Werewolf By Night is Coming...But Which One?

A week from today, a movie will debut on Disney+...

...based on a Marvel comic.

But, did you know there there have been a couple of quite different "Werewolf by Night" storylines!

This is the first one...

...a never-reprinted scary story published in Atlas' Marvel Tales #116 (1953)!

Illustrated by penciler William Wellman and inked by Jack Abel.

The writer is unknown.
OK, it's really more "cute" than scary.
Ironic since it was created during the horror comics craze of the early 1950s, and the cover by Joe Maneely promised a far more terrifying tale!
It's more likely that the movie is based on the second, long-running series created in the early 1970s...

This never-reprinted background featurette from Marvel's Monster Madness #3 (1973) magazine will give you an idea of what the series was about.

When you return Monday, we'll present the first live dramatization of the character's origin story...from half a century ago...long before most of you were born!

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WereWolf By Night

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Asian Antagonists MASK OF DR FU MANCHU Part 3

When Last We Left Our Protaganist...Who's Also Our Antagonist...

...under a flag of truce, Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Shan Greville meet with Dr Fu Manchu to make an exchange...Shan's kidnapped fiance Rima Barton for the artifacts Fu covets!

It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn...

Next Week: The Conclusion!

Though the adaptor is unknown, the tale is illustrated by young up-and-comers Wally Wood and Joe Orlando (who split the penciling and inking almost on a panel-by-panel basis)!

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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!