Dripping Terror / Out of the Deep!

Sometimes the "horror on the high seas" can find its way after you, even OFF the high seas, as displayed in today's double doomed shock soakers. First up: "Dripping Terror" from the May 1953 issue of Beware! Terror Tales #7, (my copy ironically enough is a bit on the water damaged side), followed by "Out of the Deep!" from the April 1953 Avon one-shot Phantom Witch Doctor #1.

Lure of the Sea Hag

The great Gene Colan passed away last month (June 23rd, 2011), but his amazing legacy lives on forever in some of the greatest comic books and artwork of all time. And while recently digging through my pre-code boxes in search of stories for a seperate project, I stumbled upon this tale in the July 1952 issue of The Beyond #13. It's unmistakeably an uncredited Colan classic, (and lucky for us, also fits nicely into our current "Horror on the High Seas" theme.) Dig the zombie close-up at the top of page 6, who else but Mean Gene could capture such a superbly weird look of horror and sadness on the face of the living dead?

Graveyard of Ghost Ships

You asked for "more horror on the highs seas..." --and you got it. You asked for "more Lou Cameron..." --and you got that too! You didn't ask for a deadly hot ghost girl pirate, but I'm givin' one to ya anyway-- from the July 1953 issue of The Beyond #21!

The Moon was Red

We're shambling along on our Ace Fest-- but suddenly our zombie shamble turns into more of a thundering stomp as the giant monsters arrive! This is another wild 'n weird one from the May 1953 issue of Web of Mystery #18, and as usual, the ever mindblowing Lou Cameron completely out does himself with stunning visuals and a tremendous amount of eye-poppin', gory detail, (even if today's snarling high seas horror does look like something right out of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.)

BONUS!

Corpses on Cue

Here's another zonkers zombie post, this time from the May 1953 issue of Web of Mystery #18. A tale of voodoo and possession with really nice art, plus one of those "Wait, what just happened?!" endings. Say, who else besides me wants to hear The Amazing Criswell read the closing narrative in the final panel?

[Unusually, this comic's remake got posted before the original! Compare Eerie Publication's "Zombie Magic" here! -- Nequam]

 

Master of the Undead

Time to walk with the zombies, from the Sept. '53 issue of Baffling Mysteries #17. GCD thinks this might be Joe Orlando.