Seduction of the Innocent

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

CoronaVirus Comics ALICE MATHESON "Day Z" Chapter 4: Test

Alice Matheson RN is a nurse with a difference...she's an "Angel of Death", euthanizing terminally-ill patients...without their (or their next of kin's) permission!

When her latest "client" refuses to "rest in peace" and reanimates after receiving a lethal dose of drugs, Alice manages to finally put her down with a blow to the head!

Though the nurse fears she'll be exposed, the other staffers of London's St Mary's Hospital have bigger problems...all the recently-deceased are re-animating, and attacking the living!

Why did his head explode?

Is it linked to the fact that the only way to stop an undead, you have to destroy the brain or decapitate the reanimated corpse?

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Christmas Creepiness WEB OF HORROR "Santa's Claws"

Besides traversing the Earth distributing gifts, Kris Kringle protects the innocent...

...from threats both real and imagined!

Story and art for this tale from Major Magazines' Web of Horror #3 (1970) were by Frank Brunner, who would go on to major successes in sf/fantasy including acclaimed runs on the Dr Strange and Man-Thing comics, and character design work on the 1990s X-Men animated series.

BTW, the spider-like host of the book was named (what else?) "Webster"!

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Saturday, October 17, 2020

Halloween Horror HORROR FROM THE TOMB "Bone Man"

This 1954 comic series was so gruesome, it lasted only a single issue...

...but what an issue it was!

In late 1953, Premier Magazines entered the comic book field with seven titles, each in a different genre (romance, Western, crime, etc.), including Horror from the Tomb.

Unfortunately, the comic book "witch hunt" was in full swing and, in little over a year, Premier (along with almost 2/3rds of the industry) had ceased operations.

Horror from the Tomb changed it's name to Mysterious Stories with #2 and ran for five more issues, but the end was inevitable...

The writer is unknown, but the artist is Mannie Banks, who has less than two dozen comic stories (mostly horror tales at Atlas Comics) to his credit.

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Monday, June 22, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics WITCHCRAFT "Man Who Bribed Death" and WEIRD "Death Trap" plus...

Though this was the spotlighted tale in Avon's WitchCraft #4 (1952)...

...it wasn't the cover feature!
In fact, the cover...

...had nothing to do with any of the stories inside, even though it's by Al Hollingsworth, who did illustrate the following tale of deliberate death by disease!

What appears to be the intended cover (also by Hollingsworth) was used a year later on the Avon one-shot Night of Mystery (1953), and of course, it has no connection to any of the stories in that issue!

While "Man Who Bribed Death" has never been reprinted, the script was reused, almost verbatim, as the basis for this short from Eerie Publications' Weird V4N1 (1970) illustrated by Argentine illustrator Oscar Fraga, whose work in the American comics market was exclusively for Eerie Publications and consisted solely of re-dos of 1950s stories like this one!

Interesting that the locale for the second half wasn't updated from Korea to VietNam.
This retelling, unlike the color comics original, has been reprinted several times...

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Friday, May 29, 2020

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)...