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:

Mark of the Brute

Satan’s Love Call

All the Shapes of Fear

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

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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