TALES OF HORROR "Slasher"

You think nerds are a recent phenomenon?

Well, here's a story from Toby Press' Tales of Horror #8 (1953) that proves you wrong!

This cutting-edge classic was penciled by Bill Molno and inked by Rocke Mastroserio.

The weird writer is unknown.

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FANTASTIC "Dinosaur in Grandfather's Barn"

You know how kids are always "seeing monsters" in closets, garages and/or barns?

Well, maybe you should listen to them once in a while...

This tale from Youthful's Fantastic #8 (1952) is illustrated by long-time comic artist Henry Kiefer, a fine arts-trained illustrator who's best known for his work on Classics Illustrated.

The writer is unknown.

BTW, despite being #8, this is actually the first issue of Fantastic.

Before this, it was Captain Science!

(And the lead tale in this issue was the last Captain Science story.)

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MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES "Terror of the Vampires Kiss"

Noted sci-fi author Harry Harrison passed away this week...

...but, did you know he was also a comic book artist in the 1950s, during the height of the horror comics craze?

Best-known for his humorous Stainless Steel Rat series, Harrison covered every genre from horror to romance to war to sci-fi primarily penciling, but also inking, editing, even writing a few tales during his almost decade-long comics career (1947-1955).
Harrison penciled this tale from Mysterious Adventures #8 (1952) and Ernie Bache inked it.
Harry may have written the story as well, but there's no way to verify it.

But this didn't end Harry's involvement with comics...
Harrison became the writer for the Flash Gordon newspaper strip from 1958-1964.
Some of Harry's prose novels were adapted into comics form, but Harrison didn't write or illustrate them...
The Stainless Steel Rat series was adapted into a comic series for British publisher Eagle Comics 2000 AD & Tornado anthology title starting in 1985, and later reprinted as both a comic mini-series and graphic novel.
BILL the Galactic Hero was adapted into a three-issue mini-series by Topps Comics in 1994.

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WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Flight into the Future"

"Jobs were scarce after the Great Atom Bomb War..."

They wrote that in 1952!
We haven't had an atomic war...yet.
But jobs are scarce in 2012!

The inimitable illustration style of Basil Wolverton just oozes from every panel of this tawdry tale from Key Publications' anthology Weird Tales of the Future #2 (1952).

And, the odds are he wrote the story as well.

Wotta guy!

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BLACK CAT MYSTERY "Dial REgent 3-"

In the days of rotary phones, the first two digits of a phone number were part of a name...

...which clever writers could use in titles like "Dial M for Murder" or, like this somewhat unique take on telephonic terror.

This credits for this never-reprinted tale from Harvey's Black Cat Mystery Comics #47 (1953) are incomplete.

The Grand Comics Database lists Joe Certa as the penciler, but without an inker, since the inking is clearly not Certa's style and neither they nor I can figure out who did it.

And the writer is unknown.

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WANTED "Mania for Murder"

Who says comics cause juvenile delinquency?

Well, the NY State Joint Legislative Committee to Study Comics did!
And this tawdry tale was one of their prime examples!

Like the classic "Murder, Morphine and Me", this sordid story from Orbit/Wanted's Wanted Comics #27 (1950) was reprinted in the report issued by the New York State Legislative Commission on Censorship in Comics as an example of the "trash" that was "corrupting innocent American youth"!
But, only select panels were presented, not the entire tale!
And, this story has never been reprinted in any of the numerous hardcover or paperback compilations of horror comics since then!

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OUT OF THE SHADOWS "Images of Sand"

It's over 100 degrees all over America, so let's tell a story set in a desert...

...featuring a beautiful woman, treasure, and a curse that will chill your blood...

A creepy classic from Standard Comics' Out of the Shadows #12 (1954), penciled by the legendary Alex Toth & inked by Mike Peppe (with what appears to be a penciling assist by Mike Sekowsky and inking assist by Don Heck).

The writer is unknown.

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