The Witch's Victim (PART TWO)

For those of you perplexed about how the supernatural Ellery Queen mystery of our last post (HERE) was going to pan out-- well, here's the big finish! Plus, a brief re-cap, and a witchy one-page bonus from the inside back cover of Dell's Four Color #1243. One more request to fill to finish out July 2014 here at THOIA, with lots more coming up-- and a special salute to all my friends who had a blast at SDCC over the last few days-- sorry I couldn't attend this time around, but hope to see ya all there next year!

The Witch's Victim (PART ONE)

Another request, this time from "Mad Margaret" who is haunted by memories of an eerie Ellery Queen comic book mystery she read as a kid but she can't remember the name or anything else about it except "it had a spooky black cat in it!" Hopefully this is the one... and like our last post, it's a bit lengthy so I split it up into two posts. Sekowsky art fans take note! From the Nov. '61 - Jan. '62 issue of Dell's Four Color #1243, --part two coming up shortly (containing a few more spooky cat panels!) And man oh man, is that a gorgeous George Wilson cover painting, or what?

...to be continued!

The Horror of the Walking Corpse

Apologies for the delay in posts-- it's time to get Oct rottin' and rollin' and vomitin'! I had the putrid pleasure of spending the day recently at DAN CON 2013 with gore metal madman artist Eric Rot and his fabulously foxy better half-- Lidia Vomito! And to top it off, Chicago's most hardcore killer kouple sends over some scans of a most gruesome horror tale originally presented in the February 1954 issue of Dark Mysteries #16. Yeah, some guys 'n ghouls share sappy songs in their relationship, Eric and Lidia share this heart warming story of a love that creeps 'n crawls much deeper and darker than the haunted grave! Dig examples of Eric's own atrocities by clicking HERE!

Eric 'n Lidia

"Surely You're Joking, Dr. Wertham!" / Doomed

Experience a night of Seduction of the Innocent, Wednesday March 20th at 7pm, when the Soho Gallery for Digital Art in NY hosts "Surely You're Joking, Dr. Wertham!", (click for more details) featuring a distinguished panel of comic book professionals, including Paul Levitz, David Hajdu, Craig Yoe, Sharon Packer, and Danny Fingerhoth, as they discuss the recent SOTI related findings of Professor Carol F. Tilley. Discover how Wertham changed the comic book industry and consider what it might have been like without him! And in the meantime, get a gory gander of what SOTI was all about with these six wild 'n wicked, encore presentation pages of head hacking, Iger Shop horror-- from the May / June 1954 issue of Voodoo #15!

Hatchet Man / Insane / Night People

THOIA heads off for a much needed vacation (and we're taking the color with us), but we leave you with a beheading black and white Eugene Hughes triple feature! We're not exactly sure where "The Hatchet Man" and "The Night People" originated, (though both were reprinted decades later in Ghoul Tales as well as the Tales too Terrible to Tell series), while "Insane" was originally presented in the July 1954 issue of Weird Chills #1 --rounded out with some saucy vintage ads I've been meaning to use forever. See ya in one week!