HORRIFIC "The Teller!"

A 1950s horror comic wasn't complete without a host, so...

...so here's a slew of them, along with their ringleader, the debonair Teller (no relation to Penn's silent partner)!

How many horror hosts narrate their own origin story?

While the writer for this never-reprinted scare-story from Comic Media's Horrific #8 (1953) is unknown, the art is by the extremely-underrated Don Heck, who did some of his best work for Comic Media's twin terror-titles Horrific and Weird Terror.

There's much more monsters and mayhem to come as we resurrect this moribund blog just in time for the Countdown to Halloween 2013 blogathon!

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WEIRD TERROR "Wage-Earners"

There's lots of talk this election year about "job creators"!

But the wise politican (and everybody else) should worry about the ones on the other end of the food chain, as Henry Mason discovers...

This tawdry tale from Comic Media's Weird Terror #1 (1951) was illustrated by C A Winter.

The writer is unknown.

C A Winter aka Charles Allan Winter aka Chuck Winter was a major contributor to comics from 1939 to 1957, doing penciling and inking on several hundred stories in every genre from horror to sci-fi to funny animal at almost every company.

Before comics, he worked in advertising.

While this story's art hasn't been reprinted until this week's release of IDW's Haunted Horror, the script was reused, re-illustrated, and re-titled "The Devil's Zombie" by Eerie Publications in the 1970s and 80s, and printed/reprinted in five different b/w magazines!

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HORRIFIC "Hating Corpse" aka WEIRD TERROR "Double Murder" aka...

Sometimes a title just doesn't do the story justice...

...as this terror-tale from Horrific #4 (1953) from Comic Media aptly demonstrates!

When it was reprinted in the same publisher's Weird Terror #13 (1954), the title and opening caption text were altered...

...but nothing else (except the coloring, which was normal in reprints) was changed!

The original creatives are unknown.

The story was redrawn by Oscar Stepancich, using the exact same script, for Eerie Publications' b/w magazine Horror Tales #V6N4 (1969), and retitled "The Corpse that Lives!".

Regrettably, I don't have a copy of that issue.

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