WEIRD MYSTERIES "Live with a Man"

Some say marriage is hell...

...and, in pre-Comics Code days, they'd be right, as this wild tale from Weird Mysteries #11 (1954) shows!

The strangely-styled art is listed by "Eugene E. Hughes", which I suspect is a pen-name for an artist or penciler-inker team since the only stories attributed to him are work published in Weird Mysteries, Weird Tales of the Future, Mister Mystery, and Real Adventure by the same publisher, Key Publications.

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"Supreme Penalty" 1.0 & 2.0

Last month, we presented two radically-different versions of the same sci-fi comic tale...

...and we're doing so, again! Enjoy!

This version appeared in Black Cat Mystery #47 (1953) during the height of the horror comics boom.

It was re-presented in Race for the Moon #1 (1959) after the Comics Code went into effect.

Let's see how things have changed...

Almost every panel has a change from the original, either in art or balloons!

Panel 4 has an interesting change in dialogue indicating the condemned survive in space...

Only change is dialogue in the first panel, which indicates the exiled criminals are still alive, but in orbit.

The figure of Judge Krenk being murdered in Panel 6, and his corpse in Panel 7 have been removed!

Panel One: Judge Krenk is said to be wounded, not dead!

Panel Six: Frances' face redrawn to look less maniacal and his sentence altered to confine him to his lab!

Interesting to note the alterations inflicted by the Comics Code!

Art (and probably story) by Bob Powell.

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HORRIFIC "Hating Corpse" aka WEIRD TERROR "Double Murder" aka...

Sometimes a title just doesn't do the story justice...

...as this terror-tale from Horrific #4 (1953) from Comic Media aptly demonstrates!

When it was reprinted in the same publisher's Weird Terror #13 (1954), the title and opening caption text were altered...

...but nothing else (except the coloring, which was normal in reprints) was changed!

The original creatives are unknown.

The story was redrawn by Oscar Stepancich, using the exact same script, for Eerie Publications' b/w magazine Horror Tales #V6N4 (1969), and retitled "The Corpse that Lives!".

Regrettably, I don't have a copy of that issue.

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AUTHENTIC POLICE CASES: VEILED AVENGER "White Death"

Another example of Fredric Wertham taking a panel out of context...

...I didn't know the writings of the Marquis deSade were "forbidden"!

By who, I wonder?

At any rate, here's the tale that panel was taken from...

This story first appeared in Red Seal Comics #16 (1946) by Chesler Publishing, but Wertham probably used the reprint in Authentic Police Cases #3 (1948) by St John Comics, who had bought out Chesler the year before.
The good doctor had taken panels from several other issues of Authentic, for use as examples in Seduction of the Innocent, so this seems the most likely scenario.
Wertham has become notorious for doing this sort of thing, taking images out of context to make specific points without providing reference as to where the pix originally came from, and figuring that it would be too difficult for anyone to trace them.
BTW, the illustrator was Gasparo "Gus" Ricca, who was also the art director for Chesler Publishing!

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