Showing posts with label Chamber of Chills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chamber of Chills. Show all posts

Friday, May 29, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics CHAMBER OF CHILLS "Nightmare of Doom!" / TALES OF VOODOO "Flesh Eaters!"

A disease that turns sentient...

...a true nightmare, courtesy of Harvey's Chamber of Chills #15 (1953)
This tale of bacteria and betrayal, illustrated by Al Avison, wasn't reprinted by Harvey, (as many of the stories of the period were) probably because redrawing it to conform to the Comics Code would require too much work!
A couple of decades later, after Harvey stopped doing horror (or sci-fi, or romance, or anything non-Richie Rich or Casper-related) Eerie Publications took the script and had the story redrawn for b/w publication (since the Code didn't cover magazines) by Ruben Marchionne for Tales of Voodoo V5N5 (1972)...
Eerie reprinted this reworked version at least once a year in their various titles until the company left the horror business.
The original version finally saw the light of day again after 65 years in IDW's Haunted Horror!
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Nightmare of Doom and Much More
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

CHAMBER OF CHILLS "HeartLine"

Next time you hear someone say "you're breaking my heart", it might be literal...
...as this tale from near the end of the reign of horror comics aptly demonstrates!
Oddly, though most listings describe "HeartLine" as the "cover" story for this issue, the cover by Lee Elias doesn't show any elements or characters from the tale!
Though the caption refers to the story,  there's no blonde, and both the woman and the man are decomposing!
(It's still a cool-ghoul cover, though!)
While the scripter of this truly heart-rending story from Harvey's Chamber of Chills #23(1954) is unknown, pencils are by Manny Stallman and inks by John Giunta.
It's never been reprinted...until now, in the pages of IDW's horror anthology Haunted Horror #2, now at your local comic book shop.
Join us next time as we present another tale your grandparents didn't want your parents to see!

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