We started this post code journey into mystery fest with a JK tale, and here's how we'll end it --and with a super Sinnott assist as well! It's definitely not October until the wicked (and even the not so wicked) witches take flight! From the May 1960 issue of Journey into Mystery #58.
Again with a first person titled post-code freak-out tale this week, --because it's all about YOU, dear doomed reader, muhhh-hahah, --featuring awesome art by yet another pre-code horror legend, and this time it's petrifyin' Paul Reinman leading the journey into jolting terror! We'll definitely be visiting a few more haunted houses before the month is out, so get ready for some serious spook overload! From the July 1960 issue of Journey into Mystery #59.
Continuing on our October journey into mysterious, supernatural madness, with a King Kirby classic from the February 1962 issue of Journey into Mystery #77... ever see a spookier splash page in your life?! A truly great cover team-up with dynamite Dick Ayers on inks too!
Holy Hannah, it's October already! Time to get this haunted Halloween fright fest in macabre motion with a fun little tale from the May 1962 issue of Journey into Mystery #80, --and highlighted by some great art from precode horror hero, Don Heck no less! And after you finish this post, check out a golden age Atlas variation on this same spooky story located in the THOIA 2007 archive, by CLICKING HERE!
Ending out the month of September 2022 with a lurid Al Luster jungle jitter Atlas classic, from the September 1953 issue of Spellbound #17. Lots of great leering faces and terrible pointed teeth always populate a Luster tale, and let's see how the great white hunters fair in today's story, though what they're hunting for this time isn't exactly what you'd expect...
I've already been finding some really cool, used, vintage Halloween masks as we approach the month of October. The resale shops and antique malls seem to be totally in the spirit, and so am I, of course, so keeping in the aforementioned spirit, here's a fun terror tale starring some masks, as well as the much maligned motorcycle gang. Seriously, is there anyone more clearly doomed in a horror comic book story than the mean, satanic, Silver Age motorcycle gang? Well, maybe the great white game hunter from any comic book era, but whatev, --getcher motors runnin', and head out on the highway, it's time to see what fate has in store for Glenn Danzig and Richard O'Brien leading a cast of cruel characters in, "They Got Away!", (Rated R) from the June 1976 issue of Beyond the Grave #6.
It's been a few years since we encountered Dick Briefer's freakishly funny Frankenstein monster, and what better time to get a chill and a chuckle than on the first day of Fall 2022! Some really nice Karloff caricature work here by 'ol Dick as well. From the Jan - Feb '48 issue of Frankenstein #11.
Atlas liked to recycle story titles (see previous post), and who can blame 'em when it's a really good title! Take for example this wild and wooly weirdie from the April 1951 issue of Adventures into Terror #3, featuring art by Gene Colan! I guess we're doing Werewolf Wednesday a few days early...
