SECRET AGENT WEREWOLF!

Let's close out this weird comics week with a full-length issue of Dell's WEREWOLF #1 (December 1966). Third in the series of a re-imagining of the Universal monsters (Dracula and the Frankenstein monster were the other two), it was created and scripted by editor D.J. Arneson (another source attributes the story to Don Segall), penciled by Bill Fraccio and inked by Tony Tallarico.

While not as crazed as the other comics this week, it's still pretty bizarre, especially if you put it in the context of the classic monsters. Air Force Major Wiley Wolf (!) crash lands his experimental aircraft in the arctic, suffers amnesia and lives with a pack of wolves, himself turning wild (!). Finally making it back to civilization, he is recruited by the CIA as a secret agent/superhero (!). I'll cease with the exclamation points and let you take the story from there. Mercifully, WEREWOLF only lasted for three issues.

BATMAN VS. THE WEREWOLF

Besides famous villains such as The Joker and The Penguin, it was not unusual for Batman to battle all manner of monstrosities over his 715-issue first run (Spring 1940 - October 2011). In the 100-page Super Spectacular BATMAN #255 (March-April 1974), our caped crusader faces one of his strangest -- and most deadliest -- foes . . . a werewolf stalks the streets of Gotham! The full-length story is scripted by Len "Swamp Thing" Wein, with pencils by Neal Adams and inks by Dick Giordano.