Come Share My Coffin Tomb!

Our month of dueling Two-For-One Fear Features continues with a petrifyin' pair of terror tales that are really asking a lot from you, dear readers! Yes, come along with us now as we attempt to make some rotten room for a couple of certifiably creepy, cramped companion classics! And Pete Tumlinson kicks it off with an ever familiar, eerie escape trick that is most certainly doomed to backfire every time, guaranteed! From the May 1954 issue of Strange Tales #28, plus a special paralyzin' applause for that superbly scary cover design by Harry Anderson! Then it's Mort Meskin's turn to amp up the mausoleum madness with an apparently "true" crime case from the September - October 1951 issue of Headline Comics #49, via Prize Comics. Yep, THOIA is unloading a hot, double dose of COME atcha this time around-- better bring some Kleenex! Wait, what? They're both tear-jerkers, I meant...

Perry Chase.... Press Guardian

Perry Chase, aka The Press Guardian was yet another of the many fun, but largely forgotten 1940's back-up filler hero features from the early days of the ever popular Pep Comics series, via Archie. And while he doesn't really possess any SUPER hero powers, --as we'll be seeing in some of our other featured hero posts all this month, --he is one terrifically tough, masked reporter with those fists, threatening the bad guys with strangulation and torn throats, all the while saving the lovely damsels in distress in his endless pursuit of justice, and truth. The two stories I have for you today are unique to the series, because it appears to be the few horror themed examples of Press G encountering his nemesis "The Claw" in a pair of adventures where old house mad science and subtereanean monsters fit THOIA's bill rather nicely. Not to mention, Mort Meskin's old school art style really lends a wonderfully surreal, eerie quality to the all-out scrappy, beast battle action. Enjoy! From the Nov. / Dec. 1940 issues of Pep Comics #9, and Pep Comics #10. 

Sleep, Perchance to Die!

It's been a few years since we've looked at a Mort Meskin tale, how about this one from the June - July 1951 issue of Black Magic Vol. 1 #5-- some really great, super intense panels in this one! And after the post, you know him, you've loved his comments here for many years now *drum roll* -- don't miss Mr. Cavin's awesome Halloween art project from this past October, where he uploaded a different self created image every single day of the month on Facebook! Click HERE for all the awesomeness and lots, lots more!

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Reincarnation

re⋅in⋅car⋅na⋅tion [ree-in-kahr-ney-shuhn] –noun
1. the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.

2. stories today, the first from the July 1952 issue of Witches Tales #12, and the second from the August 1954 issue of Journey into Unknown Worlds #30, with art by Mort Meskin (since some of you were just talking about him in the comments of our last post.)

[Interestingly, the first story seems to warrant being tagged as about being zombies and possession rather than straight-up reincarnation. -- Nequam]

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Bonus Filler

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