Reading Room EERIE "Dracula" Part 3

When Last We Left Our Vampire...

Dracula traveled to England, where he made Lucy Seward his newest victim.

Meanwhile, Lucy's best friend, Mina Murray received news that her fiance Jonathan Harker had been hospitalized.

Rushing to Budapest, she discovers he is speedily recovering, and the two are married that day!

To be concluded...TOMORROW!

In case you're wondering why we haven't listed credits for this tale, it's because there aren't any!

We have no idea who the writer and artist(s) are since the art isn't signed and the records for Avon Comics are apparently no longer extant.

However, the art is very well-designed with both clear storytelling and detailed rendering, if slightly-stiff, much in the Reed Crandall / Murphy Anderson school.

Reading Room EERIE "Dracula" Part 2

When Last We Left Our Vampire...

Real estate agent Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to arrange the purchase of a London townhouse by a rich, reclusive nobleman...Count Dracula.

When he is molested by the count's wives, Harker discovers that they (and Dracula) are vampires, and that he is helpless to stop them!

Meanwhile, in England, Harker's fiance, Mina, worries...

But, will they have a honeymoon...or a funeral?

Be here TOMORROW to find out!

Reading Room EERIE "Dracula" Part 1

Did you know that Classics Illustrated did Frankenstein, but not Dracula?

However, there was a relatively-faithful adaptation of the original Bram Stoker novel, published several years after the Classic Comics version of Mary Shelley's tale appeared in the mid-1940s!
It was published in Avon Comics' Eerie #12 (1953), and was the only book-length story to appear in the title!
To the best of our knowledge, the story has never been reprinted, probably due to it's length.

What shall Johnathan Harker do?

Join us TOMORROW for the frightening answer!

Reading Room REX HAVOC "Spud from Another World! or Who Grows There?" Part 1

The short-lived Rex Havoc series spoofed a different sci-fi/fantasy sub-genre in each installment...

...with this story taking a classic movie and the short story that inspired it, and turing them on their butts.

See what Rex and company do with the appendage (and the alien it came from) next week!

Rex's second tale from Warren's 1984 #5 (1978) takes the classic 1950s movie Thing from Another World, adds a couple of elements from the extremely-different John Campbell short story "Who Goes There?" it was based upon, adds a healthy dose of snark, shakes well, and produces this entertaining spoof.
Note: the suppporting characters are given the names of the actors' who played their counterparts in the original film.
For example, the base commander, named "Hendry" in the movie, is "Tobey" here.
Kenneth Tobey played Hendry in the movie.

Written by regular Warren contributor Jim Stenstrum, and illustrated by Abel Laxamana, who spent the late 1970s-early 1980s illustrating for Warren, left comics to go into animation, then popped up again in the late 1990s-early 2000s, doing superhero and, oddly enough, Simpsons comics!

Reading Room SIR LEO "Mark of Death"

Let's return to the never-seen in America adventures of the Victorian monster hunter...

...with a hip, 1970s vibe!

Don't you hate it when your client turns out to be both a monster and (if the Whitechapel reference is to be accepted) Jack the Ripper?

Written and illustrated by Jose Bea and co-written by Luis Vigil, this tale from from Dracula #9 (1971) has never been seen by an American audience.

The final Sir Leo tale will appear next Monday.

Tomorrow, the return of Rex Havoc...