We had a request last month for more King Ward, and I am of course more than happy to oblige, --I mean, he is The King, after all! It's also quite the convenient request since the 'ol ACG long boxes were already still resurrected for our previous post! And I feel like we haven't featured a "True Ghosts of History" quickie in a while either, so please try not to shriek too loudly at the horrifically stern visage of "The Grim Lady of Raynham Hall" from the December - Janaury 1949 issue of Adventures into the Unknown #2. But first up, it's time to turn the tables on a supernatural faker with some honest-to-badness REAL supernatural, from the September - October 1951 issue of Forbidden Worlds #2. Ward is certainly in fine form on both entries in this post, each swirling with spooky, drippy atmosphere, and maybe like me, you'll learn some deadly new terminology for fine lobster dining and seaweed!
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Thank you for posting more of King Ward! I love this guy's art, and his Howling Hunters is one of the best horror comic yarns I've ever read!
I’ll be posting more all week as well —so get ready!
This one has a fun reverse of your normal ghost story; in your normal ghost story something happens, and then later the only explanation is a ghost. Think Resurrection Mary and the missing sweater.
Here, though, the tar footprints are thought of as a ghost but the end of the story proves it to have a natural explanation -- though that natural explanation is explained by a supernatural entity!
This story is hard to get your head around! And then all the "dead man" stuff with natural explanations, and finally our hero, who seems to have magical powers (mesmerism, summoning spirits) get his ... at that hands of those same powers. Yet he didn't believe in ghosts? I love this one it's all sorts of weird.
Good 2-pager on the "brown lady" (which they renamed the grim lady because that makes a better comic.) She's a lot more visible in this one then the famous picture, and they pretty much changed around parts of the story.
I do like how they found a portrait (its up on wikipedia) and gave her the same head scarf she wears in that, though a lot meaner face! Poor Dorothy, still suffering even after all these years!
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