Friday Fun MONSTER TIMES "It Crawled From Out of the Woodwork!"

Our final entry into the "roach comic" category is a fumetti...

...a comic strip told with photos (enhanced by artwork) from the tabloid-format sci-fi/horror newspaper The Monster Times #3 (1973)!

It's larger than our normal formatting because the typeset lettering would be unreadable in our normal presentation size!
Creative credits for the strip are unknown, but we can tell you the creators/art directors of Monster Times; Larry Brill and Les Waldstein; also performed the same tasks for Al Goldstein's notorious X-rated tabloid SCREW! which featured a number of comics artists including Wally Wood, Drew Friedman, and Tony Millionare!

Friday Fun SPEED RACER COMICS "Ralph Snart Meets the Terminator Cockroach"

Last week's Friday Fun entry was among the most popular ever!
So, if you want roaches, I'll give you roaches!

This never-reprinted featurette from NOW Comics' Speed Racer #18 (1989) by creator/writer/artist Marc Hansen was a promo for a new Ralph Snart Adventures series (after a previous series from the same publisher ended).
You can read about this rather...unique...character (whose adventures are still being published) by visiting Marc Hansen's website HERE!
BTW: The "Terminator" reference (even though the roach isn't a robot from the future) is appropriate, since NOW was publishing The Terminator movie tie-in comics!

Friday Fun ARRGH! "Bugged!"

When I lived full-time in NYC, this was probably my #1 problem...

...in every apartment I lived in, and this never-reprinted tale from Marvel's ARRGH! #2 (1975) really hit home!

Written by longtime NYC resident Russ Jones (as "Jack Younger") and illustrated by Alfredo Alcala, this terrifying tale predates Stephen King's Creepshow segment "They're Creeping Up on You!"...

...by over half a decade!
(The page above is from the tie-in graphic novel adapted by King from his screenplay and illustrated by Berni [Swamp Thing] Wrightson!)