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| That's right - I'm giving this pulpy beast a "10." This requires a specific mindset towards the schlocky greatness that is the Ajax-Farrell stable of artistic badness.
I came to the appreciation of these gems via the black and white reprints of them in Eerie Publications' WEIRD, VAMPIRE TALES, and other magazines that caught the bottom-feeders (like myself) that were unable to get their horror fix via CREEPY, EERIE, or other Warren titles on a regular basis.
This particular issue spotlights "Fiends From the Crypt," one of my all-time faves, with a corrupt gendarme sacrificing citizens to creatures in the famed sewers of Paris - Amazing, down to its grotesque climax.
Follow this up with "Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Werewolf," a tale that now seems 60 years ahead of its time with current fairy tale revisionism. It has lush rewards.
"Careless Corpse" is missing a couple of pages, but they are adequately replaced by some of the aforementioned Eerie Pubs reprint. It is pretty swell as filler.
Finally, "Carnival of Terror" - well, by God, it had people turning into cobras, and there's just not enough of that in modern comics.
All told, a well-scanned, quite wonderful issue! |
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| Yep great stuff like this was rehashed in the 60s in second tier Eerie Publications like "Weird ", " Terror Tales" , :Witches Tales" "Tales of VooDoo " etc ...and I loved it ! Nice to retrace the Eerie Publications offerings back to the original source and enjoy them as first rendered .
Recently I have begun to try and trace the collage images from the Eerie pubs title pages to a particular story ...so far all I have is the werewolf on the second page , middle bottom panel of "Little Red Riding Hood" story.
Another 10 stars awarded this " masterpiece" because ..well you just have to love a story where the " Fiend from the Crypt ' beheads a victim and utters : " ERS-DA-ESTT-GN-BOR -TA " , which is translated to a much more eloquent sounding --"He was a fool and a knave and was doomed from the start" ! |
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| The previous two comments above really does say it all. However, here's my two cents worth. The genre of supernatural / horror is my favorite format in comics. This one is most certainly one of the very best, art, stories first class throughout. I've added my 10 to the previous five members ratings, all 10 and well deserved. |
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| That was great. The Green Horde is something i will writer with someday for sure |
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| Publication | July 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Synopsis | A dancing girl takes off her mask and reveals she's a hideous monster to a sultan. |
| Credits | Pencils: Robert Webb? | Inks: Robert Webb? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Fiends from the Crypt (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Chasing a thief named Banco into the Rome sewers, Signor Renzi and his partner, Pietro find Banco with all his body eaten. They try to escape the sewer, and find themselves hunted by the Green Horde. Renzi gives Pietro to them, then works a deal with the creatures who speak an unfamiliar language. Renzi agrees to find them victims. He makes a great profit over time. When considering his family, he decides to tell the creatures to forget about future victims. Angry, they grab his wife and daughter. He rushes to the sewers to beg for his family. The creatures already ate them. Renzi's next. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Banco; Pietro; Signor Renzi; Mrs. Reni; Daughter of the Renzis; Green Horde |
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| Comic Story | Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Werewolf (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Old Crone, saying she's the real grandmother of Little Red Riding Hood, tells the true story. Elmer Dowd turns into a werewolf. As a werewolf, he attacks Red Riding Hood. His friend Zach Parker shoots Elmer when in werewolf form, thinking it's just a wolf he's shooting. He shoots him again when the werewolf attacks Riding Hood again. Finally, Zach goes to grandmother's house to discover the horrible truth about Red Riding Hood's true nature. Parker realizes too late that Red Riding Hood is really a vampire instead of an innocent. |
| Credits | Pencils: Myron Fass? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Old Crone; Little Red Riding Hood; Zack Parker; Elmer Dowd; Tim Blaake |
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| Comic Story | Careless Corpse (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dave Tibbets leaves his wife Becky so he can go to work. He crashes his car and dies. Not realizing he looks like death warmed over, he encounters a lot of people who do realize he looks that way as he heads for home. An elderly couple, a lady at a farmhouse, a trolley full of people all flee in terror. When he reaches his home, he finds Becky in the arms of his supposed-friend, Dan Burns. He kills Dan, but Becky passes out. He carries her upstairs, planning to kill her too. He sees himself in the mirror, telling Becky he has finally seen himself and her. He turns into dust. |
| Credits | Pencils: Joe Doolin? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Dave Tibbets; Becky Tibbets; Dan Burns |
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| Comic Story | Carnival of Terror (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Chun, the Snake Charmer, who charms cobras with his flute, stays with the carnival he despises only to stay near Millie Sears. He reveals his attraction to Millie, who laughs. Joe has Millie tell Chun she'd go with him, and he shows her where his money's hidden. Chun shows her the money, which is kept protected in the cobra cage. Joe and Millie go to steal the money. Joe stabs Chun and the two cobras to retrieve the cash. Chun appears, saying it was his dummy Joe stabbed. Chun delivers the Cobra Curse, turning the pair into cobras. The pair as cobras kill Chun. They are stuck as cobras. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Chun, the Snake Charmer; Millie Sears; Joe Dugan |
| Notes | Story is the basis for the following issue's cover. |
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