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The
The
The Comics Code Authority, established in 1955 to ‘clean up’ comics, had demolished the EC empire of quality horror comics as well as most of the lesser publishers of horror comics and forced those publishers who survived to water down the content to near pablum. You couldn’t use vampires, zombies, skeletons, ghouls, etc as characters in a comic book. You couldn’t show blood or horrific details. Nor could you use such words as horror, crime or terror in titles. As the comic industry existed in 1964, a revival of EC-type comics wouldn’t have been possible.
Besides,
Plus, the Comics Code Authority had no authority over magazines, since nobody had ever published a comic book in magazine form. EC had, in its dying days, published what they called Picto-Fiction. Prose stories dealing with crime and horror with a heavy amount of art in comic book style. However, this experiment was a failure. They also changed their humor comic, Mad, into a magazine. They promptly stopped calling it a comic, however. It was now a humor magazine.
So Warren decided to publish his comic stories in a format he was comfortable with, for a distribution system he understood and in a style that allowed him a great deal of freedom. Then he aimed those stories at the exact same audience that the regular four-color comics had targeted—12-14 year old boys. It was a smart and, as it turned out, profitable end run around the Comics Code.
The
The success of Warren, a major
portion of which can be laid at Goodwin’s door, gave Marvel, DC & Charlton the desire to reenter the
horror field, which helped spark the changing of the comics code and directly
lead to the horror boom that comics went through from 1971-1975.
Recently, while reading a
collection of Al Sarrantonio’s stories (a strong writer and probably the
major editor in the horror field today), I was pleasantly shocked to
recognize that his major influence appeared to be the Archie Goodwin Warren
stories. In fact, there wasn’t a story
in that collection that would not have fit handsomely in a
But even beyond the solid foundation and literary influence that Goodwin built were his rock solid stories month after month. This, along with the respect, care and extra effort that every artist seemed to strive for when working on them, coupled with the obvious joy Goodwin took in tailoring stories for their particular skills, created an extremely high quality of magazine. Re-reading this three-year stretch of stories was just a joy.
By the end of 1967 however, Goodwin
and almost all of the artists he had worked with left, victims of a money
crunch that forced Warren Publishing to drastically cut page rates and
launching
The end of the dark age was
highlighted by the launch of Vampirella, a new comic magazine with a sexy vampiress
hosting it. From 1969-1973,
In 1973, two events occurred that
completely changed the look of a
Beginning in 1976, Louise Jones,
former wife of artist Jeff Jones and future wife of artist Walt Simonson,
headed the editorial staff, maintaining much of the best of the innovations
that DuBay introduced while pulling back into the
After Jones left in 1980, the magazines entered a slow decline under a series of different editors. Bill DuBay came back twice, once using the non-de-plume of Will Richardson, but the quality of the magazines took a sharp nosedive both times. The Spanish artists largely left and were replaced by artists from the Phillipines. Mind you, these were not bad artists, but, with the notable excepations of Alex Nino, Alfredo Alcala and Vic Catan, stylistically they tended to be rather dull. By 1983, when the line collapsed, Creepy seemed to be just plodding along, while Eerie had abandoned horror completely and was a tottering shell of the fine magazine it had used to be. Only Vampirella was showing signs of life. Under the editorship of Timothy Moriarty, it was staging a comeback when the axe fell.
What caused the collapse? There were a number of different
reasons. A major one being that
publisher James Warren had fallen ill some years earlier and had little to do
with the day to day operations of the company any longer. The independent comic shop boom had just
begun with new comic companies seemingly springing up overnight. The fresh books and the look of those books
left
For much of the 20 years since,
there seemed to be few who cared. Harris
Publications bought up the assets of
It’s my hope that this checklist is also a worthy addition to those fans and readers interested in that history. For your added pleasure, there are a number of interviews with Warrren writers, artists & editors located at the Warren Interviews page. Have fun!
The Goodwin Era
1. cover: Jack Davis (Jan. 1965)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Welcome [Russ Jones?/Jack Davis]
1p [frontis]
2) Voodoo! [Bill Pearson/Joe Orlando] 6p [story credited to Russ Jones & Bill
Pearson]
3) H2O World! [Larry Ivie/Al Williamson & Roy G.
Krenkel] 6p
4) Vampires Fly At Dusk! [Archie Goodwin/Reed
Crandall] 6p
5) Werewolf! [Larry Ivie/Frank Frazetta] 6p
6) Bewitched! [Larry Ivie/Gray Morrow] 6p
7) The Success Story [Archie Goodwin/Al Williamson]
6p
8) Pursuit Of The Vampire! [Archie Goodwin/Angelo
Torres] 6p
9) Creepy Ad [illustrated: Frank Frazetta] 1p
Notes: Publisher: James Warren. Editor: Russ Jones. 35 cents for 48 pages. No cover date but in
keeping with the dates on the 3rd issue, this would probably have
been dated Jan. or Winter 1965. Jack
Davis provides several head shots of Uncle Creepy for story introductions. Bill Pearson has stated in print his
displeasure over Russ Jones’ claiming of writing credit for the lead off
story. Pearson insists it’s all his
work. Apparently this first issue was
originally intended to be an ‘all EC artists’ effort with the story ‘Bewitched’
intended to be Wally Wood’s contribution.
Somehow the story was sent to artist Gray Morrow instead, making him the
only non-EC artist included. The
Frazetta story was his last comic art, except for two Creepy’s Loathsome Lore
pages, which may have been done prior to the art for this story. The best story in this issue, Goodwin’s ‘The
Success Story’, was based on an actual comic strip artist who conned his ghost
penciler, inker & writer, who were unaware of each other, into doing the
entire strip while the original artist claimed credit for it. Characters in the story are based on Goodwin,
Williamson, Angelo Torres & Al McWilliams.
All in all, a very good first issue.
2. cover: Frank Frazetta (Apr. 1965)
1)
Uncle Creepy’s Introduction [Archie Goodwin?/Angelo Torres] 1p [frontis]
2) Fun And Games! [Archie
Goodwin/Joe
3) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Vampires! [Archie Goodwin/Bob Lubbers]
1p
4) Spawn Of The Cat People
[Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 6p
5) Wardrobe Of Monsters! [Otto
Binder/Gray Morrow & Angelo Torres] 8p
6) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Werewolves! [Archie Goodwin/Frank Frazetta] 1p
7) Welcome Stranger [Archie
Goodwin/Al Williamson] 7p
8) I, Robot [Otto Binder/Joe
Orlando] 7p from the story by Otto
Binder
9) Ogre’s Castle [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 6p
10) Creepy Ad [illustrated: Jack
Davis] 1p
Notes: Goodwin was now listed as
story editor. Again, no cover date but
this would have been the Apr. or Spring 1965 issue. It also turned out to be the first bi-monthly
issue. The ‘I, Robot’ adaptation by Otto Binder was his third attempt to
present this series in comic form. The
first was for EC comics in the 1950s {
3. cover: Frank Frazetta (June 1965)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: Ghouls! [Archie
Goodwin/Jack Davis] 1p [frontis]
2) Swamped! [written: Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres]
8p
3) Tell-Tale Heart! [Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall]
8p from the story by Edgar Allan Poe
4) Howling Success! [Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres]
7p
5) Haunted! [Archie Goodwin/Gray Morrow] 6p
6) Incident In The Beyond! [Archie Goodwin/Gray
Morrow] 6p
7) Return Trip! [Arthur Porges/Joe Orlando] 8p
8) Uncle Creepy Ad [Jack Davis] 1p [on inside back cover]
Notes: Frazetta’s cover depicted a
ghoul entering a castle. Again no cover date but this would be the June issue. A
very good issue with ‘Swamped!’ and the ‘Tell-Tale Heart’ adaptation holding
the honors for best stories. The art is
at a high level throughout with a special tip of the hat to Crandall’s Poe
adaptation. Morrow employed very
different art approaches for his two stories.
4. cover: Frank Frazetta (Aug. 1965)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Corpses! [Archie Goodwin/Al Williamson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Monster Rally! [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 8p
3) Blood And Orchids! [Archie Goodwin/Al
McWilliams] 7p
4) The Damned Thing! [Archie
Goodwin/Gray Morrow] 6p from the story
by Ambrose Bierce
5)
6) Curse Of The Full Moon!
[Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p
7) The Trial Of Adam Link! [Otto
Binder/Joe Orlando] 7p from the story
by Binder
8) Creepy Ad [Angelo Torres]
1p [on inside back cover]
Notes: Goodwin was now listed as
editor. The magazine increased to 56
pages but most of that is given over to Captain Company ads. No cover date but this is the Aug. 1965
issue. Frazetta’s cover was his best
yet--a man is confronted by a werewolf while traveling over the moors. Just beautiful and the first true classic
5. cover: Frank Frazetta (Oct. 1965)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Zombies! [Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 1p
[frontis]
2) Family
3) Blazing Combat Ad [John
Severin] 1p
4) Untimely Tomb! [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 7p [title is
credited to Anne T. Murphy]
5) Creepy Fan Club Ad [Frank Frazetta & Angelo
Torres] 1p [Torres art is a reprint,
Frazetta’s
art is a B&W repo of the
Uncle Creepy portrait which was one of the fan club’s
offerings.]
6) Sand Doom [Archie Goodwin/Al
Williamson] 6p
7) The Judge’s House! [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p from the
story by Bram Stoker
8) Grave Undertaking [Archie
Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p
9) Revenge Of The Beast! [Archie Goodwin/Gray
Morrow] 7p
Notes: Frazetta’s vampire cover was
ok, but not his best work. The interior,
however, was an absolute blast!
Williamson’s best art job for the early Warren issues, Toth’s debut and
solid efforts from Orlando, Torres, Crandall & Morrow make this an art
fan’s delight. Shoot, even the ads had
great art! Severin’s Blazing Combat ad
had the same art as Blazing Combat’s #1’s frontis. All of the stories were by Goodwin and there
wasn’t a clinker in the lot, with high points probably going to his Stoker
adaptation. Anne T. Murphy was Goodwin’s
wife.
6. cover: Frank Frazetta (Dec. 1965)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: Mummy’s Curse! [Archie
Goodwin/Roy G. Krenkel] 1p [frontis]
2) The Thing In The Pit! [Larry Ivie/Gray Morrow] 8p
3) Thumbs Down! [Anne T. Murphy/Al Williamson] 6p
4) Adam Link In Business! [Otto Binder/Joe Orlando]
7p from the story by Binder
5) The Cask Of Amontillado! [Archie Goodwin/Reed
Crandall] 8p from the story by Edgar
Allan
Poe
6) Eerie Ad [Angleo Torres] 1p
[Uncle Creepy is featured.]
7) The Stalkers [Archie Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p
8) Abominable Snowman! [Bill Pearson/John Severin]
6p
9) Gargoyle [Archie Goodwin &
Notes: Size increase to 64
pages. Frazetta’s gargoyle cover was
laid out by Roy G. Krenkel. Krenkel did
this for several other Frazetta covers.
In fact, he did quite a lot of work in the background for
7. cover: Frank Frazetta (Feb. 1966)
1) The Duel Of The Monsters! [Archie Goodwin/Angelo
Torres] 8p
2) Image Of Bluebeard! [Bill Pearson/Joe
3) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: Werebeasts! [Archie
Goodwin/Frank Frazetta] 1p
4) Rude Awakening! [Archie Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p
5) Drink Deep! [Otto Binder/John Severin] 7p
6) The Creepy Fan Club: Frank Frazetta Profile
[Archie Goodwin/Roberto Oqueli] 1p
[text
article w/photo]
7) The Body-Snatcher! [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p from the
story by Robert Louis
Stevenson
8) Blood Of Krylon! [Archie
Goodwin/Gray Morrow] 6p
9) Hot Spell! [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 7p
Notes: The second classic Frazetta
cover featured Dracula & the Werewolf in a battle royal! The layout was by Roy G. Krenkel. Best art job was Reed Crandall’s ‘Hot Spell’
with a stunning detailed splash page.
Special note should be made here of Angelo Torres’ exceptional high
quality of art during the Goodwin Years.
He had a story (& sometimes two) in every issue of the early
Creepys’ & Eeries’ and also appeared in Blazing Combat. Each story was strongly paced and beautifully
drawn. The fellow who only appeared on
the fringes during EC’s run had, by the mid 1960s, developed into a damn fine
artist in his own right. I don’t mean to
slight the other folks here. Frazetta,
Toth, Severin, Morrow & a second fine job by Crandall make this a dynamite
issue for art freaks. Stories aren’t bad
either. The Creepy Fan Club page debuted. This was Goodwin’s attempt (and it worked) to
foster a fan base for the magazine, similar to the one that he, and Warren
writers like Ron Parker, John Benson, Bill Parente, Bhob Stewart and others had
done for EC’s horror comics in the 1950s.
Many future pros would make their comic debuts on the fan page.
8. cover: Gray Morrow (Apr. 1966)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Vampire Traps! [Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 1p [frontis]
2) The Coffin Of Dracula [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 10p
3) Death Plane [Larry
Ivie/George Evans] 6p
4) The Mountain [Johnny Craig]
6p [story & art credited to Jay
Taycee]
5) The Invitation [Larry
Englehart, Russ Jones & Maurice Whitman/Manny Stallman] 7p
6) The Creepy Fan Club: Gray Morrow Profile [Archie
Goodwin/Kirk Henderson] 1p [text
article w/photo]
7) Adam Link’s Mate! [Otto
Binder/Joe Orlando] 8p from the story
by Binder
8) Vested Interest [Ron Parker/George Tuska] 6p
9) Fitting Punishment [Archie Goodwin/Gene Colan] 8p
Notes: With two horror magazines
coming out, Frazetta was now too busy to do every cover so Gray Morrow stepped
in with a fine cover, highlighting
9. cover: Frank Frazetta (June 1966)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: Giant Man-Apes! [Archie
Goodwin/Roy G. Krenkel] 1p [frontis]
2)
3) The Castle On The Moor! [Johnny Craig] 6p [story & art credited to Jay Taycee]
4) Adam Link’s Vengeance! [Otto Binder/Joe Orlando]
8p from the story by Binder
5) Overworked! [Archie Goodwin/Wally Wood & Dan
Adkins] 6p
6) The Creepy Fan Club: Alex Toth Profile [Archie
Goodwin/Berni Wrightson] 1p [text
article
w/photo]
7) The Coffin Of Dracula, part 2 [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p
8) Out Of Time [Archie Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p
9) The Spirit Of The Thing! [Archie Goodwin/Steve
Ditko] 8p
10) Easy Way To A Tuff Surfboard! [Archie
Goodwin/Frank Frazetta] ½p
[anti-smoking ad]
Notes: Frazetta’s cover of a
swordsman attacked by flying vampires was only fair although the vampires were
cool. Morrow’s lead character in his
story appears to be the same character he later used in his ‘Edge Of Chaos’
comic for Pacific Comics in the early 1980s.
The Wood/Adkins art was not very impressive but then neither was the
story. Berni Wrightson made his comics
debut with a pin-up showing a man being dragged into a grave by three
ghouls. The tombstone in the foreground
reads “Berni Wrightson, Dec. 15, 1965.”
All in all, this is not a very impressive issue with even the great
artists appearing to have an off day and Goodwin’s stories feeling rushed and
uninspired. Best efforts are the
conclusion to ‘Coffin Of Dracula’ & the Morrow story.
10.
cover: Frank Frazetta (Aug. 1966)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Witchcraft! [Archie Goodwin/John Severin] 1p
[frontis]
2) Brain Trust [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 6p
3) Into The Tomb! [Archie Goodwin/Joe
4) The Creepy Fan Club: Reed Crandall Profile/Fate’s
Verdict/Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: Old
Scratch! [Archie Goodwin,
Lahmann & Brant Withers]
2p [text article/story w/photo]
5) Monster! [Archie Goodwin/Rocco Mastroserio] 8p
6) Midnight Sail [Johnny Craig] 6p [art & story credited to Jay Taycee]
7) Backfire! [Archie Goodwin/Gray Morrow] 6p
8) Thing Of Darkness! [Archie Goodwin/Gene Colan] 8p
9) Collector’s Edition! [Archie Goodwin/Steve Ditko]
8p
Notes: What a difference an issue
makes! From Frazetta’s classic
Frankenstein’s Monster cover (with a version of the monster specially designed
by Frazetta) to the incredible art job by Ditko that closes out this issue
there’s just one triumph after another.
‘Brain Trust’ would have been a feather in anyone’s cap & easily
have been the best story in the issue except that Goodwin outdoes himself with
‘Collector’s Edition’. Joe Orlando’s art
on ‘Into The Tomb’ reminds anyone who didn’t like the art or the concept of
Adam Link (like me, for instance) that he was as good as anybody in the
business. Frank Brunner made his comic
debut on the fan page with a nice skeleton bursting from a grave scene. The headstone therein is entitled ‘Tales From
The Tomb’. Fan Ed Lahmann wrote &
illustrated a Creepy’s Loathsome Lore page for the fan page, which was pretty
good too! Gray Morrow contributed a
tasty art job too but the undeniable classic here was the Goodwin/Ditko story
‘Collector’s Edition’! From the slanted
splash page to the slowly closing eyes running along the bottom of each page to
the character design (check out the old fat guy with one blind eye and the
other obscured behind a coke-bottle lens!), this may well be Ditko’s finest
hour! It’s as impressive in its own way
as Krigstein’s ‘Master Race’ or Eisner’s ‘Sand Saref’. (And yes, I have seen all the Spiderman &
Dr. Strange stories, thank you very much!)
This is the kind of art that makes and sustains a reputation and any
praise you can hand him, Ditko richly deserves.
Goodwin’s story was classic Goodwin and matched Ditko every step of the
way. Strong, concise and memorable.
11. Frank Frazetta (Oct. 1966)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Rochester Rappings! [Ron Parker/John Severin] 1p [frontis]
2) Hop-Frog [Archie Goodwin/Reed
Crandall] 8p from the story by Edgar
Allan Poe
3) Sore Spot [Archie Goodwin/Joe
Orlando] 7p
4) The Doorway! [Archie
Goodwin/Dan Adkins] 6p
5) The Black Death! [Ron Parker/Manny Stallman] 8p
6) Beast Man! [Archie Goodwin/Steve Ditko] 8p
7) The Devil To Pay! [Archie Goodwin/Donald
8) Skeleton Crew! [Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 7p
Notes: Nice giant ape cover by Frazetta. The issue’s highpoint was the moody and
effective ‘Hop-Frog’. Probably the best
Poe adaptation Goodwin & Crandall did.
Solid art and stories throughout the issue.
12. cover: Dan Adkins (Dec. 1966)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: Sea
Monsters! [Archie Goodwin/Dan Adkins] 1p
[frontis]
2) Dark House Of Dreams [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 6p
3) Turncoat! [Archie Goodwin/Bob
Jenney] 6p
4) Maximum Effort! [Ron
Parker/Rocco Mastroserio] 7p
5) Voodoo Doll! [Archie Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti]
6p
6) Blood Of The Werewolf! [Archie Goodwin/Steve
Ditko] 8p
7) The Creepy Fan Club: Joe Orlando Profile/Tropical
Twilight [Archie Goodwin & Ty Bizony/
Dick Mosso, Bill
DuBay, Donna L. Austin & Jim Pinkoski] 2p
[text article/story
w/photo] 2p
8) Idol Hands! [Archie Goodwin/Manny Stallman] 6p
9) Adam Link, Robot Detective [Otto Binder/Joe
Orlando] 8p from the story by Binder
Notes: A rather ho-hum issue, with
Adkins’ cover being no match for the covers that Frazetta and Morrow had been
delivering. Grandenetti & Ditko’s
art jobs were good and most of the stories were fair. Bill DuBay made his comics debut on the fan
page with a science fiction pin-up that was heavily influenced by Wally
Wood.
13. cover: Gray Morrow (Feb. 1967)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: Becoming A Werewolf!
[Archie Goodwin/Gray Morrow] 1p
[frontis]
2) The Squaw! [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p from the
story by Bram Stoker
3) Early Warning! [Archie
Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti] 6p
4) Scream Test! [John Benson
& Bhob Stewart/Angelo Torres] 7p
5) Madness In The Method! [Carl
Wessler/Rocco Mastroserio] 7p
6) The Creepy Fan Club: Angelo Torres Profile/Pipeline
[Archie Goodwin & Geoffrey R.
Lucier/Danny Chadbourne, Barry Hoffman & Doyle Sharp]
2p [text article/story
w/photo]
8) Fear In Stone [Archie Goodwin/Gene Colan] 8p
9) Adam Link, Gangbuster! [Otto Binder/Joe Orlando]
8p from the story by Binder
10) Second Chance! [Archie Goodwin/Steve Ditko] 6p
Notes: Morrow’s cover was just fine
although that’s got to be the ugliest & skinniest werewolf I’ve ever
seen! ‘The Squaw’ was the best story
here while Crandall & Ditko shared best art honors. Future artist Leslie Cabarga delivered a
letter.
14. cover: Gray Morrow (Apr. 1967)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Magicians! [Archie Goodwin/John Severin] 1p
[frontis]
2) Where Sorcery Lives! [Archie Goodwin/Steve Ditko]
8p
3) Art Of Horror [Archie Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti]
6p
4) Snakes Alive! [Clark Dimond & John
Benson/Hector Castellon] 7p
5) The Creepy Fan Club: Archie Goodwin Profile/Train
To The Beyond [Archie Goodwin &
Glenn Jones/Randall Larson,
Frank Brunner & Joseph J. Dukett] 2p
[text article/text
story w/photo]
6) The Beckoning Beyond! [Archie Goodwin/Dan Adkins]
8p
7) Piece By Piece [Archie Goodwin/Joe Orlando] 8p
8) Castle Carrion! [Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p
9) Curse Of The Vampire! [Archie Goodwin/Neal
Notes: Morrow’s sword & sorcery
cover was probably his best
15. cover: Frank Frazetta (June 1967)
1) Thane: City Of
2) Adam Link, Champion Athlete! [Otto Binder/Joe
Orlando] 7p from the story by Binder
3) The Adventure Of The German Student! [Archie Goodwin/Jerry
Grandenetti] 8p from the
story by Washington Irving
4) The River! [Johnny Craig] 6p
5) The Creepy Fan Club: Sink And Fade Swiftly
[Archie Goodwin & Mike DeLong/Richard
Morgan, Roger Hill, John Hall & Ron Lukas]
2p [text article/story]
6) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: Monsters Of Mythology!
[Archie Goodwin/Gil Kane] 1p
7) The Terror Beyond Time! [Archie Goodwin/Neal
Notes: Frazetta returned with one
of his best covers, painted on plywood {actually, it looks like particle board}
in six hours! The price went up to 40
cents per issue. Thane was a very
irregular series about a Conan-like swordsman.
The character appeared only four times between 1967-1979 and was unique
in that he never had the same artist twice, although Archie Goodwin was
generally the writer. Thane’s physical
appearance was also quite different from story to story. The Adams/Goodwin
story was the longest tale that
16. cover: Frank Frazetta (Aug. 1967)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Spirits! [Archie Goodwin/Gil Kane] 1p
[frontis]
2) A Curse Of Claws! [Archie
Goodwin/Neal
3) Frozen Fear! [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 6p
4) Thane: Angel Of Doom! [Archie
Goodwin/Jeff Jones] 6p
5) The Frankenstein Tradition!
[Archie Goodwin/Rocco Mastroserio] 8p
6) There Was An Old Lady [Daniel
Bubacz & Archie Goodwin/Sal
7) The Creepy Fan Club: Rocco Mastroserio Profile/A
Stroke Of Genius [Archie Goodwin & Tim
Stackline/Dan Gosch, Louie
Estrada & Philip Marcino] 2p [text article/story w/photo]
8) Haunted Castle! [Archie Goodwin/Donald
9) The Sands That Change! [Clark Dimond & Terry
Bisson/Steve Ditko] 8p
Notes: Frazetta’s classic cover
featured a largely naked blonde with glowing eyes surrounded by a pride of
leopards and a single black panther.
Jeff Jones made his comics (and possibly professional) debut here. Adams’ & Crandall’s art jobs were
noticeably lackluster. Clark Dimond
mentions that Steve Ditko didn’t really like ‘The Sands That Change!’ but
turned out a professional job nonetheless.
Mastroserio takes the art honors here.
17. cover: Frank Frazetta (Oct. 1967)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Werewolves! [Archie Goodwin/Frank Frazetta] 1p
[frontis]
reprinted from
Creepy #2 (Apr. 1965)
2) Zombie! [Archie Goodwin/Rocco
Mastroserio] 6p
3) Thundering Terror! [Clark
Dimond & Terry Bisson/John Severin] 6p
4) Mummy’s Hand [Russ Jones/Joe
Orlando] 7p [story is credited to
1940 Universal
movie, reprinted from Monster World #2 (Jan. 1965)
5) Heritage Of Horror [Archie
Goodwin/Donald Norman] 6p
6) The Creepy Fan Club: Goodwin’s Departure/”Miaow”
Said The Pussycat [Archie Goodwin,
James
Warren & Richard Mills/R. David Duvall, Robert Sankner & Craig Thorton]
2p
[text article/story]
7) Image In Wax! [Archie Goodwin/Tom Sutton] 6p
8) A Night’s Lodging! [Rhea Dunne/Maurice Whitman]
7p [Lodging is misspelled in the title]
9) The Haunted Sky! [Archie Goodwin/Roger Brand] 6p
Notes: Frazetta’s classic cover
depicts an executioner holding a bloody axe.
This would be his last cover for two years. The money crunch that nearly crippled
Warren’s Dark Age
18. cover: Vic Prezo (Jan. 1968)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Giant Man-Apes! [Archie Goodwin/Roy G. Krenkel] 1p [frontis]
reprinted from
Creepy #9 (June 1966)
2) Mountain Of The Monster Gods!
[Ron White/Roger Brand] 8p
3) The Rescue Of The Morning
Maid! [Raymond Marais/Pat Boyette & Rocco Mastroserio] 10p
[art is credited
solely to Mastroserio.]
4) Act, Three! [Johnny Craig] 8p
5) Footsteps Of Frankenstein!
[Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p
reprinted from Eerie #2 (Mar.
1966)
6) Out Of Her Head! [Clark
Dimond & Terry Bisson/Jack Sparling] 8p
Notes: Editor: James Warren,
although Clark Dimond states that both this and Eerie were ghost edited during
this time by an editor friend of Jim Warren’s at Gold Key. This came out a month late but, actually, isn’t
too bad of an issue. The amount of
content vs. ads was clearly down but the new material here was quite good. Raymond Marais’ story was easily the best
story so it’s too bad he only wrote one other script for
19. cover: Vic Prezo (Mar. 1968)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Mummy’s Curse! [Archie Goodwin/Roy G. Krenkel] 1p [frontis]
reprinted from
Creepy #6 (Dec. 1965)
2) The Mark Of The Beast! [Craig Tennis/Johnny
Craig] 9p from the story by Rudyard
Kipling,
reprinted
from Christopher Lee’s Treasury Of Terror (Sept. 1966)
3) Carmilla [John Benson/Bob
Jenney] 20p from the story by Sheridan
Le Fanu
4) Monsterwork! [Archie
Goodwin/Rocco Mastroserio] 6p
reprinted from Eerie #3 (May 1966)
5) Eye Of The Beholder! [Archie
Goodwin/Johnny Craig] 6p reprinted from
Eerie #2 (Mar.
1966)
Notes: Prezo’s cover for the Kipling story was one of
his best. Magazine size reduced to 48
pages. This was largely a reprint issue.
‘Carmilla’ was the longest stand alone story that
20. cover: Albert Nuetzell (May 1968) reprinted from Famous Monsters Of Filmland
#4 (Aug. 1959)
1) Thumbs Down! [Anne T.
Murphy/Al Williamson] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #6 (Dec. 1965)
2) Inheritors Of Earth [Hector
Castellon] 8p
3) Beauty Or The Beast! [Len
Brown/Dick Giordano & Sal Trapani] 8p
[art credited solely to
4) The Cask Of Amontillado!
[Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p from
the story by Edgar Allan
Poe, reprinted
from Creepy #6 (Dec. 1965)
5) The Damned Thing! [Archie
Goodwin/Gray Morrow] 8p from the story
by Ambrose Bierce,
reprinted from
Creepy #4 (Aug. 1965)
6) A Vested Interest [Ron
Parker/George Tuska] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #8 (Apr. 1966)
Notes: The first new stories since
the freeze appeared but neither were particularly good. The Castellon story was originally written by
by Clark Dimond & Terry Bisson but Castellon didn’t understand the script
and changed the story so drastically that Bisson & Dimond’s names were
dropped. The Ms. Corey mentioned in the
story was based on Terry Bisson’s fiancé.
As the money crunch continued, it became clear that
21. cover: Gutenberg Monteiro (July 1968)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Trees! [Bill Parente/Bob Jenney] 1p
[frontis]
2) The Rats In The Walls [Bill
Parente?/Bob Jenney] 10p from the story
by H. P. Lovecraft
3) Room With A View! [Archie
Goodwin/Steve Ditko] 6p reprinted from
Eerie #3 (May 1966)
4) The Immortals! [Ron
Parker/Sal
5) The Creepy Fan Club: Bill
Parente Profile/The Choice [Bill Parente & Bill Eddy/Nicola Cuti,
Steve
Smith, Doyle Sharp & Louie Estrada] 2p
[text article/story w/photo]
6) A Reasonable Doubt [Ron Parker/Bill Fraccio &
Tony Tallarico] 6p [all of the
Fraccio/Tallarico art done
for
7) Swamped! [Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 8p reprinted from Creepy #3 (June 1965)
8) Timepiece To Terror! [Bill Parente/Gutenberg
Mondiero] 7p
Notes: Editor: Bill Parente. Parente was an EC fan (as were Goodwin,
Jones, Ivie, Dimond, Benson, Parker & many other of the early writers) and
his appearance as editor was a sign of growing stability for the company after
several very shaky months. Like Goodwin,
he would write many of the stories during his time as editor but there was only
one Archie Goodwin and Parente’s stories did not display the quality of the
Goodwin Era. The cover for this issue
was probably the worse single cover
22. cover: Tom Sutton (Aug. 1968)
1) Home Is Where… [Ron Parker/Pat Boyette] 8p
2) Monster Rally! [Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres]
8p reprinted from Creepy #4 (Aug. 1965)
3) “No Fair!” [Bill Parente/Tom Sutton] 6p
4) Strange Expedition [Bill Parente/Ernie
5) The Creepy Fan Page: Ernie Colon Profile/Unseen
Tenants [Bill Parente & Gary Carson/
Richard Morgan] 1p
[text article/story]
6) The Judge’s House! [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p from the
story by Bram Stoker,
reprinted from
Creepy #5 (Oct. 1965)
7) Perfect Match [Ron Parker/Sal
Notes: Very nice cover by
Sutton. Sutton did beautiful painted
covers for Charlton between 1972 and 1976 but only a handful for
23. cover: Tom Sutton (Oct. 1968)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: The
Changeling! [Bill Parente/Tony Tallarico] 1p
[frontis]
2) Way Out! [James
Haggenmiller/Donald Norman] 10p
3) Gargoyle [Archie Goodwin
& Roy G. Krenkel/Angelo Torres] 8p
reprinted from Creepy #6
(Dec. 1965)
4) Jack Knifed! [Bill
Parente/Barry Rockwell] 8p
5) Quick Change! [Bill Parente/Tom Sutton] 7p
6) Rude Awakening! [Archie
Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #7 (Feb. 1966)
7) The Creepy Fan Club: Rendered Helpless [Larry
Goldin/Ed Quimby, Frank Brunner & Scott
Grenig]
1p [text story]
8) Cat Nipped [Bill Parente/Bill Fraccio & Tony
Tallarico] 6p
9) Uncle Creepy And Cousin Eerie’s Cauldron Contest
[Bill Parente/Ernie Colon] 1p [writer’s
contest, on back cover]
Notes: Tom Sutton’s best
24. cover: Gutenberg Monteiro (Dec. 1968)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: Becoming A Werewolf!
[Archie Goodwin/Gray Morrow] 1p
[frontis]
reprinted from Creepy #13 (Feb. 1967)
2) Black Magic [Archie
Goodwin/Steve Ditko] 8p reprinted from
Eerie #5 (Sept. 1966)
3) You Do Something To Me [Bill
Parente/Tom Sutton] 6p
4) The Day After Doomsday!
[Archie Goodwin/Dan Adkins] 8p
reprinted from Eerie #8 (Mar.
1967)
5) Room For A Guest [Bill
Parente/Reed Crandall] 6p
6) The Creepy Fan Club: Who Are
We? [Robbie Edwards/Brian Clifton] 1p
[text story]
7) Typecast! [Archie
Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti] 7p reprinted
from Eerie #8 (Mar. 1967)
8) A Silver Dread Among The Gold [George Hagenauer
& Bill Parente/Bill Fraccio & Tony
Tallarico] 6p
9) Uncle Creepy And Cousin
Eerie’s Cauldron Contest [Bill Parente/Ernie Colon] 1p [on back
cover]
Notes: Reed Crandall was the first
Goodwin Era artist to return, indicating once again the easing of
25. cover: Richard Conway (Feb. 1969)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: Exorcists!
[Bill Parente/Ernie Colon] 1p [frontis]
2) Keep Your Spirits Up [Bill Parente/Reed Crandall]
7p
3) Witches’ Tide [Archie Goodwin/Gene Colon] 8p reprinted from Eerie #7 (Jan. 1967)
4) Their Journey’s End [Bill Parente/Ernie Colon] 7p
5) It That Lurks! [Archie Goodwin/Dan Adkins]
6p reprinted from Eerie #7 (Jan. 1967)
6) The Creepy Fan Club: Black Books!/Park Bench
[Bill Parente & Joseph Alaskey/D. Cabrera]
1p [text article/story]
7) Deep Ruby! [Archie
Goodwin/Steve Ditko] 6p reprinted from
Eerie #6 (Nov. 1966)
8) An Unlikely Visitor [Bill Parente/Bill Fraccio
& Tony Tallarico] 7p
Notes: Conway’s (Parente’s asst.
editor) cover was interesting. He
photographed a model wearing the Creepy rubber mask, dressed in a shabby Santa
coat & hat—then set 12 identical poses in the form of Christmas seals. Other than that, this was a fairly average
issue for the time, with the Crandall story being the best of the new stuff.
26. cover: Basil Gogos (Apr. 1969) reprinted from Famous Monsters Of Filmland
#20 (Nov. 1962)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: Sasquatches! [Bill
Parente/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 1p
[frontis]
2) Stranger In Town [Bill
Parente/Tom Sutton] 7p
3) Second Chance! [Archie
Goodwin/Steve Ditko] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #13 (Feb. 1967)
4) The Creepy Fan Club:
Demons!/The Beginning Of The End [Bill Parente, Sam Lambroza &
David
Jablin/Jose Velez] 1p [text
article/story]
5) Completely Cured [Bill
Parente/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico]
7p
6) Untimely Meeting [Bill Parente/Ernie
7) Backfire! [Archie Goodwin/Gray Morrow] 6p reprinted from Creepy #10 (Aug. 1966)
8) Voodoo Doll! [Archie Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti]
6p reprinted from Creepy #12 (Dec.
1966)
Notes: Gogos’ reprint cover depicts
Lon Chaney in his 1925 role as the vampire from the film London After
Midnight. The Parente/Colon story
‘Untimely Meeting’ was quite good as was the Parente/Sutton’s tale ‘Stranger In
Town’.
27. cover: Frank Frazetta (June 1969)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: Boris Karloff [Forrest
J. Ackerman/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico]
1p [frontis]
2) Collector’s Edition [Archie
Goodwin/Steve Ditko] 8p reprinted from
Creepy #10 (Aug. 1966)
3) Make Up Your Mind [Bill
Parente/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 6p
4) The Coffin Of Dracula, part 2
[Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p
reprinted from Creepy #9
(June 1966)
5) Thane: Barbarian Of Fear
[Bill Parente/Tom Sutton] 9p
6) The Creepy Fan Club:
Embalming [Bill Parente/Ken Kelly] 1p
[text article]
7) Brain Trust! [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 6p reprinted
from Creepy #10 (Aug. 1966)
8) Surprise Package [Bill Parente/Ernie
Notes: Frazetta’s first cover in
two years was a revised version of his ‘Mongul’ painting. For some reason, the second half of ‘The Coffin
Of Dracula’ was reprinted without including the first half! Future
28. cover: Vic Prezo (Aug. 1969)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Fakirs! [Bill Parente/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 1p [frontis]
2) Madness In The Method! [Carl
Wessler/Rocco Mastroserio] 7p reprinted
from Creepy #13
(Feb. 1967)
3) The Creepy Fan Club:
Ghoul/Reuben Reid Profile [Bill Parente & Reuben Reid/David Fletcher]
2p [text articles w/photo]
4) In The Subway [Reuben
Reid/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 7p
5) The Worm Is Turning [Kim
Ball/Ernie
6) Grub! [Nicola Cuti/Tom
Sutton] 6p
7)
credited to Arnold Hayes.]
8) The Doorway! [Archie Goodwin/Dan Adkins] 6p reprinted from Creepy #11 (Oct. 1966)
9) The Adventure Of The German Student! [Archie
Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti] 8p from the
story
by Washington Irving, reprinted from Creepy #15 (June 1967)
10) Vampirella Is Coming! Ad [Bill Parente/Tony
Tallarico] 1p
Notes: Cost of magazine rose to 50
cents. Reuben Reid was the Cauldron
Contest winner for Creepy. Best story
& art was ‘The Worm Is Turning’.
Nicola Cuti made his professional debut with ‘Grub!’. The ad at the end shows Uncle Creepy &
Cousin Eerie reacting in fear to the coming of an unseen Vampirella.
29. cover: Vic Prezo (Sept. 1969)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Ghouls! [Archie Goodwin/Jack Davis] 1p
[frontis] reprinted from
Creepy #3 (June
1965)
2) The Summer House [Barbara
Gelman/Ernie
3) Thane: Angel Of Doom! [Archie
Goodwin/Jeff Jones] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #16 (Aug.
1967)
4) Spellbound [Ron Haycock/Bhob
Stewart, Will Brown & Mike Royer] 7p
[Haycock’s story
credited to Arnold Hayes]
5) Bloody Mary [Buddy
Saunders/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 7p
6) The Devil Of The Marsh [Don
Glut/Jerry Grandenetti] 6p
7) The Creepy Fan Club: So
Speaks The Book [C. A. Howard/Anthony Kowalik] 1p [text story]
8) The Frankenstein Tradition!
[Archie Goodwin/Rocco Mastroserio] 8p
reprinted from Creepy
#16 (Aug. 1967)
9) The Last Laugh [Archie Goodwin/Ernie
10) Vampirella Is Here! [Bill Parente/Bill Fraccio,
Tony Tallarico & Frank Frazetta] 1p
Notes: The beginning of a long
period of regrowth & rebuilding begins here, even though reprints would
continue for several more issues. Prezo
contributed a good cover. Artist Jerry
Grandenetti was the second Goodwin Era artist to return while Goodwin himself
showed up with his only non-Vamprella original story for
30. cover: Bill Hughes (Nov. 1969)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Exorcism! [Tom Sutton] 1p [frontis]
2) The Mind Of The Monster! [R.
