Here's a Valentine's Day present...a little tale about a guy and a gal from different worlds...
...and we mean that literally!
Written by Carl Wessler, illustrated by Fred Kida, this never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Suspense #27 (1953) shows off panache and style close to the legendary EC Comics horror titles of the era.
In fact, Wessler reused the plot (with the variation of the girl and her family being ghouls, not vampires) the next year in EC's Haunt of Fear #25 as "Out Cold!".
(Since that's been reprinted numerous times, and is still under copyright, we aren't going to run it here.)
(Since that's been reprinted numerous times, and is still under copyright, we aren't going to run it here.)
Even after the Comics Code forbade werewolves, vampires and ghouls, Wessler managed to get another version of the story into print, this time making the girl and her family aliens in Atlas' World of Fantasy #2 (1956)!
You can see that story here, next Tuesday!
But, wait!
We promised you "Tell a Tale of Terror Thrice", right?
We promised you "Tell a Tale of Terror Thrice", right?
Well, Carl reused the concept one last time, returning to horror in a b/w magazine, which wasn't restrained by the Comics Code Authority!
So look for the final version of this terrifying tale in baleful black-and-white from Pastime Publishing's Weird Mysteries #1 (1959) in two weeks!
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