What Happened to Charley Banes?

Surprised myself this week after realizing that in all the years I've been posting stories online here at THOIA, I've yet to post any from Dell's fun 60's comic spin-off of the great television series, The Outer Limits. And this is a unique yarn to correct my oversight with, mainly because it has a little bit of everything: horror, humor, beach babes, a tunnel of love, neat Jack Sparling artwork, and a cool monster that looks a little bit like the Creature from the Black Lagoon! Add one final "last name" ingredient into the mix (spelled correctly on the cover, but not in the story, dagnabbit!) and you have one winner of a fishy tail freak-out. From the April 1967 issue of The Outer Limits #12, and we'll take a look at another great story from this series in our next post as well, stay tombed...

Phony Face! / Skin Deep

We haven't had a Double (Be)Header around here in a while, in fact, let's call this one a "Face-Off!" shall we? We pit DC's House of Mystery against their own House of Secrets in a no holds barred match of tales sharing a similar theme. Which one comes out on top? Our first story is from the August 1972 issue of HoM #205, while the opposing yarn is from the April 1973 issue of HoS #107.

The Improved Kiss

Here's a preview for you from the new HAUNTED HORROR #6 issue-- a grandly epic, gruesome, gory tale that originally appeared in the November 1953 issue of Weird Terror #8, art by Marty Elkin. Hope everyone is enjoying the series so far, if you're having trouble finding copies in your area, please drop me a line.

The Fanged Freak

Black and white 70's remake from Eerie Publications, "The Fanged Freak", from the Feb '75 issue of Tales from the Tomb V7 #1.

Ultimate Destiny / Unknown Presence

IDW / Yoe Books latest excursion into the four color realm of Golden era pre-code horror is in stores today-- it's HAUNTED HORROR #1, co-edited by Craig Yoe, Clizia, and meeee... we hope you all rush out today and buy multiple copies for yourself and all your friends and family. And if you're still on the fence about buying it (really?!), we have a handful of stories from issue #1 kindly posted from other fellow bloggers (see links below), PLUS reviews and more to wet your werewhistles... AND even more to be added as the day goes on, so keep checking back. And keeping with the double feature theme here at THOIA this month, I have the Jay Disbrow mind melter from HH#1 for you today (visually enhanced for the HH#1 issue too, by the way), as well as another story (not featured in HH#1) illustrated by Jay from the May 1952 issue of Blue Bolt Weird Tales #113. So yeah, we wanna hear from you-- let us know what you think of HAUNTED HORROR! And thanks again to all our great friends who helped promote HH#1 today all across the Webbosphere of Fear:

From the Tomb

Bloody Disgusting

This Literary Life

CBR - Comic Book Resources

Four Color Shadows

Geek For E

Hypnotik Eye

Bantam Street

Neato Coolville

Nerd Girls Eye View