Michael Rosen/Ernie
3) Drop In! [Don Glut/Tom
Sutton] 6p
4) The Haunted Sky! [Archie
Goodwin/Roger Brand] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #17 (Oct. 1967)
5) The River! [Johnny Craig]
6p reprinted from Creepy #15 (June
1967)
6) To Be Or Not To Be A Witch
[Bill Parente/Carlos Prunes] 7p
7) The Creepy Fan Club: The Man In The Monkey Suit
[Sam Bellotto, Jr./Brant Withers & Bill
Black]
2p [text story, Black’s art is credited
to Bill Schwartz, his real name?]
8) Piece By Piece [Archie Goodwin/Joe Orlando]
8p reprinted from Creepy #14 (Apr.
1967)
9) Dr. Jekyll’s Jest [R. Michael Rosen/Mike Royer]
6p
10) Easy Way To A Tuff Surfboard! [Archie
Goodwin/Frank Frazetta] ½p reprinted
from Eerie
#3
(May 1966) [on inside back cover]
Notes: Bill Hughes’ cover featureed
one of the stupidest looking Frankenstein’s monsters I’ve ever seen! The Loathsome Lore section was always at its
best when Sutton wrote & illoed it, and this example is no exceptation. The letters’ page featured an explanation by
Jim Warren about the recent price hike.
The future Spanish invasion of artists is previewed here by S.I. artist
Carlos Prunes’ appearance. Future comic
artist & publisher Bill Black {aka Bill Schwartz} made his comics debut on
the fan page. Mike Royer, best known in
comics as the inker for Jack Kirby’s 1970s & 1980s artwork, delivered a
great art job for his official Warren debut {see #29 for his unofficial
debut}. While his figures were
occasionally somewhat stiff, his women were among the most beautiful to ever
appear in the
31. cover: Vaughn Bode & Larry Todd (Feb.
1970)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Torture! [Bill Parente/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 1p [frontis]
2) In The Face Of Death [Al
Hewetson/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 4p
3) Telephoto Troll! [R. Michael
Rosen/Roger Brand] 6p
4) A Night’s Lodging! [Rhea Dunne/Maurice Whitman]
7p reprinted from Creepy #17 (Oct.
1967)
5) Snowmen! [Tom Sutton] 8p
6) The Creepy Fan Page: The
Master [Marc Rendleman] 1p [text story]
7) A Wooden Stake For Your Heart! [Don Glut/Bill
Black] 6p
8) Death Of A Stranger [T. Casey Brennan/Ernie
9) Laughing Liquid [Kevin Pagan/William Barry] 8p
Notes: Underground artists Vaughn
Bode & Larry Todd would do a number of covers for
32. cover: Frank Frazetta (Apr. 1970)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Androids! [Tom Sutton] 1p [frontis]
2) The Story Behind The Rock God
[Bill Parente?/Frank Frazetta & Neal Adams] 1p [text
article]
3) Rock God [Neal Adams]
13p from the story by Harlan Ellison
4) Death Is A Lonely Place [Bill
Warren/Bill Black] 7p
5) I…Executioner [Don Glut/Mike
Royer] 6p
6) A Wall Of Privacy [Nicola
Cuti/Ernie Colon] 6p [art credited to
David Sinclair]
7) The Creepy Fan Page: To Uncle
Creepy/Brief Impulse/The Clock/The Horror At Midnight/
News Item
[Michael Paumgardhen, Christopher Laube, Paul J. DeBlasio, Steve Casaw,
G. S. Boyde
& Bill Parente/Kenneth Smith, George Hrycun & Ken Johnson] 2p [poems
& text
stories]
8) V.A.M.P.I.R.E. [Bill Warren/Bill Fraccio &
Tony Tallarico] 8p
9) Movie Dissector! [R. Michael Rosen/Bill DuBay] 6p
10) The 3:14 Is Right On Time! [Ken
Notes: The first all-new issue of
Creepy since #16 and it was pretty darn good too! Frazetta’s cover, which was supposed to
depict Ellison’s gigantic Rock God, actually appears to be a human-size monster
or troll, looking down at a European village.
I’ve heard various reasons for this—both that Frazetta only had a
paragraph of Ellison’s prose story to fashion his cover from (which seems
likely) or that this was actually an inventory cover from 1967. I’d normally discount the inventory cover
version since it’s hard to imagine Jim Warren leaving a bought and paid for
Frazetta cover sitting on the shelf for two years. Except for one thing.
33. cover: Pat Boyette (June 1970)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Mermaids! [Tom Sutton] 1p [frontis]
2) One Too Many [Buddy
Saunders/William Barry] 6p
3) Royal Guest [Pat Boyette] 6p
4) Blue Mum Day [R. Michael
Rosen/Reed Crandall] 6p
5) Dr. Jekyll Was Right [Bill
Warren/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 7p
6) I’m Only In It For The Money
[Al Hewetson/Juan Lopez] 7p
7) The Full Service! [Nicola
Cuti/Jack Sparling] 6p
8) The Creepy Fan Page: Pat
Boyette Profile/More Poetry/Rockets To Terror/I Love Her/Message
From The Dead
[Bill Parente,Joseph Westbrook, L. Alain Portnoff, David Martin, Allan
Feldman &
Mark Aubry] 2p [poems & text
stories w/photo]
9) Boxed In! [Tom Sutton] 6p
Notes: Boyette’s cover & interior
story were quite good, as was the Rosen/Crandall tale. The best story & art, however, came from
Tom Sutton’s homage to Will Eisner—the excellent ‘Boxed In!’
34. cover: Ken Barr (Aug. 1970)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: The
Makara! [Dan Adkins] 1p [frontis]
2) X-Tra…”X” [R. Michael
Rosen/Jack Sparling] 7p
3) Lifeboat! [Bill Parente/Ken
Barr] 7p
4) The Creepy Fan Page: The
Doomed/The Movie Critic/Lost: A Life/The Search For The
Phasimara Plant
[Thomas Isenberg, Steven Hart, Anthony Kowalik & John Scorfani/
Mondini
Gianluigi, Gerald Colucci, Brant Withers, Scot Cassman & Carole MacKinnon]
2p [text stories]
5) The Cool Jazz Ghoul [Al
Hewetson/Ken Kelly] 7p
6) Minanker’s Demons [Buddy
Saunders/John G. Fantuccio] 6p
7) Forgotten Prisoner Of
Castlemare [R. Michael Rosen/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 6p
8) The Swamp In Hell! [Al
Hewetson/Don Vaughn] 6p
9) Ando! [R. Michael Rosen/Syd Shores] 6p
10) Easy Way To A Tuff Surfboard! [Archie
Goodwin/Frank Frazetta] ½p reprinted
from Eerie
#3
(May 1966)
Notes: Editor: James Warren. Ken Barr was a Scottish artist who did quite
a lot of work for DC’s war comics as well as for
35. cover: Kenneth Smith (Sept. 1970)
1) An Editorial To The President Of The
[James
Warren] 1p [frontis]
2) Tough Costumers! [R. Michael
Rosen/Tom Sutton] 6p
3) Legend In Gold [R. Michael
Rosen/Roger Brand] 6p
4) Polly Want A Wizard [Howard
Waldrop/Ernie
5) Army Of The Walking Dead! [R.
Michael Rosen/Syd Shores] 7p
6) The Creepy Fan Page: Ken Barr
Profile/Rock God/The Littered Trash-Can Of Humanity/The
Fool’s March
[Archie Goodwin?, Bradley Burke, Jessica Clerk & Ted Dasen/Winsor
McNemo] 2p [poem/text article & stories]
7) Godslayer [Bill Stillwell] 6p
8) It’s Grim… [Al Hewetson/Syd
Shores] 7p
9) The Druid’s Curse [Buddy Saunders/the Bros.
Ciochetti] 6p
10) Gunsmoke Charly! [Alan Weiss] 8p
11) Justice! [Pat Boyette] 6p
Notes: Archie Goodwin returned,
listed as Associate Editor. Cost of the
magazine went up to 60 cents. This issue was a brief experiment with all
stories/no ads format, usually suggested as a response to the first issue of
Skywald’s rival B&W magazine, Nightmare.
But Nightmare’s first issue is cover dated Dec. 1970 so it was more
likely that this was also a reaction to
Major’s Web Of Horror magazine, which had a no ads format (although the
magazine itself had been recently cancelled) rather than the upcoming Nightmare
or Skywald.
36. cover: Kenneth Smith (Nov. 1970)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: The
Body Snatchers Who Stole A Giant! [Tom Sutton] 1p [frontis]
2) One Way To Break The Boredom
[James Haggenmiller/Jack Sparling] 9p
3) Weird World [Nicola Cuti/Tom
Sutton] 7p
4) The Creepy Fan Page: Creepy
Poems/Tunnel Of Terror/Doomsday Monsters [Harry Balmforth,
Paul E. King
& Rodney E. Hammack/Larry Dickison] 2p
[poem & text stories]
5) Frankenstein Is A Clown [Bill
Warren/Carlos Garzon] 8p
6) On The Wings Of A Bird [T.
Casey Brennan/Jerry Grandenetti] 7p
7) Forbidden Journey! [Greg
Theakston/Rich Buckler] 7p
8) If A Body Meet A Body [R.
Michael Rosen/Jack Sparling] 7p
9) Frozen Beauty [Richard Corben] 6p
Notes: Price decrease to 50 cents.
Rich Buckler made his professional art debut while major underground artist
Richard Corben delivered a very good story for his mainstream debut. Best art was by Corben and Jerry
Grandenetti. Best story honors go to
Corben, Bill Warren & T. Casey Brennan.
37. cover: Ken Barr (Jan. 1971)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: I
Was Buried Alive! [Tom Sutton] 1p
[frontis]
2) The Cadaver [Chris
Fellner/Bill Stillwell] 8p
3) King Keller [Nicola Cuti/Syd
Shores] 7p
4) I Hate You! I Hate You! [Bill
Warren/Mike Royer] 9p
5) Tender Machine 10061 [Ernie
Colon] 6p
6) The Creepy Fan Page: To Fill
A Bottle Of Blood/The Anniversary/Ghouls Power/The Ape Man
[Paul E. King,
Jr., Brad McEwen, Howard Williams & Jim Erskine/Tony Boatwright, Jim
Erskine &
Charles Jones] 2p [text stories]
7) Coffin Cure [Doug Moench/Don
Brown] 7p
8) The Castle [Pat Boyette] 8p
9) The Cut-Throat Cat Blues [T.
Casey Brennan/Ernie Colon] 7p [last
page on inside back cover]
Notes: The first use of interior
color appeared on the last page of ‘The Cut-Throat Cat Blues’. Chris Fellner made his professional
debut. ‘I Hate You! I Hate You!’ is a
pretty good story which dealt with an early treatment of child abuse. Pat
Boyette’s ‘The Castle’ is also nicely done.
38. cover: Ken Kelly (Mar. 1971)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Killer Plants! [Clif Jackson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Wooden Cross! [Steve
Skeates/Rich Buckler] 6p
3) The Vengeance Of The Hanged!
[Chris Fellner/Syd Shores] 8p
4) Sticks And Stones To Break
Their Bones [Stu Schwartzburg/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 5p
5) The Way Home! [T. Casey
Brennan/Mike Royer] 8p
6) Sleepwalker! [Gerry
Conway/Mike Royer] 7p
7) Secret Of The Haunted Room
[Bill Warren/Ernie
8) The Creepy Fan Page: Alpha 3
[Dan Thost/John Cornell, Gary Kaufman, Loper Espi, Jim
Pinkoski &
Steve Leialoha] 2p [text story]
9) The Cosmic All [Wally Wood]
8p
Notes:
39. cover: Basil Gogos (May 1971)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: The
Evil Eye! [Richard Grose/Clif Jackson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Uncle Creepy: Where Satan
Dwells… [Al Hewetson/Sal Trapani] 8p
[gueststars Cousin Eerie]
3) C.O.D.—Collects On Death!
[Dave Wood/Dave Cockrum] 8p
4) The Water World! [Buddy
Saunders/Pablo Marcos] 6p
5) Death Of The Wizard [Pat
Boyette] 6p
6) Harvest Of Horror! [Phil
Seuling/Frank Brunner] 7p
7) The Dragon-Prow! [Steve
Skeates/Richard Bassford] 7p
8) Puzzling Monsters: Who Drew
What? [?/Carlos Garzon, Pat Boyette, Tom Sutton, Jack Davis,
Jerry
Grandenetti, Bill Fraccio--Tony Tallarico, Syd Shores, Ernie Colon, Billy
Graham,
James Warren & William
Barry] 2p [match the artist page]
9) The Creepy Fan Club: The Lesson/The
Gravekeeper/The Year 2,000/The Voice Of Death/
Little Miss
Muffet [Billy Rand, Danuta Kwapisz, Mark Rone, William Buchanan & John
Leho/Harry
Glienke, Edgar Maggiani, Daniel Smeddy, Sam Park & Randy Williams] 2p
[text stories
& poems]
10) Mad Jack’s Girl [Gary
Kaufman] 8p
Notes: When the Uncle Creepy story
was first announced, Ernie Colon was listed as the artist. The art there is so much better than
40. cover: Larry Todd & Vaughn Bode (July
1971)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: The
Loch Ness Monster [Al Hewetson/Clif Jackson] 1p [frontis]
2) The Fade-Away Walk [Don
McGregor/Tom Sutton] 12p
3) The Impersonation! [Steve
Skeates/Pablo Marcos] 6p
4) Swamp Demon [Dave Cockrum] 7p
5) Disintegrator [Nicola
Cuti/Ken Barr] 7p
6) Lost And Found [Steve
Skeates/George Roussos] 5p
7) The Creepy Fan Page: The Last
Tomorrow [?/?, Scott Rogers, Kenneth Tutton, Tony DeSensi
& R.
Goodwin] 2p [text story, author/artist
for the story didn’t sign his name]
8) Annual
article] reprinted from Martin Greim’s Comic Crusader
#10 (1970)
9) Dual Dragon [Gary Kaufman] 7p
Notes: Billy Graham became the
editor and turned in a pretty solid issue.
In an artistic slight-of-hand, the muzzle of the gun on the cover seems
to follow you no matter where you are in the room, which is, well—let’s fact
it, pretty creepy. Don McGregor made his
professional debut with a strong story.
Nice art & story work also appeared from Dave Cockrum and Gary
Kaufman. The first Warren Awards gave
‘The Ray Bradbury Award’ for best story to Tom Sutton for ‘Snowman’ from Creepy
#31, ‘The Frank Frazetta Cup’ for best illustrated story to Neal Adams for
‘Rock God’ from Creepy #32, ‘The Jack Davis Cup’ to Frank Frazetta for best
cover from Eerie #23, a special award to Harlan Ellison for ‘Rock God’, best
all-around artist to Ernie Colon, best all-around writer to Nicola Cuti and an
honorable mention for artwork to Billy Graham.
There was a bizarre mention in the Award article where James Warren says
he wrote his anti-war editorial of the previous year for business reasons! Seems every time there was a riot or violent
anti-war demonstration in an area, sales in surrounding stores plunged, including
41. cover: Kenneth Smith (Sept. 1971)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: The
Hangman Of London [Richard Bassford] 1p
[frontis]
2) The Thing In Loch
3) Skipper’s Return! [Ernie
Colon] 6p
4) The Final Ingredient! [Bill
DuBay] 7p
5) Prelude To Armageddon [Nicola
Cuti & Wally Wood/Wally Wood] 12p
6) Extra Censory Perception
[Steve Skeatess/Gary Kaufman] 5p
7) The Creepy Fan Club: Gary
Kaufman Profile/Poem/The Duplicating Machine/Blood River!
[Gary Kaufman,
Darrell McKenney, Steven Semiatin & ?/Gary Kaufman, William
Fugate, James
Boehmer & Martin Greim] 2p [text
article/stories & poem]
8) A Tangible Hatred [Don
McGregor/Richard Corben] 10p
Notes: Future Marvel editor &
writer John D. Warner sent in a letter.
Bruce Jones made his
42. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Nov. 1971)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Captain Kidd! [T. Casey Brennan/Ken Kelly] 1p
[frontis]
2) The Quaking Horror [
3) A Change Of Identity! [Don
Glut/Dave Cockrum] 6p
4) The Amazing Money-Making
Wallet [Steve Skeates/Joe Staton] 6p
5) Spacial Delivery [R. Michael
Rosen/Larry Todd] 7p
6) A Chronicle! [Steve
Skeates/Jorge B. Galvez] 4p
7) Escape From Nowhere World [T.
Casey Brennan/Jerry Grandenetti] 8p
8) The Creepy Fan Page: Jerry
Grandenetti Profile/The Demon/The Old Lady And The Cats/The
Problem [Jerry
Grandenetti, Jim Fadler, Randy Kirk & Robert Nason/Donald
MacDonald]
2p [text article/stories]
9) Ice Wolf [Gary Kaufman] 10p
Notes: Although it wasn’t
completely apparent from this issue, the Spanish invasion of artists had begun
a couple of months earlier in Eerie, which would eventually result in most of
the American artists being driven from the
43. cover: Ken Kelly (Jan. 1972)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: The Golden Sun Disk Of
The Incas [T. Casey Brennan/Richard
Corben] 1p
[frontis]
3) The Mark Of Satan’s Claw [Fred Ott/Jaime Brocal]
10p
4) The Men Who Called Him Monster [Don McGregor/Luis
Garcia] 14p
5) 1971 Comicon Awards Go To Frazetta And Goodwin…
[?/?] 3p [text article w/photos]
6) Quest Of The Bigfoot [R. Michael Rosen/Jerry
Grandenetti] 6p
7) Creepy’s Fan Club: Richard Corben Profile/The
Last Vampire/Now I Know/Friend Or
Fiend?/The Realm Of The Mind/Wanted: A
Husband/Unwelcome Visitor [Richard
Corben, David Yeske, Rich Cook, Joe Letts,
Christopher Caliendo, James Olcott, L. T.
Simon & Wayne Carter/Richard Corben, Atherton,
Steven Assel, Solano Lopez, Ramiro
Bujeiro & Tim Boxell] 2p [text article/stories]
8) Mirage [Gerry Conway/Felix
Mas] 8p
Notes: The highlight of this issue
was Don McGregor’s script and Luis Garcia’s {in his
44. cover: Vincente Segrelles (Mar. 1972)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: The
Stars [T. Casey Brennan/Richard Corben] 1p
[frontis]
2) With Silver Bells, Cockle
Shells And… [F. Paul Wilson/Irv Docktor] 6p
3) Something To Remember Me By!
[Tom Sutton] 9p
4) A Certain Innocence [Steve
Skeates/Nebot] 6p
5) The Last Days Of Hans Bruder
[T. Casey Brennan/Frank Bolle] 8p
6) Like A Phone Booth, Long And
Narrow [Jan Strnad/Jose Bea] 8p
7) The Ultimate High! [Steve Skeates/Martin
8) Creepy’s Fan Club: Jan Strnad
Profile/A Bullet For The Wolf/The Mausoleum/Nightmare/
It’s In The Bag!
[Jan Strnad, William S. Groginsky, John Ayella, Benjamin Williams &
David
Michelinie/Gregory R. Suriano] 1p [text
article/stories]
9) Dorian Gray: 2001 [Al
Hewetson/William Barry] 8p
10) Sleep [Kevin Pagan/Mike
Ploog] 8p
Notes: Size & price increase to
72 pages & 75 cents. New Uncle Creepy intro faces by Richard Corben
appear. Steve Skeates explained the
reasons behind his story ‘A Chronicle’ to a reader on the letters’ page,
leading to a short-lived feature, ‘The Story Behind…’, wherein writers
explained the origins of their stories.
Future comic writer David Michelinie made his comics debut on the fan
page. Kevin Pagen & Mike Ploog
contributed the best story with the excellent ‘Sleep’. The Strnad/Bea story was quite good too.
45. cover: Enrich Torres (May 1972)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: The
Chiklil Tablets! [Bill DuBay] 1p
[frontis]
2) Creepy Comments/The Story
Behind ‘The Men Who Called Him Monster!’ [J. R. Cochran &
Don McGregor]
1p [text articles on the letters’ page]
3) What Rough Beast [Jan
Strnad/Frank Brunner] 8p
4) Targos [Jack Katz/Jack Katz
& Nebot] 10p
5) And Horror Crawls…From Out Of
The Sea! [Kevin Pagan/Tom Sutton] 8p
6) For The Sake Of Your
Children! [Ed Fedory/Jaime Brocal] 11p
7) Dungeons Of The Soul [T.
Casey Brennan/Felix Mas] 8p
8) Creepy’s Fan Club: Jose Bea Profile/Remember
Yesterday/The Cold Earth/Hybrid Of Hell/The
Viewer/Out
Of The Sea/The Gift/Stare [J. R. Cochran, Tony Boatright, Edgar Dejesus,
Randy Williams, Jerome Herskovits, Kevin Schaffer,
Barry Aydelotte & Jerry Bradman/Jose Bea, R. Taylor & Surn Iil Oh]
2p [text article/stories]
9) The Picture Of Death [Jose
Bea] 11p
Notes: Editor: J. R. Cochran. A short article entitled ‘Creepy Comments’
appeared on the letters’ page, as did the official beginning of ‘The Story
Behind…’ series. A ‘Little Orphan Annie’
strip from Dec. 1971, featuring a Prof. Creepy (who looked nothing like
46. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (July 1972)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: The
Undertaker’s Model [Jack Butterworth/Luis Garcia] 1p
[frontis]
2) Inside 46/The Story Behind
The Story: Like A Phone Booth, Long & Narrow [J. R. Cochran &
Jan Strnad]
½p [text articles on letters’ page
3) Cross Of Blood [Doug
Moench/Esteban Maroto] 10p
4) Behold The Cybernite! [Rich
Margopoulos/Tom Sutton] 8p
5) On The Ninth Day Of Satan
[Kevin Pagan/Felix Mas] 8p
6) I, Invisible [Jose Bea] 6p
7) Spellbound [
8) Night Watch [Ed Fedory/Jorge Galvez] 7p
9) Creepy Book Reviews: The Panic Broadcast/The
Great Radio Heroes/All In Color For A Dime
[Doug
Moench] 1p [text articles]
10) Creepy’s Fan Club: Lynn Marron Profile/Instant
Replay/After Nightfall/The Spice Of Life/
Perpetual
Search/The Story Behind The Story: Something To Remember Me By!/
Creepy’s
Catchall [Lynn Marron, John C. Salzano, Chris Monzert, Lee Breakiron,
George
B. Evans, Tom Sutton & J. R. Cochran/Tom Sutton, Terry Harrison & Jack
11) Friedheim The Magnificent
[Greg Potter/Richard Corben] 8p
12) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Monsters Of The Id! [Clif Jackson] 1p
[on inside back cover]
Notes: Behind a second rate cover
was a decent issue. Best stories were
from Doug Moench, Lynn Marron, Ed Fedory and Greg Potter while best art was
from Esteban Maroto, Luis Garcia and Richard Corben. Fedory’s story had originally appeared as a
fan page submission. J. R. Cochran liked
it enough to encourage Fedory to rework it into a comic script. To my knowledge, this was the only time that
a fan page story contribution directly led to a professional writing
career. Rich Margopoulos made his
professional debut with Tom Sutton (again!) doing the debut art honors.
47. cover: Ron Cobb (Sept. 1972) reprinted from Famous Monsters #43 (Mar.
1967) [miscredited to
Manuel Sanjulian]
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: Not
Sherlock by A Long Shot [Doug Moench/Jose Bea] 1p
[frontis]
2) Inside 47/The Story Behind
The Story: The Picture Of Death [J. R. Cochran & Jose Bea] ½p
[text articles
on the letters’ page]
3) The
4) Mark Of The
5) The Law And Disorder [Dennis
Junot/Luis Garcia] 6p
6) The Eternity Curse [John
Thraxis/Martin
7) Creepy’s Fan Club: Reed
Crandall Profile/The Scarlet Knife/The Shrinking Man/A Moment!/
Grin At The Grim
Reaper [J. R. Cochran, Jody Gilmore, Terry W. Cloud, Horace Heard
& Steve
Clement/Reed Crandall, Marc Bilgrey & Pat Boyette] 2p [text articles/stories]
8) Point Of View [Steve
Skeates/Luis Dominguez] 6p
9) This Burden—This
Responsibility! [Steve Skeates/Jerry Grandenetti] 10p
10) Futurization Computation! [Bill DuBay] 3p
11) Creepy Book Reviews: Dick Tracy/Horror Comics Of
The 1950s/The Comix [Tom Sutton,
Bill
DuBay & Greg Potter] 1p [text
articles]
12) The Beginning! [Steve Skeates/Tom Sutton] 6p
Notes: Manuel Sanjulian’s cover
came in too late for this issue, resulting in it not appearing until Eerie
#123, nine years later. Cobb’s reprinted
cover was a last minute substitute. Reed
Crandall returned after almost three years, but his art had sadly deteriorated
a great deal since his last appearance.
‘The
48. cover: montage/back cover: Jack Davis
(Oct. 1972) front cover reprints 12
covers from different eras
of Creepy while the back
cover is reprinted from Creepy #1 (Jan. 1965)
1) What Can You Say About An
Eight-Year Old Creepy? [J. R. Cochran] 1p
[text article, frontis]
2) The Coffin Of Dracula [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 16p reprinted
from Creepy #8 & 9
(Apr. & June
1966) [2 pages edited out from the
second part]
3) The Castle On The Moor!
[Johnny Craig] 6p reprinted from Creepy
#9 (June 1966)
4)
5) Swamped! [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 8p reprinted
from Creepy #3 (June 1965)
6) Thumbs Down [Anne T.
Murphy/Al Williamson] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #6 (Dec. 1965)
7) The Cosmic All [Wally Wood]
8p reprinted from Creepy #38 (Mar.
1971)
8) Drink Deep! [Otto Binder/John
Severin] 7p reprinted from Creepy #7
(Feb. 1966)
9) The Adventure Of The German
Student! [Archie Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti] 8p
reprinted
from Creepy #15
(June 1967)
Notes: The Creepy Annual now
becomes part of the regular numbering.
The DuBay Era, Take 1
49. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Nov. 1972)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: No
(Horse) Laughing Matter [Doug Moench/Rafael Auraleon] 1p
[frontis &
on inside back cover]
2) Inside 49/The Story Behind
The Story: ‘Behold—The Cybernite!’ [Bill DuBay & Rich
Margopoulos]
½p [text articles on letters’ page]
3) Buried Pleasure [Doug
Moench/Esteban Maroto] 10p
4) The Severed Hand [Fred
Ott/Rafael Auraleon] 12p
5) The Third Night Of Mourning
[James Stenstrum/Jaime Brocal] 12p
6) The Accursed Flower [Jose
Bea] 10p
7) Creepy’s Book Reviews: The
Pulps/Superman/Batman/Mandrake [Doug Moench, Greg Potter
& Tom
Sutton] 1p [text articles]
8) Creepy’s Fan Club: James Stenstrum Profile/Hour
For Rest/Mr. Grave’s Giant Step/End Of The
Corridor/Murder
Is Not A Fun Game!/Who Can Say? [Jim Stenstrum, George Acevedo,
George
Hennessey, Calvin L. Cox, Allen Sliwinski, Jack Hennigar/Jim Stenstrum, Victor
Kally
& Esteban Maroto] 2p [text
article/stories w/photos]
9) Wedding Knells [Doug Moench/Jose Gual] 8p
Notes: Editor: Bill DuBay. The DuBay era started with a great
issue! Sanjulian’s cover was top notch
and the cover story it illustrated, ‘The Third Night Of Mourning’, was even
more impressive—especially considering that this was author Jim Stenstrum’s
professional debut (but second story--#50’s ‘Forgive Us Our Debts’ was his first
sale). Brocal’s artwork was exactly
right for the story’s French Revolution setting, as well. Jose Bea’s bizarre ‘The Accursed Flower’ was
almost as good as the Stenstrum/Brocal entry and the remaining tales were more
than satisfactory. The Spanish invasion
of artists and their artistic takeover of
50. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Jan. 1973)
1) Odd Worm! [Al Hewetson/Rafael
Auraleon] 1p [frontis]
2) Inside 50/The Story Behind
The Story: ‘Futurization Computation’ [Bill DuBay] ½p [text
articles on
letters’ page]
3) Forgive Us Our Debts [Jim
Stenstrum/Esteban Maroto] 18p
4) Frog God! [Ed Fedory/Adolfo
Abellan] 7p
5) The Critic’s Crypt: Buck
Rogers/Flash Gordon: Water World/Flash Gordon:
Terry & The
Pirates [Bill DuBay & Al Milgrom] 1p
[text articles]
6) Side-Show [Fred Ott/Jose Bea]
8p
7) Sum Of Its Parts [Doug Moench/Reed Crandall] 10p
8) Creepy’s Fan Club: Esteban Maroto Profile/One Of
Our Policemen Is Missing/Good Morning/
The
Quarry/Guilty, Guilty, Guilty… [Bill DuBay, Sandra Chaney,
Don
Robers & Nathan Garmon/Bill DuBay, Esteban Maroto, Leslie Fish &
Michael
Arman] 2p [text article/stories]
9) The Climbers Of The Tower [T. Casey Brennan/Felix
Mas] 7p
Notes: After the high quality of
the previous issue, this one was a big let-down, especially for a special 50th anniversary issue. The Sanjulian cover showed Uncle Creepy,
Cousin Eerie, Vampirella, the moronic Warren version of Dracula {currently
appearing in Vampirella} and Frankenstein’s monster along with other various
creepy characters sitting around a 50th birthday cake with skull
frosting. It was a nice idea that just
didn’t work. After Stenstrum’s
powerhouse debut the previous issue, this issue’s ‘Forgive Us Our Debts’ came
off as long and unfocused, although the Maroto art was nice. With one exception, the remainder of the
stories were rather lame, with Brennan’s philosophical story in particular
showing he had run into a creative corner.
The exception mentioned was Moench’s ‘Sum Of Its Parts’, a good story
which, sadly, suffered from Crandall’s art.
It wasn’t so much that the art was bad as that it was so far below the
quality of the art Crandall had routinely delivered in the 1960s that it made
the story look slightly foolish. Fans
noticed the drop in quality for the entire issue and heavily critized this
issue, pointing out Crandall’s art and Brennan and Stenstrum’s stories in
particular. The series’ title ‘Creepy’s
Loathsome Lore’ is dropped from the frontis story.
51. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Mar. 1973)
1) Possessed From Beyond The Grave [Fred Ott/Rafael
Auraleon] 2p [frontis & on inside
back
cover]
2) Déjà vu [Doug Moench/Esteban
Maroto] 9p
3) Star-Slaughter [Rich
Margopoulos/Ramon Torrents] 8p
4) Death Wish! [John D.
Warner/Adolfo Abellan] 8p
5) Package Deal [Martin
Pasko/Jose Bea] 7p
6) Dracula Ad [Esteban Maroto]
1p [color]
7) The Viyi [Esteban Maroto]
6p [color]
8) Dracula Ad [various] 1p [color]
9) His Brother’s Grave [Kevin Pagan/Rafael Auraleon]
10p
10) The Critic’s Crypt: Horror Times Ten/Masters Of
Horror/Warlocks And Warriors/Wizards
And
Warlocks [Chuck McNaughton?] 1p [text
articles]
11) Creepy’s Fan Club: John D. Warner
Profile/Monster/Image In A Puzzle/A Very Lovely
Ghost/Him [John D. Warner, J. C. Bartholomew Del
Galzo, Paul G. Ellis, Randall Holmberg & L. R. Slater/Chad Draber] 2p [text article/stories w/photo]
12) Bed Of Roses [Doug
Moench/Felix Mas] 9p
Notes: Price increased to $1.00
& size increased to 80 pages. A much
better issue that the previous one. The
first color section appeared, reprinting Maroto’s ‘The Viyi’ story from the
Dracula color collection. That Dracula
color album was 120 pages of horror stories that had been previously published
in the Europeon magazine entitled Dracula.
The reprint book was heavily advertised by
52. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Apr. 1973)
1) The Story Behind The Story:
‘Forgive Us Our Debts’/’Climbers Of The Tower’/’The Accursed
Flower’ [Jim
Stenstrum, T. Casey Brennan & Jose Bea] ½p
[text articles on the letters’
page]
2) A Most Private Terror [Budd
Lewis/Esteban Maroto] 12p [story
miscredited to Doug Moench]
3) The Last Hero! [Steve
Skeates/Ramon Torrents] 10p
4) Halve Your Cake And Eat It
Two [Doug Moench/Adolfo Abellan] 10p
5) Them Thar Flyin’ Things!
[Greg Potter/Jose Bea] 7p
6) The Man With The Brain Of
Gold [George Henderson/Reed Crandall] 6p
from the story by ?
7) The Killer [Steve Skeates/Felix Mas] 8p
8) Creepy’s Catacombs: Steve Skeates Profile/What’s
News!/Fanzine Reviews: Comic & Crypt/
Rockets Blast
Comicollector/The Creative Adventure [Steve Skeates, Bill DuBay &
Chuck McNaughton?/Steve
Skeates] 1p [text articles]
Notes: Back to 75 cents & 72
pages. DuBay continued to revamp the
magazines, dropping the fan page, and with it, fan participation, replacing
them with a feature page {in this case, titled Creepy’s Catacombs} which
focused on reviews, profiles and mini-editorials. Unlike the fan pages, which had been unique
to each magazine, the feature page was the same material in Creepy, Eerie or
Vampirella. The magazines also upped
their frequency to 9 issues per year.
Budd Lewis made his professional debut with a great story, easily the
best in the issue, only to have it miscredited to Doug Moench! Maroto’s art for Lewis’ icy winter tale is
spot on! Crandall delivers a much better
art job than in #50, wrapped around an interesting story adaptation, the first
one
53. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (May 1973)
1) A Scream In The
2) The Stone Of Power! [Steve Skeates/Ramon
Torrents] 8p
3) Freedom’s Just Another Word [Bill DuBay/Adolfo
Abellan] 13p
4) The Creature Of Loch
5) The Night The Creatures Attacked [Fred Ott/Rafael
Auraleon] 2p
6) It! [Tom Sutton] 9p
7) Creepy’s Catacombs: Gerry Boudreau Profile/What’s
News!/Fanzine Reviews: Phase/Comic
Reader/Heritage [Gerry
Boudreau, Bill Dubay & Chuck McNaughton?/Reed Crandall] 1p
[text articles]
Notes: A great Sanjulian cover of a
corpse rising from the swamp {with an odd teddy bear in the foreground} would
have been just as much at home over at Skywald’s Horror-Mood. ‘A Scream In The Forest’ has great artwork by
Maroto. Bill DuBay’s ‘Freedom’s Just
Another Word’ was a decent story marred by poor artwork and a somewhat
troubling use of racial slurs, especially when one considers some of the
stories dealing with African-Americans that DuBay would write in the
future. ‘It!’ by Tom Sutton was a fine
story that would spawn a mediocre series, which would begin in Eerie #56.
54. cover: montage of interior panels (July
1973)
1) A Guest Editorial By Phil
Seuling [Phil Seuling] ½p [text article
on letters’ page]
2) Creepy’s Catacombs: Jaime
Brocal Profile/What’s News/Fanzine Reviews: File
Forty/Remember When/Maxor
[Bill DuBay & Chuck McNaughton?/Jaime Brocal] 1p
[text articles]
3) The Slipped Mickey Click Flip
[Doug Moench/Richard Corben] 10p
4) This Graveyard Is Not
Deserted [Don McGregor/Reed Crandall] 13p
5) Descent Into Hell [Kevin
Pagan/Esteban Maroto] 8p [color]
6) Dead Man’s Race [Jack
Butterworth/Martin Salvador] 10p
7) Little Nippers! [R. Michael
Rosen/Tom Sutton] 8p
Notes: Possibly as a cost cutting
measure or perhaps because the increase in frequency had left them short on
covers, both Creepy & Vampirella had montage covers composed of interior
panels. The response must not have been
too good as this was never repeated. ‘The
Slipped Mickey Click Flip!’ was a great humorous story. Richard Corben who, up to this point, had
done some great work in the undergrounds and respectable work for
55. cover: montage of 12 previous covers
(Aug. 1973)
1) The Creepy-Crawley-Castle
Game! [Bill DuBay] 3p [game; frontis,
one interior page & on
inside back cover]
2) Brain Trust! [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 6p reprinted
from Creepy #10 (Aug. 1966)
3) Welcome Stranger [Archie
Goodwin/Al Williamson] 7p reprinted
from Creepy #2 (Apr. 1965)
4) Act Three! [Johnny Craig]
8p reprinted from Creepy #18 (Jan.
1968)
5) Thundering Terror! [Clark
Dimond & Terry Bisson/John Severin] 6p
reprinted from Creepy
#17 (Oct. 1967)
6) Incident In The Beyond!
[Archie Goodwin/Gray Morrow] 6p
reprinted from Creepy #3 (June
1965)
7) Prelude To Armageddon [Nicola
Cuti & Wally Wood/Wally Wood] 12p
reprinted from
Creepy #41
(Sept. 1971)
8) The Law And Disorder [Dennis
P. Junot/Luis Garcia] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #47 (Sept.
1972)
Notes: The 1973 annual. $1.00 price and 80 pages.
56. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Sept. 1973)
1) The Creepy Monster Match
[Bill DuBay] 2½p [game; frontis,
interior page & on inside back
cover]
2) Creepy’s Catacombs: Paul
Neary Profile/What’s New/Fanzine Reviews: The Collector/Graphic
Story World/
1p [text articles]
3) In My Father’s House! [Doug
Moench/Rafael Auraleon] 10p
4) Innsmouth Festival [John
Jacobson/Adolfo Abellan] 12p
5) Consumed By Ambition [Jack
Butterworth/Martin
6) Lycanklutz [Richard Corben]
8p [color]
7) The Way Of All Flesh [Doug Moench/Jose Bea] 10p
8) The Bell Of Kuang Sai [George Henderson/Isidro
Mones] 8p from the story by ?
Notes: Decent issue with the
humorous ‘Lycanklutz’ having the best story & art. The Henderson/Mones’ adaptation was quite
good as well. Isidro Mones’ art was
credited to Munes for his first dozen or so appearances. Bill DuBay is finally given full editor status
{previously his credit had been managing editor}.
57. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Nov. 1973)
1) Werewolf! The Exciting Game
Of Detective Skill! [Bill DuBay] 2p
[frontis & on inside back
cover]
2) Creepy’s Catacombs: Bruce
Bezaire Profile/The Editor’s Box/Fanzine Reviews: Barney’s
Comix/Rocket’s Blast/Etcetera
[Bill DuBay & Chuck McNaughton?/Rich Buckler] 1p
[text articles]
3) The Destructive Image [Don
McGregor/Ramon Torrents] 11p
4) The Hope Of The Future [Doug
Moench/Jaime Brocal] 8p
5) The
6) The Low Spark Of High Heeled
Noise! [Doug Moench/Richard Corben] 8p
[color]
7) The Red Badge Of Terror [Doug Moench/Jose Bea] 7p
8) Sense Of Violence [Doug Moench/Isidro Mones] 8p
Notes: Buckler’s artwork on the
feature’s page was from the story ‘Snow’which wouldn’t appear until 1975. The sample panel that we see was clearly
inked by Buckler as well, although the actual story has inking by Wally
Wood. Brocal’s art was reproduced from
his pencils and it’s quite classy looking.
Moench & Corben went for another humorous horror story but come up a
bit short. None of the stories really
jump out at you but all were good, solid tales.
Future movie director Brad Bird {The Iron Giant & The Incredibles}
sent in a letter.
58. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Dec. 1973)
1) The Old School [Steve
Skeates/Vicente Alcazar & Bill DuBay] 2p
[frontis & on inside back
cover]
2) Creepy’s Catacombs: Manuel
Sanjulian Profile/Preview: 3 New
Reviews: Imagination/Fright &
Fantasy/Wonderworld [Bill DuBay & Chuck McNaughton?/Manuel Sanjulian]
1p [text articles]
3) Change…Into Something
Comfortable [Doug Moench/Richard Corben] 8p
4) An Excuse For Violence [Don
McGregor/Adolpho Abellan] 10p
5) Shriek Well Before Dying! [W.
Eaton/Jose Bea] 8p
6) Soul And Shadow [
7) The Waking Nightmare! [Don McGregor/Isidro Mones]
12p
8) Two Vampirella’s Stun 5,500 At 1973 Comic Art
Convention [Gerry Boudreau] 1p [text
article w/photos]
Notes: Future comic writer/artist
Fred Hembeck & current
59. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Jan. 1974)
1) A Few Words And Pictures About Our Brand New
Comic Magazine [Bill DuBay/Will Eisner
& Bill DuBay] 2p
[color text article, frontis & on inside back cover]
2) Destiny’s Witch [John
Jacobson/Ramon Torrents] 12p
3) A Dark And Violent Place [Don
McGregor/Adolfo Abellan] 14p
4) Spare That Tree! [Jack
Butterworth/Martin
5) Bless Us, Father… [Bill
DuBay/Richard Corben] 7p [color]
6) Curiosity Killed The Cat
[Doug Moench/Paul Neary] 8p
7) Not A Creature Was Stirring
[Don McGregor/Tom Sutton] 13p
8) Creepy’s Catacombs: W. R.
Mohalley Profile/Warren Magazines Questionnaire [Bill DuBay]
1p [text articles w/photo]
Notes: Price increase to $1.00. The killer Santa cover began something of a
tradition for
60. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Feb. 1974)
1) The Exorcist [Bill DuBay]
1p [frontis]
2) Creepy’s Catacombs: Ramon
Torrents Profile/You’re Paying More For Warren Magazines This
Month. We Think You Ought To Know Why/Fanzine
Reviews: Dark
Fantasy/Quintessence/CPL [Bill DuBay & Ramon
Torrents/Ramon Torrents] 2p [text
articles w/photo]
3) Slaughter House [Rich Margopoulos/Adolfo
Abellan] 16p
4) A Most Precious Secret [Rich
Margopoulos/Jose Gual] 12p
5) The Hero Within [Steve
Skeates/Richard Corben] 8p [color]
6) Monsieur Fortran’s Hoax!
[John Jacobson/Martin
7) The Other Side Of Hell! [Bill DuBay/Gonzalo Mayo]
8p
8) Presenting The 1973 Warren Awards [Bill DuBay]
2p [text article]
Notes: The $1.00 price was made
permanent. A rather disappointing issue,
with only the Skeates/Corben stories being particularly memorable. Gonzalo Mayo made his
61. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Apr. 1974)
1) Child Of Hell [Bill DuBay]
1p [frontis]
2) Creepy’s Catacombs: Isidro
Mones Profile/The Return Of Archie Goodwin/Fanzine Reviews:
Sword And
Fantasy/Funnyworld/European Cartoonist [Bill DuBay, Archie Goodwin &
Chuck McNaughton?] 1p [text articles w/photo]
3) A Stranger In Eternity [T. Casey Brennan/Adolfo
Abellan] 9p
4) Advent Of The Scrap-Heap! [Rich Margopoulos/Jose
Gual] 10p
5) The Ghouls! [Carl Wessler/Martin
6) Terror Tomb [Richard Corben] 8p [color]
7) The Blood-Colored Motorbike [Jose Bea] 8p
8) Twisted Medicine [Steve Skeates/Leo Summers] 7p
9) Encore Ghastly [Tom Sutton] 6p
Notes: Archie Goodwin, fresh from
his landmark DC editorial turns on Detective Comics & various war comics,
returned as editor for a short-lived stint.
‘A Stranger In Eternity’ was a sequel to ‘A Stranger In Hell’ from Eerie
#38. Richard Corben’s latest attempt at
a humorous horror story was considerably better than his last. The highlight of the issue was the
controversial ‘Twisted Medicine’ from Skeates & Summers (in his
62. cover: Ken Kelly (May 1974)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Archie Goodwin/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Creepy’s Catacombs: Martin
Salvador Profile/Alcazar, Corben, Mayo, Mones, Severin,
Summers And
Wrightson!/Fanzine Reviews: Le Beaver/Exotic Fantasy/The Comic
Crusader [Archie Goodwin
& Chuck McNaughton?] 1p [text
articles w/photo]
3) The Black Cat [Berni Wrightson]
12p from the story by Edgar Allan Poe
4) Buffaloed [Larry Herndon/John
Severin] 8p
5) Firetrap [Jack
Butterworth/Vicente Alcazar] 8p
6) Judas [Rich
Margopoulos/Richard Corben] 8p [color]
7) Survivor Or Savior! [Steve Skeates/Gonzalo Mayo] 7p
8) The Maze [Steve Skeates/Leo Summers] 8p
9) The Demon Within! [Steve Skeates/Isidro Mones] 7p
Notes: Behind a gory Ken Kelly
cover {depicting the hatcheted head of the gal from ‘The Black Cat’} were clear
signs that Archie Goodwin was back in control.
Strong stories {with the exception of the rather weak ‘Judas’}, the
return of John Severin from the Goodwin era, and the arrival of Berni
Wrightson, fresh from his fabled run on DC’s Swamp Thing, made up an excellent
issue. Hard to complain about anything,
really. Just a fine fine issue. There was a sign of trouble ahead,
though—Bill DuBay was listed as senior editor, over Goodwin.
63. cover: Ken Kelly (July 1974)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Archie Goodwin/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Creepy’s Catacombs: Vicente
Alcazar Profile/What Do They Have In Common?/1974 New
1p [text articles]
3) Jenifer [Bruce Jones/Berni Wrightson] 10p
4) A Touch Of Terror [Rich Margopoulos/Adolfo
Abellan] 12p
5) …A Ghost Of A Chance [T. Casey Brennan/Vicente
Alcazar] 6p
6) Demon In The Cockpit [Rich Margopoulos/Richard
Corben] 8p [color]
7) Fishbait [Larry Herndon/Leo Summers] 9p
8) The Clones! [Martin Pasko/Jose Gual] 9p
Notes: A study in contrasts! ‘Jenifer’ was one of the undeniable classics
of this period, with a great Bruce Jones story and top drawer Wrightson
art. Yet it was stuck behind a sub-par
Kelly cover, with, at best, fair to downright poor stories surrounding it
{please note that the art is generally pretty good in all of these
stories}. In fact, ‘The Clones’ ranks as
one of the worst stories
64. cover: Larry Todd & Vaughn Bode (Aug.
1974)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Archie Goodwin/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Creepy’s Catacombs: Fernando Fernandez
Profile/The Face That Launched An Issue Of
Creepy!/1974
Goodwin/Fernando Fernandez]
1p [text articles w/photo]
3) Forgotten Flesh [Doug
Moench/Vicente Alcazar] 8p
4) Mates [Doug Moench/Esteban
Maroto] 8p [color]
5) High Time [Steve Skeates/Paul
Neary] 7p
6) Only Losers Win! [Rich Margopoulos/Howard
Chaykin] 8p
7) One Autumn At Arkham [Tom Sutton] 8p
8) To Sleepy Hollow…Returned [Jeff Rovin/Leo
Summers] 8p
9) Hard John Apple: An Angel Shy Of Hell! [Jim
Stenstrum/Richard Corben] 8p [color]
Notes: The first of
65. cover: Ken Kelly/back cover: Albert
Michini (Sept. 1974)
1) The
1972)
2) Star-Slaughter [Rich
Margopoulos/Ramon Torrents] 8p
reprinted from Creepy #51 (Mar.
1973)
3) The Men Who Called Him
Monster [Don McGregor/Luis Garcia] 14p
reprinted from Creepy
#43 (Jan. 1972)
4) Tell-Tale Heart [Archie Goodwin/Reed
Crandall] 8p [color] reprinted from Creepy #3 (June
1965)
5) The Quaking Horror [Gardner
Fox/Rafael Auraleon] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #42 (Nov.
1971)
6) Bed Of Roses [Doug
Moench/Felix Mas] 9p reprinted from
Creepy #51 (Mar. 1973)
7) The Accursed Flower [Jose
Bea] 10p reprinted from Creepy #49
(Nov. 1972)
8) A Chronicle! [Steve
Skeates/Jorge B. Galvez] 4p reprinted
from Creepy #42 (Nov. 1971)
9) The Third Night Of Mourning
[Jim Stenstrum/Jaime Brocal] 12p
reprinted from Creepy #49
(Nov. 1972)
Notes: Size increased to 96
pages. Editor: Bill DuBay. The 1974 Creepy Annual.
66. cover: Ken Kelly (Nov. 1974)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Creepy’s Catacombs: Gonazlo Mayo
Profile/In Defense Of A Name!/The Creative Man—Ken
Kelly: Doodling Cover
Artist! [Bill DuBay/Gonzalo Mayo & Ken Kelly] 1p [text
Articles w/photo]
3) Desecration [Doug Moench/Jose Ortiz] 10p
4) Portrait Of Death [Budd Lewis/Vicente Alcazar] 8p
5) Solitude! [Archie Goodwin/Martin
6) Pinball Wizard! [Doug Moench/Richard Corben] 7p
7) Relatively Axe-Cidental [Greg Potter/Adolfo
Abellan] 12p
8) Nightmare! [Gerry Boudreau & Isidro
Mones/Isidro Mones] 8p
Notes: $1.00 cover price, with 72
pages. Kelly’s clumsy cover depicted an
executioner chopping off a head {with an axe movement that would have split the
guy’s head in half, not chopped off his head}, an image for which Kelly forgot
to paint the rest of the victim’s body!
The cover art & the interior story from Potter & Abellan closely
resembled {even down to the page count} Jim Stenstrum & Jaime Brocal’s much
better story ‘The Third Night Of Mourning’ from Creepy #49, which had just been
reprinted the previous issue. Due to
scheduling problems Archie Goodwin hadn’t had a story of his own appear during
his short run as editor. The first of
them showed up now and it’s a beaut of a Western werewolf story! One of Martin Salvador’s best art efforts as
well. ‘Pinball Wizard’ by Moench &
Corben was also quite good. Jose Ortiz
made his
67. cover: Ken Kelly (Dec. 1974)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Creepy’s Catacombs: Once Upon
A Time At
Creative Man—Gerry Boudreau:
Portrait Artist? [Bill DuBay/Gerry Boudeau] 1p
[text
articles]
3) Excerpts From The Year Five! [Budd Lewis/Jose
Ortiz] 10p
4) The Haunted Abbey [Budd Lewis/Vicente Alcazar]
10p
5) The Happy Undertaker [Carl Wessler/Martin
6) Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven [Richard Corben]
8p [color] from the poem by Edgar Allan
Poe
7) Holy War [Budd Lewis/Adolfo Abellan] 11p
8) Oil Of Dog! [Jack Butterworth/Isidro Mones]
8p from the story by Ambrose Bierce
Notes: More scheduling
problems. The Ken Kelly cover was
supposed to illustrate the interior color section story ‘Bowser’ by Jan Strnad
& Richard Corben. However, that
story was erroneously skipped {it eventually appeared in Vampirella} in favor
of Corben’s solo adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’. Ironically, the feature page profiled the
production staff, including Sherry Berne, future editor Louise Jones (nee
Simonson), Michele Brand & Bill Mohalley.
For all the mixups however, this is a very good issue. Budd Lewis shows off his writing chops with
an excellent ‘Excerpts From The Year Five!’ as well as ‘The Haunted
Abbey’. His ‘Holy War’ is an uncredited
adaptation of the then popular anti-war song ‘One Tin Soldier’. Corben’s adaptation of ‘The Raven’ was
gorgeous, with truly beautiful artwork.
However, the best work here was Jack Butterworth & Isidro Mones’
adaptation of Ambrose Bierce’s sly masterpiece ‘Oil Of Dog’. This was my first encounter with that
gleefully savage story of abortion, family ties and salesmanship. I looked everywhere to find the original, but
it took me years in that pre-internet day.
Much to my satisfaction, the original story and the Butterworth/Mones’
adaptation are pure horrific black humor, watered down nary a bit! This adaptation’s never been reprinted and
that’s a damn shame!
68. cover: Ken Kelly/back cover: Manuel
Sanjulian (Jan. 1975)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Creepy’s Catacombs: Berni
Wrightson Profile/Accept No Substitutes! [Bill DuBay] 1p [text
articles w/photo]
3) The Stars My Salvation [Doug Moench/John Severin]
11p
4) Christmas Eve Can Kill You [Gerry
Boudreau/Vicente Alcazar] 8p
5) Reflections In A Golden Spike [Gerry
Boudreau/Martin Salvador] 8p
6) Anti-Christmas [Gerry Boudreau/Richard Corben]
8p [color]
7) A Gentle Takeover [Budd Lewis/Adolfo Abellan] 8p
8) Christmas Visit [Budd Lewis/Isidro Mones] 8p
9) The Christmas Gnome Of Timothy Brayle! [Budd
Lewis/Leopold Sanchez] 8p
Notes: One of Creepy’s nastier
covers, with a howling Santa and his elves placing chopped off parts of what
looked to be a dismembered child into Christmas stockings. Lots of intestines. The back cover wasn’t much cheerier—a very
long nail is stuck through a bloke’s neck—the sharp end covered in blood. This was the first totally Christmas themed
special. Price was $1.25 for 80
pages. The Wrightson art on the frontis
was reprinted from an earlier ad for the New York Comicon. Perhaps reflecting on the imminent collapse
of Skywald, which was caused by Marvel’s flooding of the market with horror
B&W magazines, a tactic which was also hurting
69. cover: Ken Kelly (Feb. 1975)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Everything You Always Wanted
To Know…About The Comics!: The Story [Bill Dubay] 1p
[text article]
3) The Pit And The Pendulum
[Rich Margopoulos/Jose Ortiz] 10p from
the story by Edgar Allan
Poe
4) Premature Burial [Rich
Margopoulos/Vicente Alcazar] 8p from
the story by Edgar Allan Poe
5) The Fall Of The House Of
Usher [Rich Margopoulos/Martin Salvador] 8p
from the story by
Edgar Allan Poe
6) The Oval Portrait [Rich
Margopoulos/Richard Corben] 8p from the
story by Edgar Allan Poe
7) Ms. Found In A Bottle! [Rich
Margopoulos/Leo Summers] 10p from the
story by Edgar Allan
Poe
8) Facts In The Case Of M.
Valdemar [Rich Margopoulos/Isidro Mones] 8p
from the story by
Edgar Allan Poe
Notes: Back to a $1.00 price and 72
page length. Strnad wrote in to wonder what happened to his cover featured ‘Bowser’
story for #67. The reply stated that the
printer confused the two different color sections—not hard, I suppose, as both
were by Corben. This was a special Edgar
Allan Poe issue. Since Al Hewetson at
Skywald had mentioned several times that Skywald planned to do a EA Poe
magazine, perhaps this was Warren’s attempt at heading them off, as they did
with Eerie Publications by rush publishing the Eerie ashcan edition in
1965. Whatever, this was a pretty good
issue, with interesting adaptations and great art. As noted in the reply to Strnad’s letter,
Corben’s story ‘The Raven’, that had mistakedly appeared in #67, was originally
intended as a color section for this issue.
As it turned out, no color section appeared. Best art was from Richard Corben & Leo
Summers, with Corben showing a quite subtle blend of airbrush and pen & ink
work that really helped the storyline.
All the adaptations were by Margopoulos and he did a fine job. As a whole, this special worked much better
than the Christmas special since the original stories had considerable
range. The usual feature page was
dropped for a series detailing how a
70. cover: Ken Kelly (Apr. 1975)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p [frontis]
2) Everything You Always Wanted
To Know…About The Comics!: Lettering [Bill DuBay] 1p
[text article]
3) The Murders In The Rue Morgue
[Rich Margopoulos/Jose Ortiz] 12p from
the story by Edgar
Allan Poe
4) Man Of The Crowd [Rich
Margopoulos/Luis Bermejo] 8p from the
story by Edgar Allan Poe
6) The Cask Of Amontillado!
[Rich Margopoulos/Martin Salvador] 8p
from the story by Edgar
Allan Poe
7) Shadow [Rich
Margopoulos/Richard Corben] 8p from the
story by Edgar Allan Poe
8) A Descent Into The Maelstrom!
[Rich Margopoulos/Adolfo Abellan] 10p
from the story by
Edgar Allan Poe
9) Berenice [Rich
Margopoulos/Isidro Mones] 8p from the
story by Edgar Allan Poe
Notes: Another remarkably gory
cover, with the orangatang from “Murders In The Rue Morgue’ slashing a very
deep cut across the largely naked bosom of a young lady. The second and last of the Poe specials
although leftover Poe adaptations would appear over the next year. Wrightson delivered some very nice artwork for
the frontis. This issue was even more
impressive than the previous one.
Sterling adaptations by Margopoulos, particularly on the lesser known
Poe stories ‘Man Of The Crowd’, ‘Shadow’ and ‘Berenice’ with great art jobs
from all concerned. Bemejo’s
71. cover: Ken Kelly (May 1975)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Room For One More [Doug
Moench/Luis Bermejo] 11p
3) But When She Was Bad [Gerry
Boudreau/Luis Bermejo] 10p
4) His Name Was John! [Budd
Lewis/Luis
5) The Song Of Alan Bane [Gerry
Boudreau/Luis Bermejo] 12p [poem]
6) The Minotaur [Rich
Margopoulos/Luis Bermejo] 10p from the
story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
7) Presenting the 1974 Warren
Awards [Bill DuBay] 2p [text article]
Notes: Another excellent themed
issue! This time the spotlight was on
the artist Luis Bermejo and he delivered in all respects. Beautifully rendered artwork enhanced each story. The best was probably ‘The Song Of Alan Bane’
or ‘The Minotaur’ but everything here was good.
This year’s Warren Awards went to Manuel Sanjulian for best covers, Jose
Gonzalez for best art on ‘Sultana’s Revenge’ {the voters must have been visited
by that shrieking Santa from a few issues earlier}, Budd Lewis for best story
for ‘Excerpts From The Year Five’, Berni Wrightson for best writer/artist, Jose
Ortiz for best all around artist, Budd Lewis for best all around writer & a
special award for Ken Kelly.
72. cover: Ken Kelly (July 1975)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Jose Ortiz] 1p [frontis]
2) Everything You Always Wanted To Know…About The
Comics!: The Art [Bill DuBay] 1p
[text article]
3) Vendetta [Rich Margopoulos
& Gerry Boudreau/Jose Gual] 12p
4) Malocchi! [Don McGregor/Jose
Gual] 11p
5) Like The Sky Red [Doug
Moench/Jose Gual] 9p
6) It: The Terror-Stalked Heiress! [Carl
Wessler/Jose Gual] 10p
7) The Bite [Jeff Rovin/Jose Gual] 7p
8) Labyrinth [Gerry Boudreau/Jose Gual] 6p
Notes: Another issue centered
around an artist—this time, Jose Gual.
It didn’t work as well as the previous issue simply because, while Gual
was a good artist, he just wasn’t in
73. cover: Ken Kelly (Aug. 1975)
1) Everything You Always Wanted
To Know…About The Comics!: Production [Bill DuBay] 1p
[text article]
2) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
3) Playpen Of A God! [Bill
DuBay/Jose Ortiz] 4p [framing story]
4) The Argo Standing By! [Budd
Lewis/Paul Neary] 10p
5) A Beast Within! [Budd
Lewis/John Severin] 12p
6) Unprovoked Attack On A Hilton
Hotel [Jim Stenstrum/Richard Corben] 8p
7) Purge! [Bruce Bezaire/Jose
Ortiz] 8p [color]
8) Last Light Of The Universe
[Budd Lewis/Esteban Maroto] 17p
Notes: Yet another special
issue—this time centered on science fiction.
Price increased to $1.25 and size increased to 80 pages. The Lewis/Maroto story was a takeoff on Edgar
Allan Poe’s ‘The Masque Of The Red Death’.
Stories are pretty much on the grim side, except for the extremely funny
and beautifully done ‘Unprovoked Attack On A Hilton Hotel’. Where Stenstrum had been for the last year, I
don’t know, but his return was much appreciated. Corben’s art was also right on target.
74. cover: montage of interior panels (Oct.
1975)
1) Vampires Fly At Dusk! [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 6p reprinted
from Creepy #1 (Jan.
1965)
2) Curse Of The Full Moon!
[Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p
reprinted from Creepy #4
(Aug. 1965)
3) The Cask Of Amontillado!
[Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p from
the story by Edgar Allan
Poe, reprinted from Creepy
#6 (Dec. 1965)
4) Hot Spell! [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p reprinted
from Creepy #7 (Feb. 1966)
5) The Beast On
#24 (Nov. 1969)
6) Hop-Frog! [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p from the
story by Edgar Allan Poe, reprinted
from Creepy #11
(Oct. 1966)
7) The Squaw! [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p from the
story by Bram Stoker, reprinted
from Creepy #13
(Feb. 1967)
8) Frozen Fear! [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 6p reprinted
from Creepy #16 (Aug. 1967)
9) Keep Your Spirits Up [Bill
Parente/Reed Crandall] 7p reprinted
from Creepy #25 (Feb. 1969)
[story miscredited to Archie
Goodwin]
Notes: The 1975 Creepy Annual &
a Reed Crandall Special. Budd Lewis
wrote a new script for ‘The Beast On Bacon Street’, replacing the original Bill
Parente script entitled ‘Wrong Tennant’ from Eerie #24. Crandall’s 1960s art here was so strong and
vibrant that it’s somewhat heartbreaking to see the decline that occurred in
his work throughout the 1970s.
75. cover: Ken Kelly (Nov. 1975)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) The Escape Chronicle [Budd Lewis/Jose Ortiz] 18p
3) Phantom Of
4) Snow [Bruce Bezaire/Rich Buckler & Wally
Wood] 7p
5) Death Expression [Jim Stenstrum/John Severin] 10p
6) Thrillkill [Jim Stenstrum/Neal Adams] 8p
Notes: Down to 64 pages for
$1.00. This was the first issue since
#67 not to be a special of some sort.
The letters’ page was cut to one page.
The horror magazine wars had concluded with Skywald gone out of business
and Marvel canceling all of its horror magazines {although they retained a
place on the B&W shelves with The Savage Sword Of Conan and a few
non-horror books}.
76. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Jan. 1976)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Walt Simonson & Berni Wrightson] 1p [frontis]
2) Goodbye, Mr. Lincoln [Bill
DuBay/Jose Ortiz] 12p
3) Ensnared [Rich Margopoulos/Alex Toth] 7p
4) A Flash Of Lightning [Gerry Boudreau/John Severin] 9p
5) My Monster…My Dad [Jan Strnad/Martin
6) In Darkness It Shall End! [Doug Moench/Vicente
Alcazar] 9p
7) The Imp Of The Perverse! [Rich Margopoulos/Luis
Bermejo] 8p from the story by Edgar
Allan Poe
8) 1976 Warren Calendar Ad
[Manuel Sanjulian] 1p [on inside back
cover]
Notes: Although the issues were
smaller, for a time this actually seemed to increase the quality of the
stories. Sanjulian delivered a striking
cover of a colonial clad skeleton galloping on a stallion while holding a headless
female corpse. There were no great
stories in this issue but no poor ones either.
The best art could be split between Alcazar & Severin while the best
stories were probably the Poe adaptation and Boudreau’s ‘A Flash Of
Lightning’. Toth did at least three or
four different splash pages for ‘Ensnared’ before he settled on the published
version. The Poe adaptation was clearly
intended for a possible third all-Poe special.
There were several more of these adaptations scattered among the various
horror books over the next year. The
first
77. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Feb. 1976)
1) Santa Claus’ Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Once Upon A Miracle [Bill
DuBay/Jose Ortiz] 10p
3) Tibor Miko [Alex Toth] 6p
4) The Final Christmas Of Friar
Steel [Budd Lewis/John Severin] 8p
5) Clarice [Bruce Jones/Berni
Wrighton] 5p [poem]
6) The Believer [Budd
Lewis/Richard Corben] 8p [color]
7) First Snow, Magic Snow [Budd
Lewis/Leopold Sanchez] 6p
8) Final Gift [Bill DuBay/Paul
Neary] 8p
9) The Final Christmas [Budd
Lewis/Isidro Mones] 8p
10) Uncle Creepy’s Catacombs
[Louise Jones?] 1p [questionaire]
Notes: An all Christmas story
special. Face it, there’s nothing like
seeing Santa shotgunned in half on the roof {in living color!} to build
Christmas cheer. $1.25 price and 80
pages in length. Future comic artist
Brent Anderson sent in a letter. The
story ‘Once Upon A Miracle’ was originally intended for Creepy #68. The title for ‘Tibor Miko’ does not appear on
the actual story. It was on the
titlepage, however. The Jones/Wrightson
poem ‘Clarice’ was the most effective narrative here. It’s quite a gentle, haunting effort.
78. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Mar. 1976)
1) The Horseman [Bruce
Bezaire/Miguel Quesada] 10p
2) Unreal! [Alex Toth] 6p
3) Creeps [Archie Goodwin/John Severin & Wally
Wood] 8p
4) Lord Of Lazarus Castle [Gerry
Boudreau & Carl Wessler/Jorge Moliterni] 6p [miscredited to
Claude Moliterni]
5) The Nature Of The Beast [Budd
Lewis/Martin
6) God Of Fear [Jeff
Rovin/Vicente Alcazar] 7p
Notes: Back to 64 pages and
$1.00. The cover was a little static but
all in all, this was a very good issue with one great urban paranoia story by
the superb team of Goodwin/Severin/Wood.
‘Creeps’ leaves the reader feeling every bit of the urban rot the story
dealt with. ‘The Horseman’, one of
Bezaire’s last stories for
The Louise Jones Era
79. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (May 1976)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Jose Ortiz] 1p [frontis]
2) As Ye Sow… [Bruce Jones/Luis
3) Kui [Alex Toth] 6p
4) The Super-Abnormal Phenomena Survival Kit! [Jim
Stenstrum/John Severin] 8p
5) The Shadow Of The Axe! [Dave Sim/Russ Heath] 6p
6) Visitation At Pliny Marsh [Gerry Boudreau/Martin
Salvador] 8p
7) The Pit In The Living Room Floor! [Budd
Lewis/Joaquin Blasquez] 8p
8) Presenting The 1975
Notes: The Louise Jones’ era began
with one of Creepy’s best single issues!
With DuBay gone, there is no actual editor listed. Instead James Warren was listed as
editor-in-chief while Jones was still listed as associate editor. In fact,
80. cover: Ken Kelly (June 1976)
1) Benjamin Jones And The
Imagineers [Budd Lewis/Luis
2) Second Genesis [Gerry
Boudreau/Esteban Maroto] 8p
3) The Fable Of Bald
4) Proof Positive [Alex Toth] 8p
5) Ain’t It Just Like The Night
[Doug Moench/Martin
6) The Axe-Man Cometh [Gerry
Boudreau & Carl Wessler/Jorge B. Galvez] 5p
7) The Last Chronicle [Budd Lewis/Jose Ortiz] 8p
Notes: ‘The Last Chronicle’ was a
sequel to ‘The Escape Chronicles’ from Creepy #75, but it had none of the
impact that story did. The title for
Toth’s ‘Proof Positive’ is not located on the story itself but is listed on the
titlepage. It also has the best story
& art in the issue and was printed sideways. A good cover by Ken Kelly graced this issue
but storywise this was somewhat of a disappointment after the previous
issue. ‘Second Genesis’ wasted Maroto’s
skills and he must have agreed as his art seemed phoned in anyway.
81. cover: Ken Kelly (July 1976)
1) Warren Publishing Company
Will Pay A $500 Reward… [James Warren/Jack Davis] 1p [text
article/frontis]
2) Brannigan’s Gremlins [Bill
DuBay/Luis Bermejo] 10p
3) The Comic Books [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
4) Wings Of Vengeance [Bill
DuBay & Esteban Maroto/Esteban Maroto] 8p
5) The War! [Roger McKenzie/Paul
Neary] 8p
6) Close Shave [Roger
McKenzie/Martin
7) Battle Rot [Bill DuBay/John
Severin] 6p
8) Billicar And The
Momblywambles Of Glass [Steve Clement/Isidro Mones] 8p
Notes: Louise Jones was listed as
Senior Editor with Bill DuBay listed as contributing editor. Joe Brancatelli, a longtime fan writer, began
his opinion page on the state of the comic industry. Nice artwork by Severin & Maroto appeared
in a rather average issue. The frontis
article was Jim Warren’s response regarding the matter of counterfeit copies of
the Eerie Ashcan #1 being sold to collectors for big bucks.
82. cover: montage of interior panels (Aug.
1976)
1) Forgive Us Our Debts [Jim
Stenstrum/Esteban Maroto] 18p reprinted
from Creepy #50 (Jan.
1973)
2) The Comic Books [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) A Most Private Terror [Budd
Lewis/Esteban Maroto] 12p reprinted
from Creepy #52 (Apr.
1973)
4) Deju Vu [Doug Moench/Esteban
Maroto] 8p [color, one page edited
out] reprinted from
Creepy #51 (Mar. 1973)
5) Relatives! [Bruce
Bezaire/Esteban Maroto] 6p reprinted
from Vampirella #35 (Aug. 1974)
6) A Scream In The Forest [Greg
Potter/Esteban Maroto] 12p reprinted
from Creepy #53 (May
1973)
Notes: The 1976 Creepy Annual. An Esteban Maroto special issue. $1.25 price & 72 page length. Edited for this issue only by Bill DuBay,
perhaps because this issue was done before his departure from the editor’s
chair.
83. cover: Frank Frazetta (Oct. 1976) reprinted from Creepy #15 (June 1967)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Louise Jones/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) The Strange, Incurable Hauntings Of Phineas Boggs
[Bill DuBay/John Severin] 9p
3) The Comic Books [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
4) Process Of Elimination [Bruce Jones/Russ Heath]
10p
5) Country Pie [Bruce Jones/Carmine Infantino &
Berni Wrightson] 6p
6) In Deep [Bruce Jones/Richard Corben] 10p [pgs 2-9 in color]
7)
8) Now You See It… [Bruce Jones/Al Williamson] 8p
9) The Last Super Hero [
Notes: Price increase to #1.50 and
size increase to 80 pages. A Richard
Corben cover was done to accompany his story ‘In Deep’ but not used, possibly
due to deadline problems. It surfaced as
the cover to #101 in 1978. The apparent
last minute substitution of Frazetta’s cover started a trend of reusing his
classic covers over the next several years, presumably to pump up sales at the
newsstand. Some fans liked this but a
very vocal minority did not. Outside of
the old cover, this was a very good issue with strong stories from Bill DuBay
& Bruce Jones, along with great art from Severin, Infantino, Heath,
Wrightson, Corben, Ortiz & Williamson.
Infantino makes his first comics appearances outside the DC books since
being fired from his publisher’s position there in January 1976. Best story & art here was probably the
Jones/Heath tour de force of ‘Process Of Elimination’ but Jones also scored
with the terrifying ‘In Deep’, graced with beautiful Corben art as well as the fun
‘Now You See It…’, which featured Al Williamson’s welcome return to Warren with
a story originally intended for Marvel’s cancelled Unknown Worlds Of Science
Fiction. DuBay’s funny ‘Phineas Boggs’
was jauntily illustrated by John Severin, and Jose Ortiz’s work on ‘Harvey Was A Sharp Cookie’ was quite good,
although his sharply styled artwork was a bit of a contrast to all the American
artists. The Infantino/Wrightson artwork
on ‘Country Pie’ was a good combination.
84. cover: Ken Kelly (Nov. 1976)
1) Hitter’s Wind! [Roger McKenzie/Carmine Infantino
& Walt Simonson] 8p
2) The Comic Books: Tarzan’s Travails [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) The Mummy’s Victory [Roger McKenzie/Richard
Corben] 5p
4) Till Hell Freezes Over! [Steve Englehart/Carmine
Infantino & Dick Giordano] 11p
5) Home Stretch [Roger McKenzie/Leopold Sanchez] 8p
6) Menace, Anyone…? [David Michelinie/Carmine
Infantino & Al Milgrom] 9p
7) Relic [Roger McKenzie/Carmine Infantino &
John Severin] 8p
Notes: An all-sports special,
apparently inspired by DC’s Strange Sports Stories title. Gene Day sent in a letter rooting for his
good buddy Dave Sim’s stories. Infantino
penciled four out of six stories in this issue.
In fact, there have been suggestions that the Spanish artists’
domination of
85. cover: Ken Kelly (Jan. 1977)
1) 1977 Warren Calendar Ad
[Enrich Torres] 1p [frontis]
2) Like Icarus, Quickly Falling
[Roger McKenzie/Leopold Sanchez] 8p
3) The Comics Books: One Down…
[Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
4) Hide And Go Mad [Budd
Lewis/Carmine Infantino & Walt Simonson] 6p
5) The Thing In The Well [Roger
McKenzie/Leopoldo Duranona] 8p
6)
7) The Terrible Turnip Of
Notes: Billed on the cover as a
monster special, although from the stories you’d be hardpressed to notice it
since about half the monsters were of the human, psycho kind. I remember back in 1976 when my mom picked up
this issue, flipped to ‘Orem Ain’t Go No Head Cheese’, started to read it and then
asked me with some concern {and a certain amount of fear, I suspect} if I
honestly thought reading a story about eating human brains was what I called
entertainment. Believe me, there’s just
no good way to answer a question like that.
The
86. cover: Ken Kelly (Feb. 1977)
1) A Noggin At Mile End [Budd
Lewis/Leopold Sanchez] 10p
2) The Comic Books: Less Is More
[Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) Dick Swift And His Electric Power Ring! [Bill
DuBay/Carmine Infantino & Berni Wrightson]
9p
4) The Greatest Christmas Of All
[Roger McKenzie/Leopoldo Duranona] 8p
5) Mother Knows Best [Bruce
Jones/Al Williamson] 8p
6) Bloodstone Christmas [Gerry
Boudreau/Carmine Infantino & John Severin] 8p
7) Season’s Grievings [Bruce
Jones/Gonzalo Mayo] 8p
8) A Gift For Momma [Roger
McKenzie/Luis
Notes: Future writer/artist Fred
Hembeck sent in a letter. The third Christmas
special was priced at $1.50 & is 80 pages in length. Kelly’s cover was noticeably less grisly than
in previous years. Although there was no
full color section, both ‘Mother Knows Best’ and ‘Bloodstone Christmas’ were
colored in red. Best story here was the
delightful ‘Dick Swift And His Electric Power Ring!’ from Bill DuBay while best
art was from Al Williamson on ‘Mother Knows Best’. Gonzalo Mayo displayed a slightly different,
less elaborate, art style on his story which also seemed to enhance his
storytelling abilities. All the stories
were decent and the art was quite nice.
A superior issue.
87. cover: montage of interior panels [from
Berni Wrightson] (Mar. 1977)
1) Four Classic Martians [Berni
Wrightson] 1p
2) A Warped Tale [Al Sirois/Gray
Morrow] 8p
3) A Martian Saga [Nicola
Cuti/Berni Wrightson] 6p [poem]
4) Those ‘Orrible Passions Of
’78 [Bill DuBay/Carmine Infantino & Dick Giordano] 8p
5) The Last [Roger McKenzie/John
Severin] 8p
6) They Come Out At Night [Bruce
Jones/Martin
7) Warmonger Of Mars [Wally
Wood/Ralph Reese] 7p
Notes: $1.25 & 72 pages. Nicola Cuti guest edited this Science Fiction
special issue. ‘Warmonger Of Mars’ had
been done several years previously and was probably intended for an underground
comix. That this was an older story can
be seen by the re-appearance of Reese’s early detailed rendering style—which by
this time had been replaced by a pallid version seemingly styled after Dick
Giordano’s or Win Mortimer’s work {as may be obvious, I much prefer his earlier
style., which seemed influenced in equal parts by Gil Kane & Wally Wood}. Gray Morrow hadn’t been in a
88. cover: Steve Hickman (May 1977)
1) Castles Made Of Sand [Gerry
Boudreau/Jose Ortiz] 8p
2) The Comic Books [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) Eye For Eye, Fang For Fang [Doug Moench/Carmine
Infantino & Ernie Chan] 8p
4) Do You Believe In Sinsigs! [Gerry Boudreau/Luis
Bermejo] 8p
5)
6) Iron Man [Bill DuBay/Esteban Maroto] 6p
7) Second Childhood [Bruce Jones/Ramon Torrents] 8p
Notes: Hickman’s only cover for
89. cover: Frank Frazetta (June 1977) reprinted from Blazing Combat #1 (Oct.
1965)
1) Blood Brothers [Bruce
Jones/Jose Ortiz] 10p
2) The Comic Books [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) The Windmill [Lou
Rossin/Leopoldo Duranona] 5p
4) Angel Of Jaipur [Bill
DuBay/John Severin] 6p
5) The Hungry Dragon [Nicola
Cuti/Carmine Infantino & Alex Nino] 8p
6) The Door-Gunner [Larry Hama
&
7) Coggin’s Army [Roger
McKenzie/Martin Salvador] 9p
Notes:
90. cover: Enrich Torres (July 1977)
1) Warrior On The Edge Of
Forever [Bill DuBay/Jose Ortiz] 9p
2) The Comic Books [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) The
4) The Search [Roger
McKenzie/Carmine Infantino & Gonzalo Mayo] 8p
5) Please…Save The Children
[Bill DuBay/Martin
6) The Sacrifice [Jose
Toutain/Rafael Auraleon] 4p
7) Dollie [Roger
McKenzie/Leopold Sanchez] 10p
Notes: The first issue not listed
as a special of some sort in quite a while.
