTF (hard to find) and expensive!

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