Halloween Horror MYSTERIES OF UNEXPLORED WORLDS "Day of the Hunter"

Hunting Dinosaurs is a Popular Concept...

...as seen in Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder", L Sprague deCamp's "A Gun for Dinosaur", and even a Superman tale!

Here's another version of the trope, with an emphasis that'll startle you!

No concern for how killing numerous dinosaurs and disrupting the primordial environment might affect history!

It's just "Well, I got that out of my system, so don't pack up and go home to your mother, honey!"

Admittedly, the unknown writer, penciler Charles Nicholas, and inker Vince Alascia, who created this never-reprinted tale from Charlton's Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #36 (1963) were writing a children's story, but still...it reminds me of "Time and Punishment", one of my favorite segments from The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween specials!

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Halloween Horror BLACK MAGIC "Cry for Help!"

 Most comics fans know Prize's Black Magic series as...

...one of the Joe Simon/Jack Kirby team's best projects.

But, as you can see from this non-S&K tale, there was more to it!

The S&K team's tenure ended when the book was cancelled with #33 in 1954, due to the mass cancellations of horror comics caused by the "Seduction of the Innocent" hysteria generated by Fredric Wertham.

When the book was revived as a Comics Code-approved sci-fi title with #34 in 1957, Joe Simon returned as editor, but the ongoing partnership with Kirby had ended and Jack didn't participate in the new version.
They would work together on occasional projects like the late-1950s Harvey Comics sci-fi/fantasy line and the reboot of The Sandman at DC in 1974, but not as partners, just co-workers.

This particular story, by penciler/inker Ted Galindo and inker Bill Draut is from the final issue...#50 (1961).

Note: Didn't the son's "future self" say he had found the frozen dinosaur two years earlier?

But he also said he was from 1970...ten years in the future.

So, unless my math is really off, the son wouldn't find the dinosaur for another...eight years!
How did he find it now?

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CoronaVirus Comics CHAMBER OF DARKNESS "Day of the Red Death!"

Here's another "adaptation" of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of disease...

...which, for a change, freely admits the source material!

In fact, out of the mouth of Stan (the Man) Lee himself...

A rich, uncaring guy who has the power to destroy the entire world and wouldn't hesitate to allow a plague to do so...as long as he was safe!

Now who does that remind us of?

Writer Roy Thomas had been a teacher before turning to writing/editing comics, and he loved utilizing classic literature in his work!

Don Heck, whose Marvel work was usually inked by others, apparently relished the opportunity to do both penciling and inking, as he had done in his 1950s horror and war comics work!

In addition, John Romita Sr turned in a wonderfully-rendered cover which was somewhat obscured by the black tints used to create "mood".

Look at the original art to see the detail you might've missed on the printed version...

Kool, eh?

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Tell a Tale Three Times WEIRD "Land of No Return"

The first, horrifying version of this tale was HERE...

...the second, far less scary version of the story, is HERE!

Now continue with the final version...

Ajax/Farrell finally gave up the ghost (as it were) in 1958, but publisher Robert Farrell remained in publishing, doing non-comics projects.

In 1969, he joined with Myron Fass, a former comics artist who had failed to make a Silver Age color comics line (MF Enterprises) profitable, but saw that Warren Publications' b/w magazines (Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella) were selling very well!

With Farrell providing art from the Ajax/Farrell files, the two launched Eerie Publications with titles like Tales of Voodoo, Weird, and Terrors of Dracula!

This version of the tale appeared in Weird V3N4 (1969)

Was the alien entity modified from the original (1953) version, or was this the original version, modified for the first publication in 1953?

We'll never know...

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When "Disc Jockey" Didn't Mean "Flying Saucer Pilot"...or Did It?

With the US announcing a test of flying saucer-style tech...

...we thought we'd look back to an era when "disc" could mean "flying saucer" and/or "lp record (presuming you know what an "lp record" is), in a Case of Curious Censorship by the Comics Code Authority!

First, the original version of the story, as it appeared in Harvey Comics' Black Cat Mystery #46 (1947)...

OK, a straightforward tale of just desserts illustrated by comics legend Bob Powell.

Nothing too gory or gross.

But the Comics Code Authority thought otherwise!

When the tale was reprinted in Harvey Comics' Race for the Moon #1 (1958), there were some odd art changes to the aliens...

As we said, some odd art changes to make the aliens less-insectoid...which really made no sense!

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TWILIGHT ZONE "Voices from the Twilight Zone"

Though it reads like fiction...

...this tale was based on a somewhat true story (which was dramatized in the recent movie Lincoln!

Written by Paul S Newman and illustrated by George Evans, this two-pager from Dell's Four Color #1288 (1962) became one of the most-reprinted tales from the Twilight Zone comic series.