Enrich’s cover, depicting a young girl holding a vampire dollie while
blood dribbles down the girl’s neck, was quite effective. Back up to 72 pages. The story ‘Warrior On The Edge Of Forever’
was a leftover for the previous issue’s war special. The story ‘Dollie’ was a leftover from the
Christmas special. The odd pairing of
Infantino & Mayo on ‘The Search’ was surprisingly good and provided the
best art for the issue. Best story
honors go to Bill DuBay for ‘Please…Save The Children’.
91. cover: Frank Frazetta (Aug. 1977) reprinted from Vampirella #11 (May 1971)
1) Nightfall [Bill DuBay/Berni
Wrightson] 8p reprinted from Eerie #60
(Sept 1974)
2) The Comic Books: The Worst
And The Dullest [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
3) Creeps [Archie Goodwin/John
Severin & Wally Wood] 8p reprinted
from Creepy #78 (Mar.
1976)
4) Phantom Of Pleasure Island
[Gerry Boudreau/Alex Toth] 8p reprinted
from Creepy #75 (Nov.
1975)
5) Benjamin Jones And The
Imagineers [Budd Lewis/Luis Bermejo] 6p
reprinted from Creepy
#80 (June 1976)
6) Cold Cuts [Berni
Wrightson/Jeff Jones] 6p reprinted from
Vampirella #34 (June 1974)
7) Thrillkill [Jim
Stenstrum/Neal Adams] 8p reprinted from
Creepy #75 (Nov. 1975)
8) Gamal And The Cockatrice
[Bruce Bezaire/Rafael Auraleon] 12p
reprinted from Vampirella
#47 (Dec. 1975)
9) The Shadow Of The Axe! [Dave
Sim/Russ Heath] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #79 (May 1976)
Notes: The 1977 Creepy Annual. $1.50 price with 88 pages. If
92. cover: Frank Frazetta (Oct. 1977) reprinted from Eerie #23 (Sept. 1969)
1) A Toast To No Man’s Memory [Len Wein/John
Severin] 8p
2) The Comic Books [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) Mrs. Sludge And The Pickled Octopus Raid [Bill DuBay/Luis
4) Instinct [Nicola Cuti/Richard Corben] 7p
5) Towards High Places [Bruce Jones/Ramon Torrents]
10p
6) The Executioner [Russ Heath & Cary Bates/Russ
Heath] 8p
7) Goddess In A
8) Everybody And His Sister [Jim Stenstrum/Leopold
Sanchez] 8p [art miscredited to Jose
Sanchez]
9) The Generations Of Noah
[Roger McKenzie/Leopoldo Duranona] 9p
Notes: With this issue, at least,
an attempt was made to justify the Frazetta cover reprint, namely by ordering
up a new story, ‘Towards High Places’ {and it was a pretty good story, too!} to
accompany it. Cover price was $1.75
(just 10 years previously it had been 35 cents!) for 96 pages. The story ‘Instinct’ was an inventory story
done in 1970. Since 1975
93. cover: Don Maitz (Nov. 1977)
1) The Replacement [Roger
McKenzie/Carmine Infantino & Dick Giordano] 10p
2) The Comic Books [Joe
Brancatelli] 2p [text article]
3) The Return Of Rah [Roger
McKenzie/Carmine Infantino & John Severin] 6p
4) The Great Black Cheese [Bill
DuBay/Carmine Infantino & Alfredo Alcala] 9p
5) Elixer [Roger
McKenzie/Leopold Sanchez] 8p
6) Running Wild [Roger
McKenzie/Carmine Infantino & Alex Nino] 9p
7) Cold Blooded Murder [Bill
Mohalley & Nicola Cuti/Leopoldo Duranona] 8p
Notes: Noted SF & Fantasy
artist Don Maitz made his
94. cover: Don Maitz (Jan. 1978)
1) 1978 Warren Calendar Ad [Jose
Gonzalez] 1p [frontis]
2) Etran To Fulsing [Nicola
Cuti/Dick Giordano] 8p
3) The Comic Books: Superman
Versus Soccer [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
4) Bad Tommy [Roger McKenzie
& Nicola Cuti/Martin
5) Bad
6) Bessie [Gerry
Boudreau/Leopoldo Duranona] 8p
7) Sacrifice [Roger
McKenzie/Luis
8) Backwaters And Timing Circles
[Budd Lewis/Alex Nino] 9p
Notes: For the first and only time
the Warren Calendar featured new artwork from Rafael Auraleon, Luis Bermejo,
Richard Corben, Leopoldo Duranona, Jose Gonzalez, Russ Heath, Esteban Maroto,
Jose Ortiz, John Severin, Ramon Torrents, Alex Toth & Berni Wrightson. Wrightson’s calendar art was from his upcoming
Illustrated Frankenstein volume.
Corben’s would later appear as the cover to The Odd Comic World Of
Richard Corben. The Toth & Heath
contributions were particularly nice. Nicola Cuti was listed as editor for this
issue only, while Jones remains senior editor.
This was an all-weird children’s special. Maitz’s cover was quite attractive. For some reason, at this time, the price of
an issue of Creepy began to jump all over the place, without apparent
reason. In this instance the price
dropped down to $1.25. Bill Pearson
returned with a story for the first time since the mid 1960s. The best story was ‘Sacrifice’ by
McKenzie/Bermejo. When someone pointed
out that ‘Backwaters And Timing Circles’ had the same plot as Ray Bradbury’s
famous ‘A Sound Of Thunder’, the editorial response rather lamely explained the
story was a “tribute” to Bradbury’s original.
95. cover: Don Maitz (Feb. 1978)
1) The Star Saga Of Sirius Sam
[Nicola Cuti/John Severin] 8p
2) The Laughing Man [Bruce Jones/Berni Wrightson] 6p
3) Murder On The Vine [Cary Bates/Esteban Maroto]
8p [color]
4) The Empire Of Chim-Pan-Zee [Nicola Cuti/Luis
5) The Comic Books: Patent Medicine Profits? [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
6) The Oasis Inn [Bob Toomey/Jose Ortiz] 10p
7) The
Notes: An all-apes special. Cuti was now listed as assistant editor. $1.75 price.
‘The Laughing Man’ was Wrightson’s last illustrated story for
96. cover: Kim McQuaite (Mar. 1978)
1) Predation [Bruce Jones/Rudy
Nebres] 10p
2) The Comic Books: Kiss And
Tell [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
3) Trilby And The Star Rovers
[Budd Lewis & Bill DuBay/Luis
4) Bonga And Me [Nicola
Cuti/Esteban Maroto] 8p
5) Alien! [Bill DuBay/Martin
6) The Green [Bruce Jones/Luis
7) Alien Strain [Bill DuBay/Alex
Nino] 8p
Notes: McQuaite’s cover looked as
if it had wandered over from a Famous Monsters issue or a Star Wars style movie
magazine. With the horror boom of the
early 1970s over and Star Wars mania in full force, Warren began to lean more
and more on covers with science fiction themes.
This was listed as the Alien Encounters special. $1.25 cover price. The story ‘Bonga And Me’ was originally
intended for Eerie #78. Rudy Nebres’ art on ‘Predation’ was the best stuff
here.
97. cover: Frank Frazetta (May 1978) reprinted from Eerie #3 (May 1966)
1) Momma Is A Vampire [Nicola Cuti/Leopoldo
Duranona] 8p
2) The Comic Books: Safe At Home? [Joe Brancatelli]
1p [text article]
3) The Wax Werewolf [Bob Toomey/Jose Ortiz] 8p
4) Black Death [Bruce Jones/Leopold Sanchez] 10p
5) Snaegl or How I Conquered The Snail That Ate
6) Dragon Lady [Bill DuBay/Esteban Maroto] 8p
7) Sisters [Bill DuBay/Alex Nino] 8p
8) Presenting The 1977
Alex Nino & Ramon
Torrents] 2p [text article]
Notes: This issue was of slightly
higher quality than usual. ‘Momma Is A
Vampire’ was the best story with Maroto’s art on ‘Dragon Lady’ being the
highpoint on the illustration front.
Duranona had some excellent pages here as well. The 1977 Warren Awards went to Frank Frazetta
for best cover on Eerie #81; best story to Bruce Jones for ‘Yellow Heat’, Russ
Heath for best art on ‘Yellow Heat’, best cover artist to Richard Corben, best
all around writer to Bruce Jones, best all around artist to Alex Nino and
special awards for excellance to Ramon Torrents as well as Bill DuBay &
Luis Bermejo for the Rook.
98. cover: Attilla Hejje (June 1978)
1) The Alien Factor [Budd
Lewis/Jose Ortiz] 8p
2) The Comic Books: Classics
Illustrated: R.I.P. [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
3) Helen Horror
4) Graveyard Shift [Bruce
Jones/Leopold Sanchez] 11p
5) Starlet, Starlet, Burning
Bright [Gerry Boudreau/Carmine Infantino & Dick Giordano] 8p [art
miscredited to Ramon
Torrents]
6) The Image Makers [Nicola Cuti/Jose Ortiz] 8p
Notes: An all-media horror
special. Cover price $1.50
99. cover: Bob Larkin (July 1978)
1) An Old Game [Nicola Cuti/Pepe
2) The Comic Books: Still More
Kiss [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
3) Ssshh! [
4) Brothers [Bill DuBay/Jose
Ortiz] 10p
5) A Slight Case Of Overkill
[Bill DuBay/Leopold Sanchez] 8p
6) There Shall Come A Great
Darkness [Bob Toomey/Alfredo Alcala] 8p
7) One Hell Of A War [Roger
McKenzie/Leopoldo Duranona] 9p
Notes: Disaster special. Cover price $1.25. ‘A Slight Case Of Overkill’ was an overflow
story from Creepy’s all-ape issue.
Rather average issue with the sole bright spot being the
100.
cover: Bob Larkin (Aug. 1978)
1) The Pit At The Center Of The
Earth! [Gerry Boudreau/Pablo Marcos] 8p
2) The Comic Books: Death By The
Numbers [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
3) Professor Duffer And The Insuperable Myron Meek!
[Bill DuBay/John Severin] 6p
4) Tale Of A Fox [Nicola Cuti/Jose Ortiz] 8p
5) Nobody’s Home [Cary Bates/Joe Vaultz] 5p
6) Winner Take All! [Len Wein/Luis Bermejo] 8p [color]
7) Hell Hound [Bruce Jones/Russ Heath] 10p
8) Wisper Of Dark Eyes [Gerry Boudreau/Rafael
Auraleon] 8p
9) They’re Going To Be Turning Out The Lights [Bill
DuBay/Alex Nino] 9p
Notes: Cover price at $1.75 with 88
pages. An effort was made to make this a
very special anniversary issue but, although it’s considerably better that the
lackluster #50, most of this issue seems…well, a bit tired. It’s better than the average issue, but for
Creepy’s 100th issue, you were hoping for something a little more
kickass. From the cover to the last
story, there’s nothing like that here.
The best story was Cuti’s ‘Tale Of A Fox’, which became a series
starting with Vampirella #95. ‘Hell Hound’
was beautifully drawn and the story ain’t bad but it seemed a little
familiar. The rest of the issue was
simply ok. ‘They’re Going To Be Turning
Out The Lights’ was printed sideways.
101.
cover: Richard Corben (Sept. 1978)
1) In Deep [Bruce Jones/Richard
Corben] 10p reprinted from Creepy #83
(Oct. 1976)
2) In Deep, part 2 [Bruce
Jones/Leopoldo Duranona] 9p
3) A Boy And His Thing [Bill
DuBay/Alex Nino] 10p
4) Waterbabies [Louise
Jones/Pablo Marcos] 8p [color]
5) The Seven Sisters Of The Sea
[Gerry Boudreau/Alfredo Alcala] 9p
6) Alternate Paths [Chris Adames/Pepe
Notes: Say you’ve got a great
cover, a really great cover, that was intended to be the cover for #83. It was meant for a story so vivid that you
couldn’t possibly use that cover to highlight any other issue or story without
it being very apparent that you’d screwed up two years earlier. What do you do? Well, you reprint the story, ask the writer
to pen a sequel and cross your fingers that nobody says nothin’. Unfortunately you picked Leopoldo Duranona to
follow Rich Corben’s original artwork.
Both fine artists but about as incompatible in style and approach as any
two artists you could look at. So the best
art on an original story goes to Alex Nino for ‘A Boy And His Thing’. $1.50 cover price.
102.
cover: Patrick Woodroffe (Oct. 1978)
1) Pantomime At Sea [
2) The Comic Books: What Hath
Congress Wrought? [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
3) Almost Shangri-La [Bruce
Jones/Leopoldo Duranona] 11p
4) The Thing In The Haunted
5) Killer Claw [Mark Lasky/Walt
Simonson & Klaus Janson] 10p
6) Night Eyes [Bruce
Jones/Alfredo Alcala] 10p
7) Fair Prey [Bruce Jones/Isidro Mones] 10p
Notes: An all-monster issue. Another lack-luster issue with the best work
done by Bruce Jones & Alfredo Alcala on ‘Night Eyes’. Isidro Mones returned after a long absence
with a new art style. $2.00 cover price.
103.
cover: Walt Simonson & Kim McQuaite (Nov. 1978)
1) Thane: Angel Of Doom [Archie
Goodwin/Jeff Jones] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #16 (Aug.
1967)
2) Bookworm [Gerry
Conway/Richard Corben] 7p reprinted
from Eerie #32 (Mar. 1971)
3) The Comic Books: Roll Over,
Brancatelli [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
4) On Little Cat Feet! [John
Jacobson/Rafael Auraleon] 11p reprinted
from Vampirella #38
(Nov. 1974)
5) Thumbs Down! [Anne T.
Murphy/Al Williamson] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #6 (Dec. 1965)
6) Lucky Stiff [Gerry Boudreau & Carl
Wessler/Ramon Torrents] 5p reprinted
from Vampirella
#38 (Nov. 1974)
7) The Black Cat [Berni
Wrightson] 12p from the story by Edgar
Allan Poe, reprinted from
Creepy #62 (May 1974)
Notes: The 1978 Creepy Annual. $1.50 cover price. This issue bore all the signs of being
assembled by someone just picking up random issues from the file shelves. Not a single story appeared from Creepy’s excellent
1976-1977 run. In fact, most of the
stories didn’t even appear in Creepy.
This was, at least, the third go around for the Williamson story and the
second for the Thane tale. Only the
reprinting of Wrightson’s adaptation of ‘The Black Cat’ was really worthy of an
annual placement. Great cover by
Simonson & McQuaite, though.
104.
cover: Ken Kelly (Jan. 1979) reprinted
from the back cover of Eerie #63 (Feb. 1975)
1) The Games [Roger McKenzie/Pablo Marcos] 8p
2) The Comic Books: Notes On Comix People [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) The Caretaker [Bob Toomey/Alfredo Alcala] 8p
4)
5) Wolfer O’Connel: In The City Of
6) Holocost [Steve Englehart/Terry Austin] 6p
7) Keep Kool [Bob Toomey/Alex Nino] 8p
Notes: $1.25 cover price. Kelly’s reprinted cover featureed
Exterminator One. This was an all-robot
stories special. Wolfer O’Connel’s
previous story had appeared in Eerie #76 (Aug. 1976). The O’Connel story was also the best one in
the issue.
105.
cover: Esteban Maroto (Feb. 1979)
1) Shrivel [Bob Toomey/Val
Mayerik] 8p
2) The Comic Books: The Party
[Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) Night Life [Bob Toomey/Rafael
Auraleon] 8p
4) Dime Novel Hero! [Nicola
Cuti/Russ Heath] 8p
5) Always Leave ‘em Laughing!
[Len Wein/Alex Nino] 8p
6) The Sign [Roger McKenzie/Pepe
7) Visit To A Primitive Planet
[Bill DuBay/John Severin] 6p
8) The Summoning [Bruce Jones/Gonzalo
Mayo] 11p
Notes: Great cover from Maroto,
which also appeared as the cover to a later issue of Heavy Metal. $1.50 cover price. This was a very good issue with some great
stories in it! ‘Shrivel’, by Toomey
& Mayerik, was an amusing little jape. The delightful ‘Dime Novel Hero!’ by
Cuti & Heath was a rewrite & expansion of a two-pager Cuti wrote &
published in July 1973 for The Monster Times.
That version, entitled ‘Werewolf Goes West’, was illustrated by Frank
Brunner. The final page for ‘Dime Novel
Hero!’ had a nifty and oh-so-obvious-that-I-should-have-thought-of-it-myself
story twist that leaves you with a big grin on your face. About half the horror stories I’ve read that
involve clowns have some variation on the ‘Always Leave ‘em Laughing’
title. The title is very much a cliché,
but then so is this story itself. ‘The
Sign’ was a neat Christmas story and a definite nod to the old Warren Christmas
specials. The DuBay/Severin story was a
triumph of subtle storytelling while the Jones/Mayo team delivered a fine
little shocker. In fact, the Bruce
Jones/Gonzalo Mayo story/art team delivered some of
106.
cover: Romas Kukalis (Mar. 1979)
1) Quimby The Barbarian [Bob
Toomey/Pablo Marcos] 9p
2) The Comic Books: Going For
The Bucks [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
3) Fangs [Laurie Sutton/Leopoldo
Duranona] 9p
4) Swords In The World Series
[Ken Gale/Jim Starlin & Joe Rubinstein] 8p
5) Primal Equation [Budd Lewis
& Jon Sinsky/Isidro Mones] 6p
6) Sudden Death Playoff [Bob
Toomey/Pepe
7) The Art Of Killing [Larry
Hama/Val Mayerik] 10p
Notes: This was cover artist Romas
Kukalis’ professional debut. Both
‘Swords In The World Series’ and ‘Sudden Death Playoff’ were originally intended
to be part of the third all-sports stories special, probably originally intended
for Creepy #102. That special issue was
cancelled and the stories parceled out over different magazines for the next
couple of years. The best story here was
the Hama/Mayerick samurai story ‘The Art Of Killing’, which was clearly
inspired by the long-running Japanese series ‘Lone Wolf & Cub’, which
hadn’t been seen by the general
107.
cover: Romas Kukalis (May 1979)
1) The Rubicon [Budd Lewis/Pepe
2) The Comic Books: The
Inevitable Superman Story [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
3) Family Ties [Bruce Jones/Val
Mayerik] 10p
4) Presenting The 1978
Penlavi, Kim McQuaite, et
al] 2p [text article]
5) The World From Rough Stones
[Jean Michel Martin/Joe Vaultz] 4p
6) Stainless Steel Savior [Len
Wein/Leopoldo Duranona] 8p
7) Quirks [Bob Toomey/Walt
Simonson & Terry Austin] 8p
8) Mindquake [Jim Stenstrum/Garcia
Pizarro] 9p [story credited to
Alabaster Redzone]
9) The Rook Ad [Rudy Nebres]
1p [color, on inside back cover]
Notes: Due to an editorial error,
all credits were missing from the actual stories. The credits were given on the letters’ page
of #110. Best story here probably
belonged to Bruce Jones’ ‘Family Ties’ while ‘Quirks’ had the best art. The story ‘Stainless Steel Savior’ was
overflow from Creepy #104’s all-robot stories special. The 1978 Warren Awards went to Jordi Penlava
for best cover from Eerie #96, Bruce Jones for best story for ‘Hell Hound’ from
Creepy #100, best art to Rudy Nebres for ‘Predation’ from Creepy #96, best
cover artist to Richard Corben, best all around writer to Bruce Jones, best all
around artist to Leopoldo Duranona, and special awards of excellance went to
Gonzalo Mayo & Kim McQuaite.
108.
cover: Terrence Lindall (June 1979)
1) Hole In The Head [Frank
Salvatini/Alex Nino] 9p
2) The Comic Books: So Much For
Traditions [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
3) Camelot Crosstime [Jean
Michel Martin/Val Mayerik] 8p
4) Sultana [Budd Lewis/Pepe
5) Going By The Book [Kevin
Duane/Alfredo Alcala] 8p
6) House Of Magic [Gerry
Boudreau/Pablo Marcos] 8p
7) Hell’s Playground [Jean
Michel Martin/Leopoldo Duranona] 8p
Notes: This was Terrence Lindall’s
professional debut and his gruesome medieval-styled art caused quite a bit of
controversy when it first appeared.
Myself, I quite liked it. Lindall
also contributed a self-portrait on the letters’ page. Cover price was $1.75. ‘Sultana’ had very good artwork by the always
impressive Pepe Moreno and a fine story by Budd Lewis. In addition, Alex Nino contributed a superior
art job and ‘House Of Magic’ was also well done.
109.
cover: Jim Laurier (July 1979)
1) Vampire Dawn [Archie Goodwin/Pepe
2) The Comic Books: Notes On
Comix People [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
3) The Organizer [Bruce
Jones/Leopoldo Duranona] 10p
4) The Ravenscroft Affair [Bill
DuBay/Paul Neary] 6p
5) Alien Affair [
6) Heart Of Darkness [Bill
Mantlo/Luis
Notes: Jim Laurier’s spaceship
cover looked a lot like either a repainted hair dryer, a flashlight or a lady’s
pleasure toy. What it didn’t look like
was an actual working spaceship. Cover
price at $1.50. Between editing jobs at
Marvel, Archie Goodwin returned to
110.
cover: Patrick Woodroffe (Aug. 1979)
1) Snapper [Bill Kelly/Leopoldo Duranona]
10p
2) The Comic Books: The
Corporate Mad [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
3) Sunset Farms [Gerry Boudreau
& Alex Southern/Rudy Nebres] 8p
4) Take Your Child, Please! [
5) The Demon Hater [Nicola
Cuti/Rafael Auraleon] 8p
6) Horror Is A Highrise [Archie
Goodwin/Leopoldo Duranona] 10p
7) A Knightmare To Remember [
8) The Clockmaker [Bob
Toomey/Jesus Blasco] 9p [story credited
to Gary Null and art
miscredited to Jesus
Blasquez]
Notes: Patrick Woodroffe’s tight
closeup of Pan’s head was the most striking cover image Creepy had seen since
Corben’s excellent cover to #101. Price
bounced up again to $1.75 with 80 pages of story. The rest of the issue didn’t hold up to the
promise of the great cover but ‘Snapper’ would have fit right in with the
stories from the Goodwin Era, while Goodwin’s own story is quite good. Joe Vaultz’s airbrush art was quite crude
when he tried to draw human beings but with the right subject matter it was often
very effective and ‘A Knightmare To Remember’ is actually well worth
remembering. ‘The Clockmaker’ is an
unacknowledged rewrite by Toomey of a European adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s
‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. This was
celebrated European artist Jesus Blasco’s
111.
cover: Duane Allen (Sept. 1979)
1) Dreams Of Grandeur [Budd
Lewis/Val Mayerik & Klaus Janson] 10p
2) The Comic Books: Still
Collecting After All These Years [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) A Stiff Named Sczynsky [Bob
Toomey/Rafael Auraleon] 8p
4) Heart Of The Warrior [Bill
DuBay/Alejandro Sanchez] 8p
5) Blood-Lust [
6) Night Wind [Masanabo Sato &
7) A Switch In Dime [Nicola Cuti/Leopoldo Duranona]
11p
Notes: Another good cover from a
newcomer, although this would be Duane Allen’s only
112.
cover: Richard Corben (Oct. 1979)
1) The Homecoming [Archie
Goodwin/Al Williamson] 9p
2) The Comic Books: The
Comic-Book Gravevine [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
3) Warrior’s Ritual [Archie
Goodwin/John Severin] 10p
4) Nobody’s Kid [Bob
Toomey/Leopoldo Duranona] 8p
5) Relic [Bob Toomey/Walt
Simonson] 8p
6) Beastslayer [John Lakey/Val Lakey] 10p
7) Sunday Dinner [Larry Hama/Rafael Auraleon] 8p
8) The Rook Ad [Pablo Marcos] 1p
9) Thane: The Last Sorcerer [Archie Goodwin/Alex
Nino] 12p
Notes: $2.00 cover price with 88
pages. A spectacular Corben cover of Lon
Chaney’s version of the Phantom Of The
Opera leads off the last truly great issue that
113.
cover & titlepage: Berni Wrightson (Nov. 1979)
1) The Muck Monster [Berni
Wrightson] 7p reprinted from Eerie #68
(Sept. 1975)
2) The Comic Books: Lies Our
Forefathers Told Us [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
3) The Laughing Man [Bruce
Jones/Berni Wrightson] 6p reprinted
from Creepy #95 (Feb. 1978)
4) The
5) Clarice [Bruce Jones/Berni
Wrightson] 5p reprinted from Creepy #77
(Feb. 1976)
6) Cool Air [Berni Wrightson]
7p from the story by H. P. Lovecraft,
reprinted from Eerie #62
(Jan. 1975)
7) Country Pie [Bruce
Jones/Carmine Infantino & Berni Wrightson] 6p reprinted from Creepy
#83 (Oct. 1976)
8) A Martian Saga [Nicola
Cuti/Berni Wrightson] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #87 (Mar. 1977)
Notes: The 1979
114.
cover: Kirk Reinhart (Jan. 1980)
1) Rats [Bob Toomey/Pepe
2) The Comic Books: Notes On
Comix People [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
3) Charnel Combat [Pierce Askegren/Danny
Tallerno] 6p
4) Heat [Gerry Boudreau/Leopoldo
Duranona] 8p
5) Small War [Roger McKenzie/Jim
Starlin & Pablo Marcos] 8p
6) The Reaper [Archie
Goodwin/Alex Toth] 10p
7) An Android Affair [Mark Laskey/Rafael Auraleon]
8p
Notes: 72 pages. Nice cover and a nice solid issue that
included a chilling story from Archie Goodwin and interesting work from Gerry
Boudreau and Bob Toomey. Best art was
Pepe Moreno on ‘Rats’ with good work from Alex Toth, Jim Starlin, Pablo Marcos
& Leopoldo Duranona.
115.
cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Feb. 1980)
1) Gabriel’s Horn [Roger McKenzie/Leopoldo Duranona]
16p
2) The Comic Books: Some Thoughts On What Has Gone
Before [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
3) 1979 Warren Awards Ballots
[Chris Adames] 1p [text article]
4) The Last Labor Of Hercules
[Budd Lewis/Delando Nino] 10p [art
credited to A2-120]
5) Cyrano [Bob Toomey/Michael
Saenz] 8p
6) Rapid Fire Angel [Gerry
Boudreau/Axel Laxamana] 8p
7) Et Tu Brutus [Nicola Cuti/Val
Mayerik & Rudy Nebres] 8p
8) War Children [Gerry
Boudreau/Val Mayerik] 8p
Notes: $1.75 cover price with 80
pages. Sanjulian’s first cover since #79
was clearly intended to be a ‘Beastworld’ cover for Eerie. New Berni Wrightson art adorned the letters’
page for this issue only. For the first
time, the Warren Awards were open to voting & nominations by the
readers. Saenz provided the best art
while Roger McKenzie’s ‘Gabriel’s Horn’ ws the best story.
116.
cover: Terrence Lindall (Mar. 1980)
1) Endangered Species [Gerry
Boudreau/Fred Carrillo] 10p
2) The Comic Books: Building A
New Marvel [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
3) The Highway [Nicola Cuti/Val
Mayerik & Rudy Nebres] 8p
4) Day Of The Locust [
5) The Greatest Editor Alive!
[Bill DuBay/Alex Nino & Delano Nino] 11p
[DuBay’s story
credited to Will Richardson]
6) Graduation Day [Bruce
Jones/Val Mayerik & Jeff Easley] 11p
7) Never Again [James Warren]
1p [text article, on back cover]
Notes: 72 pages. For only the second time in
The Decline & Fall
117.
cover: Ken Kelly (May 1980)
1) Scream [Bob Toomey/Leopoldo
Duranona] 19p
2) A Noble Gesture [?/Adolfo
Abellan] 7p
3) The Beast [Michael
Fleisher/Isidro Mones] 10p
5) The Silkie [Nicola Cuti/Val
Mayerik & Jeff Easley] 10p
Notes: DuBay, as Will Richardson,
returned as editor while Louise Jones {nee Simonson} headed off to new
frontiers at Marvel. The logo changed to
a new, more modern lettering. Kelly’s
cover originally appeared as a T-shirt design in 1976. The letters’ page
claimed that Enrich Torres was the uncredited cover artist for Creepy #115 but
it certainly appeared to be Sanjulian’s work.
‘Scream’ seemed to end quite abruptly, without an actual climax. It was originally intended to be one of Bob
Toomey’s ‘Gary Null’ stories.
118.
cover: Enrich Torres (June 1980)
1) Nursery School [Bob
Toomey/Leopoldo Duranona] 15p
2) Epitaph [Len Wein/Joaquin
Blasquez] 7p
3) The Curse Of The Binderwoods
[Mark Laidlaw/Isidro Mones] 8p
4) Junior Was A Momma’s Boy
[Gerry Boudreau/Carmine Infantino & Jorge Benuy] 13p
5) Process Of Elimination [Bob
Toomey/Val Mayerik & Pablo Marcos] 10p
Notes: Enrich’s best cover in some
time highlighted a solid issue. Good
work appeared from just about everybody here.
‘Nursery School’ was intended to be one of Toomey’s ‘Gary Null’
stories. Duranona, who wrote the
original story, was reportedly astounded at Toomey’s rewrite. Best artwork was from the team of Carmine
Infantino & Jorge Benuy.
119.
cover: Jim Laurier (July 1980)
1) A Boy And His Thing [Bill
DuBay/Alex Nino] 10p reprinted from
Creepy #101 (Sept. 1978)
2) Eerie Ad [Esteban Maroto] 1p
3) Keep Kool [Bob Toomey/Alex
Nino] 8p reprinted from Creepy #104
(Jan. 1979)
4) Always Leave ‘em Laughing!
[Len Wein/Alex Nino] 8p reprinted from
Creepy #105 (Feb.
1979)
5) Sisters [Bill DuBay/Alex
Nino] 8p reprinted from Creepy #97 (May
1978)
6) Backwaters And Timing Circles
[Budd Lewis/Alex Nino] 9p reprinted
from Creepy #94 (Jan.
1978)
7) Alien Strain [Bill DuBay/Alex
Nino] 8p reprinted from Creepy #96
(Mar. 1978)
8) The 1979
Notes:
120.
cover: Jeff Jones (Aug. 1980)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction [Bill DuBay/Rudy
Nebres] 1p
2) Deathwatch [Roger McKenzie/Leopoldo Duranona] 8p
3) The Rook Ad [Jordi Penalva] 1p [cover
to The Rook #3]
4) Hell House [Jim Stenstrum/Jesus Blasco] 6p [story credited to Alabaster Redzone, art
miscredited to Jaime Brocal]
5) Black Rainbow [Budd
Lewis/Rueben Yandoc] 8p
6) One Mind, Closed For
Alterations! [Gerry Boudreau/Jess Jodloman] 8p
7) A Taste For Heroes! [Gerry
Boudreau/Carmine Infantino & Pablo Marcos] 10p
8) Winterbeast [Budd Lewis/Val
Mayerik] 8p
9) Black Snow [Jeff Rovin/Herb
Arnold] 8p
Notes: Jones’ cover was done in
1975 and was originally intended for Seaboard/Atlas’ magazine Weird Tales Of
The Macabre. By this point most of the
Spanish artists from SI had left the three horror titles, with the notable
exceptions of Jose Ortiz, Jose Gonzalez and Rafael Aurleon, and had been
replaced by Flipino artists. The Flipino
artists tended to be more conservative in story layouts {except for Alex Nino}
and in their depictions of nudity. Not
to say the Flipino artists didn’t use nudity.
They actually used it quite a bit, but the SI artists from
121.
cover: Jim Laurier (Sept. 1980)
1) A Toast To No Man’s Memory
[Len Wein/John Severin] 8p reprinted
from Creepy #92 (Oct.
1977)
2) The Strange, Incurable
Hauntings Of Terrible Phinneas Boggs! [Bill DuBay/John Severin] 9p
reprinted from
Creepy #83 (Oct. 1976)
3) The Star Saga Of Sirius Sam
[Nicola Cuti/John Severin] 8p reprinted
from Creepy #95 (Feb.
1978)
4) Battle Rot [Bill DuBay/John
Severin] 6p reprinted from Creepy #81
(July 1976)
5) Professor Duffer And The
Insuperable Myron Meek! [Bill DuBay/John Severin] 6p reprinted
from Creepy #100 (Aug. 1978)
6) Angel Of Jaipur [Bill
DuBay/John Severin] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #89 (June 1977)
7) Visit To A Primitive Planet
[Bill DuBay/John Severin] 6p reprinted
from Creepy #105 (Feb.
1979)
8) Warrior’s Ritual [Archie
Goodwin/John Severin] 10p reprinted
from Creepy #112 (Oct. 1979)
Notes: The 1980 Creepy Annual. A John Severin special. Two of the last three issues had been all
reprints. A new Uncle Creepy head by
Berni Wrightson appears on the letters’ page.
122.
cover: Lee Katz (Oct. 1980)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction [Bill DuBay/Rudy
Nebres] 1p
2) The Killing! [Roger McKenzie/Leopoldo Duranona
& Alex Toth] 12p
3) The Watcher [Bob Toomey/Leopoldo Duranona] 9p
4) The Perfect Specimen [Budd Lewis/Steve Gan] 5p
5) Midnight In
6) Routine [Carl Wessler/Martin
7) Magic Man [Gerry Boudreau/Fred Carrillo] 8p
8) Roomers [Bruce Jones/Mike Zeck] 10p [story miscredited to Budd Lewis]
Notes: Katz’s cover had originally
been intended for Eerie, probably for the ‘Samurai’ serial. Another solid issue. The unexpected art team of Duranona &
Toth was a surprising success and provided the best art in the issue. “Routine’ featured Uncle Creepy actually drawn
onto the splash page, something that hadn’t happened since 1974 or thereabouts
so this story may have been an inventory story from that period. Bruce Jones later wrote a prose version of
‘Roomers’ that appeared in his short story collection ‘Twisted Tales’ {not to
be confused with his 1982-1984/1987comic anthologies of the same name} in 1986
so I believe the Budd Lewis writing credit on that story to be incorrect. ‘Roomers’ is also the best story here
although it does have some competition.
123.
cover: Ken Kelly (Nov. 1980)
1) Kiss Of The Plague! [Doug
Moench/Leo Summers & Alex Toth] 6p
2) Hands Of Fate [Carl
Wessler/Martin
3) They Don’t Make Movies [Gerry
Boudreau/Carmine Infantino & Alfredo Alcala] 10p
4) The Slave [Jim Stenstrum/Jesus
Blasco] 5p [story credited to Alabaster
Redzone, art
miscredited to Jaime Brocal]
5) Harriman’s Monsters! [Greg
Potter/Dan Adkins] 8p
6) Always Leave Them Laughing
[Michael Fleisher/Val Mayerik & Rudy Nebres] 8p
7) Jelly [Nicola Cuti/Herb Arnold] 4p
Notes: 64 pages. Best story and art goes to Doug Moench,
Carmine Infantino & Alfredo Alcala for ‘They Don’t Make Movies’. ‘Harriman’s Monsters!’ was written years
earlier when writer Potter was a regular at
124.
cover: Vicente Segrelles (Jan. 1981)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Rudy Nebres] 1p
2) Malphisto’s Illusion [Nicola
Cuti/Romeo Tanghal & Alex Toth] 8p
[Tanghal’s pencils
credited to Alexis Romeo]
3) Cult [Archie Goodwin/Martin
4) Paydirt [Roger
McKanzie/Carmine Infantino & Alfred Alcala] 8p
5)
6) The Prometheus [Rich
Margopoulos/John Garcia & Rudy Nebres] 6p
7) A Slight Case Of Madness!
[Bill DuBay/Herb Arnold] 8p [story
credited to Will Richardson]
Notes: Segrelles’ cover had been
done in 1976 as part of the presentation art for the never published magazine
Yesterday, Today…Tomorrow. ‘
125.
cover: Ken Kelly (Feb. 1981)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction [Bill DuBay/Rudy
Nebres] 1p
2) Once Upon A Christmas Eve! [Bill DuBay/Martin
Salvador] 12p [story credited to Will
3) His Own Private Demon! [Roger McKenzie/Anton
Caravana] 9p
4) Top Dog! [Roger McKenzie/Alex Nino] 8p
5) Jacque Couteau’s Circus Of The Bizarre [Roger
McKenzie/Carmine Infantino & Alex Toth] 5p
6) The Tempered Sword! [Manuel Auad/Alfredo Alcala]
6p
7) Living Death Camp! [Roger McKenzie/Rafael
Auraleon] 7p
8) Knight Errant [Roy Kinnard/Michael Saenz] 8p
Notes: Kelly’s Christmas-themed
cover was a shot of nostalgia for the old Christmas specials. However, it’s noticeable that the cover is
nowhere near as violent or gory as the mid-1970s versions. The best art was from Michael Saenz. The stories, however, were at best so-so.
126.
cover: Ken Kelly (Mar. 1981)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Rudy Nebres] 1p
2) Parasite [Budd Lewis/Martin
3)
4) …And God Created Woman!
[Bruce Jones/Anton Caravana] 12p
5) Ragged Man [Budd Lewis/Romeo
Tanghal & Alfredo Alcala] 10p
[Tanghal’s pencils credited
to Alexis Romeo]
6) Dreamer! [Nicola Cuti/Fred
Carrillo] 8p
7) Hot Bob [Budd Lewis/Herb
Arnold] 6p
Notes: $2.00 cover price for 72 pages. Kelly’s cover instantly invoked visual
memories of the great DuBay/Wrightson story, ‘Nightfall’ from 1975, as well as
Windsor McKay’s ‘Little Nemo In Slumberland’ comic strip. The accompanying
story, ‘Dreamer’, was also the best story this issue, although certainly not in
either of those stories’ league. The
best art belonged to Romeo Tanghal & Alfredo Alcala for ‘Ragged Man’. As noted above, ‘Hot Bob’ had the same plot
& layout as ‘The Prometheus’ from #124, but this version was both better
scripted & drawn.
127.
cover: Terrence Lindall (May 1981)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction [Chris Adames/Rudy
Nebres] 1p
2) Hoodoo The Magnificent! [Bill DuBay/Martin
Salvador] 6p [story credited to Will
3) Forbidden Fruit! [Bruce
Jones/Luis
4) Prism Second Generation Blues
[Gerry Boudreau/Noly Panligan] 9p
5) Daddy Is A Werewolf [Nicola
Cuti/Fred Carrillo] 8p
6) Wind [Roger McKenzie/Val
Mayerik] 8p
7) Escape [Steven Dietrich/Herb
Notes: Chris Adames became the
editor. Lindall’s cover was certainly a
nasty little torture cover. The best
interior story & art was by Roger McKenzie/Val Mayerik for ‘Wind’ although
Noly Panligan also delivered a nice job.
