The Ghost Still Walks (Re-visited)

We talk alot about reprints / remakes around here, for example the way Eerie Publications revived a ton of great 1950's Golden Age pre-code stories 20 years later, and in the process intensified the horror by expanding upon certain visual elements with more insane levels of gruesomeness in the art (and story.) But as we clearly see in today's post, Marvel went the opposite approach with 70's color horror reprints of their own pre-code Atlas tales:

"The Ghost Still Walks" originally appeared in the May 1952 issue of Adventures into Weird Worlds #6, and was later reprinted / revised for the Dec. 1973 issue of Dead of Night #1, (see THOIA Archive HERE for reprint post.) As you can see from the example above, this isn't just white ghost robes turning purple, these putrid Golden era ghouls are horrific, rotten, dripping, slimeball messes, vs their much tamer / lamer remake appearance... and I hope artist Joe Sinnott threw a goddamn fit over it.

The Ghost Still Walks

I have a mound of chilling haunted Atlas tales lined up for you for the next few posts or so, and this one from genius Joe Sinnott is as good a place to start as any. FYI: I plan to start utilizing more of my color horror reprints from the 70’s because I’m noticing my lower grade golden era books don’t hold up so well during repeat handling throughout the scanning phase. All stories will be pre-code though, so have no fear my dears.

Originally presented in the May 1952 issue of Adventures into Weird Worlds #6