Haunted House Reading Room JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY "I Spent the Night in a Haunted House!"

Last Thursday, we saw the first version of this haunted house story...

...now let's look at how Stan Lee, his brother, and a Silver Age superstar artist re-told the tale a decade later!

Stan Lee turned the previously-used plot over to his brother, writer Larry Lieber and artist Don Heck who modified it slightly for this story from Atlas' Journey into Mystery #80 (1962).
Trivia: When this story was reprinted in Marvel's Monsters on the Prowl #26 (1973), the comics the kids were reading were updated to then-current titles...

...but the last panel still showed the kid reading Journey into Mystery...because that title had just been revived!

Be here Thursday for one more version of this tale...by Stan Lee and another Silver Age superstar!
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Monday Madness WEIRD MYSTERIES "Trick or Treat"

It's Almost Halloween...

...so let's have fun telling a tale of a Halloween costume party gone horribly wrong!

Illustrated by Eugene Hughes and scripted by an unknown writer, this All Hallows Eve story from Key Publications' Weird Mysteries #10 (1954) was reprinted only once until the 2010s...but in black and white and with the only alteration being a title change...

...when it appeared in Stanley Morse's Stark Terror #2 (1970).
(Morse, BTW, was the publisher of Key Publications before the company went out of business during the Dr Wertham-created "Seduction of the Innocent" scandal that almost destroyed the comic book business in the mid-1950s.

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Space Hero Saturdays MARVEL PREVIEW "Good Lord!"

A very kool tribute to EC's Weird Science and Weird Fantasy (& Weird Science-Fantasy)...

...which often combined sci-fi space hero adventure with horror elements!

There's an especially-ironic note to this EC tribute tale...the "Crusty Bunkers" inker ensemble, who like EC's "Fleagle Gang", who would help each other out with tight deadlines in the 1950s!
The Fleagles consisted of Al Williamson, Angelo Torres, Frank Frazetta, and Roy Krenkel with occasional assistance by Russ Heath, Wally Wood and Joe Orlando.

Their projects were often last-minute art "jams" with people doing anything from a figure or backgrounds in a panel to full pages at a shot.

The 1970s/80s equivalent was "The Crusty Bunkers", and consisted of artists based at Neal Adams' Continuity Associates art studio.

On this particular tale from the b/w magazine Marvel Preview #1 (1975), written by Marv Wolfman and penciled by Dave Cockrum, they were...(in alphabetical order) Neal Adams, Terry Austin, Pat Broderick, Russ Heath, and Joe Rubenstein.

And, like the Fleagles, they inked the story piecemeal, so you can see several different artists' styles on various pages, and even individual panels!

Penciler Dave Cockrum himself was at an artistic peak, having recently-finished his run on DC's Legion of Super-Heroes and was working on Marvel's then-recently-revived X-Men series that would make Marvel's mutants marketable again!
(Say that five times fast!)

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Friday Fun CALLING ALL KIDS "Pug and Curly Find Someone to Scare"

Though not quite as weird as their book-mate Twinkle...

...anthropomorphic squirrels Pug and Curly were even more long-lived, running for the entire existence of Calling All Kids from #1 to 26!

This tale, BTW, was from the same book as last week's Twinkle story, Parent Magazine Press' Calling All Kids #13 (1947).