128.
cover: Frank Frazetta (June 1981)
reprinted from Creepy #10 (Aug. 1966)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Chris Adames/Rudy Nebres] 1p
2) Whatever Happened To
3) Outcast Of Euthanasia [Bill
DuBay/Bill Draut] 10p [story credited
to Will Richardson]
4) Old Man At The Morgue [Mark
Lasky/Fred Carrillo] 7p
5) Frankenstein Invades The
Universe [Budd Lewis/Romeo Tanghal & Alfredo Alcala] 12p
[Tanghal’s
pencils credited to Alexis Romeo]
6) Abelmar Jones: Lord Of The
Flies [Bill DuBay/Luis Bermejo] 8p
[story credited to Will
Notes: ‘Whatever Happened To Orem?’
was a sequel to ‘Orem Ain’t Got No Head Cheese’ from Creepy #85. Abelmar Jones moved over from Eerie, where he
was last seen in Eerie #95. An attempt
to justify the reprinted cover was made by commissioning the story
‘Frankenstein Invades The Universe’ to link with the Frazetta reprint.
129.
cover: Jeff Easley (July 1981)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Chris Adames/Rudy Nebres] 1p
2) The Terrible Truth About
Danny! [Bill DuBay/Martin Salvador] 10p
[story credited to Will
3) The Saga Of Popeye Jackson!
[Gerry Boudreau/Paul Neary] 8p
4) Working Class Hero [Roger
McKenzie/Carmine Infantino & Alfredo Alcala] 8p
5) The Last Voyage Of Sinbad
[Budd Lewis/Fred Carrillo] 8p
6) He Who Lives! [Budd
Lewis/Danny Bulanadi] 6p
7) Strategic Retreat [John Ellis
Sech/Herb Arnold] 8p
Notes: Good
cover but that’s about it.
130.
cover: Richard Courtney (Aug. 1981)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Chris Adames/Rudy Nebres] 1p
2) The Vampire On The Hill [John
Ellis Sech/Martin
3) Dual Nature [Laura
Buscemi/John Lakey & Val Lakey] 8p
[Val Lakey credited as Artifact]
4) Screaming In The Rain [Don
McGregor/Alfredo Alcala] 8p
5) Mythologia [Nicola Cuti/Fred
Carrillo] 9p
6) Missing Love [Brian
Jacobs/Pepe
7) Small Dreams [Maggie
Pierce/Herb Arnold] 8p
Notes: The original logo returned. Richard Courtney was a good find for
131.
cover: Frank Frazetta (Sept. 1981)
reprinted from Creepy #4 (Aug. 1965)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Chris Adames/Rudy Nebres] 1p
2) The Nut [Budd Lewis/Delando
Nino] 10p
3) Son Of The Nut! [Bill
DuBay/Martin Salvador] 7p [story
credited to Will Richardson]
4) Lycanthropist [Budd
Lewis/Bill Draut] 8p
5) Possession Is Nine Pounds Of
The Soul [John Ellis Sech/Danny Bulanadi] 6p
6) Bella Donna [Nicola Cuti/Fred
Carrillo] 8p
7) Mindwar [John Ellis Sech/Noly
Panaligan] 13p
Notes: ‘The
Nut’ was an interesting little story but having the rather pointless sequel {by
a totally different writer & artist} appear directly after it diminished
its effect.
132.
cover: Richard Corben (Oct. 1981)
reprinted from Eerie #90 (Feb. 1978)
1) A Tangible Hatred [Don McGregor/Richard Corben]
10p reprinted from Creepy #41 (Sept.
1971)
2) Bright Eyes! [Doug
Monech/Richard Corben] 7p reprinted
from Eerie #43 (Nov. 1972)
3) A Woman Scorned [Bruce
Jones/Richard Corben] 8p reprinted from
Eerie #90 (Feb. 1978)
4) Bowser [Jan Strnad/Richard
Corben] 8p reprinted from Vampirella
#54 (Sept. 1976)
5) The
6) The Mummy’s Victory [Roger
McKenzie/Richard Corben] 5p reprinted
from Creepy #84
(Nov. 1976)
7) The Butcher: Forgive Us Our
Trespasses [Bill DuBay/Richard Corben] 8p
reprinted from
Eerie #62 (Jan. 1975)
8) The Butcher: Bye-Bye, Miss
American Dream [Bill DuBay/Richard Corben] 8p
reprinted
from Eerie #64 (Mar. 1975)
Notes: $2.25 cover price with 80
pages. The 1981 Creepy Annual, a Richard
Corben special. Great buy if you like
Corben.
133.
cover: Jeff Easley (Nov. 1981)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction [Bill DuBay/Rudy
Nebres] 1p
2) Junior [Bill DuBay & Timothy Moriarty/Abel
Laxamana] 12p [DuBay’s contribution credited
to Will Richardson]
3) The Dead Remember [Bruce
Jones/Martin
4) Kobold [Budd Lewis/Romeo
Tanghan & Alfredo Alcala] 8p
6) Bring On The Clowns! [Michael Fleisher/Fred
Carrillo] 9p
7) Savage Cargo! [Jim Stenstrum/Paul Neary] 8p [story credited to Alabaster Redzone]
Notes: Chris Adames left for Archie
Comics and Bill DuBay returned as the editor with Timothy Moriarty as managing
editor. $2.00 for 72 pages
134.
cover: Ken Kelly (Jan. 1982)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Rudy Nebres] 1p
2) Guardians Of The Universe!
[Budd Lewis/Delando Nino] 8p
3) Hear The Organ Grinder Play
[Mark Willard/Martin
4) Soul Sucker! [Gerry
Boudreau/Fred Carrillo] 8p
5) Wreck Of The Vendigo Shafter!
[Rich Margopoulos/Gene Day & Rudy Nebres] 9p
6) Nefites [Bruce Jones/Jun
Lofamia] 10p
7) Orson Who? [Nicola
Cuti/Carmine Infantino & Wayne Howard] 4p
8) War Is Hell! [Roger
McKenzie/Val Mayerik] 6p
9) The City Of
Notes: This was Ken Kelly’s last
cover for
135.
cover: Richard Courtney (Feb. 1982)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction [Bill DuBay/Rafael
Auraleon] 1p
2) The Wedding Gift! [Budd Lewis/Fred Carrillo] 10p
3) …For We Have Sinned! [Bill DuBay/Martin
4) Angel Hair Wine! [Gerry Boudreau/Jun Lofamia] 8p
5) Strange In A
6) Morbid Love Story [Michael Fleisher/Rafael
Auraleon] 11p
7) Yonder Star [Budd Lewis/Steve Gan] 7p
Notes: “…For We Have Sinned!’ was a
sequel to the far superior Christmas story ‘Bless Us, Father…’ from Creepy #59
(Jan. 1974). ‘Strange In A Stranger
Land’ copied the opening sequence of the acclaimed children’s novel ‘The Iron
Man’ {better known by its movie title, ‘The Iron Giant’}, where the Iron Giant
crash-lands out to sea, only to rise up out of the water by a fishing
boat.
136.
cover: Richard Courtney (Mar. 1982)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction [Timothy
Moriarty/Rafael Auraleon] 1p
2) All The Time In The World! [John Ellis Sech/Fred Carrillo]
8p
3) Never Say Die! [Gerry Boudreau/Martin Salvador]
9p
4) The Consumers [Gerry Boudreau/Jun Lofamia] 6p
5) Day of The Cliché [Greg Potter/Nebot] 9p
6) Eyewitness News [Gerry Boudreau & Rich
Margopoulos/Carmine Infantino & Pablo Marcos]
8p
7) Mother Zenobia And The Satan Glass! [Gerry
Boudreau & Rich Margopoulos/Gonzalo Mayo] 8p
8) Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting [Steven Grant/Joe Staton]
8p
Notes: Timothy Moriarty became the
magazine’s last editor with David Allikas listed as his assistant. Courtney’s cover is very colorful. ‘Never Say Die!’ & ‘Eyewitness News’ were
both sports/horror stories, probably done in 1978 for the never published third
all-sports stories issue of Creepy.
137.
cover: Rudy Nebres (May 1982)
1) Al Williamson Biography
[Timothy Moriarty/Al Williamson] 1p
[text article, Williamson’s
art from interior panels.]
2) H2O World! [Archie Goodwin/Al
Williamson & Roy G. Krenkel] 6p
reprinted from Creepy
#1 (Jan. 1965)
3) The Success Story [Archie
Goodwin/Al Williamson] 6p reprinted
from Creepy #1 (Jan. 1965)
4) Welcome Stranger [Archie
Goodwin/Al Williamson] 7p reprinted
from Creepy #2 (Apr. 1965)
5) Sand Doom [Archie Goodwin/Al
Williamson] 6p reprinted from Creepy #5
(Oct. 1965)
6) Now You See It… [Bruce Jones/Al
Williamson] 8p reprinted from Creepy
#83 (Oct. 1976)
7) Mother Knows Best [Bruce
Jones/Al Williamson] 8p reprinted from
Creepy #86 (Feb. 1977)
8) The Homecoming [Archie
Goodwin/Al Williamson] 9p reprinted
from Creepy #112 (Oct.
1979)
Notes: For the first time, Creepy
sported a pen & ink illustrated cover rather than a painted one. An Al Williamson special. $2.00 for 64 pages. Although Creepy was coming out ten times a
year at this point, in reality it was largely a bi-monthly, since the
additional three or four issues tended to be reprints.
138.
cover: Manuel Sanjulian (June 1982)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Timothy Moriarty/Berni Wrightson] 1p
2) Lamb To The Slaughter [John
Jacobson/Delando Nino] 13p
3) Derelict! [Danielle
DuBay/Fred Carrillo] 8p
4) Fools And Kings! [Gerry
Boudreau/Martin Salvador] 8p
5) Dreamworld [Gerry
Boudreau/Jun Lofamia] 8p
6) The Cry Of The Glipins [Dan Hallassey/John Garcia
& Rudy Nebres] 9p
139.
cover: Rudy Nebres (July 1982)
1) Creepy’s Capacious Caucus
[Timothy Moriarty] 1p [text article]
2) Daddy And The Pie [Bill
DuBay/Alex Toth] 8p reprinted from
Eerie #64 (Mar. 1975)
3) The Monument [Archie
Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #3 (June 1965)
4) Grave Undertaking [Archie
Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #5 (Oct. 1965)
5) Rude Awakening! [Archie
Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #7 (Feb. 1966)
6) Survival! [Alex Toth &
Archie Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p reprinted
from Blazing Combat #3
(Apr. 1966) [Toth’s story contribution is uncredited]
7) Phantom Of Pleasure Island
[Gerry Boudreau/Alex Toth] 8p reprinted
from Creepy #75 (Nov.
1975)
8) Unreal! [Alex Toth] 6p reprinted from Creepy #78 (Mar. 1976)
Notes: Another pen & ink cover
illo, this one featuring Pie. An Alex Toth
special. The letters’ page was dropped
in favor of a feature’s page that was identical in all
140.
cover: Richard Corben (Aug. 1982)
1) Creepy’s Capacious Caucus
[Timothy Moriarty] 1p [text article]
2) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction
[Timothy Moriarty/Rafael Auraleon] 1p
3) The Big Itch! [Roger McKenzie/Delando Nino] 9p
4) The Silver Stallion
Conspiracy [Gerry Boudreau/Fred Carrillo] 15p
5) There Is No Werewolf [Mark
Willard/Martin
6) Mummy, Jr. [Gerry
Boudreau/Jun Lofamia] 3p
7) One Good Turn… [Victor de la
Fuente] 5p
8) Spidership Season [Bob
Toomey/Peter Hsu] 8p
Notes: Among other
141.
cover: Richard Corben (Sept. 1982)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction [Timothy
Moriarty/Rafael Auraleon] 1p
2) I Created The…Gargoyle! [Danielle DuBay/Delando
Nino] 10p
3) The Puppet Master [John Ellis Sech/Fred Carrillo]
8p
4) The Check-Out Counter [Timothy Moriarty/Alfonso
DeLeon] 7p
5) Covering All Bases [Kevin Duane/Martin
6) Candle In The Wind [Gerry Boudreau/Jun Lofamia]
9p
7) Moral Blood [Don McGregor/Al Sanchez] 11p
Notes: $2.25 for 72 pages. The letters’ page returned. McGregor’s ‘Moral Blood’ was at least an
attempt at forceful storytelling but the bland, cookie-cutter art tended to
undercut the story’s effectiveness.
142.
cover: Richard Courtney (Oct. 1982)
1) Creepy’s Capacious Caucus
[Timothy Moriarty] 1p [text article]
2) Monster Rally! [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 8p reprinted
from Creepy #4 (Aug. 1965)
3) One For De-Money [E. Nelson
Bridwell/Angelo Torres] 7p reprinted
from Eerie #2 (Mar.
1966)
4) The Duel Of The Monsters!
[Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 8p
reprinted from Creepy #7
(Feb. 1966)
5) Brain Trust! [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 6p reprinted
from Creepy #10 (Aug. 1966)
6) The Swamp God! [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 6p reprinted
from Eerie #5 (Sept. 1966)
7) Howling Success! [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 7p reprinted
from Creepy #3 (June 1965)
8) Untimely Tomb! [Anne T.
Murphy & Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 7p
reprinted from
Creepy #5 (Oct.
1965) [Anne T. Murphy’s title credit
is dropped.]
9) Soul Of Horror! [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 8p reprinted
from Eerie #3 (May 1966)
10) Skeleton Crew! [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 7p reprinted
from Creepy #11 (Oct. 1966)
11) Night Drop! [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 7p reprinted
from Blazing Combat #4 (July
1966)
12)
Blazing Combat #2 (Jan.
1966) [Williamson’s credit is
dropped.]
Notes: Courtney’s best cover for
143.
cover: Tony Roberts (Nov. 1982)
1) The Spectator Who Wept [Don
McGregor/Isidro Mones] 26p
2) Creepy’s Capacious Caucus
[Timothy Moriarty] 1p [text article]
3) Moral Blood, part 2 [Don
McGregor/Al Sanchez] 10p
4) Welcome Home Stranger! [Gerry
Boudreau/Martin Salvador] 13p
5) The Continuing Story Of H. G.
Wells’ The Invisible Man [Gerry Boudreau/Alex Nino] 8p
Notes: $2.50 for 72 pages. The
‘Invisible Man’ story was a sequel to the H. G. Wells’ novel. McGregor’s ‘The Spectator Who Wept’ was a
good SF tale, told mostly in full page panels and featured both the best story
and art.
144.
cover: Frank Frazetta (Jan. 1983)
reprinted from Creepy #5 (Oct. 1965)
1) The Noxious Newspage [Timothy
Moriarty] 1p [text article]
2) Forgotten Flesh [Doug
Moench/Vicente Alcarar] 8p reprinted
from Creepy #64 (Aug. 1974)
3) For The Sake Of Your
Children! [Ed Fedory/Jaime Brocal] 11p
reprinted from Creepy #45
(May 1972)
4) It! [Tom Sutton] 9p reprinted from Creepy #53 (May 1973)
5) In Darkness It Shall End!
[Doug Moench/Vicente Alcazar] 9p
reprinted from Creepy #76
(Jan. 1976)
6) The Ghouls! [Carl
Wessler/Martin Salvador] 6p reprinted
from Creepy #61 (Apr. 1974)
7) Berenice [Rich
Margopoulos/Isidro Mones] 8p from the
story by Edgar Allan Poe, reprinted
from Creepy #70 (Apr. 1975)
8) It: The Terror-Stalked heiress!
[Carl Wessler/Jose Gual] 10p reprinted
from Creepy #72 (July
1975)
Notes: $2.25 for 80 pages. An all-reprint ‘Graveyard And Ghosts’ special. The feature’s page announced the departure of
longtime editor Forrest J. Ackerman from Famous Monsters and the cancellation
of The Goblin.
145.
cover: Jose Mirelles (Feb. 1983)
reprinted from Nightmare #9 (Oct. 1972)
1) The Noxious Newspage [Timothy
Moriarty] 1p [text article]
2) Uncle Creepy’s Introduction [Timothy
Moriarty/Rafael Auraleon] 1p
3) Moral Blood, part 3 [Don McGregor/Al Sanchez]
28p
4) All Of Them Must Die! [Gerry Boudreau & Randy
Palmer/Martin
5) The Iceman Killeth [Michael Fleisher/Delando
Nino] 8p
Notes: Final
146.
cover: Richard Corben/titlepage: Bill Wray/back cover: Frank Frazetta (Summer
or Fall 1985) back
cover reprinted from Vampirella #11 (May 1971)
1) Uncle Creepy’s Welcome [Tony
Dispoto/Bill Wray] 1p [frontis]
2) Sex Kitten [S. K. Pierce/Bill
Wray] 9p
3) Creeps [Archie Goodwin/John
Severin & Wally Wood] 8p reprinted
from Creepy #78 (Mar.
1976)
4) Yellow Heat [Bruce Jones/Russ
Heath] 8p reprinted from Vampirella #58
(Mar. 1977)
5) …The Dump Man [Stephen
Perry/Eric Shanower] 8p
6) Too Many Termarrows [Timothy
Moriarty/Vic Catan] 9p reprinted from
1994 #28 (Dec.
1982)
7) Dead Run [Jeff Jones] 2p reprinted from Vampirella #32 (Apr. 1974)
8) A Base And Nasel Hunger
[Stephen Perry/Steve Bissette] 2p
9) Sacrifice [Roger
McKenzie/Luis Bermejo] 8p reprinted
from Creepy #94 (Jan. 1978)
10) Grave Undertaking [Archie
Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #5 (Oct. 1965)
11) To Kill A God! [Wally Wood]
8p reprinted from Vampirella #12 (Jan.
1971)
12) The Super-Abnormal Phenomena
Survival Kit! [Jim Stenstrum/John Severin] 8p
reprinted
from Creepy #79
(May 1976)
13) Werewolf! [Larry Ivie/Frank
Frazetta] 6p reprinted from Creepy #1
(Jan. 1965)
14) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore:
Mummy’s Curse! [Archie Goodwin/Roy G. Krenkel] 1p reprinted
from Creepy #6 (Dec. 1965)
15) The Machinations Of Lust [S.
K. Pierce/Mike Harris & Greg Theakston] 10p
16) No (Horse) Laughing Matter
[Doug Moench/Rafael Auraleon] 2p
reprinted from Creepy #49
(Nov. 1972)
Notes: Publisher:
1. cover: Jack Davis (Sept. 1965) reprinted from Creepy #2 (Apr. 1965)
1) Image Of Bluebeard! [Bill Pearson/Joe
2) Death Plane [Larry Ivie/George Evans] 6p
3) The Invitation [Larry Englehart, Russ Jones &
Maurice Whitman/Manny Stallman] 7p
Notes: Publisher James Warren. Editor: Archie Goodwin. This is technically the first issue of Eerie,
rushed into print overnight by Warren, Goodwin & letterer Gaspar Saladino
to foil Eerie Publications from ‘stealing’ the title of Warren’s second horror
magazine. Only 200 copies were
printed. The stories included were all originally
intended for either Creepy #7 or #8. The
magazine was never actually distributed.
Copies were dropped off at New York newsstands so that {one would guess}
1. cover: Frank Frazetta/frontis: John Severin (Oct.
1965)
1) Viet Cong [Archie Goodwin/Joe Orlando] 7p
2) Aftermath! [Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 6p
3) Flying Tigers! [Archie Goodwin/George Evans] 6p
4) Long View! [Archie Goodwin/Gray Morrow] 6p
5)
6) Combat Quiz [Archie Goodwin/Alex Toth] 1p
7) Mad Anthony! [Archie
Goodwin/Russ Jones,
8) Enemy! [Archie
Goodwin/John Severin]
Notes: Publisher: James
Warren. Editor: Archie Goodwin. 35 cents.
64p issue. This series was Archie
Goodwin’s crowning glory. Everything
that Harvey Kurtzman’s Two-Fisted Tales & Frontline Combat were in terms of
timeliness, art & story, Blazing Combat matches and, at times,
surpasses. Frazetta’s covers were the
best of his
2. cover: Frank Frazetta/frontis: Gray
Morrow (Jan. 1966)
1) Landscape [Archie Goodwin/Joe Orlando] 7p
2)
3) Mig Alley [Archie Goodwin/Al McWilliams] 6p
4) Face To Face! [Archie Goodwin/Joe
5)
6) Lone Hawk [Archie Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p
7) Combat Quiz [Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 1p
8) Holding Action [Archie Goodwin/John Severin] 7p
9) Eerie Ad [Angelo Torres] 1p [on inside back cover]
Notes: ‘Landscape’ was easily the
best story to appear in Blazing Combat.
In fact, if one were to compile a collection of the best stories that comics
have ever produced, ‘Landscape’ would be in the top five. {For the record, I’d put Al Feldstein/Bernie
Krigstein’s ‘Master Race’, Alan Moore/David Lloyd’s ‘V For Vendetta’, Jim
Steranko’s ‘Who Is Scorpio?’ and Will Eisner’s ‘Sand Saref’ as the other top
four. Just my opinion, mind you.} The story concerns an old Vietnamese farmer
who finally understands the true economics of war. Goodwin’s script, which clearly owed a debt
to Kurtzman’s EC war stories, still stands on its own two feet and is
devastating.
3. cover: Frank Frazetta (Apr. 1966)
1) Combat Quiz [Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres]
1p [frontis]
2) Special Forces [Archie Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti
& Joe Orlando] 8p [art credited
solely
to
3) Foragers [Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 6p
4) U-Boat [Archie Goodwin/Gene Colan] 7p
5) Survival [Alex Toth & Archie Goodwin/Alex
Toth] 6p
6) The
to Wood]
7) Water Hole! [Archie Goodwin/Gray Morrow] 5p
8) Souvenirs! [Archie Goodwin/John Severin] 6p
Notes: Another great Frazetta cover
showed a
4. cover: Frank Frazetta (July 1966)
1) Combat Quiz [Archie
Goodwin/Dan Adkins] 1p [frontis]
2) Conflict! [Archie
Goodwin/Gene Colan] 7p
3) How It Began! [Archie Goodwin/Gene Evans] 2p
4) The Edge! [Archie Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p
5) Give And Take [Archie Goodwin/Russ Heath] 6p
6) ME-262! [Archie Goodwin/Ralph
Reese, Wally Wood & Dan Adkins] 7p
[art credited to
Wood]
7) The Trench! [Archie
Goodwin/John Severin] 6p
8)
9) Night Drop! [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 7p
10) Easy Way To A Tuff
Surfboard! [Archie Goodwin/Frank Frazetta] ½p
reprinted from
Eerie #3 (May
1966)
Notes: Blazing Combat’s final issue
showed no compromise with commercial demands.
‘Conflict’, ‘Give And Take’ and ‘Night Drop’ were all powerful,
hard-hitting tales. Someone may have
noted the dynamic art quality of DC Comics’ wash tone “paintings’ on their war
titles, as five of the stories within are done in total or in part with wash tones. Particularly effective was Torres’ work on
‘Night Drop’. However, the best art job
was Russ Heath’s striking ‘Give And Take’.
The American soldiers in that story all look alike because Heath posed
for the pictures himself. It may be odd
to see so many look alikes in one squad but in the context of the story it
worked quite well. Goodwin’s story
seemed based on or inspired by a Bill Mauldin WWII cartoon that appeared in his
book ‘Up Front’. The cartoon concerned a
rare bottle of wine that a
2. cover: Frank Frazetta (Mar. 1966)
1) Welcome
To Eerie [Archie Goodwin/Jack Davis] 1p
[frontis]
2) Footsteps
Of Frankenstein [Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p
3) One For
De-Money [E. Nelson Bridwell/Angelo Torres] 7p
4) Flame
Fiend [Archie Goodwin/Johnny Craig] 6p
[art credited to Jay Taycee]
5) Eerie’s
Monster Gallery No. 1: Werewolf [Archie Goodwin/John Severin] 1p
6) To Pay
The Piper [Larry Ivie/Gene Colan] 6p
7) Vision Of
Evil [Archie Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p
8) Ahead Of
The Game [Archie Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti & Bill Draut] 8p
[art
credited to Joe Orlando]
Notes: Publisher: James
Warren. Editor: Archie Goodwin. 35 cents.
The first actual magazine issue, this was intended to be the actual #1. See the notes for the ashcan issue for total
details. Artist Jack Davis did several
head illos of Cousin Eerie for story introductions. During this time artist Jerry Grandenetti
ghosted pencils for several
3. cover: Frank Frazetta (May 1966)
1) Cousin
Eerie’s Introduction [Archie Goodwin/Jack Davis] 1p [frontis]
2) Soul Of
Horror! [Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 8p
3) The Lighthouse! [Archie Goodwin/Al Williamson] 6p
4) Room With A View! [Archie Goodwin/Steve Ditko] 6p
5) Monsterwork! [Archie Goodwin/Rocco Mastroserio]
6p
6) Under The Skin! [Archie Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti
& Joe
to
7) Eerie’s Monster Gallery No.
2: The Vampire! [Archie Goodwin/Johnny Craig] 1p [art credited
to Jay Taycee]
8) The Monument [Archie
Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p
9) Full Fathom Fright [Archie Goodwin/Gene Colan] 8p
10) Easy Way To A Tuff Surfboard! [Archie
Goodwin/Frank Frazetta] ½p
[anti-smoking ad on
inside
back cover]
Notes: A strong issue led off with
Frazetta’s cover depicting an undersea monster and a diver. All of the art jobs were good but particular
note should be given to Angelo Torres, Steve Ditko and Alex Toth. My favorite story is ‘Room With A View’ partly
because when I was a kid, the first
4. cover: Gray Morrow (July 1966)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery No.
3: Zombies! [Archie Goodwin/Roy G. Krenkel] 1p
[frontis]
2) House Of Evil [Archie
Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti & Joe Orlando] 8p [art credited solely to
3) Hatchet Man [Archie
Goodwin/Gene Colan] 8p
4) Gnawing Fear! [Ron
Parker/Rocco Mastroserio] 7p
5) Shrieking Man! [Archie Goodwin/Steve
Ditko] 7p
6) Undying Love! [Archie Goodwin/Donald
7) Island At World’s End! [Archie Goodwin/Gray
Morrow] 10p
8) Easy Way To A Tuff Surfboard! [Archie
Goodwin/Frank Frazetta] ½p reprinted
from Eerie
#3 (May 1966)
Notes: Particularly nice art here
from the Grandenetti/Orlando team and from Gray Morrow, but the art highlight
was Gene Colan’s wash work on ‘Hatchet Man’, a story that foretold
5. cover: Frank Frazetta (Sept. 1966)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery No. 4: The Mummy! [Archie
Goodwin/Wally Wood & Dan Adkins]
1p [frontis]
2) The Mummy Stalks! [Roy G. Krenkel & Archie Goodwin/Reed
Crandall] 8p
3) The Jungle [Archie Goodwin/Al Williamson] 6p
4) Black Magic [Archie Goodwin/Steve Ditko] 8p
5) A Matter Of Routine! [Archie Goodwin/Gene Colan]
8p
6) Dr. Griswold’s File! [Carl Wessler/Rocco
Mastroserio] 7p
7) The Swamp God! [Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 6p
8) Vampire Slayer! [Archie Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti
& Joe Orlando] 8p
Notes: Frazetta’s dinosaur cover was
a nice companion piece to Torres’ interior story. Torres’ art was not as sharp as usual but was
still pretty good. Goodwin & Krenkel’s
mummy story evoked the style and flavor of the early Universal & Hammer
films. Crandall’s art was just
right. There was also good work from
Ditko (a return to his ‘Dr. Strange’ style of mystic art) and Mastroserio. Another solid issue.
6. cover: Gray Morrow (Nov. 1966)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery No. 5: The Man-Made
Monster! [Archie Goodwin/John Severin] 1p
[frontis]
2) Cave Of The Druids [Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall]
8p
3) Deep Ruby! [Archie Goodwin/Steve Ditko] 6p
4) Running Scared! [Archie Goodwin/Mark Ricton] 8p
5) The Curse Of Kali! [Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres]
7p
6) Trial By Fire! [Johnny Craig] 6p [art & story credited by Jay Taycee]
7) Point Of View! [Archie Goodwin/Rocco Mastroserio]
6p
8) The Changeling! [Archie Goodwin/Gene Colan] 8p
Notes: Striking cover by Morrow for
the interior ‘Cave Of The Druids’ story.
That story also featured strong artwork by Reed Crandall. Torres’ artwork was in the same style of the
story in the previous issue. ‘Druids’
and ‘Deep Ruby’ were the best stories.
An average issue for this period, which means it was pretty damn good!
7. cover: Frank Frazetta (Jan. 1967)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery No.
6: The Hydra! [Archie Goodwin/Gray Morrow] 1p
[frontis]
2) Witches’ Tide [Archie
Goodwin/Gene Colan] 8p
3) It That Lurks! [Archie
Goodwin/Dan Adkins] 6p
4) Hitchhike Horror! [Archie
Goodwin/Hector Castellon] 8p
5) The Defense Rests! [Johnny
Craig] 8p
6) Fly! [Archie Goodwin/Steve
Ditko] 6p
7) The Quest! [Archie Goodwin/Donald
8) Cry Fear, Cry Phantom [Archie
Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti] 7p
Notes: Frazetta’s famous ‘Sea
Witch’ painting was the cover here. Roy
Krenkel provided layouts for it. At this
point, simply by not have any mediocre stories or art jobs, Eerie was actually
surpassing Creepy in quality. Craig,
Ditko, Grandenetti, Colan &
8. cover: Frank Frazetta (Mar. 1967)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery No.
7: Demon! [Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 1p
[frontis]
2) Oversight! [Archie
Goodwin/Gene Colan] 8p
3) Dark Rider! [Archie
Goodwin/John Severin] 6p
4) Typecast! [Archie Goodwin/Jerry
Grandenetti] 8p
5) The Day After Doomsday!
[Archie Goodwin/Dan Adkins] 8p
6) The Covered Bridge! [Archie
Goodwin/Bob Jenney] 6p
7) Wolf Bait! [Buddy Saunders
& Archie Goodwin/Rocco Mastroserio] 8p
8) Demon Sword! [Archie Goodwin/Steve Ditko] 8p
Notes: Frazetta’s cover of a demon
& a swordsman fighting in front of a giant brain was actually rather blah
although most artists would be quite happy with it. Filmmaker John Carpenter may have swiped his
script for ‘They Live’ from the Goodwin/Colan story herein as it shows a man
who is accidently given a special pair of glasses that lets him see the monsters
who live among us, masquerading as humans.
Adkins outdid himself with a striking art job on ‘The Day After
Doomsday!’ In fact, he’s rarely been so
good since. This was Texan writer &
comics distributor Buddy Saunders’ professional debut. Based on the credits I’d guess that Saunders
sent this story for the Creepy Fan Club in prose form and Goodwin liked it
enough to adapt it for the comics.
Regardless of its origins, it was a good story, well rendered by Mastroserio. Ditko turned in his usual work, which, for
9. cover: Dan Adkins (May 1967)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery No. 8: The Cyclopses!
[Archie Goodwin/Roy G. Krenkel] 1p
[frontis]
2) Fair Exchange [Archie Goodwin/Neal Adams] 8p
3) Rub The Lamp! [Allan Jadro/Jerry Grandenetti] 8p
4) Terror In The Tomb! [Archie Goodwin/Rocco
Mastroserio] 7p
5) The Wanderer! [Archie Goodwin/Dan Adkins] 8p
6) Isle Of The Beast! [Archie Goodwin/Steve Ditko]
6p
7) An Occurrence At
Ambrose Bierce
8) Experiment In Fear! [Archie Goodwin/Gene Colan]
8p
Notes: Beneath a tame Adkins cover
was some pretty good work.
10. cover: Gray Morrow (July 1967)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery No. 9: The Wendigo!
[Roy G. Krenkel] 1p [frontis]
2) Warrior Of Death! [Archie
Goodwin/Steve Ditko] 8p
3) The Slugs! [Bill Pearson/Joe
4) It! [Archie Goodwin/Dan
Adkins] 8p
5) Voodoo Drum! [Archie
Goodwin/Neal
6) House Of Fiends! [Archie
Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti] 8p
7) For The Birds! [Archie
Goodwin/Gene Colan] 8p
Notes: The monster in Adkins’ story
was swiped from the film ‘Five Million Years To Earth’. Given Ditko’s striking work on the sword
& sorcery stories that he did for Warren, one wonders why he never got the
chance to work on Conan for Marvel or on any other S&S series (unless you
count Shade, the Changing Man). ‘Voodoo
Drum!’ was the art & story fave for this issue.
11. cover: Joe Orlando (Sept. 1967)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery No.
10: The Minotaur [Archie Goodwin/Neal Adams] 1p [frontis]
2) Witch Hunt! [Archie
Goodwin/Joe
3) To Slay A Dragon! [Archie
Goodwin/Jeff Jones] 6p
4) The Mummy [Russ Jones/Dan
Adkins & Wally Wood] 7p from the
1932 Universal
screenplay, reprinted from
Monster World #1 (Nov. 1964) [story
& art credited to Wally
Wood]
5) Berenice! [Archie
Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti] 6p from the
story by Edgar Allan Poe
6) The Blood Fruit! [Johnny
Craig] 8p
7) The Monster From One Billion
B.C. [Tom Sutton] 8p
8) Big Change! [Ron Whyte/Larry
Woromay] 6p
9) First Blood [Archie Goodwin/Gene Colan] 6p
Notes: The money crunch that led to
12. cover: Dan Adkins (Nov. 1967)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery:
Zombies! [Archie Goodwin/Roy G. Krenkel] 1p
[frontis] reprinted
from Eerie #4
(July 1966)
2) The Masque Of Death [Archie
Goodwin/Tom Sutton] 6p from the story
by Edgar Allan Poe
3) Vampyrus! [Archie
Goodwin/Jeff Jones] 7p
4) …Nor Custom, Stale… [Johnny
Craig] 8p
5) Escape! [Archie Goodwin/Joe
6) Portrait Of Satan! [Archie
Goodwin/Ric Estrada] 8p
7) The Past Master [Craig
Tennis/Al McWilliams] 10p from the
story by Robert Bloch, reprinted
from Christopher
Lee’s Treasury Of Terror (Sept. 1966)
Notes: Editor: James Warren?. According to Clark Dimond,
Warren’s Dark Age
13. cover: Vic Prezio (Feb. 1968)
1) Wentworth’s Day [Russ
Jones/Russ Jones & Frank Bolle] 9p
from the story by H. P.
Lovecraft &
August Derleth, reprinted from Christopher Lee’s Treasury Of Terror (Sept.
1966)
2) Ogre’s Castle [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 6p reprinted
from Creepy #2 (Apr. 1965)
3) Tell-Tale Heart! [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p from the
story by Edgar Allan Poe,
reprinted from
Creepy #3 (June 1965)
4) Voodoo! [Bill Pearson/Joe
Orlando] 6p reprinted from Creepy #1
(Jan. 1965)
5) Spawn Of The Cat People
[Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 6p
reprinted from Creepy #2
(Apr. 1965)
6) The Success Story [Archie
Goodwin/Al Williamson] 6p reprinted
from Creepy #1 (Jan. 1965)
Notes: There were three months between issues here,
reflecting
14. cover: Vic Prezio (Apr. 1968)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: The Mummy [Archie
Goodwin/Wally Wood & Dan Adkins] 1p
[frontis]
reprinted from Eerie #5 (Sept. 1966)
2) The Stalkers [Archie
Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p reprinted from
Creepy #6 (Dec. 1965)
3) Pursuit Of The Vampire!
[Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 6p
reprinted from Creepy #1
(Jan. 1965)
4) Howling Success! [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 7p reprinted
from Creepy #3 (June 1965)
5) Untimely Tomb! [Anne T.
Murphy & Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 7p
reprinted from
Creepy #5 (Oct.
1965)
6) Curse Of The Full Moon!
[Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p
reprinted from Creepy #4
(Aug. 1965)
7) Blood And Orchids! [Archie
Goodwin/Al McWilliams] 7p reprinted
from Creepy #4 (Aug.
1965)
Notes: All reprint issue.
15. cover: Vic Prezio (June 1968)
1) The
2) Wardrobe Of Monsters! [Otto Binder/Gray Morrow
& Angelo Torres] 8p reprinted from
Creepy #2 (Apr. 1965)
3) The Demon Wakes [Archie Goodwin/Bill Fraccio
& Tony Tallarico] 6p
4) Under The Skin! [Archie Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti
& Joe
Eerie #5 (Nov. 1965)
5) The Doll Collector! [Dave Kahleer/Gutenberg
Mondiero] 8p
6) A Change In The Moon! [Clark Dimond & Terry
Bisson/Jeff Jones] 8p [story credited
solely
to Dimond.]
Notes: The first issue since #12 to
feature new stories. The
Fraccio/Tallarico (they always used the penname Tony Williamsune for
16. cover: Barry Rockwell (July 1968)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: The
Number 13! [Bill Parente/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 1p
[frontis]
2) Dracula’s Guest [E. Nelson
Bridwell/Frank Bolle] 7p from the story
by Bram Stoker, reprinted
from Christopher
Lee’s Treasure Of Terror (Sept. 1966)
3) Big-Time Operator [E. Nelson
Bridwell/Ric Estrada] 8p
4) Sara’s
5) Evil Spirits! [Archie
Goodwin/Johnny Craig] 10p
6) Eerie Fanfare: In Memoriam,
Rocco Mastroserio 1927-1968 [Bill Parente/Richard Corben,
Rocco
Mastroserio & Bruce Jones] 1p [text
article]
7) The Monument [Archie
Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p reprinted from
Eerie #3 (May 1966)
8) Ahead Of The Game [Archie Goodwin/Jerry
Grandenetti & Bill Draut] 8p
reprinted from
Eerie #2 (Mar.
1966)
Notes: Editor: Bill Parente. Size increased to 56 pages. A quite good issue! Cousin Eerie’s head was obviously pasted over
original host Christopher Lee’s in the opening story. The Goodwin/Craig story was an unpublished
story from 1967. Richard Corben &
Bruce Jones made their comics debut on Eerie’s first fan page, although Corben
may have been working on his first underground work, Tales From The Plague,
prior to this. Today Jones is known
primarily as a writer, but he started off as a quite good artist in the Al
Williamson mode. The fan page also
announced the death of Warren and Charlton artist Rocco Mastroserio. Best stories are ‘Evil Spirits’ and ‘Big-Time
Operator’.
17. cover: Tom Sutton (Sept. 1968) [miscredited to Barry Rockwell.]
1) The Final Solution [Raymond Marais/Bill Fraccio
& Tony Tallarico] 8p
2) The Mummy Stalks! [Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall]
8p reprinted from Eerie #5 (Sept.
