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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THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED "Some Things Weren't Meant to be Written!"

It's thought that actors are always seeking that one role that will make them immortal...

...even a notorious role like murderer of the President of the United States!

I knew actors were a tad neurotic, but...really...

The writer of this never-reprinted tale from Charlton's This Magazine is Haunted #16 (1954) is unknown, but the illustrator is believed to be Ed Waldman, and that the story was part of the unpublished inventory Charlton acquired when they purchased both the copyrights and artwork for the cancelled Fawcett Comics line (including This Magazine is Haunted).

BTW, the narrator of the story, the Mummy, was the host of sister Fawcett comic Beware! Terror Tales, lending credence to the theory this was a Fawcett-comissioned tale.

SWEETHEARTS "I Was a Musician's Girl"

Call it "marijuana"!
Call it "marihuana"!
It's the insidious drug that will destroy America!

Or so we were told in tales like this...

From Charlton Comics' SweetHearts #122 (1954), which was actually #22, but the indicia had a typo!

While the artists are not credited, and there's no signatures, it's my opinion its' Bob Brown on pencils and Murphy Anderson on inks.

Six degrees of Marijuana: 

Sweethearts was originally-published by Fawcett Comics, taking over the numbering of Captain Midnight!

The Captain Midnight movie serial starred Dave O'Brien as Captain Midnight!

Dave O'Brien also starred in the pothead classic flick Reefer Madness as the madly-cackling Ralph Wiley!

Coincidence?
I think not!

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THE THING "Cinderella"

With Once Upon a Time and Grimm presenting "dark" versions of fairy tales on TV...

...let's see how comics handled similar material back in the 1950s, the heyday of horror comics!

(Illustrated by Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, no less!)

The Thing was the snarky, but unseen, host of the comic series in the vein (as it were) of EC's Crypt Keeper.

He was no relation to either the movie character The Thing from Another World (whose film came out in 1951, just before the comic debuted), or the Fantastic Four's super-strong team member.

Join us next week as we present another tale your grandparents didn't want your parents to see!

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