CoronaVirus Comics PSYCHO "Masque of Red Death"

Though the cover from the 1988 Eternity Comics reprint is appropriately-colorful and kool...

...it really doesn't match the ghoulish weirdness of the Ricardo Villamonte artwork from the story that originally-appeared in Skywald's Psycho #20 (1974)...

Editor Al Hewetson adapted and condensed the Edgar Allan Poe story, leaving out some elements that he felt slowed the story.

I consider it one of the better graphic versions, solidly-utilizing the basic tale, plus specific quotes, and some wonderfully-moody art by the highly-underrated Villamonte!

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Raven and the Red Death

Adapted by Richard Corben

CoronaVirus Comics ADVENTURES INTO WEIRD WORLDS "Face of Death!"

Due to a lethal epidemic, a well-off guy named "Donald" quarantines in his home...

...but it's not 2020!

It's "present day" in this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Adventures into Weird Worlds #4 (1952)!

If the story seems a bit...familiar...it's because it's an unattributed retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's classic chiller "Masque of the Red Death"!

Can we blame artist Bill Everett whose beautifully-rendered art depicts the tale?

There's no attribution to the writer...who could be Everett himself!

He occasionally wrote his own stories.

Or was it one of the other writers who worked for Atlas, usually without credit!

We'll never know...
Note: After Atlas became Marvel, they revived horror comics at the end of the Silver Age.
Writer Roy Thomas and artist Don Heck did their own "present day" version of Poe's scary short story (with attribution) as you can see HERE!

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Raven and the Red Death

Adapted by Richard Corben