1965)
3) Eerie Fanfare: Tom Sutton Profile/Back Pay [Bill
Parente & Bill Mantlo/Tom Sutton, Dean
Sindork & Mike Whelan] 1p [text article/story]
4) To Save Face [Bill Parente/Ernie Colon] 6p
5) Dressed To Kill! [Bill Parente/Tom Sutton] 6p
6) Demon Sword! [Archie Goodwin/Steve Ditko] 8p reprinted from Eerie #8 (Mar. 1967)
7) The Death Of Halpin Frayser [Craig Tennis/Frank
Bolle] 7½p from the story by Ambrose
Bierce, reprinted from Christopher Lee’s Treasury Of
Terror (Sept. 1966)
Notes: Eerie #17 is one of the hardest
18. cover: Tom Sutton (Nov. 1968)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery:
Zombies! [Archie Goodwin/Roy G. Krenkel] 1p
[frontis]
reprinted from
Eerie #4 (July 1966)
2) Hard Luck [Bill Parente/Sal Trapani] 6p [story miscredited to James Haggenmiller]
3) Cry Fear, Cry Phantom [Archie Goodwin/Jerry
Grandenetti] 7p reprinted from Eerie #7
(Jan. 1967)
4) A Change Of Pace! [Bill Parente/Tom Sutton] 6p
5) Eerie Fanfare: Barry Rockwell Profile/Fish Story
[Bill Parente & Thomas Prehoda/Greg
Volpert & Gary Meyers] 1p [text article/story w/photo]
6) The Jungle [Archie Goodwin/Al
Williamson] 6p reprinted from Eerie #5
(Sept. 1966)
7) Vampire Slayer! [Archie
Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti & Joe
#5 (Sept. 1966)
8) Trial By Fire! [Johnny Craig]
6p reprinted from Eerie #6 (Nov. 1966)
9) Side Show [Bill Parente/Bill
Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 6p
10) Uncle Creepy And Cousin
Eerie’s Cauldron Contest [Bill Parente/Ernie Colon] 1p [on back
cover]
Notes: See Creepy #23 for Cauldron
Contest information.
19. cover: Alan Willow (Dec. 1968)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: The
Castle Of The Frankenstein! [Tom Sutton] 1p
[frontis]
2) Tomorrow’s Reminder [Bill
Parente/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 6p
[Title misspelled as
‘Tommorrow’]
3)
4) Dark House Of Dreams [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 6p reprinted
from Creepy #12 (Dec.
1966)
5) Monstrous Mistake [Bill Parente/Barry Rockwell]
6p
6) The Squaw! [Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p from the story by Bram Stoker, reprinted
from
Creepy #13 (Feb. 1967)
7) Unfeeling Heart… [James Haggenmiller/Ernie
8) Eerie Fanfare: Abracadabra/The Glass Prison [Bill
Parente & Roxanne Collier/Bill Black {aka
Bill
Black} & Brian Clifton] 1p [text
article/story]
Notes: Cover artist
20. cover: H. B. Harris (Mar. 1969)
1) Round Trip [Bill Parente/Bill Fraccio & Tony
Tallarico] 6p
2) A Cloak Of Darkness [Bill Parente/Reed Crandall]
6p
3) Eerie Fanfare: Candles/A Shrewd Deal [Bill
Parente & Gordon Mathews/P. Zimelman &
George Meyers] 1p
[text article/story]
4) Cave Of The Druids! [Archie
Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p reprinted
from Eerie #6 (Nov.
1966)
5) The Fall Of The House Of
Usher [Tom Sutton] 11p from the story
by Edgar Allan Poe
6) Dark Rider! [Archie
Goodwin/John Severin] 6p reprinted from
Eerie #8 (Mar. 1967)
Notes: Sutton’s Poe adaptation is
prose heavy but beautifully drawn.
21. cover: Vic Prezo (May 1969)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery:
Lucifer’s Legions [Tom Sutton] 1p
[frontis]
2) Point Of View [Archie
Goodwin/Rocco Mastroserio] 6p reprinted
from Eerie #6 (Nov. 1966)
3) Eerie Fanfare: Cauldron Contest/Once There Was A
Planet [Bill Parente & Roger Solberg/
Mike
Kersey & James King] 1p [text
article/story]
4) Miscalculation [Bill Parente/Bill Fraccio &
Tony Tallarico] 7p
5) Terror In The Tomb! [Archie Goodwin/Rocco
Mastroserio] 7p reprinted from Eerie #9
(May
1967)
6) Fatal Diagnosis [Bill Parente/Ernie
7) Warrior Of Death! [Archie Goodwin/Steve Ditko]
8p reprinted from Eerie #10 (July 1967)
8) House Of Fiends! [Archie Goodwin/Jerry
Grandenetti] 8p reprinted from Eerie
#10 (July
1967)
22. cover: Vic Prezo (July 1969)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: The
Minotaur [Archie Goodwin/Neal Adams] 1p
[frontis] reprinted
from Eerie #11
(Sept. 1967)
2) H2O World! [Larry Ivie/Al
Williamson & Roy G. Krenkel] 6p
reprinted from Creepy #1 (Jan.
1965)
3) Family Curse [T. Casey
Brennan/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 8p
4) The Devil To Pay! [Archie
Goodwin/Donald Norman] 6p reprinted
from Creepy #11 (Oct.
1966)
5) Permanent Members! [Bill Parente/Tom Sutton]
7p
6) Eerie Fanfare: Familiars/The Finish [Bill Parente
& Mike Raab/Len Wein] 1p [text
article/
story]
7) Scooped! [Bill Parente/Ernie
8) The Spirit Of The Thing! [Archie Goodwin/Steve
Ditko] 8p reprinted from Creepy #9
(June
1966)
9) Vampirella Is Coming Ad [Bill Parente/Bill
Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 1p
Notes: Size increase to 56
pages. Prezo’s cover of a bikini clad
diver confronted by sea monsters at an undersea wreck was quite good. The story ‘Permanent Members’ appears to have
been intended for, or perhaps inspired
by, the cover to Creepy #22 from a year earlier. T. Casey Brennan made his professional debut
here. Future comic writer Len Wein had
his comics debut on the fan page as an artist.
The Vampirella ad featured both Uncle Creepy & Cousin Eerie, but not
Vampirella.
Warren’s Rebuilding
23. cover: Frank Frazetta (Sept. 1969)
1) Beyond Nefera’s Tomb [Bill Parente/Ernie Colon]
8p
2) The Dragon’s Tail [Kim Ball/Bill Fraccio &
Tony Tallarico] 8p
3) An Occurence At
Ambrose Bierce, reprinted from Eerie #9 (May 1967)
4) Eerie Fanfare: Hades/Total War/Cauldron Contest
Winner: Edward French [Bill Parente &
Timothy Boertlein/Bruce Jones] 2p [text article/story w/photo]
5) Soul Pool [Edward R. French/Tom Sutton] 7p
6) Fair Exchange [Archie Goodwin/Neal Adams] 8p reprinted from Eerie #9 (May 1967)
7) Space Age Vampire [James Haggenmiller/Mike Royer]
8p
8) Vampirella Is Coming Ad [Bill Parente/Bill
Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 1p
9) Easy Way To A Tuff Surfboard! [Archie Goodwin/Frank
Frazetta] ½p reprinted from Eerie
#3 (May 1966)
Notes: Although reprints would
continue for another 8 months or so, this issue, along with Creepy #29 and
Vampirella #1, marked the beginning of
24. cover: Vic Prezo (Nov. 1969)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery:
…Perchance To Dream! [Tom Sutton] 1p
[frontis]
2) Head For The Lighthouse!
[Bill Parente/Mike Royer] 8p
3) Pursuit Of The Vampire!
[Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 6p
reprinted from Creepy #1 (Jan.
1965)
4) The Immortality Seeker [James Haggenmiller/Tom
Sutton] 7p
5) Eerie Fanfare: Epilogue [Donald Lauzon/Joe
Kovacs] 1p [text story]
6) Checkmate [Ron Parker/Bill Fraccio & Tony
Tallarico] 8p
7) Scavenger Hunt [Don Glut/Jerry Grandenetti] 6p
8) Demon Dictionary [Bill Parente/Bill Fraccio &
Tony Tallarico] 1p [text article]
9) Dracula’s Guest [E. Nelson Bridwell/Frank Bolle]
7p from the story by Bram Stoker,
reprinted
from
Christopher Lee’s Treasury Of Terror (Sept. 1966)
10) Wrong Tennant [Bill Parente/Reed Crandall] 7p
25. cover: Jim Steranko (Jan. 1970)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery:
Vampire! [Bill Parente/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 1p [frontis]
2) Isle Of The Vrukolakas [Don Glut/Ernie Colon] 6p
3) Mistake! [Buddy Saunders/Bill
Black] 6p
4) Hijack To Horror [R. Michael
Rosen/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 6p
5) To Pay The Piper! [Larry
Ivie/Gene Colan] 6p reprinted from
Eerie #2 (Mar. 1966)
6) Southern Exposure [Bill
Parente/Tom Sutton] 5p
7) The Thing In The Cave [R.
Michael Rosen/Mike Royer] 6p
8) Eerie Fanfare: I Gave Him Life!/To The Ends Of
Inner Space [Paul E. King & Tom O’Boyle/
David Hubb] 1p
[text stories]
9) House Of Evil! [Archie
Goodwin/Jerry Grandenetti] 8p reprinted
from Eerie #4 (July 1966)
10) Hex Marks The Spot [R.
Michael Rosen/William Barry] 6p
Notes: Steranko’s sole contribution
to
26. cover: Basil Gogos & Vaughn Bode
(Mar. 1970)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: The
Body Snatchers! [Tom Sutton] 1p
[frontis]
2) I Wouldn’t Want To Live
There! [Bill Parente/Jack Sparling] 7p
3) Southern Exposure, part 2
[Bill Parente/Tom Sutton] 7p
4) In The Neck Of Time [Al Hewetson/Bill Fraccio
& Tony Tallarico] 8p
5) Eerie Fanfare: Al Hewetson Profile/Death After
Dark/Three Feet From Exit Four/Traitor’s
Reward
[Al Hewetson, Mark Aubry, Mark Hatfield & Dennis Goza/Ernie
Steven
Muhmel] 2p [text stories w/photo]
6) Spiders Are Revolting! [Bill Warren/Tom Sutton]
9p
7) The Scarecrow [Nicola Cuti/Frank Bolle] 7p
8) Tuned In! [Ken Dixon/Dick Piscopo] 7p
9) Cyked-Out! [Ken Dixon/Jack Sparling] 8p
Notes: This was the first issue
since #10 to have all-original stories.
The cover was quite ugly, yet strangely, was selected to be reprinted in
the early 1980s! Future artist Ronn
Sutton sent in a letter. Best story and
art belonged to the Warren/Sutton story ‘Spiders Are Revolting!’
27. cover: Vaughn Bode & Jeff Jones (May
1970)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: The
Golem! [Tom Sutton] 1p [frontis]
2) Journey Into Wonder [Bill
Parente/Ken Barr] 10p
3) Amazonia [
4) Eerie Fanfare: Neal Adams Profile/Poetry
Corner/Surprise/The Forewarned [Bill Parente, Brad
Linaweaver, Gary
Schnoebeden, Cathy Hill, Allen Arnold & Susan Wylie/Dale Stuckert
& ?] 2p [text article & stories, poems]
5) The Machine God’s Slave [Buddy Saunders/Ernie
Colon] 6p
6) Swallowed In Space! [Bill Parente/Tom Sutton] 7p
7) Enter…Dr. Laernu! [R. Michael
Rosen/Dick Piscopo] 6p
8) All Sewed Up! [Buddy
Saunders/Mike Royer] 6p
9) Face It! [Nicola Cuti/Jack
Sparling] 7p
Notes: In contrast to the previous
issue, this Bode/Jones cover was quite lovely.
Gardner Fox’s character
28. cover: Pat Boyette (July 1970)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: The
Saucerians! [Tom Sutton] 1p [frontis]
2) The Hidden Evils! [James
Haggenmiller/Dan Adkins] 9p
3) The Beast In The Swamp! [Bill
Warren/Billy Graham] 8p
4) Eerie Fanfare: The Horror Of
Biscayne Gardens/The Man On The Hill/By The Moon/Who Is
In The
Shadows?/Poem/A Dragon’s Tale [mike Petit, Jeff Kadish, Peter MacKenzie,
Steven Teal,
Danny Massoni & Brad Linaweaver/Mike Jasinski, Tony Bishop, Greg
Theakston &
Arvell Jones] 2p [text stories &
poems]
5) The Rescue Party! [Buddy Saunders/Jack Sparling]
7p
6) Follow Apollo! [R. Michael Rosen/Tom Sutton] 6p
8) Ice Scream [R. Michael Rosen/Bill DuBay] 7p
9) Pit Of Evil [Al Hewetson/Dick Piscopo] 7p
10) The Last Train To Orion! [Pat Boyette] 6p
11) Easy Way To A Tuff Surfboard! [Archie
Goodwin/Frank Frazetta] ½p reprinted
from Eerie
#3 (May 1966)
Notes: Editor: James Warren. Interesting cover & story from Pat
Boyette but the best story was Bill Warren’s & Billy Graham’s ‘The Beast In
The Swamp!’ This sword & sorcery
effort (as well as the
29. cover: Ken Kelly (Sept. 1970)
1) An Editorial To The President Of The
[James Warren] 1p
[text article, frontis]
2) Loophole! [Nicola Cuti/Jack Sparling] 7p
3) The Fiend Planet [Buddy Saunders/Dan Adkins] 6p
4) The Bloodstaff [Rich Buckler] 7p
5) Gallery Of Horror [Buddy Saunders/Carlos Garzon]
7p
6) The Vorpal Sword [Nicola Cuti/Tom Sutton] 7p
7) Eerie Fanfare: The Tomb Of Ankh-Ra/Headsman
[Virginia Jenkins & Don Allen/Phillippe
Druillet & Frank Frazetta] 2p [text stories] Frazetta’s art from the cover of Creepy #17
8) Strange Gateway! [T. Casey Brennan/Jack Sparling]
8p
9) Easy Way To A Tuff Surfboard! [Archie
Goodwin/Frank Frazetta] ½p reprinted
from Eerie
#3 (May 1966)
10) Snow Job! [Doug Moench/Jack Sparling] 7p
Notes: Archie Goodwin was listed as
Associate Editor. Doug Moench made his
professional comics debut. Famous French
artist Phillippe Druillet made his only
30. cover: Basil Gogos (Nov. 1970)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: BEM
[Dan Adkins] 1p [frontis]
2) The Entail [Pat Boyette] 6p
3) October Weir: Mirror, Mirror
[Nicola Cuti/Frank Bolle] 10p
4) Life Species [Bill DuBay] 4p
5) Eerie Fanfare: The Prophetic Dream/Escape
Claws/Nuts To You!/The Mistake [Carmen
Minchella, David
O’Dell, Rodney Schroeter, David E. Bruegel/Arthur Suydam & Gray
Morrow] 2p [text stories]
6) I, Werewolf [Ken Barr] 9p
7) Easy Way To A Tuff Surfboard! [Archie
Goodwin/Frank Frazetta] ½p reprinted
from Eerie
#3 (May 1966)
8) In Close Pursuit [Gordon Matthews/Jerry
Grandenetti] 8p
9) The Return Of Amen-Tut! [Don Glut/Jack Sparling]
8p
10) The Creation [Doug Moench/Carlos Garzon] 8p
Notes: Price increase to 60
cents. Behind a not particularly good
cover was a quite good issue! The BEM in
Eerie’s Monster Gallery is old science fiction slang for ‘bug-eyed monster’. Future artist Tony Meers sent in a
letter. Pat Boyette’s story ‘The Entail’
was not only quite good, but quite gruesome as well. Psychic detective October Weir had only two
appearances, which was a pity, as his stories were good and Bolle was perfect
as the artist. The classic SF tale ‘Life
Species’ by DuBay is the kind of story that stays with you all your life. Future artist Arthur Suydam made his comics
debut on the fan page.
31. cover: Richard Corben (Jan. 1971)
1) Point Of View [Buddy Saunders/Tom Sutton] 9p
2) The Drop [Chris Fellner/Bill Fraccio & Tony
Tallarico] 6p
3) The Devil’s Hand! [Bill DuBay] 6p
4) The Alien Plague! [Billy Graham] 10p
5) The Oasis [Buddy Saunders/Carlos Garzon] 8p
6) October Weir: Lady In Ice [Nicola Cuti/Frank
Bolle] 7p
7) Eerie Fanfare: I, The Nightwatchman/Poem/The
Pact/Down In Cannery Dough [Ed Fedory/
Danny Massoni, Michael Darrah & Craig Hill/Jeff
Jones, ?, Greg Theakston & Arvell
Jones] 2p
[text stories & poem]
8) The Killer Slime [Steve Skeates/Carlos Garzon] 8p
9) Easy Way To A Tuff Surfboard! [Archie
Goodwin/Frank Frazetta] ½p reprinted
from Eerie
#3 (May 1966)
[on inside back cover]
Notes: Corben’s first
32. cover: Richard Corben & [in insert]
Tom Sutton (Mar. 1971) [Sutton’s art is
from an interior story]
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: The Creature From…Beyond
Ultima Thule! [Clif Jackson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Superhero! [Steve Skeates/Tom Sutton] 6p
3) The Warning Of The Hawk! [Gardner Fox/Clif Jackson
& Syd Shores] 6p
4) The Wailing Tower [Larry Herndon/Frank Bolle] 7p
5) Bookworm [Gerry Conway/Richard Corben] 7p
6) I Fell For You [John Wolley/Jack Sparling] 7p
7) Eerie Fanfare: The
Misunderstanding/Reversal/Ain’t It Not Funky Now Brother/Your Last
Child Is Leaving [Clayton Fox, Michael Carlisle,
Craig Hill & Ken Haubrock/Kevin
Schaffer, Craig Hill, Steve Leialoha & Robert
Monahan] 2p [text stories/poems]
8) Soul Power! [Don Glut/Mike Royer] 6p
9) Ice World [Bill DuBay/William Barry] 7p [art miscredited to DuBay]
Notes: While a mainstay nowadays of
such comics as
33. cover: Larry Todd (May 1971)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: The
Minotaur [Clif Jackson] 1p [frontis]
2) A Trip In Time! [Steve
Skeates/Jack Sparling] 6p
3) 243 Blank Pages! [Steve
Skeates/George Roussos] 7p
4) Whom The Gods Would Destroy
[Marv Wolfman/Ken Barr] 11p
5) Escape Into Chaos [Steve
Skeates/Ernie
6) Starvisions [Larry Todd] 6p
7) The
8) Eerie Fanfare: Dave Cockrum Profile/The
Vampire/Wolf Star/From Beyond The Grave
[Dave Cockrum, David Nowicki, Jack L. Bannow &
Harry Feinzig/Mike Roberts, R. Goodwin, Pat Broderick, Gerald Colucci, Mark
Wallace & Rick Bryant] 2p [text
stories/
poem w/photo]
9) The Painting In The Tower! [
Notes: ‘The
34. cover: Boris Vallejo (July 1971)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: The
Man Who Played God! [Tom Sutton] 1p
[frontis]
2) Parting Is Such Sweet Horror!
[Tom Sutton] 7p
3) Eye Of Cyclops! [Buddy
Saunders/Jaime Brocal] 7p
4) He Who Laughs Last…Is
Grotesque! [Al Hewetson/Mike Royer] 7p
5) Food For Thought [Steve Skeates/Bill
Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 5p
6) The Vow Of The Wizard… [Ernie
Colon/Ernie
7) The Sound Of Wings [F. Paul
Wilson/Carlos Garzon] 6p
8) Eerie Fanfare: Oh, To Be A Bat/The Mutant!/The
Face Of Death! [Edgar Ellington, Robert J.
Hurris, Josheph Wiltz/Pat Broderick, Joseph Wiltz,
Mitchell Brown & Tony Desensi] 2p
[text poem/stories]
9) Lair Of The Horned Man [Alan
Weiss] 9p
Notes:
35. cover: Enrich Torres (Sept. 1971)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery:
Monster Sightings! [John Cornell] 1p
[frontis]
2) Retribution [Gardner Fox
& Steve Englehart/Steve Englehart] 6p
3) The Comet’s Curse! [Buddy
Saunders/Frank Brunner] 6p
4) The Tower Of The Demon Dooms!
[
5) I Am Dead,
6) Cats And Dogs [Bill
DuBay/Jerry Grandenetti] 7p
7) Eerie Fanfare: Sanho Kim
Profile/Changing Sands/The Rats/The End [J. R. Cochran, John D.
Warner, John Ayella
& David McElmurry/Robert Putnam, John Ayella, Ken Kelly &
Craig Edelblut]
2p [text stories]
8) Annual
reprinted from
Comic Crusader #10 (1970)
9) Money [Sanho Kim] 9p
10) Easy Way To A Tuff Surfboard! [Archie
Goodwin/Frank Frazetta] ½p reprinted
from Eerie
#3
(May 1966) [on back cover]
Notes: Editor: Billy Graham. Enrich Torres made a spectacular cover artist
debut with one of the most striking covers of his career. Although it’s not generally well-known, comic
writer Steve Englehart made his debut as an artist and, as is evident from the
half dozen or so stories available, wasn’t bad at all. Mike Ploog began doing regular comics, after
a stint as Will Eisner’s assistant on P*S magazine. The Eisner influence was very apparent in his
artwork {and still is today}. Sanho
Kim’s art was impressive, even more so when compared to the often rushed
looking artwork he was doing for Charlton at the time. The Ken Kelly on the fan page (and on the
letters’ page) is not the well known cover artist. A very strong issue.
36. cover: Enrich Torres (Nov. 1971)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery:
Atoms [T. Casey Brennan/Pablo Marcos] 1p
[frontis]
2) Bad Moon On The Rise [Doug
Moench/Tom Sutton] 10p
3) The Silence And The Sleep
[Steve Skeates/Rubio] 7p
4) Prototype [Steve
Skeates/Bruce Jones] 10p
5) Look What They’ve Done!
[Steve Skeates/Esteban Maroto] 6p
6) Crocodile [Don Glut/Mascaro]
6p
7) The Trap [Greg Potter/L. M.
Roca] 4p
8) Eerie Fanfare: Steve Skeates Profile/House Of
Horror/Occupational Hazard [Steve Skeates,
Christopher
Wolfe & Billie Fowler/Steve Skeates, Steve Lowe & Steve Cassman] 2p
[text
article/stories]
9) Oh, Brother! [Steve Skeates/Dave Cockrum] 7p
Notes: Bruce Jones’ art was
reproduced from pencils, something only
37. cover: Enrich Torres (Jan. 1972)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: Air
Serpent [Bill DuBay] 1p [frontis]
2) The Other Side Of Atlantis
[Steve Skeates/Jaime Brocal] 10p
3) Horror At
4) The Ones Who Stole It From
You [Don McGregor/Rafael Auraleon] 14p
5) A Rush Of Wings [Larry
Herndon/Jaime Brocal] 8p
6) Eerie Fanfare: The Message!/Theory/My,
Oh, My!/Final Conqueror/Interchange! [Ted Dasen,
Phill Jones,
Anthony DeSensi,
Solano Lopez & James Kanhard] 2p
[text stories]
7) Dethslaker [Doug Moench/Ernie
Notes: Nice cover from Enrich. The best story and art was the ghoul story
‘The Ones Who Stole It From You’ by Don McGregor and Rafael Auraleon. McGregor was asked by J. R. Cochran to add
the first two pages to the story as a prologue.
Ernie Colon’s lettering for his story’s title was so ornate that it is
impossible to read! Still, it was one of
his best {and sexiest} art jobs for
38. cover: Ken Kelly (Feb. 1972)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: The
Mothman Of West Virginia [Doug Moench/Jaime Brocal] 1p
[frontis]
2) Stake In The Game [Doug
Moench/Jose Gual] 21p
3) The Carrier Of The Serpent
[T. Casey Brennan/Jerry Grandenetti] 10p
4) 1971 Comiccon Awards Go To
Frazetta And Goodwin… [J. R. Cochran?/?] 3p
[text article]
5) A Stranger In Hell [T. Casey
Brennan/Esteban Maroto] 7p
6) The Night The Snow Spilled
Blood! [Don McGregor/Tom Sutton] 12p
7) Eerie Fanfare: Esteban Maroto
Profile/The Shower!/The Night Desert/See Into The Future!/
The Brothers/The
Farmer’s Friend [Bill DuBay, C. D. Stewart, Jim Erskine, Jarry
Bradman & M. Joseph
Blattberg/Esteban Maroto, Brant Withers, Loper Sepi, Manuel
Sanjulian & Stephen
Notes: Ken Kelly’s cover was one of his best! A fanged humanoid struggles with a giant
green serpent! Moody and dynamic! Future artist & letterer John Workman
sent in a letter pleading for work!
‘Stake In The Game’ was one of the longest (thus far) stories in
39. cover: Ken Kelly (Apr. 1972)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: The Mysterious Men In
Black! [Doug Moench/Richard Bassford] 1p
[frontis]
2) Head Shop [Don Glut/Jose Bea] 6p
3) Just Passing Through [Steve Skeates/Rafael
Auraleon] 8p
4) The Disenfranchised [J. R. Cochran/Tom Sutton]
10p
5) Dax The Warrior [Esteban Maroto & ?/Esteban
Maroto] 8p [story credited solely to
Maroto]
6) Yesterday Is The Day Before
Tomorrow [Doug Moench/Dave Cockrum] 7p
7) Eerie Fanfare: Pity The Stranger/House For
Committee
[Greg Balke, Roy Decker, Gary Henry & Marcus Octavious/Steve Monsanto
& Jody Clay] 2p [text stories]
8) Ortaa! [Kevin Pagan/Jaime Brocal] 8p
Notes: Another fine Ken Kelly
Cover! The best story & art was
easily J. R. Cochran & Tom Sutton’s ‘The Disenfranchised!’ Maroto’s Dax character began an eleven
chapter run in Eerie. These stories had
originally been published in
40. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (June 1972)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery:
Dracula’s Castle [Fred Ott/Rafael Auraleon] 2p
[frontis & on inside
back cover]
2) The Story Behind ‘Stake In
The Game’. [Doug Moench] 1/3p [text
article on letters’ page]
3) The Brain Of Frankenstein
[Fred Ott/Mike Ploog] 10p
4) The Once Powerful Prince
[Steve Skeates/Jaime Brocal] 13p
5) Dax The Warrior: The Paradise
Tree [Esteban Maroto & ?/Esteban Maroto] 8p [story credited
solely to Maroto]
6) Deathfall [Sanho Kim] 10p
7) The Prodigy Son [Don Glut/Jose Bea] 6p
8) Eerie Fanfare: Buddy Saunders Profile/Kingdom
Come/The Grim Spectre/Snow/Puritan’s
Progress/The
Story Behind The Story: ‘The Night The Snow Spilled Blood!’/
Lost!/Voice Of Doom [Buddy
Saunders, James Charles, Rick Cook, Joe Letts, Jerry
Bradman, ?, Don McGregor, David Yates & David A.
Wasyk/Bruce Waldman, Tom Sutton & J. A. Williams] 2p [text articles/stories w/photo]
1) Pity The Grave Digger!
[Buddy Saunders/Rafael Auraleon] 6p
Notes: Editor: J. R. Cochran. Price increased to 75 cents and size increased
to 72 pages. Mike Ploog’s final
41. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Aug. 1972)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: The
Ghouls Of Scotland [Fred Ott/Ken Barr] 1p
[frontis]
2) Inside 41/The Story Behind
The Story: ‘Head Shop’ [J. R. Cochran & Don Glut] 1/3p [text
articles on
letters’ page]
3) Warped [Kevin Pagan/Jerry
Grandenetti] 8p
4) West Coast Turnaround [John
Wooley/Tom Sutton] 8p
5) Heir Pollution! [John
Wooley/Jose Bea] 9p
6) The Caterpillars [Fred
Ott/Luis Garcia] 8p
7) Derelict [John Thraxis/Paul
Neary] 7p
8) The Safest Way! [Steve
Skeates/Jose Gual] 7p
9) Eerie Fanfare: Tom Sutton
Profile/The Pet Shop/What’s For Supper?/To Save A Witch/Tales
From The Crypt
Review/Cat Fancy [Tom Sutton, Mark Curtis, Jay Richter, Mary
Eveland, Jr. R.
Cochran, Dave Parker/Tom Sutton & Esteban Maroto] 2p [text
articles/stories w/photo]
10) Dax The Warrior: Chess
[Esteban Maroto & ?/Esteban Maroto] 8p
[story credited solely to
Maroto]
Notes: One of Sanjulian’s best
covers graced this issue. New writer
John Wooley wrote several social horrors stories with the best being the LSD
story ‘West Coast Turnaround’ which also featured good art by Tom Sutton. Englishman Paul Neary made his American
debut.
42. cover: Luis Dominguez (Oct. 1972)
1) The True Story Of Eerie…How
To Gain Forty Pounds Of Ugly Fat In Six Years! [J. R.
Cochran] 1p [text article, frontis]
2) The Mummy Stalks! [Roy G.
Krenkel & Archie Goodwin/Reed Crandall] 8p
reprinted from
Eerie #5 (Sept.
1966)
3) The Blood Fruit! [Johnny
Craig] 8p reprinted from Eerie #11
(Sept. 1967)
4) It That Lurks! [Archie
Goodwin/Dan Adkins] 6p reprinted from
Eerie #7 (Jan. 1967)
5) Dark Rider! [Archie
Goodwin/John Severin] 6p reprinted from
Eerie #8 (Mar. 1967)
6) Life Species [Bill DuBay]
2p reprinted from Eerie #30 (Nov. 1970)
7) Ogre’s Castle [Archie
Goodwin/Angelo Torres] 6p reprinted
from Creepy #2 (Apr. 1965)
8) Room With A View! [Archie
Goodwin/Steve Ditko] 6p reprinted from
Eerie #3 (May 1966)
9) Voodoo Drum! [Archie
Goodwin/Neal Adams] 8p reprinted from
Eerie #10 (July 1967)
10) I Am Dead,
(Sept. 1971)
11) The Thing In The Alley [Al
Hewetson/Berni Wrightson] 1p [text
story, on back cover]
Notes: $1.00 cost & 80 page issue. With this issue the Eerie Yearbook/Annual
became part of the regular numbering.
First squarebound issue. I’ve
already mentioned that this was my first
The DuBay Era
43. cover: Luis Dominguez (Nov. 1972)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery:
Quetzalcoatl, Monster God! [Doug Moench/Luis Garcia] 1p [frontis]
2) Inside 43 [Bill DuBay]
1/3p [text article on letters’ page]
3) Someday [Rich Margopoulos/Jerry
Grandenetti] 12p
4) Musical Chairs [Steve
Skeates/Tom Sutton] 8p
5) Bright Eyes! [Doug
Moench/Richard Corben] 7p
6) Eerie Book Reviews: Green
Lantern/The Ghouls/Hauntings And Horrors/Tales From The Crypt
[Chuck
McNaughton] 1p [text articles]
7) The Hunt [Rich Margopoulos/Paul Neary] 8p
8) Showdown [Steve Skeates/Jesus Suso Rego] 6p
9) Eerie Fanfare: Rich Margopoulos Profile/Life’s
Dream/Encounter With An Artist/Cold
Shoulder!/Hate/Black Death
[Rich Margopoulos, Richard D. Chase, Jeff Baenen, Bob
Hurns, Robert M. Lester
& Tim McDonald/Paul Neary, Hidy & Scot Goode] 2p [text
article/stories w/photo]
10) Dax The Warrior: Let The
Evil One Sleep [Esteban Maroto & ?/Esteban Marato] 8p [story
credited
solely to Maroto]
11) Eerie Monster Gallery: The
Mortsafes [Tom Sutton] 1p [on inside
back cover]
Notes: Editor: Bill DuBay. Back to 75 cents & 72 pages. Best art was Rich Corben’s ‘Bright Eyes’
although Jesus Suso Rego gives him a run for his money. Suso, whose art seemed perfect for
44. cover: Luis Dominguez (Dec. 1972)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery:
Werewolf—Fact Or Fantasy? [Fred Ott/Jerry Grandenetti] 1p
[frontis]
2) Inside 44 [Bill DuBay]
1/3p [text article w/photo on letters’
page]
3) Crazy Mazie [J. R.
Cochran/Tom Sutton] 10p
4) Everlasting Mortality [Doug
Moench/Jerry Grandenetti] 5p
5) Eerie’s Book Reviews: The
Time Machine/The Invisible Man/The First Men In The Moon/
In The Days Of
The Comet [Chuck McNaughton] 1p [text
articles]
6) The Thrill Of The Hunt [Doug
Moench/Martin
7) Hand Of The Discarnate [Doug Moench/Bill DuBay]
6p
8) Mervin’s Dead Ringer! [Greg Potter/Luis Dominguez]
4p
9) Tiller Of The Soul [Greg Potter/Rubio] 7p
10) Eerie’s Short-Short Shocker: The Parade! [Doug
Moench/Bill DuBay] 2p [text story]
11) Eerie Fanfare: Luis Dominguez Profile/A Little
Farther/Deep Sleep/The Feast/The Fatal
Dream/A
Touch Of Fate/Search For The Sun [Bill DuBay. Harry E. Mongold, Victor
Olchowka,
Tom Morganti, Mike Weiler, Roberto Tabaldo & Bill Hightower/Luis
Dominguez (art from when he
was 14!) & Bill MacDonald] 2p [text
article/stories
w/photo]
12) Dax The Warrior:
solely to
Maroto]
Notes: Don McGregor & Jose
Gual’s ‘Malocchi’ was advertised for the next issue but didn’t actually appear
until Creepy #72 in 1975! ‘Crazy Mazie’
was the best story & art here. A
solid and entertaining story, as was the entire issue. Bill DuBay began to experiment with prose
stories, although that didn’t last long.
45. cover: Luis Dominguez (Feb. 1973)
1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: Vlad
The Impaler [Fred Ott/Rafael Auraleon] 2p
[frontis & on inside
back cover]
2) The Mound [Tom Sutton] 10p
3) Ri, Master Of Men [Hal G.
Turner/Martin
4) When Wakes The Dreamer [Don
McGregor/Jesus Suso Rego] 8p
5) A Blade For The Teacher [Bill
Warren/Luis Dominguez] 7p
6) Maneater [Steve
Skeates/Rubio] 7p
7) The Critic’s Crypt: King Kong {Radio}/Flash
Gordon {Radio}/The Pan Book Of Horror
Stories #4/The Pan Book Of
Horror Stories #5 [Chuck McNaughton] 1p
[text articles]
8) Eerie’s Short-Short Shocker:
Ecology Of Death! [Doug Moench/Bill DuBay] 2p
[text story]
9) Doug Moench’s Confessions: Story Of A Ghost
Writer!/The Mask Behind The Face! [Doug
Moench/Russ
Heath] 1p [text article with 1p
strip] reprinted from the Chicago Sun-
Times’ Sunday supplement
10) Eerie Fanfare: Don McGregor Profile/Afterlife/Do
Not Step Outside!/Whgat, Me
Worry?/Tooth Be Or Not Tooth
Be [Don McGregor, Frank Christensen, Richard Noel,
Steve Clement & Michael
Carlisle/Felix Mas, Jose Gual, Moe Romulus & Marshal
11) Dax The Warrior: The Witch [Esteban Maroto &
?/Esteban Maroto] 8p [story credited
solely
to
Maroto]
Notes: Marv Wolfman, who worked as
a story editor for
46. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Mar. 1973)
1) Portrait Of Dracula [Fred
Ott/Bill DuBay] 2p [frontis & on
inside back cover]
2) Dracula Prologue & Recap
[Bill DuBay] 2p
3) Dracula [Bill DuBay/Tom
Sutton] 10p
4) The Things In The Dark [Fred
Ott/Jimmy Janes] 7p
5) The Critic’s Crypt: Star
Trek/Star Trek 2/Star Trek 3/Star Trek 4 [Chuck McNaughton?] 1p
[text articles]
6) Garganza! [Bill Warren/Paul
Neary] 7p
7) The Root Of Evil [Mike Jennings/Martin
8) Planet Of The Werewolves! [Gerry Boudreau/Reed
Crandall] 9p
9) Eerie Fanfare: Mike Jennings Profile/Twist Of
Fate/She Has A Cat/The Old Man/Spirits Of The
Dead
[Mike Jennings, Paul E. King, Jr., Terry W. Cloud, Ed J. Pahule & Kathy
LaClaire/
Jose
Bea, Carlos Llerena & Chris Campbell {from Jack Davis}] 2p
[text article/stories
w/photo]
10) Dax The Warrior: The Giant
[Esteban Maroto & Steve Englehart/Esteban Maroto] 8p [story
credited solely
to Maroto]
Notes: Sanjulian’s Dracula painting
here was one of his best. The Dracula
serial here was technically the same dismal Dracula that appeared in
Vampirella’s strip but with a reworked character design by Bill DuBay and
terrific art by Tom Sutton, this Dracula was improved about 100%. The frontispiece series title, Eerie’s
Monster Gallery, was dropped, as would be the series itself in another
issue. Paul Neary did a nice job
channeling the manga style, well before it was a common sight in the
47. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Apr. 1973)
1) The Story Behind The Story:
‘Mervin’s Dead Ringer [Greg Potter] ½p
[text article on the
letters’ page]
2) Dracula: Enter The
Dead-Thing! [Bill DuBay/Tom Sutton] 12p
3) Lilith [Nicola Cuti/Jaime
Brocal] 19p
4) Snake Man [Greg Potter/Martin
5) The Message Is The Medium
[Doug Moench/Paul Neary] 8p
6) Dax The Warrior: Gemma-5
[Esteban Maroto & Marv Wolfman/Esteban Maroto] 8p [story
credited solely to Maroto]
7) Eerie’s Delights! [same as
the feature’s page for Creepy #52] 1p
[text articles]
Notes: Another Dracula cover by
Sanjulian, but this one was downright silly looking, with the cover Dracula
looking nothing like the character in the book.
In fact, he looked quite a lot like a bad actor with plastic fangs! Was this a cover originally intended for
Famous Monsters? Size increased to 72
pages. Both the Dracula and Lilith stories were quite good. The fan page was dropped in favor of a
features page, which featured the same content for all
48. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (June 1973)
1) Dracula: The Son Of Dracula [Bill DuBay/Rich
Buckler & Bill DuBay] 10p
2) The Mummy Walks: …And An End! [Steve
Skeates/Jaime Brocal] 10p
3) Think Of Me And I’ll Be There! [Jack
Butterworth/Martin
4) Curse Of The Werewolf: On A Stalking Moonlit
Night! [Al Milgrom/Rich Buckler & Bill
DuBay] 10p
5) The Resurrection Man [Jack Butterworth/Paul
Neary] 7p
6) Dax The Warrior: The Sacrifice [Esteban Maroto
& Len Wein/Esteban Maroto] 8p
[story
credited solely to Maroto]
7) Eerie’s Delights! [same as Creepy #53] 1p [text articles]
Notes: Eerie began its
transformation to a series dominated magazine.
The Dracula story ended abruptly here, unfinished, with the next
promised installment to have been entitled ‘Princess Of Bathory Castle!’ Both the Mummy & Werewolf serials started
out quite nicely, with Brocal providing perfectly moody art for Steve Skeates’
Mummy scripts and Al Milgrom, better known today as an artist, delivering a
strong script for the Werewolf. Both of
these series, however, later had sharp declines in quality—crippled by
rambling, overlong storylines, idiotic team-ups and writer/artist changes. The Dax story was quite good but the rest of
the stories were rather bland.
