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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TOMB OF TERROR "Rose is a Rose"

Though EC is considered the "gold standard" of horror comics...

...Harvey Comics (yes, the guys who did Richie Rich and Casper) gave them a run for their money.

Penciled by Al Eadeh, and probably inked by both Eadeh and John Prentice, this tale of gruesome gardening from Tomb of Terror #10 (1953) is a classic example of tasteless irony.

And, isn't that exactly what you'd want from a horror comic story?

GHOST COMICS "Face in the Shroud"

It's been a while, boy fiends and ghoul friends...

..but during the season when ghouls and goblins dominate pop culture, we felt it was time to rise up out of the coffin and tell a few sordid stories!

As horror stories go, this tale from Fiction House's Ghost Comics #8 (1953) is fairly mild, but the art by the underrated Bill Benulis and Jack Abel has a couple of kool "camera angles" and storytelling tricks that other artists of the period like Alex Toth and Ross Andru were also experimenting with.

The writer's name has been lost to the mists of time.

BTW, this tale was just reprinted (for the first time in over 60 years) in IDW's Haunted Horror, but was oddly attributed to Don Heck, even though the story is signed by Benulis and Abel in the first panel!

JOURNEY INTO FEAR "Her Lips Dripped Blood"

It's Valentine's Day, so let's think of something romantic like moonlight...

...as not-so-romantically illustrated in Superior's Journey into Fear #15 (1953)!

Surprisingly, this story had never been reprinted before it's re-appearance in the new IDW anthology Haunted Horror!

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WORLDS OF FEAR "Death for a Death"

We've all squashed an insect or spider at one point or another...

...but what happens when the insects and arachnids decide to fight back...from beyond the grave?

Sadly, both the writer aand artist(s) for this tale from Fawcett's Worlds of Fear #6 (1952) are unknown.

Surprisingly, this story had never been reprinted before it's recent re-appearance in the new IDW anthology Haunted Horror!

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BAFFLING MYSTERIES "Kill, My Minions of Death!"

The idea of hands-on killing is not a new one...

...but the idea of hands-on using someone else's hands, certainly is!

While the writer is unknown, the artist of this tale from Ace's Baffling Mysteries #17 (1953) is Lou Cameron, who was both a comic/pulp illustrator and a paperback novelist with over 300 books to his credit.

Surprisingly, this story had never been reprinted before it's re-appearance in the new IDW anthology Haunted Horror!

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