The 2024 Halloween Horror Comics Thread!

[protector2814]

Boys & Ghouls, it's that month again! When October rolls around, I grab my shovel & dig up what I can pertaining to the season of spookiness - I'll be away from the 7th - 12th, but I'll be back.

I'm starting with a theme I explored once before, but since then, I've found even more.

Comic Horror Hosts (more obscure then ever)

1) The Gravedigger from Premier Comic's Horror From The Tomb.


Here are 3 from Asylum Press' line of Horror Comics

Madam Clizia

Forlock The Warlock

Mr. Karswell


Professor Coffin


From 1954's Mysterious Adventures,
The Corpse


El Siniestro's Doctor Mortis

[wktf]

Welcome back, Jerry!

[Mister H]

Always look forward to this yearly thread. Love the aesthetic of the old horror comics. I recently bought the Eerie Archives in paperback volumes 1-6. I'll probably get the Creepy Archives next.

[protector2814]

Originally Posted by Mister H

Always look forward to this yearly thread. Love the aesthetic of the old horror comics. I recently bought the Eerie Archives in paperback volumes 1-6. I'll probably get the Creepy Archives next.

I have the 1st 10 Creepy Archives. Wish I'd continued. I'm now buying the ppbk Eerie. Great!

Here we go with day 2.

(Sorry, small one0

Impy -
21 appearances in Haunted Tales.



Dr. Graves fr. his own mag. Charleton Comics


Mr. Dredd (on the left) Fr. Ghostly Tales -



Hottie alert! - Countess Von Bludd - fr. Scary
Tales

[protector2814]

Day 3 of Horror Hosts -

1950's Mail-In photo-portraits of the 3 ec Horror Hosts. Boy, would I love these in my collection. They pop-up on ebay from time to time -


One of my favorites! Doctor Death from This Magazine Is Haunted


The Man In Black - A Thrill Adventure Comic


The Ol' Digger from Chamber Of Darkness


The Made-Up Man from Scream Comics

[Mister H]

I've seen the mail in pics before but I haven't seen The Ol' Digger before.

[protector2814]

Mister H - You have no idea how many horror hosts I've had to skip on account of me not finding them on Yahoo. Maybe you could see what you can do -

The Made-Up Man from Screaming Horror #1
Mr. Dredd fr. Ghostly Tales
Black Witch fr. itch's Cauldron
Retribution fr. Web Of Mystery
The Bone Man fr. Horror From The Tomb
Freddie Demon, Victor Vampire & Garry Ghoul from Terrific Publ. Comic Media's books.
The Coffin Keeper fr. Mysterious Adventures


I have examples of all of them in trades & reprints but taking photos, establishing them the zapping them here is just a big ol' pia.

[protector2814]

Pulp Magazines, which proceeded Comic magazines by about 60 years in their heyday, more-or-less set the stage for our Golden age in comics. With Pulp, it was always about the covers, grabbing a reader's attention with the fantastic. Sci-fi, heroic, yes, Superheroes, & crime-busters, all was represented in Pulp. My own Dad described his Doc Savage & The Shadow collections (which ere swiped out of his tent on a Boy Scout camping trip) as if they were his boyhood treasure. Horror was right there too. Who doesn't love a scary tale & with Pulp, you could terrify with the cover. Here are some great examples. I'm kicking off with my favorite The Shadow cover & 3 early 30's covers from Clayton Magazines' Strange Tales Of Mystery And Terror. -

The Shadow, The Creeping Death. From his own magazine.


A glorious cover from back in 1932. A precursor of the horror to come for the next 20 years.


Damned Vampires! Even back in the early 30's they were a p.i.a.!


October

[protector2814]

Thrilling Detective magazine would have been spooky reading while getting a shine.


"Nyaaaaa!"

[protector2814]

Last day posting for a week. The beach calls, but I'll be back w/ lots more Pulp-Horror!

"Honey? You still in the basement?"


A kiss of Betty Davis. Great title!


"Yeeeehawww."


"Zzzzz...nyum nyum nyum nyum"