49. cover: Enrich Torres (July 1973)
1) A Guest Editorial By Phil
Seuling [Phil Seuling] ½p [text article
on letters’ page]
2) Marvin, The Dead-Thing: One
Is The Loneliest Number [Al Milgrom/Esteban Maroto] 12p
3) The Mummy Walks: The Death Of
A Friend! [Steve Skeates/Jaime Brocal] 10p
4) Curse Of The Werewolf:
Midnight Prey [Al Milgrom/Rich Buckler & Bill DuBay] 8p
5) The Alien Nation: Over
Population! [Rich Margopoulos/Paul Neary] 12p
6) Fear Itself! [Steve
Skeates/Isidro Mones] 7p
7) Dax The Warrior: The Vampire [Esteban Maroto
& Don McGregor/Esteban Maroto] 8p
[story
credited solely to Maroto]
8) The Eerie Eye! [same as Creepy #54] 1p [text articles]
Notes: The cover & interior
story ‘Marvin, The Dead-Thing’ spoofed the Swamp Monster craze, particularly
DC’s Swamp Thing & Marvel’s Man-Thing.
Marv Wolfman supposedly regarded this story’s title as a jab at his
short editorial stint at
50. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Aug. 1973)
1) Escape From The
Creepy-Crawley-Castle Game! [Bill DuBay] 3p
[game; frontis, interior page
& on inside back cover]
2) The Mummy Walks: The Mind
Within [Steve Skeates/Jaime Brocal] 10p
3) The Eerie Eye! [same as
Creepy #56] 1p [text articles]
4) Curse Of The Werewolf!: This
Evil Must Die [Al Milgrom/Martin
5) Satanna, Daughter Of Satan!:
Genesis Of Depravity! [Doug Moench/Ramon Torrents] 5p
6) Monarch’s Return [John
Jacobson/Paul Neary] 6p
7) Lord’s Wrath [John
Jacobson/Aldoma] 8p
8) The Disciple [Steve
Skeates/Isidro Mones] 8p
9) Dax The Warrior: The Secret Of Pursiahz [Esteban
Maroto & ?/Esteban Maroto] 8p
[story
credited solely to Maroto]
Notes: After the harsh criticism of
Creepy’s 50th issue,
51. cover: Manuel Sanjulian & cover
montage (Sept. 1973)
1) Monster Match [Bill DuBay]
2½p [game; frontis, interior page &
on inside back cover]
2) A Stranger In Hell [T. Casey Brennan/Esteban
Maroto] 7p reprinted from Eerie #38
(Feb.
1972)
3) Pity The Grave Digger! [Buddy Saunders/Rafael
Auraleon] 6p reprinted from Eerie #40
(June
1972)
4) The Caterpillars [Fred Ott/Luis Garcia] 8p reprinted from Eerie #41 (Aug. 1972)
5) Evil Spirits! [Archie Goodwin/Johnny Craig]
10p reprinted from Eerie #16 (July
1968)
6) Eerie #40 & Creepy #46 Covers Poster [Manuel
Sanjulian] 1p [one reproduction on each
side]
7) Head Shop [Don Glut/Jose Bea] 6p reprinted from Eerie #39 (Apr. 1972)
8) Vision Of Evil [Archie Goodwin/Alex Toth] 6p reprinted from Eerie #2 (Mar. 1966)
9) The Curse Of Kali! [Archie Goodwin/Angelo Torres]
7p reprinted from Eerie #6 (Nov. 1966)
Notes: The 1973 Eerie Annual. Price increased to $1.00, presumably to pay
for the double-sided wall poster within.
Sanjulian’s cover art is lifted from his Cousin Eerie poster, which was
sold in the Captain Company ad pages.
52. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Nov. 1973)
1) Werewolf! [Bill DuBay]
2p [game; frontis & on inside back
cover]
2) The Eerie Eye! [same as
Creepy #57] 1p [text articles]
3) The Mummy Walks: Ghoulish
Encounter [Steve Skeates/Jaime Brocal] 10p
4) Curse Of The Werewolf:
Darkling Revelation [Al Milgrom/Martin
5) Hunter [Rich Margopoulos/Paul
Neary] 10p
6) The Beheaded [John
Jacobson/Aldoma] 10p
7) The Golden Kris Of Hadji
Mohammed [George Henderon/Isidro Mones] 8p
from the story by
Frederick Moore
8) Dax The Warrior: Death Rides
This Night! [Esteban Maroto & Al Milgrom/Esteban Maroto] 8p
[story credited solely to
Maroto]
Notes: Nice cover from
Sanjulian. Future ‘Batman Animated’
director Kevin Altieri sent in a letter.
One of Eerie’s most popular serials, ‘Hunter’, debuted. Dax’s final appearance set the tone for
almost all the
53. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Jan. 1974)
1) Wart Monster Of Tennessee
[Doug Moench/Rich Buckler & Bill DuBay] 2p
[frontis & on
inside back
cover]
2) The Eerie Eye! [same as
Creepy #58] 1p [text articles]
3) The Mummy Walks: Enter-Mr.
Hyde [Steve Skeates/Jaime Brocal] 10p
4) Curse Of The Werewolf: To
Save A Witch’s Soul! [Al Milgrom/Martin
5) Hunter, part 2 [Rich
Margopoulos/Paul Neary] 10p
6) Schreck: First Night Of Terror!
[Doug Moench/Vicente Alcazar & Neal Adams] 12p
7) Fathom Haunt: Spawn Of The Dead Thing [Tom
Sutton] 9p
8) Two Vampirella’s Stun 5,500 At 1973 Comic Art
Convention [Garry Boudreau] 1p [text
article w/photo]
Notes: Nice cover for the Mummy
series by Sanjulian. Even top heavy with
series, this was a pretty good issue.
54. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Feb. 1974)
1) A Few Words And Pictures
About Our Brand New Comic Magazine [Bill DuBay/Will Eisner
& Bill DuBay] 2p [text article, frontis & on inside back
cover]
2) Eerie Eye [Warren Magazine
Questionarre/Jack Butterworth Profile [Bill DuBay/Martin
3) The Mummy Walks: Stranger In
A Village Of The Insane! [Steve Skeates/Jaime Brocal] 10p
4) Curse Of The Werewolf: To
Cure This Curse! [Steve Skeates/Martin
5) Hunter, part 3 [Rich
Margopoulos/Paul Neary] 10p
6) The Christmas Spirit Of 1947
[Will Eisner] 7p [color] reprinted from The Spirit section (Dec.
21, 1947)
7) The Spirit Ad [Will Eisner]
1p [color]
8) Schreck: Bright Eyes! [Doug
Moench/Vicente Alcazar] 12p
9) Doctor Archaeus: The Evil
That Men Do [Gerry Boudreau/Isidro Mones] 9p
10) Presenting the 1973 Warren
Awards [Bill DuBay] 2p [text article]
Notes: Price increased to $1.00 and
size increased to 80 pages. Steve
Skeates took over the troubled Werewolf serial and promptly turned him into a
were-mummy! The new Spirit magazine is
sampled by a Spirit story appearing in the color section.
55. cover: Ken Kelly (Mar. 1974)
1) The Spirit Ad [Will Eisner]
1p [frontis]
2) The Eerie Eye [same as Creepy
#60] 1p [text articles w/photo]
3) Schreck:
4) Schreck: No Flies On Schreck!
[Doug Moench/Vicente Alcazar] 14p
5) The Spirit: Bucket Of Blood
[Will Eisner/John Spranger & Will Eisner] 7p [color]
reprinted
from The Spirit section
(June 16, 1946)
6) Dracula Ad [Esteban Maroto]
1p [color]
7) Hunter, part 4 [Budd
Lewis/Paul Neary] 10p
8) Doctor Archaeus: The Quest Of
The Golden Dove [Gerry Boudreau/Isidro Mones] 10p
Notes: Size decreased to 72
pages. Both ‘The Mummy Walks’ and ‘Curse
Of The Werewolf’ serials were missing in action so Schreck concluded his run
with his final two chapters. Not a great
serial but not bad either. The Mummy wouldn’t
return until #61. Nice cover by Ken
Kelly of Hunter with another tasty sampling of the Spirit in the color
section. Budd Lewis took over the Hunter
serial for one episode.
56. cover: Ken Kelly (Apr. 1974)
1) The Spirit Ad [Will Eisner]
1p [frontis]
2) The Eerie Eye [same as Creepy
#61] 1p [text articles w/photo]
3) Curse Of The Werewolf: …There
Was A Were-Mummy [Steve Skeates/Martin
4) Hunter, part 5 [Bill
DuBay/Paul Neary] 10p
5) Wizard Wagstaff [Jack
Butterworth/Richard Corben] 8p [color]
6) It Returns! [Carl Wessler/Enrique Badia Romero]
10p
7) Doctor Archaeus: The Night Of
The Red Death [Gerry Boudreau/Isidro Mones] 10p
Notes: Bill DuBay took over the
writing chores on Hunter. ‘It’ first
appeared in Creepy #53, a year earlier.
This serial skipped back and forth between Eerie and Creepy over an
extended period of time, making it rather hard to keep track of events. ‘Wizard Wagstaff’ was another humorous
fantasy story by Corben.
57. cover: Ken Kelly (June 1974)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) The Eerie Eye [same as Creepy
#62] 1p [text articles w/photo]
3) The Spook: Stridspider Sponge-Rot [Doug
Moench/Esteban Maroto] 10p
4) Hunter, part 6 [Bill DuBay/Paul Neary] 8p
5) The Hacker: Hide From The Hacker! [Steve
Skeates/Tom Sutton] 10p
6) Child [Greg Potter/Richard Corben] 8p [color]
7) It: The Terror Of
8) Doctor Archaeus: A Switch In Time… [Gerry
Boudreau/Isidro Mones] 10p
Notes: Great Ken Kelly cover
depicting Hunter. Future ‘Batman
Animated’ artist & director Kevin Altieri
sent in a letter suggesting that
58. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (July 1974)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) The Eerie Eye [same as Creepy
#63 minus the Wrightson illo] 1p [text
articles]
3) Enter: The Exterminator aka
They Eat Babies…Don’t They? [Bill DuBay/Esteban Maroto] 8p
4) The Spook: Webtread’s
Powercut [Doug Moench/Leopold Sanchez] 8p
5) The
6) Child: Mind Of The Mass!
[Greg Potter/Richard Corben] 8p [color]
7) The Spook: Knucklebones To
Fever Twitch [Doug Moench/Leopold Sanchez] 13p
8) Doctor Archaeus: Carnage In
Costume [Gerry Boudreau/Isidro Mones] 10p
Notes: The Spook, now illustrated
by Leopold Sanchez, was cover featured and had two stories within. This was Sanchez’s American debut. There were more fine episodes of Child and
Doctor Archaeus while Bill DuBay began a new series with the Exterminator {sort
of—the Exterminator who appears in this story is not the same robot who would
appear in the next installment}. Best
story & art, however, belonged to Berni Wrightson’s masterful ‘The Pepper
Lake Monster’, with Wrightson at the top of his form.
59. cover: Ken Kelly/back cover: Manuel
Sanjulian (Aug. 1974)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Esteban Maroto & Berni Wrightson] 1p [frontis]
2) Dax The Damned [Esteban
Maroto & Budd Lewis/Esteban Maroto] 8p
reprinted from Eerie
#39 (Apr. 1972)
3) Dax The Damned: The
reprinted from Eerie #40
(June 1972) [one page edited out]
4) Dax The Damned: Chess
[Esteban Maroto & Budd Lewis/Esteban Maroto] 8p [color]
reprinted from Eerie #41
(Aug. 1972)
5) Dax The Damned: Let The Evil
One Sleep [Estaban Maroto & Budd Lewis/Esteban Maroto] 8p
reprinted from Eerie #43
(Nov. 1972)
6) Dax The Damned: The
reprinted from Eerie #44
(Dec. 1972) [formerly entitled ‘
7) Dax The Damned: The Witch…The
Maneater [Esteban Maroto & Budd Lewis/Esteban Maroto]
8p reprinted from Eerie #45 (Feb. 1973) [formerly entitled ‘The Witch’]
8) Dax The Damned: Cyclops [Esteban Maroto &
Budd Lewis/Esteban Maroto] 8p reprinted
from Eerie #46 (Mar.
1973) [formerly entitled ‘The Giant’]
9) Dax The Damned: Starlight
[Esteban Maroto & Budd Lewis/Esteban Maroto] 8p reprinted
from Eerie #47 (Apr.
1973) [formerly entitled ‘Gemma-5’]
10) Dax The Damned: The Lord’s
Prayer [Esteban Maroto & Budd Lewis/Esteban Maroto] 8p
reprinted from Eerie #48
(June 1973) [formerly entitled ‘The
Sacrifice’]
11) Dax The Damned: Death Rides
This Night! [Esteban Maroto & Budd Lewis/Esteban Maroto]
8p reprinted from Eerie #52 (Nov. 1973)
Notes: Price increased to $1.25
& size increased to 96 pages. The
1974 Eerie Annual. For this reprinting
of the Dax stories, all were rewritten and the series retitled by Budd Lewis
(sort of making them new all over again), with several receiving new titles as
well. One Dax tale, from Eerie #50—‘The
Secret Of Pursiahz’—was not reprinted.
60. cover: Ken Kelly/back cover: Berni
Wrightson (Sept. 1974)
1) The Eerie Eye: Budd Lewis
Profile/Child, Archaeus, Exterminator And The Jackassers Are
Here But Still No Coffin/The
Creative Man—Dube: Inside A Big City Editor [Budd
Lewis & Bill DuBay/Bill
Dubay] 1p [text articles w/photo]
2) Night Of The Jackass: 24
Hours Of Hell! [Bruce Bezaire/Jose Ortiz] 12p
3) Nightfall [Bill DuBay/Berni
Wrightson] 8p
4) Exterminator One [Bill
DuBay/Paul Neary] 8p
5) Child: Childhood’s End [Budd
Lewis/Richard Corbin] 8p [color]
6) The Man Hunters [Gerry
Boudreau/Wally Wood] 8p [color]
7) The Unholy Creation [Steve
Skeates/Leopold Sanchez] 9p
8) Doctor Archeaus: Interlude
[Gerry Boudreau/Isidro Mones] 10p
Notes: Back to $1.00 & 72
pages. Ken Kelly’s cover was good but
the real prize was Berni Wrightson’s stunning cover painting, the only cover he
did for
61. cover: Ken Kelly (Nov. 1974)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) The Eerie Eye: Real Heroes Die! Don’t They? [same as Creepy #66 except for a
short article
by Bill DuBay] 1p [text articles w/photo]
3) Coffin: Death Wish! [Budd
Lewis/Jose Ortiz] 10p
4) Killer Hawk [Bill DuBay/Wally
Wood] 12p [part of the Exterminator
series]
5) Cotton Boy & Captain
Blood! [Gerry Boudreau/Leopold Sanchez] 12p
6) The Mummies Walk: A
7) Doctor Archeaus:
Foreplay/Penetration [Gerry Boudreau/Isidro Mones] 10p
Notes: After many delays, the new
Western serial Coffin finally debuted.
It was pretty good too. Future
artist Ken Meyer, Jr. sent in a letter.
Both the Mummy & the Werewolf returned after a long hiatus, teamed
up now in a cluttered story with new illustrator Joaquin Blazquez. Doctor Archeaus concludeed his run with some
rather coy titles. Let’s just say the
climax wasn’t quite as powerful as the foreplay. Still it was a fine series.
62. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Jan. 1975)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) The Eerie Eye [same as Creepy
#67] 1p [text articles w/photos]
3) Apocalypse: The War [Budd Lewis/Jose Ortiz] 10p
4) Cool Air [Berni Wrightson] 7p from the story by H. P. Lovecraft
5) The Spook: Crackermeyer’s Churchyard [Budd
Lewis/Leopold Sanchez] 10p
6) The Butcher: ‘Forgive Us Our Trespasses’ [Bill
DuBay/Richard Corben] 8p [color]
7) This Unholy Creation: Circus Of Pain [Steve
Skeates/Leopold Sanchez] 10p
8) The Mummies Walk: Death Be
Proud! [Steve Skeates/Joaquin Blasquez] 10p
Notes: A great new series by Budd
Lewis & Jose Ortiz began.
‘Apocalypse’ was beautifully drawn and well written throughout its
run. Along with the Jackass series, it’s
a series crying out for reprinting.
Wrightson delivered a tasty adaptation of Lovecraft while Budd Lewis
took over the scripting of the Spook series.
In the Mummy series, Arthur Lemming, the Werewolf finally met his
death. DuBay & Corben’s ‘The
Butcher’ wasn’t really a horror story at all, but a 1930s gangland
melodrama. Quite a good one, too.
63. cover: Manuel Sanjulian/back cover: Ken
Kelly (Feb. 1975)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) The Eerie Eye [same as Creepy
#68] 1p [text article w/photo]
3) Night Of The Jackass: Strom Before The Calm!
[Bruce Bezaire/Jose Ortiz] 10p
4) Hollow Of The Three Hills
[Rich Margopoulos/Esteban Maroto] 8p
from the story by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
5) The Spook: Stumpful Of
Grandaddies! [Budd Lewis/Leopold Sanchez] 10p
6) Exterminator One, part 2
[Bill DuBay/Paul Neary] 8p [color]
7) The Mummy Walks: Insanity! [Steve Skeates/Joaquin
Blasquez] 10p
8) Apocalypse: The Famine [Budd Lewis/Jose Ortiz]
12p
Notes: $1.25 & 80 page
issue. Nice back cover by Ken Kelly of
Exterminator One. An equally fine front
cover by Sanjulian featuring Night Of The Jackass. A very good issue with a beautiful adapation
of Hawthorne by Margopoulos & Maroto, fine installments of ‘Night Of The
Jackass’ and ‘Apocalypse’ and, thankfully, the end of the increasing silly Mummy
series.
64. cover: Ken Kelly (Mar. 1975)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Night Of The Jackass: The
Children’s Hour [Bruce Bezaire/Jose Ortiz] 10p
3) Everything You Always Wanted
To Know…About The Comics!: The Story [Bill DuBay] 1p
[text article]
4) Exterminator One, part 3
[Bill DuBay/Paul Neary] 8p
5) The Butcher: Bye-Bye Miss American Dream [Bill
DuBay/Richard Corben] 8p
6) Daddy And The Pie [Bill DuBay/Alex Toth] 8p
7) The Spook: The Caul [Budd Lewis/Leopold Sanchez]
12p
8) Apocalypse: The Plague [Budd Lewis/Jose Ortiz]
10p
Notes: The Exterminator was cover featured again while
The Eerie Eye feature page was dropped.
The price reverted to $1.00 and the page count was at 72. Exterminator One & the Butcher concluded
their series on high notes but the best story & art was the excellent
‘Daddy And The Pie’, a story tailor-made for Toth’s type of art. This 1930s era story of a visting alien
encountering prejudice and racial hatred was a real winner. It was very popular with readers and a sequel
was done although neither DuBay nor Toth had a hand in that.
65. Ken Kelly (Apr. 1975)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Everything You Always Wanted
To Know…About The Comics!: Lettering [Bill DuBay] 1p
[text article]
3) Night Of The Jackass: Endstorm! [Bruce
Bezaire/Jose Ortiz] 10p
4) The Hacker: The Hacker Is
Back [Steve Skeates/Alex Toth] 10p
5) The Spook And Crackermeyer: Coming Storm…A
Killing Rain! [Budd Lewis/Leopold
Sanchez] 12p
6) El Cid And The Troll! [Budd
Lewis/Gonzalo Mayo] 8p
7) Apocalypse: The Death [Budd
Lewis/Jose Ortiz] 13p
8) Presenting The 1974 Warren
Awards [Bill DuBay] 2p [text article]
9) El Cid Ad [Gonzalo Mayo]
1p [on back cover]
Notes: The Spook is cover featured.
There was a new letters’ page logo. Both ‘Night Of The Jackass’ and ‘Apocalypse’
finished their runs. Both of them were
great series. ‘The Hacker’ returned in
his first appearance since #57 with Toth now the artist. El Cid, a fantasy look at the legendary character,
was previewed with a short story before the next issue’s El Cid Special.
66. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (June 1975)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) El Cid…Our Recreated
Legend! A Budd Lewis-Conzalo Mayo First!
[Bill DuBay/Gonzalo
Mayo & Bill DuBay]
½p [text article on letters’ page]
3) El Cid: The Seven Trials
[Bill DuBay & Budd Lewis/Gonzalo Mayo] 28p
4) El Cid And The Vision [Gerry
Boudreau & Budd Lewis/Gonzalo Mayo] 8p
5) El Cid: The Lady And The Lie
[Gerry Boudreau & Budd Lewis/Gonzalo Mayo] 8p
6) El Cid: The Emir Of Aragon
[Jeff Rovin & Budd Lewis/Gonzalo Mayo] 10p
Notes: An El Cid Special. Despite the ads telling of a book-length
epic, this is actually a series of short stories gathered together. They’re not bad stories, just not great. Mayo’s artwork at this point was beautiful to
look at, but his cluttered panels tended to obstruct the flow of the
story.
67. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Aug. 1975)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Everything You Always Wanted
To Know…About The Comics!: The Art [Bill DuBay] 1p
[text article]
3) Coffin: Death’s Dark Curse
[Budd Lewis/Jose Ortiz] 10p
4) Hunter II [Budd Lewis/Paul
Neary] 11p
5) The Hacker: The Hacker’s Last
Stand! [Steve Skeates/Alex Toth] 10p
6) Papa Voodoo: The Man Named
Gold! [Budd Lewis/Leopold Sanchez] 12p
7) Merlin: The Kingmaker [Budd Lewis/Esteban Maroto]
12p
Notes: The Western horror hero,
Coffin, returned. The Hacker concluded
his run—quite nicely too. Papa Voodoo
was a sequel of sorts to The Spook.
Hunter II and Merlin debuted. In
my opinion, Hunter II was a better serial than the much more popular
Hunter. Merlin had fine art by Maroto
but only appeared once more. Shame
really, it seemed like it had potential.
68. cover: Ken Kelly (Sept. 1975)
1) Everything You Always Wanted
To Know…About The Comics!: Production [Bill DuBay] 1p
[text article]
2) Coffin: Half Walk [Budd
Lewis/Jose Ortiz] 12p
3) Hunter II: Goblin [Budd
Lewis/Paul Neary] 10p
4) Godeye! [Budd Lewis/Leopold
Sanchez] 14p
5) The Muck Monster [Berni
Wrightson] 7p [color]
6) Deep Brown And Jorum [Jim Stenstrum/Esteban
Maroto] 12p
7) Hunter II Ad [Paul Neary] 1p [on back cover]
Notes: $1.25 & 80 pages
long. One of Eerie’s best issues! A great Hunter II cover by Kelly gave a heads
up to the great work within. An
Exterminator robot popped up in Hunter II and remained for the rest of the
series. Another good entry of Coffin,
but the best stuff was new. A very funny
‘Godeye!’ managed a literary hat trick by being both cynical and warm-hearted. Wrightson’s ‘The Muck Monster’ was
Frankenstein’s monster in all but name.
Beautifully written & drawn, it’s basically a tone poem that foreshadowed
the type of work Alan Moore would do in Swamp Thing. It was supposed to be in B&W but at the
last minute became a color section.
Normally that would spell doom for the art but here the coloring was
quite lovely. The colorist was
uncredited but whoever they were did a great job. My favorite story, however, was Jim Stenstrum
& Esteban Maroto’s lusty, funny, sad & poignant ‘Deep Brown And
Jorum’. It told, in one story, the
entire careers of a couple of rogues, who are similar to Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd
& the Grey Mouser, with the first half of the story detailing their first
meeting, then for four pages thereafter featuring two synopsises per page of
their many adventures together while along the top of each page {ala
‘Collector’s Edition’} their last adventure takes place, concluding in the last
two pages. I reread it a couple of
minutes ago and that last page still chokes me up. “And together, they were LEGEND.” Damn right.
69. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Oct. 1975)
1) Hunter Pin-Up [Paul Neary]
1p [with a Berni Wrightson illo of
Cousin Eerie introducing the
annual]
2) Hunter [Rich Margopoulos [pgs
1-30], Budd Lewis [pgs 31-40] & Bill
DuBay [pgs 41-
58]/Paul Neary] 58p [last 8 pages in color] reprinted from Eerie #52-57 (Nov. 1973-
June 1974)
Notes: The 1975 Eerie Annual.
70. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Nov. 1975)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Coffin: The Final
3) Hunter II: Goblin Thrust
[Budd Lewis/Paul Neary] 10p
4) Code Name: Slaughter Five:
From The Cradle To The Grave [Gerry Boudreau/Leopold
Sanchez] 10p
5) El Cid: Crooked Mouth [Budd
Lewis/Gonzalo Mayo] 10p
6) Oogie And The Junkers [Bill
DuBay/Esteban Maroto] 8p
Notes: As mentioned in the notes
for Creepy, at this point
71. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Jan. 1976)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Goblin [Budd Lewis/Jose
Ortiz] 8p
3) Hunter II: Time In Expansion
[Budd Lewis/Paul Neary] 10p
4) Irving And The Devilpie [Bill
DuBay/Leopold Sanchez] 6p
5) Pooter And The Magic Man
[Bill DuBay/Luis
6) El Cid: Demon’s Treasure [Budd Lewis/Gonzalo
Mayo] 10p
7) Mordecai Moondog [Bill DuBay/Esteban Maroto] 9p
Notes: Not much series action in
this issue with only Hunter II & El Cid making an appearance. The Goblin made his first appearance in what
was clearly intended as a stand alone story.
The character was revived in 1982 in The Rook and received his own
short-lived magazine later that year.
The best story & art, however, was the DuBay/Maroto story ‘Mordecai
Moondog’.
72. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Feb. 1976)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Berni Wrightson] 1p
[frontis]
2) Cousin Eerie’s Crypt [Louise
Jones?] 1p [questionnaire]
3) The Demons Of Jeremiah Cold aka Daddy Was A Demon
Man [Bill DuBay/Jose Ortiz] 15p
4) Hunter II: The
5) Reuben Youngblood: Private
Eye!: Beware The Scarlet Combine [Budd Lewis/Howard
Chaykin & Berni
Wrightson] 10p
6) The Freaks: A Thin Dime Of
Pain [Doug Moench/Leopold Sanchez] 8p
[color]
7) The Pie And I [Budd
Lewis/Luis
8) Tales Of Peter Hypnos: The
Incredible People-Making Machines [Jose Bea] 8p
Notes: $1.25 & 80 pages. Hunter II & the Exterminator made the
cover. Future artist Ken Meyer, Jr. sent
in a letter as did future writer Stephen Perry.
Reuben Youngblood, like Chaykin’s character Dominic Fortune for Marvel,
was clearly a revamping of his Atlas/Seaboard character The Scorpion. All three variations on the character were
good. A second Youngblood story was also
done at this time but for some reason didn’t appear until 1982! The Chaykin/Wrightson art team worked
surprisingly well together. After the
previous issue’s lack of series, this issue made up for it by debuting three
new ones. The Freaks was uninspired but
Bea’s Peter Hypnos series was quite interesting. ‘The Pie And I’ was a sequel to the
DuBay/Toth story ‘Daddy And The Pie’ but wasn’t nearly as good.
The Louise Jones Era
73. cover: Ken Kelly (Mar. 1976)
1) Hunter II: Death Of The
2) The Freaks: Carnival At
Midnight [Budd Lewis/Leopold Sanchez] 10p
3) Day Of The Vampire 1992: The
Tombspawn [Bill DuBay/Gonzalez Mayo] 10p
4) It!: A Grave Terror Leads To
Death! [Carl Wessler/Jose Gual] 10p
5) Tales Of Peter Hypnos: Voyage To The Final Hole
[Jose Bea] 11p
Notes: Hunter II and the
Exterminator were again cover featured.
Back to $1.00 and 64 pages with James Warren listed as editor-in-chief
& Louise Jones as assistant editor during her tryout period. Hunter II’s series was concluded. It, the Dead Thing, took his final bow. Peter Hypnos again had the best story &
art.
74. cover: Ken Kelly (May 1976)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction
[Louise Jones/Rafael Auraleon] 1p
[frontis]
2) Warren Publishing Company
Will Pay A $500 Reward… [James Warren] 1p
[text article]
3) The Demons Of Jedediah Pan
[Bill DuBay/Jose Ortiz] 8p
4) Father Creator [Bill
DuBay/Paul Neary] 8p
5) Merlin: A Secret King [Budd
Lewis/Gonzalo Mayo] 20p
6) The Expedition! [Budd
Lewis/Leopold Sanchez] 10p
7) Presenting The 1975
Notes: Jedediah Pan was cover
featured, with a fine Kelly painting.
Merlin made his second and final appearance. Too bad, as both entries of his serieswere
quite good. With only four stories this
issue seemed rather slight.
75. cover: panel from the interior story
‘Invasion’ (June 1976)
1) The Demons Of Jeremiah Cold
[Bill DuBay/Jose Ortiz] 12p
2) The Freaks: The One Eyed Shall Be King! [Budd
Lewis/Leopold Sanchez] 6p
3) Oogie And The Worm! [Bill DuBay/Esteban Maroto]
10p
4) Invasion [Esteban Maroto/Jose
Bea] 5p reprinted from Dracula Book One
(1972) [story
miscredited to
Bea]
5) Gillian Taxi And The Sky
Pirates [Budd Lewis/Luis
Notes: One of the crappiest looking
covers Warren published. It wasn’t so
much that Bea’s artwork was bad, it wasn’t.
It was the bizarre choice of hot pink surrounding the relatively small
art panel, which made the cover look
like an nasty Valentine card! This was
the final appearance of The Freaks. Not
surprising since, except for Sanchez’s art, this series was a snooze.
76. cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Aug. 1976)
1) The Moonweavers: Deliver The
Child [Budd Lewis/Leopold Sanchez] 10p
2) The Comic Books [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) Wolfer O’Connell: Highsong
[Budd Lewis/Luis
4) Oogie & The Scroungers
[Bill DuBay/Esteban Maroto] 13p
5) Tales Of Peter Hypnos: The
Silver Key [Jose Bea] 9p
6) Darklon The Mystic! [Jim Starlin] 8p
Notes: Louise Jones was now listed
as Senior Editor while Bill DuBay was listed as a contributing editor. The Moonweavers was a greatly improved
spinoff from The Freaks series, with beautiful art by Sanchez. Wolfer O’Connel was a pretty good character
who only appeared in two widely separated stories. The Oogie entry continued the downward tread
of Maroto’s art. Best stories & art
would go to Jose Bea’s Peter Hypnos entry and the debut of Jim Starlin’s
Darklon. Darklon was as close to a
conventional superhero story as
77. cover: Richard Corben (Sept. 1976)
1) Within You…Without You [Bruce Jones/Richard
Corben] 10p
2) The Moonweavers: The Gift [Budd Lewis/Leopold
Sanchez] 10p
3) Demons Of Nob Hill [Bill DuBay/Jose Ortiz] 10p
4) The Demons Of Father Pain [Bill DuBay/Jose Ortiz]
8p [color]
5) The Comic Books [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
6) Oogie And The Lie [Bill DuBay/Esteban Maroto] 8p
7) Cronk: Stalker In The Maze [Nicola Cuti/Carmine
Infantino & Wayne Howard] 6p
Notes: Richard Corben delivered a
stunningly sexy cover. And it had
dinosaurs, too! He and writer Bruce
Jones’ interior story was the best of a pretty good issue as well. Priced at $1.25 and 72 pages in length. The ‘Demons Of Nob Hill’ was apparently
originally entitled ‘The King Of Nob Hill!’
This was the series finale for Jeremiah & Jedediah Pan. Maroto’s art on Oogie was improved although the
villain in the story appears lifted from a John Buscema villain that appeared
in a
78. cover: montage of interior panels (Oct.
1976)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction [Louise Jones/Berni
Wrightson & Jaime Brocal] 1p [frontis,
Brocal’s art is from story
panels]
2) The Mummy Walks: The Death Of
A Fiend [Steve Skeates/Jaime Brocal] 10p
reprinted from
Eerie #49 (July 1973)
3) The Mummy Walks: The Mind
Within [Steve Skeates/Jaime Brocal] 10p
reprinted from Eerie
#50 (Aug. 1973)
4) The Mummy Walks: Ghoulish
Encounter [Steve Skeates/Jaime Brocal] 10p
reprinted from
Eerie #52 (Nov.
1973)
5) The Mummy Walks: Enter Mr.
Hyde [Steve Skeates/Jaime Brocal] 10p
reprinted from Eerie
#53 (Jan. 1974)
6) The Mummy Walks: Stranger In
A Village Of The Insane [Steve Skeates/Jaime Brocal] 10p
reprinted from Eerie #54
(Feb. 1974)
7) The Mummy Walks: …And An End
[Steve Skeates/Jaime Brocal] 8p [color,
two pages
deleted] reprinted from Eerie #48 (June 1973)
8) The Hope Of The Future [Doug
Moench/Jamie Brocal] 8p reprinted from
Creepy #57 (Nov.
1973)
9) The Comic Books [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
Notes: The 1976 Eerie Annual. $1.50 & 80 pages. Pretty much a fix-up collection.
79. cover: Ken Kelly (Nov. 1976)
1) Time And Time Again [Bruce Jones/Richard Corben]
10p
2) The Comic Books: Tarzan’s Travails [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) The Pea-Green Boat [Budd Lewis/Leopold Sanchez]
8p
4) Darklon The Mystic: The Price [Jim Starlin] 9p
5) Third Person Singular [Bruce Jones/Luis
6) Sam’s Son And Delilah! [Bruce Jones/Carmine
Infantino & Al Milgrom] 14p
Notes: $1.25 & 72 pages. Somewhat of a companion issue to Creepy #84’s
sports issue as this one also featured a Ken Kelly sports cover and an interior
sports story, both probably overflow from the Creepy issue. The Jones/Corben sequel to ‘Time And Again…’
was very good. ‘The Pea-Green Boat’ was a
limp new series. ‘Third Person Singular’
was also a rather limp effort, although for other reasons, as
80. cover: Ken Kelly (Jan. 1977)
1) Scallywag: The Invisible One [Budd Lewis/Jose
Ortiz] 8p
2) Darklon The Mystic: Retribution [Jim Starlin] 9p
3) The Pea Green Boat: On
4) Tombspawn: Pieces Of Hate [Gerry Boudreau/Gonzalo
Mayo] 8p
5) Third Person Singular, part 2 [Bruce Jones/Luis
Bermejo] 10p
6) Cronk: Queen Of The
Notes: Steve Perry, future comic
writer, & Wayne Faucher, future inker, sent in letters. If one could pick an artist for a strip set
in the orient, Jose Ortiz’s name wouldn’t be the first (or second or third) to
come to mind. However, he did quite a
respectable job on Scallywag. This was
Cronk’s last outing, although a third story by Cuti & Infantino was started,
pages of which appear in The Warren Companion.
81.cover: Frank Frazetta (Feb. 1977)
1) And Now…Introducing Exciting
Eerie No. 81! [Louise Jones/Dick Giordano, Carmine
Infantino, Bruce Jones,
Leopoldo Duranona, et al] 1p [text
article, frontis]
2) Goodbye, Bambi Boone [
3) The Comic Books: Less Is More
[Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
4) Taking Of Queen Bovine [Gerry
Boudreau/Ramon Torrents] 8p
5) The Bride Of
6) You’re A Big Girl Now [Bruce
Jones/Richard Corben] 10p [pages 2-9 in
color]
7) Starchild [Louise Jones &
David Michelinie/Jose Ortiz] 5p
8) The Giant Ape Suit [Roger
McKenzie/Luis
9) Golden Girl [Nicola
Cuti/Leopold Sanchez] 8p
Notes: Frazetta’s cover, ‘Queen
Kong’, was painted in 1971 and was originally intended for
82. cover: Bill DuBay & Luis Bermejo
(Mar. 1977)
1) The Rook: The Man Whom Time
Forgot! [Bill DuBay/Luis
2) The Comic Books [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) Tombspawn: And Now: The Game Is Afoot [Gerry
Boudreau/Carmine Infantino & Gonzalo
Mayo] 9p
4) Scallywag: Castle Of The
Assassin [Budd Lewis/Jose Ortiz] 8p
5) The Pea Green Boat: In A
Notes: The cover was a fixup
affair, showing DuBay’s original presentation art for The Rook, along with
inserts of interior panel art by
83. cover: Enrich Torres (May 1977)
1) The Rook: The Day Before
Tomorrow [Bill DuBay/Luis
2) The Comic Books [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) Hard John’s Nuclear Hit
Parade: Kansas City Bomber [Jim Stenstrum/Jose Ortiz] 10p
4) Gaffer: Temptation [Roger McKenzie/Leopoldo
Duranona] 9p
5) Presto The Besto [Jim
Stenstrum/Carmine Infantino & Dick Giordano] 8p
Notes: The Rook made his second
cover appearance in a row. The Hard John
series was a continuation of the Hard John Apple story ‘An Angel Shy Of Hell’,
which had appeared in Creepy #64, way back in 1974. The first story was great. The series was fair. Gaffer was another new series and not a bad
one at all.
84. cover: Frank Frazetta (June 1977) reprinted from Eerie #8 (Mar. 1967)
1) The Rook Contest [Bill DuBay] ½p [contest rules on letters’ page]
2) The Comic Books [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) The Rook: Yesterday, The Final Day [Bill
DuBay/Luis
4) Hard John’s Nuclear Hit Parade: Brass Monkey [Jim
Stenstrum/Jose Ortiz] 10p
5) Godeye: Goodbye, Yellow Brick Rhode [Budd
Lewis/Carmine Infantino & Dan Green] 8p
6) He Who Waits In Shadow [Jim Starlin] 6p
7) Presenting The 1977 Warren Awards [Louise
Jones/Bill DuBay, et al] 2p [text
article]
Notes: Page count dropped to 64
pages. Godeye returned, but this second
story was nowhere near the delight the first one was. ‘He Who Waits In Shadow’ was a gloomy
metaphysical explanation by Starlin as to why the last Darklon chapter was
late. Darklon gueststars on the last
page and, although this story was included in the Darklon collection put out by
Pacific Comics in 1983, this was not actually part of the Darklon serial. Rather, it’s a tie-in or companion story. The Warren Awards went to Richard Corben for
best cover on Eerie #77 & best art on ‘In Deep’; best story to Bruce Jones
for ‘In Deep’; best cover artist to Ken Kelly, best all around writer to Bill
DuBay, best all around artist to Leopold Sanchez, a special award for
excellence to Jose Gonzalez and the Renaissance Man special award to Bill
DuBay.
85. cover: Ken Kelly (Aug. 1977)
1) The Rook: Lost To The
2) The Comic Books [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) Hard John’s Nuclear Hit Parade: Gonna Nuke
Mankind Right Outa My Hair [Jim Stenstrum/
Jose Ortiz] 10p
4) Gaffer: First Wish [Roger
McKenzie/Leopoldo Duranona] 11p
5) Blackstar & The Night
Huntress [Gerry Boudreau/Esteban Marato] 8p
6) The Pea Green Boat: Dutchman [Budd Lewis/Leopold
Sanchez] 8p
Notes: Nice cover by Kelly of two
of the Rook’s supporting characters.
