Here's a joltin', revoltin' idea-- let's kickstart the new month of posts with a shock ending! And not just any shock ending-- but a SHOCK ROCK ending, to boot! If Kiss, Alice Cooper, and King Diamond were dead, they'd be rollin' over in their graves right now! And if that opening Su Gumen number ain't electrifyin' enough for ya, let's end it all once and for all with a humorous Wayne Howard exorcism encore! From the October 1975 issue of Ghostly Haunts #46, as well as the fright-filled February 1976 issue of Ghostly Haunts #48.
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This one’s unusual. Neither brother purposely double-crosses the other or actively sabotages the items they borrow from each other. In fact, Ken even tries to warn his brother about the bad brakes on the car but due to not listening, this is what does him in. And Len’s ghost can only talk to the reader about his guitar which also wasn’t purposely tampered with prior, just naturally faulty. I do love the panel where the electrician shows off the jacked up electric chair and that line “Don’t you cry for me when I light up like a Christmas tree!” is hilarious. 🤣 🤣 The second story is basically a ghastly pun which amusingly enough, I was just thinking of a similar joke told in the Looney Tunes short, The Duxorcist. “Did you hear the one about the girl who didn’t pay her exorcist bill? Her soul got repossessed!”
Great story, great idea for a story, a below average print job, thats Charlton for you.
Like Glowworm mentioned, it was just bad luck or fate that led to their demise, no malicious intent, though Ken should have mentioned to Len he needed money to fix the brakes.
From the reaction of the audiences, they were Big on Ideas but small on talent, though nowadays they might have found fame online.
These two tales were sockers all right, a great way to welcome August.
No wonder the brothers bombed… look at the age of the crowd. They should be home listening to Frank Sinatra. Because the writers were often middle aged, they resorted to night club scenarios instead of dance clubs or arenas for Rock performers.
1975: This is when we started having "shock" rockers on episodes of CHiPs so this was all the rage.
I adore this one. As mentioned, there's no vengeance from the grave; there's no murder, there's just a set of bumbling idiots who basically can't get a break and both end up dying and neither is all too bummed by it!
I absolutely love that they are, or at least again, friends at the end. There's no hate, no recriminations, no anything, just "welp, there you go, what's next?"
It is really super sweet, actually!
Did Ditko come up with Winnie the Witch? I know there were different versions of her, but boy does she look like a Ditko creation. She might also be a cut and paste job from a Ditko story into this one.
I looked up Winnie the Witch on GCD /comics.org
Quote - "Introduction of Winnie the Witch, created by Joe Gill and Steve Ditko, as revealed in the letters section of Ghostly Haunts # 40."
I myself didn't know Ditko was a co-creator of Charlton's first femme fatale narrator, and the images of her in this tale are Ditko's rendition of her from other stories.
Thanks for the research, JMR— ya beat me to it! ;)
The last bit got me to chuckle
the one pager
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