Now listen up! I've inadvertently created a "wet 'n wild" theme with the last few posts, --so howz'about one more from the August 1953 issue of Mystery Tales #14 -- it's guaranteed to send you over the edge! Paul Reinman once again delivers the wicked wedded goods, and Mr. Karswell may have even tampered with a swimsuit panel or two... or three... or four. A one piece is fine, but a bikini is divine!
Something a little different for everyone today, as THOIA hears the ominous ocean's call, and responds with a one-way trip into the darkness of the deep. From the March 1956 issue of Journey into Unknown Worlds #42, art by Dick Ayers.
Fish Tank Terror is back (thanks for waiting!) and it's another weird one from the murky depths of the November 1954 issue of Journey into Mystery #19! Vince Colletta adds a good amount of creeping, disembodied eyeball chills throughout, --though if you're like cantankerous 'ol Mr. Karswell, the only thing I want creepin' around in my aquarium is the Penn-Plax Creech aerator from 1971! *glub! glub!
I guess it's been a while since we've seen a Howie Post Atlas classic around here, (how'e does it, I'll never know!) And this cute little hissing blast from the petrifyin' past, aka the November 1954 issue of Journey into Mystery #19, might just be what you antique and curio collectors are lookin' for! And hey, with that explosive twist ending-- nobody even has to go into work today now-- or ever again! The End.
May was such a grueling month of hideous, downbeat horror tales, I thought maybe kicking off June with some kid friendly fun could really shake things up around here! And don't for a single second think just because it's Spiderman in a haunted house that this one doesn't deliver the chills-- the final twist panel, in fact, makes this story very worthy of its inclusion here at THOIA. From the Dec. 1974 issue of Spidey Super Stories #3, with art by Win Mortimer and Mike Esposito!
We've so far survived an unusual amount of female vampire attacks this month at THOIA, --let's see how you fare with one more, via "The Ghoul of Death", from the June - July 1951 issue of Dark Mysteries #1! I really love that Evening News headline at the top of page 6, almost as much as I love that batty blonde bloodsuckin' ghoul girl gnashin' her nasty gnarly teeth-- RRRROOOWWW! One more Dark Mystery to go for this monstrous month of May-- and speaking of, you va-va-va-vampire vixens can DM me any 'ol time!
We continue now with an eerily embracing mystery of awful wedded darkness, as legendary Lou Cameron puts another pretty little murderess through the wringer --and then really turns up the heat! And are we actually hiding inside a coffin to escape justice again?! Good lord, haven't we learned anything around here over the years? From the deadly, disease riddled debut issue of Dark Mysteries #1, via June - July 1951... with another wild one from this issue up next!
