Showing posts with label Tales to Astonish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tales to Astonish. Show all posts

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Death Song! / The Thing With Red Eyes

Our last pre-code story from Don Heck this weekend comes from the September 1953 issue of Horrific #7, but it’s actually a reprint from the Nov. ’52 issue of Weird Terror #2 (another Comic Media horror title.) Strange to see a publisher re-use its own story just one year later but I guess the competative newsstand times were tough back then so they re-used whatever they had when they could.

Plus, as promised, after this story we’ve got a fine example of Heck’s Silver Age work from his astonishing days at Marvel. Enjoy!








And in case you missed them the first time around, there’s plenty more Don Heck in the THOIA Archives! Just click the titles below:




And speaking of Comic Media’s Weird Terror mag, stick around on Monday and Tuesday for a couple examples from this series, including some tentacled terror from Al Tewks and a fabulously sweaty freak-fest from THOIA fave Rudy Palais!

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The Thing with Red Eyes From the May 1961 issue of Tales to Astonish #19




Thursday, February 5, 2009

I Turned into a… Martian! / I Lived a Ghost Story!

We won’t be traveling as far into the future as we did last month on Time Machine Days… just a half decade or so to the early 60’s this time around. And I know, yesterday I promised a Joe Sinnott story, but when I got ready to scan it I realized I totally misplaced the damn issue somewhere. So to make up for this I’ll post two stories today, including a spooky ghost gagger by Atlas fave Paul Reinman.

But first, let’s fill a Steve Ditko request from THOIA reader Black Walnut with this classically titled S/F monstrosity from the September 1960 issue of Journey into Mystery #60.







“Possession of the mind is a terrible thing
It's a transformation with an urge to kill
Not the body of a man from earth
Not the face of the one you love, 'cause

I turned into a Martian
I can't even recall my name
Times I never hardly sleep at night
Well, I turned into a Martian today

I walk down city streets
On an unsuspecting human world
Inhuman in your midst
This world is mine to own, 'cause

I turned into a Martian…”
---Misfits



TOMORROW: workin' on it...



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I Lived a Ghost Story!
From the January 1960 issue of Tales to Astonish #7





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