Decent enough issue, although nothing really stood out. ‘Blackstar & The Night Huntress’ would
have an extremely tacky sequel appear five years later.
86. cover: Richard Corben (Sept. 1977)
1) Unprovoked Attack On A Hilton
Hotel [Jim Stenstrum/Richard Corben] 8p
reprinted from
Creepy #73 (Aug. 1975)
2) The Comic Books: The Worst
And The Dullest [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
3) 1984 Ad [Joe Vaultz] 1p
4) The Oval Portrait [Rich
Margopoulos/Richard Corben] 8p from the
story by Edgar Allan Poe,
reprinted from
Creepy #69 (Feb. 1975)
5) Shadow [Rich
Margopoulos/Richard Corben] 8p from the
story by Edgar Allan Poe, reprinted
from Creepy #70
(Apr. 1975)
6) Pinball Wizard! [Doug
Moench/Richard Corben] 7p reprinted
from Creepy #66 (Nov. 1974)
7) Change…Into Something
Comfortable [Doug Moench/Richard Corben] 8p
reprinted from
Creepy #58 (Dec.
1973)
8) The Slipped Mickey Click Flip
[Doug Moench/Richard Corben] 10p reprinted from Creepy
#54 (July 1973)
9) Friedhelm The Magnificent
[Greg Potter/Richard Corben] 8p
reprinted from Creepy #46 (July
1972)
10) Frozen Beauty [Richard
Corben] 6p reprinted from Creepy #36
(Dec. 1970)
Notes: The 1977 Eerie Annual. Considering all the stories were reprinted
from Creepy, this probably should have been a Creepy annual. The first 1984 ad appeared, long before the
book had a title and almost a year before actual publication. The book was apparently in response to the
first successful issue of Heavy Metal, which was cover dated Apr. 1977.
87. cover: Frank Frazetta (Oct. 1977) reprinted from Vampirella #7 (Sept. 1970)
1) The Rook: Prisoner In A
Chinese Fortune Cookie or: Bad, Bad Granny Gadget! [Bill
DuBay/Luis
2) The Comic Books [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) Scallywag: The Black Demon’s
Sword [Budd Lewis/Jose Ortiz] 8p
4) Years & Mind Forever
[Bruce Jones/Richard Corben] 10p
5) Gaffer: Second Wish [Roger
McKenzie/Leopoldo Duranona] 14p
6) The Incredible Illusions Of Ira Israel [Roger
McKenzie/Leopold Sanchez] 8p
7) Hunter 3: What Price
Oblivion? [Jim Stenstrum/Alex Nino] 8p
Notes: $1.75 and 96 pages. The Rook’s story title was based on C. M.
Kornbluth’s ‘Ms. Found In A Chinese Fortune Cookie’. The final segment of the Jones/Corbin time
travel series appeared six months late.
Hunter 3 was a spoof of Hunter & Hunter II, not a serious
continuation of nor a sequel to the first two series. Although he had contributed inks to several
stories penciled by Carmine Infantino, Alex Nino made his solo
88. cover: Don Maitz (Nov. 1977)
1) The Rook: Future Shock [Bill
DuBay/Luis
2) Announcing The Grand Prize
Winners Of The Fabulous Warren Rook Contest! [Louise
Jones/Mark Stokes, Gary
Goodman & Paul Daly] 1p [text
article]
3) The Comic Books: A Matter Of
Dues [Joe Brancatelli] 2p [text
article]
4) Scallywag: The Key [Budd
Lewis/Jose Ortiz] 8p
5) Deathball 2100 A.D. [Bill
Mohalley & Nicola Cuti/Dick Giordano] 8p
6) Boiling Point [Bruce
Jones/Leopold Sanchez] 11p
7) Junkyard Battles or Never
Trust An Electric Shaver [Nicola Cuti/Rafael Auraleon] 8p
8) Runner-Ups & More
Finalists! [various] 2p [text article]
Notes: $1.50 & 72 pages. As they had done in the previous year, both
Creepy & Eerie sported a sports cover for their final issue of the year,
although only Creepy’s was completely dedicated to sports. The Rook contest offered readers a chance to
create a robot, villain & gadget for the Rook and see their creations used
in a story. The villain creation--Quarb,
by Gary Goodman, became an important part of the Rook’s storyline. For winning the contest, the creators got
$100 and a three year subscription to Eerie.
Their creations would finally appear over a year later in Eerie #98. Future comic pros appearing in the finalist
segment of the Rook Contest included Dan Reed, Nancy Collins, Steve Ringgenberg
& Gordon Purcell. The Scallywag
series title was replaced by The Black Demon’s Sword for the duration of the
series. I’ve decided to retain the
original series title.
89. cover: Malcolm McNeill (Jan. 1978)
1) The Rook: Trouble In The Time
Factory [Bill DuBay/Luis
2) The Comic Books: Superman
Versus Soccer [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
3) Crystabelle! [Bill
DuBay/Leopoldo Duranona] 9p
4) Francesca [Bruce
Jones/Gonzalo Mayo] 10p
5) Scallywag: The Magician’s
Tower [Budd Lewis/Jose Ortiz] 8p
6) Boiling Point, part 2 [Bruce
Jones/Leopold Sanchez] 10p
Notes: New cover artist Malcolm
McNeill did a number of fine covers for the Marvel B&W’s, particularly on
Planet Of The Apes and The Deadly Hands Of Kung Fu, all under the name Malcolm
McN. This was his only cover for
90. cover: Richard Corben (Feb. 1978)
1) Carrion [Gerry
Boudreau/Gonzalo Mayo] 8p
2) The Show Must Go On! [Roger
McKenzie/Leopoldo Duranona] 6p
3) A Woman Scorned [Bruce
Jones/Richard Corben] 8p [color]
4) The Fianchetto Affair or: A
Matter Of Great Delicacy [Bob Toomey/Jose Ortiz] 8p
5) The Comic Books: Patent
Medicine Profits? [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
6) The Rook: What Is The Color
Of Nothingness? [Bill DuBay/Alex Nino] 20p
Notes: $1.50 cover price. With the exceptation of the Rook story, all
the stories in this issue centered around the Corben cover which featured a
girl reclining on a giant gila monster.
An additional story on the same idea appeared in Creepy at the same
time. The Jones/Corben story was the
best of that bunch. It’s quite a good
effort although the coloring, unlike most of the Corben stories done in color,
does not appear to have been done by Corben himself. The Rook story was probably the best since
his first four appearances, with dazzling artwork by Nino and a pretty sharp
time travel story by DuBay. The Rook
story was also printed sideways.
91. cover: Don Maitz (Mar. 1978)
1) The Rook: The Incredible
Sagas Of Sludge The Unconquorable, Helga The Damned, And
Marmadrake The Magnificent!
[Bill DuBay/Luis
2) The Comic Books: Kiss And
Tell [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
3) Elijah Arnold And The Angel’s
Egg [Jonathan Thomas/Leopoldo Duranona] 8p
4) Francesca, part 2 [Bruce
Jones/Gonzalo Mayo] 10p
5) Moonshadow: Against The Sun
[Bob Toomey/Jose Ortiz] 8p
6) Presenting The 1977
Alex Nino, et al] 2p [text article]
7) 1984 Ad [Richard Corben]
1p [on the back cover, a repo of #1’s
cover]
Notes: One of Maitz’s best covers
for
92. cover: Kim McQuaite (May 1978) [concept by Bill Mohalley]
1) Cold Sweat [Bill DuBay/Jose Ortiz] 8p
2) The Comic Books: Safe At Home? [Joe Brancatelli]
1p [text article]
3) The Rook: Strangers In The Strangest Places!
[Bill DuBay/Axel Laxamana] 10p
4) Let’s Hear It For Homo Sapiens [Gerry
Boudreau/Rafael Auraleon] 8p
5) Moonshadow: Suzanna, Don’t You Cry [Bob
Toomey/Jose Ortiz] 8p
6) Abelmar Jones: Bad Day ‘Cross
7) Gaffer: Final Wish [Roger McKenzie/Leopoldo
Duranona] 9p
Notes: This sports cover, featuring
hockey, and the accompanying story, ‘Cold Sweat’, may have been originally intended
for the never published third all-sports special for Creepy. ‘Let’s Hear It for Homo Sapiens’ was an
overflow story from Creepy’s all-apes special issue #95. Marvel’s Man-Thing made a cameo appearance in
one panel on page one. Abelmar Jones
made his series debut as
93. cover: Don Maitz (June 1978)
1) The Rook: Strangers In The
Strangest Places, part 2 [Bill DuBay/Alfredo Alcala [pgs 1-2] &
Abel Laxamana [pgs 3-11] 12p
2) The Comic Books: Classics
Illustrated R.I.P. [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
3) Honor And Blood [Nicola
Cuti/Leopoldo Duranona] 10p
4) Moonshadow:
5) The Einstein Factor [Pepe
Moreno & Nicola Cuti/Pepe
6) Abelmar Jones: The Slime
Creature Of
Notes: This vampire cover was
probably Maitz’s best cover for
94. cover: Don Maitz (Aug. 1978)
1) The Rook: The Coming Of The
Annihilator [Bill DuBay/Luis
2) The Comic Books: Still More
Kiss [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
3) Honor And Blood, part 2
[Nicola Cuti/Leopoldo Duranona] 8p
4) Dead Man’s Ship [Nicola
Cuti/Isidro Mones] 8p
5) Divine Wind [Louise Jones
& Budd Lewis/Esteban Maroto] 6p
6) Don’t Drink The Water [Gerry
Boudreau/Martin Salvador] 8p
7) Bruce Bloodletter Of The IRS
[Bill DuBay & Fernando Fernandez/Fernando Fernandez] 8p
Notes: A good Maitz cover for a
better than average issue. Future Eclipse
editor Cat Yronwode sent in a letter. Vampirella & Pantha gueststarred in
the Rook story, which took place directly after the Vampi story published six
months earlier in Vampirella #66.
Fernando Fernandez’s educational tax series featuring Bruce Bloodletter
had been done several years previously.
Here, Bill DuBay wrote an entirely new script, turning this into a science-fantasy
tale. Best story was ‘Dead Man’s Ship’,
although ‘Don’t Drink The Water’ was also good.
Best art was Maroto’s from ‘Divine Wind’. The writer or writers for that story were not
listed. The credits I’ve given it come
from the author list on the titlepage. I
assume that Jones didn’t write the story on her own since at this point in her
career she usually didn’t receive sole writing credits on her stories.
95. cover: Jordi Penalva (Sept. 1978)
1) The Rook: Warriors From The Stars [Bill
DuBay/Luis
2) The Comic Books: Death By The Numbers [Joe
Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) Willie’s Super-Magic Basketball [Jim
Stenstrum/Carmine Infantino & Rudy Nebres] 8p
4) Abelmar Jones: Faster Than A Speeding Whozit
[Bill DuBay/Alex Nino] 8p
5) Nuts! [Nicola Cuti/Pablo Marcos] 8p [color]
6) Harrow House [Bruce Jones/Jose Ortiz] 10p
7) Mac Tavish: Caucus On Rara Avis [Jim
Stenstrum/Pepe Moreno] 10p [story
credited to
Alabaster Redzone]
Notes: Penalva received a huge
amount of praise for his covers but I’ve never quite seen the reason why. The aura of mystery essential for a horror or
mystery title just is not there. $1.50
cover price. Vampi & Pantha again gueststarred in the Rook strip. Vampi also shared the cover with the
Rook. ‘Harrow House’ was a fine ghost
story. Unfortunately, it was split in
two with the second half not appearing for another six months! This started to be the norm for a
96. Jordi Penalva (Oct. 1978)
1) Fallen Angels: Revenge
[Guillermo Saccomano & Cary Bates/Leopoldo Duranona] 7p
2) Fallen Angels: The Cutman
[Guillermo Saccomano & Cary Bates/Leopoldo Duranona] 9p
3) Fallen Angels: Explosive
Issue [Guillermo Saccomano & Cary Bates/Leopoldo Duranona] 14p
4) The Comic Books: What Hath
Congress Wrought? [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
5) Mac Tavish: Hero Of Zodiac V
[Jim Stenstrum/Pepe
6) The
7) The Shining Sea [Nicola
Cuti/Alfredo Alcala] 10p
Notes: $1.75 cover price with 88
pages. Mac Tavis was cover
featured. All three Fallen Angels
episodes probably appeared in South America or
97. cover: Val Mayerik (Nov. 1978)
1) Within You…Without You [Bruce
Jones/Richard Corben] 10p reprinted
from Eerie #77 (Sept.
1976)
2) Time And Time Again [Bruce
Jones/Richard Corben] 10p reprinted
from Eerie #79 (Nov.
1976)
3) Years & Mind Forever [Bruce Jones/Richard
Corben] 10p reprinted from Eerie #87 (Oct.
1977)
4) The Comic Books: Roll Over,
Brancatelli [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
5) The Terror Beyond Time!
[Archie Goodwin/Neal Adams] 16p
reprinted from Creepy #15
(June 1967)
Notes: The 1978 Eerie Annual. Nicola Cuti replied on the letters’ page to a
previous letter by a Rick Berry, defending the science in one of his
stories. $1.25 cover price & 64
pages. The nudity in the Jones/Corben
time travel serial had been largely censored since its first appearances. Exactly why is unclear, since
98. cover: Patrick Woodroffe (Jan. 1979)
1) The Rook: Quarb And The
Warball [Bill DuBay/Luis
2) The Comic Books: Notes On
Comix People! [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
3) Got You On My Mind [Bruce
Jones/Russ Heath] 12p
4) Honor & Blood, part 3
[Nicola Cuti/Leopoldo Duranona] 8p
Notes: Honor And Blood, unseen
since #94, concluded its run. The Rook
story uses all of the Rook contest winner creations in a single story.
99. cover: Jordi Penalva (Feb. 1979)
1) The Rook: Hickey And The
Pirates! [Bill DuBay/Jose Ortiz] 20p
2) The Comic Books: The Party
[Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) The Horizon Seekers [Leopoldo
Duranona &
4) The
5) Harrow House, part 2 [Bruce
Jones/Jose Ortiz] 10p
6) A Crack In Time [Louise
Jones/Pablo Marcos] 8p
Notes: The Rook was cover
featured. $1.50 cover price. An ad for Eerie #100 featured art from the
various intended stories and appeared on the letters’ page. A Laura Duranona from
100.
cover: Jordi Penalva (Apr. 1979)
1) The Rook: Master Of Ti Chi
[Bill DuBay/Jimmy Janes & Alfredo Alcala] 30p
2) The Comic Books: Going For
The Bucks [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
3) Presenting The 1978 Warren Awards
[Louise Jones/et al] 2p [text article]
4) Gotterdammerung [Budd
Lewis/Isidro Mones] 10p
5) The Horizon Seekers: In A
Strange Land [Leopoldo Duranona & Cary Bates/Leopoldo
Duranona] 8p
6) Darklon The Mystic: Duel [Jim
Starlin] 13p
Notes: $2.00 cover price & 88
pages in length. The cover depicted a
number of characters who’d starred in serials in Eerie including the Rook,
Coffin, the Spook, Exterminator One, Darklon, Dax & Hunter II. On the letters’ page, Bob Toomey replied to a
previous Nicola Cuti letter. After not
appearing in a story of his own since #80, three years previously, Darkon
returned to conclude his serial. Easily
the best story here, so it was too bad that it took so long to finish it
off. Still, this was a rather lackluster
100th issue, with much of the issue given over to a substandard Rook
episode.
101.
cover: Jim Lauier (June 1979)
1) The Rook: The Martians Are
Coming, The Martians Are Coming! [Bill DuBay/Jim Starlin &
Alfredo Alcala] 18p
2) Gotterdammerung!, part 2 [Budd Lewis/Isidro
Mones] 10p
3) The Horizon Seekers, part 2 [Leopoldo Duranona
& Cary Bates/Leopoldo Duranona] 12p
4) The Comic Books: The Inevitable Superman Story
[Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
5) Hunter II: Three Flames Of The
Notes: $1.75 cover price & 72
pages. A quite blah cover by Lauier
headlined a rather blah issue with only ‘The Horizon Seekers’ episode showing
any real spark. Alcala’s inks erased any
sense of Starlin’s pencils on the Rook strip.
102.
cover: Manuel Sanjulian (July 1979)
1) The Rook: Terror Of The
Spaceways! [Bill DuBay/Lee Elias] 12p
2) The Comic Books: So Much For
Traditions [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
3) The Horizon Seekers: Siege
[Leopoldo Duranona & Cary Bates/Leopoldo Duranona] 9p
4) The Earthquake Stick [Budd
Lewis/Jose Ortiz] 10p
5) Ophiophobia [Bill DuBay/Martin
6) Tracks [Roger McKenzie/Pepe
7) Neatness Counts [Jean Michel
Martin/Joe Vaultz] 4p
Notes: Sanjulian returned for his
first Eerie cover in 3 years but someone appears to have stripped the
background out and the cover is an odd combo of Sanjulian’s earthy tones in the
foreground and a flat white background.
The Horizon Seekers were cover featured.
$1.50 cover price. The best story
here was ‘Tracks’ by the team of McKenzie/Moreno. ‘Ophiophobia’ by DuBay & Salvador was a
throwback to the old horror oriented Eerie that is quite satisfying as
well. The best art was by comics’ master
Lee Elias on the Rook story.
103.
cover: Terrence Lindall (Aug. 1979)
1) The Rook: Terror Of The
Spaceways!, part 2 [Bill DuBay/Lee Elias] 16p
2) The Comic Books: The
Corporate Mad [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
3) The Open Sky: Arianne [Bob
Toomey/Jose Ortiz] 10p
4) The Trespasser [Don
McGregor/Paul Gulacy] 8p
5) Samurai: Credentials [Larry
Hama/Val Mayerik] 8p
6) The Horizon Seekers: The Damned & The Dead
[Leopoldo Duranona &
Duranona] 17p
Notes: Terrence Lindall’s grisly
cover was for ‘The Horizon Seekers’.
$1.75 cover price & 80 pages.
Several of the pages in ‘The Rook’ were reprinted from the previous
issue. Clearly ‘Terror Of The
Spaceways!’ had been intended as a single story that had been cut in two for
publication. The new serial ‘The Open
Sky’ was a prequel to an earlier series, ‘Moonshadow’. The lead character in
‘The Trespasser’ was based on actor James Coburn. ‘Credentials’ was a sequel to ‘The Art Of
Murder’ from Creepy #106. The Warren
Companion gave the series the title ‘Samurai’ but that title doesn’t actually show
up until #108’s titlepage and doesn’t appear on a story until #111. After its abrupt, incomplete ending in Eerie
#111, the series was revived in 1987-1989 {with Chuck Dixon replacing Larry
Hama on scripts} for an independent comic publisher under the title ‘Young
Master’. Whatever title you give it, it
was a fairly good series, clearly based upon the then largely unknown Japanese
classic, Lone Wolf And Cub.
104.
cover: Kirk Reinert (Sept. 1979)
1) The Rook: The Trouble With
Tin Men [Bill DuBay/Jimmy Janes & Alfredo Alcala] 11p
2) The Comic Books: Still
Collecting After All These Years [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text article]
3) The Trespasser: Dusk [Don
McGregor/Paul Gulacy] 8p
4) City Of
5) Beastworld [Bruce Jones/Pablo
Marcos] 11p
6) The Rook Ad [Rudy Nebres] 2p
7) The Open Sky: Vladimir [Bob
Toomey/Jose Ortiz] 10p
8) The Horizon Seekers:
Duranona] 10p
Notes: The new serial, Beastworld,
was cover featured. It was a decent
enough, if not profound, battle of the sexes serial. ‘City Of
105.
cover: Jordi Penalva (Oct. 1979)
1) The Rook: Robot Fighters
[Bill DuBay/Jimmy Janes & Alfredo Alcala] 16p
2) The Rook Ad [Pablo Marcos & Alfredo Alcala]
1p
3) The Comic Books: Still Collecting After All These
Years [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
4) The Trespasser: Ruins [Don McGregor/Paul Gulacy]
6p
5) Beastworld, part 2 [Bruce Jones/Pablo Marcos] 11p
6) Mac Tavish: Demons Of The Zodiac [Gary Null &
Jim Stenstrum/Pepe
[Stenstrum’s contribution
credited to Alabaster Redzone]
7) The Horizon Seekers: Hunger
Strike [Leopoldo Duranona & Cary Bates/Leopoldo Duranona]
7p
8) Samurai: Lair Of The
Assassins [Larry Hama/Val Mayerik] 8p
Notes: Following this issue, the
Rook moved to his own series. In what
one would hope was an error, the Brancatelli column for the previous issue was
reprinted in this issue. ‘The Trespasser’
concluded its run, with fine art by Gulacy & a somewhat over-wrought script
by McGregor. Mac Tavis reappeared, with
his second episode coming a full year after his last appearance. To celebrate, he appeared on the cover, with
new supporting character Spider Andromeda.
‘Samurai’ continued to ape ‘Lone Wolf & Cub’, right up to the main
villain in this story receiving an arrow wound to the same eye that the main
villain in ‘Lone Wolf’ did. They’re also
dead ringers for each other.
106.
cover: Jose Ortiz & Walt Simonson (Nov. 1979)
1) Hard John Apple: An Angel Shy
Of Hell! [Jim Stenstrum/Richard Corben] 8p
reprinted from
Creepy #64 (Aug. 1974)
2) The Comic Books: The
Comic-Book Grapevine [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
3) Hard John Apple: Kansas City
Bomber [Jim Stenstrum/Jose Ortiz] 10p
reprinted from Eerie
#83 (May 1977)
4) Hard John Apple: Brass Monkey
[Jim Stenstrum/Jose Ortiz] 10p
reprinted from Eerie #84
(June 1977)
5) Hard John Apple: Gonna Nuke
Mankind Right Outa My Hair [Jim Stenstrum/Jose Ortiz] 10p
reprinted from
Eerie #85 (Aug. 1977)
6) The Super-Abnormal Phenomena
Survival Kit [Jim Stenstrum/John Severin] 8p
reprinted
from Creepy #79 (May 1976)
Notes: The 1979 Eerie Annual. A Jim Stenstrum Special. The cover for this issue was a fix-up
job. Jose Ortiz’s art was reprinted from
a panel in Eerie #83 while Walt Simonson provided a new background. $1.50 cover price & 64 pages.
107.
cover: Romas Kukalis (Dec. 1979)
1) The Horizon Seekers: The Last
Horizon [Leopoldo Duranona & Cary Bates/Leopoldo
Duranona] 14p
2) The Comic Books: Lies Our
Forefathers Told Us [Joe Brancatelli] 1p
[text article]
3) Beastworld, part 3 [Bruce
Jones/Pablo Marcos] 11p
4) Mac Tavish: Bad Company [Jim
Stenstrum & Alex Sothern/Pepe Moreno] 10p
[Stenstrum’s
contribution credited to
Alabaster Redzone]
5) The Prophesy [Bill
Kelly/Nestor De
Notes: For the first and only time
in
108.
cover: Jim Laurier (Jan. 1980)
1) A Lion In Our Midst [Nicola
Cuti/Jess Jodloman] 15p
2) The Comic Books: Notes On
Comix People [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
3) Beastworld, part 4 [Bruce
Jones/Pablo Marcos] 11p
4) Samurai: A Juggler’s Tale
[Larry Hama/Val Mayerik] 10p
5) Race Of The Damned [Norman
Mundy &
6) Growing Pains [Bob Toomey/Mike Zeck] 8p
Notes: $1.50 cover price with 72
pages. Lauier’s lackluster cover
featured ‘Beastworld’. General Walters,
a character in ‘A Lion In Our Midst’ was a dead ringer for Marvel’s Nick
Fury. Mike Zeck provided the best art in
this issue, although Val Mayerik and Pablo Marcos were quite good too. Best story was the Samurai’s episode, ‘A
Juggler’s Tale’ while ‘Growing Pains’ was a good little horror tale.
109.
cover: Kirk Reinert (Feb. 1980)
1) Blood On Black Satin [Doug
Moench/Paul Gulacy] 16p
2) 1979 Warren Awards Ballot
[Louise Jones] 1p [text article]
3) Beastworld, part 5 [Bruce
Jones/Pablo Marcos] 11p
4) The Comic Books: Some
Thoughts On What Has Gone Before [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
5) Race Of The Damned, part 2
[Norman Mundy & Cary Bates/Joe Vaultz] 7p
6) Samurai:
7) Mac Tavish: The End Of The
Steel Gang [Jim Stenstrum & Alex Southern/Pepe
[Stenstrum’s
contribution credited to Alabaster Redzone]
Notes: $2.00 cover price with 80
pages. This month’s cover also featured
‘Beastworld’ but, unlike the dreary cover from the issue before, Reinert’s
effort was quite striking. ‘Blood On
Black Satin’ was probably Doug Moench’s best effort at
110.
cover: Jim Laurier (Apr. 1980)
1) Blood On Black Satin, part 2
[Doug Moench/Paul Gulacy] 8p
2) The Comic Books: Building A
New Marvel [Joe Brancatelli] 1p [text
article]
3) Beastworld, part 6 [Bruce
Jones/Pablo Marcos] 11p
4) The Open Sky: Francois [Bob
Toomey/Jose Ortiz] 10p
5) Firefly/Starfight [Budd
Lewis/Rafael Auraleon] 10p
6) The Rainmaker [Michael Fleisher/Leopoldo
Duranona] 12p
7) Never Again [James Warren] 1p [editorial, on back cover]
Notes: $1.75 cover price with 72
pages. The Jim Laurier cover was
supposedly for the ‘Firefly/Starfight’ story but the spaceships he painted
looked a lot more like Joe Vaultz’s earlier designs for the ‘Race Of The Damned’ serial’s
starfighters then anything in the ‘Firefly’ story. Unseen since #104, ‘The Open Sky’ returned to
conclude its storyline. The absence of
‘Samurai’ was due to an injury to Val Mayerik’s drawing hand. ‘Beastworld’ concluded. Not a great serial, but at least
interesting. Best story here was Michael
Fleisher’s ‘The Rainmaker’ while best art remained Paul Gulacy’s ‘Blood On
Black Satin’.
The Decline And Fall
111.
cover: Ken Kelly (June 1980)
1) Blood On Black Satin, part 3
[Doug Moench/Paul Gulacy] 12p
2) Moto Psycho Cop [Nicola
Cuti/John Garcia & Rudy Nebres] 8p
3) Samurai: The Messenger [Larry
Hama/Val Mayerik] 8p
4) Mac Tavish: 50 Million
Spacemen Can’t Be Wrong [Jim Stenstrum/Pepe
5) Haxtur: Beware Of Glahb
[Victor de la Fuente] 12p
Notes: Editor: Bill DuBay as Will
Richardson. ‘Blood On Black Satin’
concluded. Along with ‘Night Of The
Jackass’, possibly the best straight horror serial Eerie ever ran. Samurai also ended its run quite abruptly
{with its ending seemingly telegraphed by the dialogue in the last panel}, not
to be seen again until 1987 from the team of Chuck Dixon & Val
Mayerik. Mac Tavish, a solid, if not
spectacular, serial also concluded its lengthy run. ‘Haxtur’ was brought over from 1984/1994
after two appearances there.
111.
cover: Ken Kelly (July 1980)
1) The Spook: Stridspider
Sponge-Rot [Doug Moench/Esteban Maroto] 10p
reprinted from Eerie
#57 (June 1974)
2) Luana [Doug Moench/Esteban
Maroto] 13p reprinted from Vampirella
#31 (Mar. 1974)
3) The Rook Ad [Bob Larkin]
1p [B&W repo of #3’s cover]
4) Enter: The Exterminator—They
Shoot Babies, Don’t They? [Bill DuBay/Esteban Maroto] 8p
reprinted from
Eerie #58 (July 1974)
5) Rusty Bucklers [Bruce
Jones/Esteban Maroto] 8p reprinted from
Vampirella #57 (Jan. 1977)
6) Hollow Of Three Hills! [Rich
Margopoulos/Esteban Maroto] 8p from the
story by Nathaniel
DuBay]
7) Fallen Angels [Bill
DuBay/Esteban Maroto] 8p reprinted from
Vampirella #60 (May 1977)
8) The 1979 Warren Awards [Bill
DuBay] 2p [text article]
Notes: All-reprint issue. An Esteban Maroto special. The Spook was cover featured. Although the reprints are high quality ones,
it would probably have been better to use this issue to present all the Spook’s
episodes.
112.
cover: Jim Laurier (Aug. 1980)
1) Cousin Eerie’s Introduction
[Bill DuBay/Jose Ortiz & Berni Wrightson] 1p
2) The Manifestation [Budd Lewis
& Bill DuBay/E. R. Cruz] 25p
[DuBay’s contribution
credited to Will Richardson]
3) Code Name: Nova [John Garcia
& Bill DuBay/John Garcia & Alfredo Alcala] 16p [DuBay’s
story credited to Will
Richardson, with no mention of Garcia’s contributions to story or
art]
4) Haxtur And The Slow Death
God! [Victor de la Fuente] 12p
Notes: $2.00 cover price with 72
pages. The Cousin Eerie page was a fixup
effort, with Ortiz’s art reprinted from the 1978 Warren Calendar and
Wrightson’s Cousin Eerie figure from one of his stock introduction poses. Although Creepy and Vampirella continued as
quality publications for some time after DuBay took over for his second stint
as editor, Eerie almost immediately settled in mediocrity—featuring second-rate
artists and deadly dull stories. Few of
the new serials to come in the next three years would generate any
excitement. This issue shows exactly
why. ‘The Manifestation’ wasn’t a bad story, but Cruz’ static art robbed it of
any real excitement. ‘Code Name: Nova’
was just boring. The Haxtur story was OK
but its move from 1994 meant that many Eerie readers hadn’t seen the first two
episodes and it was hard to get excited about a serial midpoint through its
run. In addition, this serial dated from
1971 and while it was a good story and probably provided a lot of excitement in
113.
cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Sept. 1980)
1) Star Warrior! [David
Jacobs/A. L. Sanchez] 31p
2) The Executioners [Carlos
Gimenez] 12p
3) Haxtur: Panthers, Wolves And Death! [Victor de la
Fuente] 12p
Notes: $1.75 cover price. Sanjulian
delivered a decent Haxtur cover while ‘The Executioners’ was a well-written,
well-drawn SF thriller. ‘Star Warrior!’,
however, was a total dud on all levels.
Berni Wrightson provided a new Cousin Eerie illo for the letters’
page.
115.
cover: Jim Laurier (Oct. 1980)
1) Night Of The Jackass: 24
Hours Of Hell! [Bruce Bezaire/Jose Ortiz] 12p
reprinted from Eerie
#60 (Sept. 1974)
2) Night Of The Jackass: Storm
Before The Calm! [Bruce Bezaire/Jose Ortiz] 10p reprinted from
Eerie #63 (Feb.
1975)
3) Night Of The Jackass: The
Children’s Hour [Bruce Bezaire/Jose Ortiz] 10p
reprinted from
Eerie #64 (Mar.
1975)
4) Night Of The Jackass:
Endstorm! [Bruce Bezaire/Jose Ortiz] 10p
reprinted from Eerie #65
(Apr. 1975)
5) Excerpts From The Year Five! [Budd Lewis/Jose
Ortiz] 10p reprinted from Eerie #67
(Aug.
1975)
Notes: Laurier’s cover, depicting
the Jackasses, is much better than his usual fare. The 1980 Eerie Annual and a Jose Ortiz
special. It was nice to see the superior
‘Night Of The Jackass’ serial collected.
116.
cover: Enrich Torres (Nov. 1980)
1) Bishop Dane: Blackjack [Rich
Margopoulos/E.R. Cruz] 20p
2) Star Warriors: Plunderworld [Rich
Margopoulos/Fred Redondo] 12p
3) Cagim: The Marks Of Merlin! [Budd Lewis/E. R.
Cruz] 12p
4) Haxtur: Warriors And Friends! [Victor de la
Fuente] 6p
Notes: $1.75 cover price with 64
pages. A dreary sword & sorcery
cover by Enrich was supposedly of Haxtur but it looked nothing like the
character. ‘Blackjack’ was a story
starring the Rook’s granddad. The Rook
gueststared in his grandpappy’s first but none too interesting solo adventure. The ‘Star Warriors’ story was apparently an
attempt at a series but it was extremely lame and led nowhere. It also had nothing to do with the ‘Star
Warrior’ story from Eerie #114. Cagim
{read the name backwards} was an ok serial, dealing with an uncredited takeoff
on T. H. White’s backward living magician {and not the Merlin character that
Budd Lewis had written as a serial in the 1970s for Eerie}. Cruz’s artwork was dull on the Blackjack
story but ok for Cagim.
117.
cover: Enrich Torres (Dec. 1980) reprinted from Vampirella #37’s back cover
(Oct. 1974)
1) Cagim: City Of
2) His Brother’s Keeper! [Jim
Stenstrum/Neil McFeeters] 8p
3) Bruce Bloodletter: The Jalopy
Scam [
4) Haxtur: A Time For Dying
[Victor de la Fuente] 17p
Notes: This reprint cover was quite
lovely and in marked contrast to Enrich’s sloppy looking cover from the
previous issue. Cagim became a
superhero, complete with costume. The
Bruce Bloodletter artwork had again been done years before for a European
educational comic called Space And Adventure.
Here, it was given a completely new script to turn it into a routine
science fantasy tale. Haxtur concluded
his run with his best story. However,
the real delight here is the Stenstrum/McFeeters story ‘His Brother’s
Keeper!’. While this wasn’t Stenstrum’s
best story for
118.
cover: Jordi Penalva (Jan. 1981)
1) Haggarth: Skull Of The Three
Snakes [Victor de la Fuente] 18p
2) Steel Starfire: Tales From
The Galactic
3) The Red Shot [Bruce Bezaire/Jess
Jodloman] 16p
4) Space Kids [Fernando
Fernandez] 8p
Notes: ‘Haggarth’ had been
serialized throughout
119.
cover: Bob Larkin (Feb. 1981)
1) Zud Kamish: Accept No
Substitute! [Jim Stenstrum/E.R. Cruz] 27p
2) Sindy Starfire [Rich
Margopoulos/Rueben Yandoc] 10p
3) Haggarth: Eyes Of The Dead!
[Victor de la Fuente] 15p
Notes: $1.95 cover price with 72
pages. Bob Larkin delivered a blah
cover. Zud Kamish was actually a fairly
good serial with Stenstrum managing to create some amusement and interest
despite being saddled with E.R. Cruz’s artwork.
‘Sindy Starfire’ might have made a fine serial as well, but for some
reason, when fans asked for more on the letters’ page,
120.
cover: Jim Laurier (Apr. 1981)
1) Zud Kamish: Death Of A
Cometeer [Jim Stenstrum/E.R. Cruz] 12p
2) Bishop Dane And Dax The
Warrior!: The Warrior And The Gunfighter! [Rich Margopoulos/A.
L. Sanchez] 14p
3) The Mist: A Public And
Private Surveillance [Don McGregor/Jun Lofamia] 12p
4) Haggarth: Sombra The Damned!
[Victor de la Fuente] 15p
Notes: Cover price now $2.00. A better than average issue with three good
serial episodes. Zud and Haggarth
continued their winning ways while Don McGregor’s fine tale of witchcraft, ‘The
Mist’, debuted. It would go through
three different artists and long gaps in appearances but still managed to tell
an effective tale. {Some of the reasons
for the gaps in appearances can be found in McGregor’s interview on the Warren
Interviews page.} Starting with this
issue, Eerie began a policy of reviving old series stars {even dead
ones—especially the dead ones}, without using the original creators, to appear
in one-shot stories, often with a guest star.
Dax was the first, teamed up with the Rook’s granddad. Sanchez, however, was no Maroto and his pudgy
Dax looked more like Marvel’s Ka-Zar then the thin, wiry Dax of yore.
121.
cover: Vaughn Bode & Basil Gogos (June 1981) reprinted from Eerie #26 (Mar. 1970)
1) The Mist: Blood Cycles [Don
McGregor/Jun Lofamia] 15p
2) Born Of Ancient Vision
[Robert Morello & Budd Lewis/Robert Morello] 11p
3) Hunter, Demon Killer And
Darklon The Mystic: Ashes To Ashes [Rich Margopoulos/A. L.
Sanchez] 14p
4) Haggarth: Fall Of The Death
Head! [Victor de la Fuente] 12p
Notes: Chris Adames becomes the
editor. Why the ugliest cover that
Vaughn Bode ever did for
122.
cover: Romas Kukalis (July 1981)
1) The Beast Of Sarnadd-Doom!
[Budd Lewis/Gonzalo Mayo] 11p
2) The Nu Zud Kamish: The
Chameleon Stands Revealed! [Jim Stenstrum/E.R. Cruz] 10p
[Stenstrum’s story credited
to Alabaster Redzone]
3) The Mist:
4) Haggarth, Book II [Victor de
la Fuente] 14p
Notes: Romas’ cover was quite
attractive and the accompanying story, ‘The Beast Of Sarnadd-Doom!’ was a fine
sword & sorcery tale. Zud’s series
title was slightly changed. The best
story and art belonged to this issue’s installment of The Mist. Mayerik’s art was quite impressive.
123.
cover: Manuel Sanjulian (Aug. 1981)
1) The Mist: Token Resistance
[Don McGregor/Val Mayerik] 14p
2) Born Of Ancient Vision: In
Sight Of Heaven, In Reach Of Hell [Budd Lewis/Robert Morello]
15p
3) Remember All The People [Don
McGregor/Leopoldo Duranona] 11p
4) Harrarth, Book II: Path Of
The Tempered Soul! [Victor de la Fuente] 12p
Notes: Sanjulian’s cover was done
in 1972 and originally intended for Creepy #47.
See that issue’s notes for details.
This would be the last appearance of ‘The Mist’ for a year and a
half. Don McGregor’s ‘Remember All The
People’ was a heartfelt tribute to the slain John Lennon. It was also Duranona’s last art job for
124.
cover: Frank Frazetta (Sept. 1981)
reprinted from Creepy #7 (Feb. 1966)
1) Cagim: The
2) Pyramid Of The Black Sun: Orka
[Antonio Segura & Jim Stenstrum/Luis Bermejo] 12p [story
is credited solely to
Alabaster Redzone]
3) Born Of Ancient Vision: God
Of Light [Budd Lewis/Robert Morello] 17p
4) Haggarth, Book II: The Sacred
Scroll [Victor de la Fuente] 10p
Notes: ‘Pyramid Of The Black Sun’
appeared in Europe in the late 1970s, with a script by Segura & art by
125.
cover: Richard Corben (Oct. 1981)
reprinted from Eerie #77 (Sept. 1976)
1) Curse Of The Vampire! [Archie Goodwin/Ne