Halloween HeartBreak /Tales Thrice Told WITCHES' TALES "Until Death Do Us Part" / WEIRD MYSTERIES "Robot Woman" / SHAM COMICS "Girl of My Screams!"

We Usually Present the Earlier  Version of a Story First...

...but in this case, we decided to run the later, re-illustrated (but not rewritten) tale first!

Illustrated by Osacar Fraga, this new rendition in Eerie Publications' Witches' Tales V1N9 (1969) of an older story from Stanley Morse's Weird Mysteries #2 (1952) is decent, but not too over-the-top or grotesque, as most of these reworkings tended to be!

OTOH, the original version illustrated (and likely written) by Basil Wolverton, is...well...read it for yourself!

All we can say is...WOW!
For the finale, here's another redone version with a difference!
The art is the same as the original, but the script is totally-rewritten!

Tim Fuller rewrote the story for Source Point Press' Sham Comics #3 (2019).
Happy Halloween!

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Halloween HeartBreak MENACE "Fake!"

 Remember the old adage "Don't judge a book by it's cover"?

 Here's the codicil; "It goes both ways"!

Illustrated by Al Eadeh, this tale from Atlas' Menace #10 (1954) follows the classic trope of golddigger tripped up, not by her own greed, but by the fact her husband (who still loves her) is not even human!

Remember, the target audience for horror (as opposed to romance) comics was 8-14 year old boys, to whom girls were "yukky".

And for whom Lois Lane , the nosy reporter who was always trying to either expose Superman's secret identity or trick the Man of Steel into marrying her, was the typical woman!

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Halloween HeartBreak SORCERY "Death is My Love's Name"

Greetings GhoulFriends and BoyFiends!

It's time to get your hearts racing!

But will it be with lust...or terror?

Written by Marv Channing, and illustrated by Frank (Red Sonja) Thorne, this tale of obsessive love appeared in the final issue of Archie/Red Circle's Sorcery (#10 in 1974).

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Halloween HeartBreak WORLD OF FANTASY "Strange Wife of Henry Johnson!"

Welcome to our final Countdown to Halloween 2024 tale...

...as we look at the never-reprinted tale behind this incredibly-misleading (but atmospheric), never-reprinted Bill Everett cover!

That means no one has seen this story from Atlas' World of Fantasy #4 (1956)...except you...for almost seven decades!

So she's not a witch...but an alien!

I have the feeling the cover was done before the Comics Code Authority began its' stranglehold on what was left of the comic book industry, but frugal editor Stan Lee didn't want it to go to waste, so he had an unknown writer along with artist John Forte take the basic plot and drop the supernatural element, replacing it with sci-fi!
It's still a nice tale of "love conquers all", eh?

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Halloween HeartBreak MISTER MYSTERY "All or Nothing at All!"

Mister Mystery was the host of his own self-titled horror anthology.

Though he looked like a jovial stage magician in a mask, his stories easily matched those of the Crypt Keeper and other ghoulish comics hosts..as you shall see!

For such an innocent-looking guy, Mister Mystery tells a nasty story, aided by illustrator Tom Feelings and an unknown author in this story from Stanley Morse's Mister Mystery #14, (1953)!

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Weird Love

Volume 1

Halloween HeartBreak YOAKE NO VAMPIRE Conclusion

The once-loving vampiric "family" of Louis, Lestat, and Claudia is falling apart...

...in the conclusion of this manga adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire!
Note: Since it's Japanese (though translated), read it right-to-left, not left-to-right as is standard for Western comics!

We hope you've enjoyed our re-presentation of this long out-of-print version of Anne Rice's seminal work.

Don't miss the currently-running mini-series on AMC and AMC+!

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Interview with the Vampire:

Claudia's Story