Halloween HeartBreak / Tell a Tale of Terror Thrice WEIRD MYSTERIES "Easy Dies It!"

You've seen two earlier versions HERE and HERE!

Now read the final...AFAIK...variation on a theme...

Writer Carl Wessler really knew how to milk a plot to death (pun intended)!

This never-reprinted Carl Burgos-illustrated, tale from Pastime Publications' Weird Mysteries #1 (1959) didn't have to stick to strict Comics Code standards since the periodical was a b/w magazine, and the Code only applied to four-color comic books!

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Here's a story that was so not nice, they presented it twice!

Illustrator Henry Kiefer and an unknown writer crafted this tale for Trojan Magazine's Beware #7 (1954), during the height of the horror comics boom!

Because of the content, it was never reprinted after the Comics Code came into effect!

(And, to this day, still hasn't been reprinted!)

But that doesn't mean the story itself hasn't reappeared...

...as the editor of Eerie Publications' b/w magazine line (which was not regulated by the Comics Code) had artist Oscar Fraga re-do the tale verbatim from the original script in Tales From the Tomb V2N3 (1970)!

This version has been reprinted several times throughout the Eerie Publications line from 1971 to 1980, when they went out of business!

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GOTHIC ROMANCES "As Midnight Becomes Morning"

Unlike their Marvel magazine rival, Gothic Tales of Love...

...Atlas/Seaboard's Gothic Romances used "name value" comic artists to illustrate their tales!

"Caroline Rivers", the author of this tale is apparently using a pseudonym.

There is a historical Lady Caroline Rivers, but the style of the story is clearly contemporary, so she can't be the writer!

One website lists her real name as "Carolyn Weaver", but I can't find anything about her, either!

The artist is Howard Chaykin, noted for his extremely-macho work on American Flagg, Blackhawk, The Shadow, etc.

He was also doing The Scorpion for Atlas/Seaboard at the time!

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IT RHYMES WITH LUST "Chapter 6: the Serpent Coils" Conclusion

When Last We Left Rust, Hal, Audrey, and the rest...

...Hal has exposed Rust's secret control of Copper City!
The she-devil and her henchmen rush to the copper mines to retake control..at gunpoint if necessary!
But when her trigger-happy thugs shoot a miner, all hell breaks loose and Rust is forced to flee!

The End?
Not quite...

There's one more story to tell...

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IT RHYMES WITH LUST "Chapter 3: Deadly Female" Part 2

When Last We Left Our Protaganists...

Newspaperman Hal Weber runs the Copper City Express, which is secretly-owned by his ex-lover Rust Masson.

Rust also controls both the government and gangland of the city.

Though Rust believes she also controls Hal, her step-daughter Audrey is influencing the editor against Rust both intellectually and emotionally...

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