BEFORE UNCLE CREEPY'S LOATHSOME LORE

[From NIGHTMARE Vol. 1 No. 1 (Ziff-Davis Summer 1952)]
Art by Everett Raymond Kinstler

EVERETT RAYMOND KINSTLER - POE'S PIT AND THE PENDULUM

Everett Raymond Kinstler is one of the illustration world's great gifts. Besides his fantastic pulp, paperback, and comic book work, he has made a name for himself with his superb painting of portraits. His comic book illustration can be compared to Alex Raymond, Al Williamson, and Reed Crandall, but he is really in a class all his own. The Underwood Books retrospective, EVERETT RAYMOND KINSTLER The Artist's Journey Through Popular Culture 1942 - 1962, is not to be missed.

Here, Kinstler applies his masterful brush to Edgar Allan Poe's THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM in this story is from Ziff-Davis' NIGHTMARE Vol. 1 No. 2 Fall 1952 issue.

DEADTIME STORIES

[From NIGHTMARE Vol. 1 No. 1 (Ziff Davis, Fall 1952)]

DEADTIME STORIES

[From NIGHTMARE Vol. 1, No. 11 (St. John, February 1954)]

DO THE MONSTER MASK! (PART 7)

Hey, everybody, a "REAL" ad! My guess is that, in a comic mag like Skywald's NIGHTMARE, they had to make sure that the intended age group of its readers knew the difference between a comic story and advertising art, since they looked pretty much the same!

Yellow Phantom, over at the fabulous BLOOD-CURDLING BLOG OF MONSTER MASKS posted this very same ad a while back, only his was spotted in an issue of PSYCHO. Intended to compliment his previous post, this "Horror House" ad is from NIGHTMARE #1, from December 1970. I'd say that the art is by John Severin if I had to make a guess. "Gruesome to behold", indeed!

BILL EVERETT'S CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON

The exquisite draughtmanship of this pen and ink drawing displays the artistic magnificence of Bill "Sub-Mariner" Everett, one of the greatest of the Golden Age comic book artists. That it's of my favorite atomic-age monster is an added bonus! From Skywald's NIGHTMARE #2, February 1971.

This one's for Brandon up at the store with the artist's namesake, EVERETT COMICS.