Reading Room / Tales Twice Told WEIRD "The Dead Live"

 Usually, in "Tales Twice Told" we present the original story first...

...but this time, we're going with the later, reworked version from the same script first!

Illustrated (or is that re-illustrated by Cirilo Munoz, this tale from Eerie Publications' Weird V8N4 (1974) is a re-working of a story from 20 years earlier that, up until then, had not been reprinted...despite the fact it had been illustrated by a major Silver-Age artist!
Trivia: that original tale remained hidden under the cowbwebs of history until 2008.over a half century later, and only in black and white!
But you'll see that story from 1954, in brilliant color, right here on Thursday!

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Reading Room / Tales Twice Told WEIRD "Deadman's Ship"

For a change, this week's entry into Tales Twice Told begins with the re-done version by artist Enrique Cristobal...

...from Eerie Publications' Weird V8N4 (1974).

Though the scripter of this re-working is unknown, he/she/they are likely the story's original author, who is probably...nope, not gonna tell you now.

You'll have to come back Thursday to find out!

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Reading Room: WEIRD "Frankenstein: the Monster's Story"

Here's a one-off tale taking elements of several of the Frankenstein Monster's many incarnations...

...and combining them into a fascinating tale!

Written by the magazine's associate editor Roger Elwood and illustrated by it's editor/art director Carl Burgos (who created comics' first android hero, Timely's Golden Age Human Torch), this story from Eerie Publications' Weird V1N10 (1965) is one of the few stories (after Mary Shelly's original) that doesn't leave the door open for a sequel!

Trivia: despite the numbering, this is the first issue of the magazine!

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Reading Room / Tales Twice Told WEIRD "Thing in a Box"

On Tuesday, we posted the original 1950s version of this tale, entitled "Death on the Earth-Mars Run!"!

Here's the re-titled and re-illustrated, but not re-written (except for the opening caption) 1970s version!

You'll note the rich Martian and his adopted Venusian daughter are much more "alien" here than in the 1950s art.

In addition, the ship, technology, and clothing are more in line with late-1960s/early 1970s visualizations of such things.
(No more capes and other fashion elements so prevalent in Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon!)

Sadly, artist Antonio Reynoso's storytelling style isn't quite as sharp as original artist Everett Raymond Kinstler's, with the captions covering story elements the artist doesn't quite get across in this story from Eerie Publications' Weird V6N1 (1972).
As in the case of the vast majority of Eerie Publications' comic magazines, all the stories in this issue were either direct reprints of 1950s comic stories or redrawn (and re-titled) versions of 1950s comic stories.
Remember, at that time, there was no Grand Comics Database...or even a World Wide Web the average reader could access to figure out where the stories, from defunct publishers, originally-appeared!
Nor were there even reference books (like the one conveniently-listed below) which contained such minutia for the serious aficionado of graphic arts!

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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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Frankenstein Reading Room: WEIRD "Frankenstein: the Monster's Story"

Here's a one-off tale taking elements of several of the Monster's many incarnations...

...and combining them into a fascinating tale!

Written by the magazine's associate editor Roger Elwood and illustrated by it's editor/art director Carl Burgos (who created comics' first android hero, Timely's Golden Age Human Torch), this story from Eerie Publications' Weird V1N10 (1965) is one of the few stories (after Mary Shelly's original) that doesn't leave the door open for a sequel!

Trivia: despite the numbering, this is the first issue of the magazine!

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