From the Oct 1954 issue of Web of Mystery #14
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
The Dead Dance on Halloween
Here we go, Countdown to Halloween: Post #1! What I’m going to try and do with the comic book posts for the next 7 days is present to you stories set on or around Halloween, or stories that at least contain Halloween themes. Strangly enough, in preparing for this week of posts I discovered that while there are of course thousands of 50’s horror comics in the world, there are actually very few stories that take place within a Halloween setting?! Go figure…
From the Oct 1954 issue of Web of Mystery #14
From the Oct 1954 issue of Web of Mystery #14
Cool story, really love the artwork. Women with the Johnny Craig style face get me everytime. I was hoping to find some stories for you but when I did the keyword search for Halloween on GCD I see what you mean, not much there from the pre code era.
ReplyDeleteI initially did the same GCD keyword search and was shocked how little there was in terms of pre code Halloween tales. I guess if you went that far too then you probably know what stories you're going to see posted here for the next 7 days, ha ha... I'll try to add a few surprises though.
ReplyDeleteNext year will be especially thin on Halloween scans unless someone out there knows of some differently titled buried gems.
Weird Mysteries #10 had a story called Trick or Treat but I haven't seen it so I can't say for sure it's a halloween story.
ReplyDelete>Weird Mysteries #10 had a story called Trick or Treat
ReplyDeleteIt's on the schedule, you'll see it next week!
Well,the art and story took a while to get moving,but it's really hard to fault a story with witches,love potions,horny abusive ape-men,black cats(or temporary changes into)walking dead and dances with skeletons and Sammy Hagar's mom.i wants me some of dat cough syrup!.
ReplyDelete>the art and story took a while to get moving
ReplyDeleteThat's where I feel ACE excels in their stories over most other pre code publishers, they were never in a big hurry to tell a tale in 3 or 4 short pages, they liked to build them slowly and develope the characters in a more classic story telling sense.
Any story where the wicked WITCH is the one you're "rooting" for, is a winner in my book.
ReplyDelete>Any story where the wicked WITCH is the one you're "rooting" for, is a winner in my book.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, GO TEAM EVIL!