RICHIE RICH AND THE FRANKENSTEIN GANG

When it came to monsters, even Harvey Comics' RICHIE RICH got in the act in 1975. Dracula, The Wolf Man and Frankenstein's monster scare the daylights out of Richie and his pals in "The Frankenstein Gang", drawn by Ernie Colon. The cover is attributed to Warren Kremer.

VAMPIRELLA NO. 1 (PART 1)

VAMPIRELLA
Vol. 1 No. 1
September 1969
Warren Publishing Co.
Publisher: James Warren
Editor: Bill Parente
Cover: Frank Frazetta
Pages: 68
Cover price: 50 cents

CONTENTS
"Vampirella of Draculon"
Writer: Forrest J Ackerman
Artist: Tom Sutton

"Death Boat"
Writer: Don Glut
Artist: Billy Graham

"Two Silver Bullets!"
Writer: Don Glut
Artist: Reed Crandall

"Goddess From the Sea"
Writer: Don Glut
Artist: Neal Adams

"Last Act: October!"
Writer: Don Glut
Artist: Mike Royer

"Spaced Out Girls!"
Writer: Don Glut
Artist: Tony Tallarico

"A Room Full of Changes"
Writer: Nicola Cuti
Artist: Ernie Colon


Not content with the CREEPY and EERIE horror comics titles, Forrest J Ackerman developed the idea of Vampirella of Drakulon, a humorous strip that was Warren's version of PLAYBOY's Little Annie Fanny. Frank Frazetta turned in a wonderful cover for the first issue after Aslan, the intended cover artist (who did cheesecake a la Alberto Vargas for PENTHOUSE) apparently couldn't deliver on time (his painting appeared on VAMPIRELLA ANNUAL #1).

I was fortunate enough to get the last issue standing at my local drug store newsstand. It had obviously been thumbed through numerous times already, but I wasn't going to be my usual nit-picky, gotta buy it in mint condition self since it was the last one. I still have it along with the rest of the 112-issue run.