The circus has come to town, and as always, Lin Streeter delivers another top notch Ace Magazines visual feast of wonderful sets (love those tattered old circus posters inside the castle), --not to mention a terrifyingly thirsty, and very sexy vampire vixen on the prowl! Hang on for your life, it's a high flyin', hair-raisin' tale via the Creepiest Show on Earth, aka the July 1951 issue of The Beyond #5.
We've been looking at some deadly serious crime horror tales for a few posts now, and it's time for one more! But let's throw a little bit more fun on the fire and make it a Mr. and Mrs. Chase mystery in an old haunted mansion! Adding to the recipe: a gang of Bowery Boy wannabes who call themselves "The Cobras", sprinkled with some eye poppin' leggy / bondage good girl art, plus a few mad cap monsters mixed into the maniacal Lou Morales mayhem, and you have yourself one heckuva crazy wild ride from the Jan. '53 issue of Crime and Justice #11. This should've been turned into an old B-movie!
Here's an incredibly creepy crime caper from the February 1952 issue of Lawbreakers #5, containing two gory reminders that not only are both old and young unsafe when a Jason Vorhees-esque madman is on the loose, but also to point out (in case you didn't already know) that rotten corpses don't smell so good. Art team greats, Al Tyler and Bob Forgione pull out all of the slasher stops in this one, even signing their names in all of that splishity-splashity blood in the splash. So hold on to your hats, and don't forget to pinch your nostrils closed too, you're headed for the--
Time now to detour down the old country backroads into creeping crime terror, as officers Barry and Tex, (aka "The Radio Patrol") are on the case of a brutal psycho-killer on the loose! Can our boys in blue stop the slaughterama before they themselves become the next victims? Here we go-- from the nerve shattering November 1952 issue of Crime and Justice #10. And who can identify the artist here?
Two'fer Tuesday with a deadly Vampire Double Creature Feature, and both from the September 1953 issue of Mister Mystery #13 too! And Tony Mortellaro returns with a scrumptious feast of food and fear to frazzle your digestive system, but first up it's Gerald Altman again as well with some really good, and weirdly not-so-good art, --but seriously, those vampire panels on page three are some of my all-time favorites ever-- ROWR!! Do I even need to mention the iconic Bernard Baily cover classic on this issue?! *GLUB!
Nobody has to ask me twice when we get another request for more Basil Wolverton. And yeah, you've probably seen this before, most likely in one of the many published 70's/80's Wolverton reprint specials, or maybe even when we featured it as "The Robot Woman" in Haunted Horror #22. There are some artistic differences though, and if you've never made the comparison, then now is your chance, --just CLICK HERE for it as it originally appeared in the Dec. '52 issue of Weird Mysteries #2! Today's "Beauty and the Beast" variation though is from the May 1953 issue of Mister Mystery #11.
After last month's string of hellish hero horror tales, it's definitely time for a serious change of screamery! Say, how about a nice relaxing boat ride to clear our heads? I do believe some fresh sea air will do us all a world of gook-- err, I mean, good. Yes, that's exactly what I meant. From the May 1952 issue of Mister Mystery #5, and art by Tony Mortellaro.
