VAMPIRELLA NO. 9 (PART 1)

Inset over Wallace Wood's illustration for the interior story, "The Curse" is Boris Vallejo's first work published in North America. He had painted a cover for EERIE that was accepted before this, but the issue wasn't published until June 1971. Chris Fellner's script credit for "Jack the Ripper Strikes Again" is changed to Fred Ott when it was reprinted in Vampi #19. An error or the same person?

NOTE: Errors in cover dates for posts of earlier issues have been corrected.

VAMPIRELLA

Vol. 1 No. 9

January 1971

Warren Publishing Company

Editor and Publisher: James Warren

Associate Editor: Archie Goodwin

Contributing Editor: Bill Parente; Nicola Cuti

Cover: Boris Vallejo; Wallace Wood

Pages: 68

Cover price: 60 cents

CONTENTS

"Vampirella's Feary Tales" ("Lilith")

Script: Nicola Cuti

Art: Jeff Jones

"The Testing!"

Script: Archie Goodwin

Art: Tom Sutton

"Monster Bait"

Script: Don Glut

Art: Joe Wehrle

"Fate's Cold Finger!"

Script: Doug Moench

Art: Ken Barr

"The Curse"

Script: Wallace Wood

Art: Wallace Wood

"Jack the Ripper Strikes Again"

Script: Chris Fellner

Art: Jerry Grandenetti

"The Boy Who Loved Trees"

Script: Gardner Fox; Barry Smith

Art: Barry Smith

"The Work Orders For the Day!"

Script: Jack Katz (as Alac Justice)

Art: Jack Katz (as Alac Justice)

HAVE A CIMMERIAN SEPTEMBER

"This is Thak. Some would call him an ape, but he is almost as different from a real ape as he is different from a real man. His people dwell far to the east, in the mountains that fringe the eastern frontiers of Zamora."

- Nabonidus, Rogues in the House

There's been a bit of a buzz for the last couple of years from various blogs and YouTube channels celebrating "Cimmerian September", a way to commemorate Robert E. Howard's Conan, the legendary barbarian warrior who has enjoyed a lasting popularity since the 1960's. I'll be jumping on the ox-cart this time and as a result you'll see more posts like this one dotted throughout the rest of the month.

My introduction to sword & sorcery was John Jakes' "The Mirror of Wizardry" and Carter and de Camp's pastiche, "Conan and the Cenotaph" in the digest magazine WORLDS OF FANTASY #1 (1968). I liked the Brak story alright, but I wondered who this Conan fellow was. I crossed over that threshold when I discovered my first Conan Lancer paperback, CONAN, and from then on grabbed every one that I could lay my hands on, preferably with Lancer's distinctive purple book block. I've still got my complete collection of Lancer Conan's and the last time I looked they were in pretty good condition, considering Lancer is notorious for lousy binding glue.

Read John Jake's Brak story, "The Mirror of Wizardry" HERE.

Read John Jake's Brak story, "The Pillars of Chambalor" HERE.

Last week, I posted Howard's "Rogues in the House", in recognition of Frank Frazetta's record-breaking sale for his cover for the Lancer paperback, CONAN. Today I'm offering Roy Thomas and Barry Smith's illustrated adaptation from Marvel's CONAN THE BARBARIAN #11 (November 1971).