Thursday, October 9, 2025

Tales Twice-Told STRANGE GALAXY "Vampires from Dimension 'X' "

 We Have Already Seen...

...this exact story, but presented, in color, by a different illustrator, who did it almost 20 years earlier!

Inspired by the success of Warren Publications' b/w horror magazines (CreepyEerie, and Vampirella), schlock publisher Myron Fass dropped his line of poorly-selling color comics and decided to do a line of b/w horror magazines uncensored by the Comics Code Authority.
Though some of the material was pure reprint of b/w stats and photo negatives from defunct comics companies like AvonFawcett, and Farrell, Fass' supply of them was limited.
So he had new material produced based on stories in printed comics from those same out-of-business companies, employing South American artists who worked for lower rates than American or European artists the major companies used!
Illustrated by Argentinian artist Antonio Reynoso, this re-telling of Tuesday's story was, itself, reprinted several times throughout the Eerie Publications line after it's premiere in Strange Galaxy V1N11 (1971), though I suspect Reynoso was paid only for its' initial publication!
Eerie Publications continued from 1969 to 1980, when the birth of the Direct Market and comic book stores (who didn't carry the Eerie Publications titles) doomed it to diminishing sales.

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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HP LOVECRAFT'S THE CALL OF CTHULHU "Call of Cthulhu" Part 2

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Title Page from the first appearance of this tale, in Weird Tales V11N2 (1928)!
Inheriting the papers and personal effects of his late grand-uncle, linguistic professor George Gammell Angell, our narrator discovers a small bas-relief sculpture which yields "simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature", along with documents mentioning frequent references to Cthulhu and R'lyeh!
Tracing the documented incidents leads to a larger statue of indeterminate, but undeniable antiquity...perhaps predating known history...
To Be Concluded Next Wednesday!
Here's a couple of pages from this section of the original Spanish language publication, showing the unique color palette used for the story!
Pity these have never been reprinted in any of the several English-language editions!
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Tales Twice-Told TERROR TALES "Horrors of the 13th Stroke"

There are a number of horror stories from the 1950s that couldn't be reprinted in the 1960s-early 70s...
...so they were redrawn (and often retitled)!

Pencilled and inked by Sheldon Moldoff, this never-reprinted story from Fawcett's Beware! Terror Tales #5 (1953) apparently was considered too scary for the Comics Code Authority to allow it to be reprinted in color comics!
But black-and-white magazines weren't subject to the CCA!
Guess what happened?
No need...
Just be here  Thursday for the deadly do-over!
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Monday, October 6, 2025

Monday Monster Madness MONSTERS TO LAUGH WITH "Best of #1"

Let's see how funny the legendary Stan Lee could be...
Now who could argue with that?
And so this issue's parade of classic monster pix ends with...
...but there's more next week, boy fiends and ghoul friends!
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Sunday, October 5, 2025

Halloween Reading Room PHANTOM WITCH DOCTOR "Out of the Deep!"

 Avon's Phantom Witch Doctor (1952) was a unique one-shot...
...with a lead story featuring the title character and a trio of totally-unrelated tales (including this one) backing it up!

Whether the creature is a Lovecraftian-type Elder-God, a stranded alien, or just a sentient life-force is never really explained.
Another unsolved puzzle is who the writer and artist(s) for this short story were.
But what's life without a few mysteries, eh?
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