Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Swamp Monster / They Crawl By Night!

These were not the two Basil Wolverton tales I had planned for today, an unfortunate series of events has left me with no choice for awhile but to re-use previous posts until I get my issues resolved. I would even apologize, but these are two of Basil's most excellent tales, and if you haven't seen them here before then it's a win / win situation anyway, even if you have seen them. Swamp Monster is from the June '53 issue of Weird Mysteries #5, while They Crawl By Night is from the Feb '53 issue of Journey into Unknown Worlds #15. (Both originally appeared here at THOIA back in 2009.)







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11 comments:

  1. Brian Barnes10/17/2012

    It doesn't matter how many times you reprint these, I'll re-read them every time. They are master classes in stylist horror art.

    Kars, today I picked up Haunted Horror #1 (I had to order it last week), and much kudos to you, Yoe, and anybody else involved. While this site is a gift from the dark lord below, there's something about reading these in floppy form. It's on great paper, and there's a lot of content for the price. I don't know if you guys did any clean up work, but everything looks great.

    All around, a great comic, and I look forward to each issue.

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  2. Anonymous10/18/2012

    Yeah, don't apologize for posting something again. Your collection is amazing and longtime readers are losers anyway.

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  3. Trevor M10/18/2012

    "... longtime readers are losers anyway."

    :0{

    I kind of consider myself a longtime winner for discovering this site a couple of years ago.

    These are real masterpieces. Wolverton usually seemed to work with the transformation theme a lot.

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  4. Keir10/18/2012

    Anyone else see the obvious similarities in both stories to the graphic comic published for Creepshow, especially the latter's creature in the crate and the cockroaches eating Marshall alive?

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  5. Mr. Cavin10/18/2012

    Longtime loser here. Hope you're technical issues get solved quickly--nothing sucks like having to change the plan. Shudder. Still, I love any excuse to revisit Wolverton, he echoed. And that Weird Mysteries cover is just fan-flipping-tastic. I like it even better than the stories. Bernard Baily is really soaring up the charts for me.

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  6. Anonymous10/18/2012

    Cant' wait to get my hands on Haunted Horror #1. my crappy comic bookstore said they ordered it for me but i'm still waiting. Overpowered by funk.
    BeanTheCat

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  7. Mr. Karswell10/18/2012

    Haha, I guess I'm at a losery loss over that comment as well, though I imagine it was meant well and probably in reference to my "win / win" comment in the intro.

    There's more Wolverton in the archives, just use the handy dandy search engine! Thanks for the comments too...

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  8. Mr. Karswell10/18/2012

    We appreciate all the kind words and feedback about Haunted Horror #1 too! I started a Facebook group for it, if you haven't joined us yet please do!

    Just search Haunted Horror (IDW / Yoe Books)

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  9. Jasper Bark10/18/2012

    Fabulous stuff, but was astonished to find out that the second story was written by hugo award winning Daniel Keyes, who's responsible for 'Flowers for Algernon'.

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  10. KW10/18/2012

    If I had a large scale scan of any one of those panels I think I'd print up a t-shirt. Each one of them is good on its own.

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  11. Mestiere10/19/2012

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