YOU'RE INSANE!

Lust, murder, revenge and yes, hallucinations and insanity -- it's all here in this chillingly weird issue of WEIRD CHILLS #1 (Stanley Morse/Key Publications, July 1954) with a cover by Bernard Baily and a story by the equally twisted Basil Wolverton.

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Art: Eugene Hughes

Script: Bruce Hamilton

Art: Sal Trapani

Script: ?

Art: Sal Trapani?

Script: Basil Wolverton?

Art: Basil Wolverton?

Script: ?

Art: Eugene Hughes?

DADDY SHOULD HAVE LISTENED

Johnnie's Daddy is the best horror comic book artist in the world. He's won the "Ghoul" award for the last two years, but he's suddenly found himself out of ideas. That is, until Johnnie's friend Willie lets him in on a little secret-- his Daddy has a house of real monsters out in the country. Johnnie relays to his Daddy what Willie has shown him so that he can use them in his stories. Daddy's curiosity gets the best of him and he's got to get the the bottom of this so-called "monster house".

"My Daddy Should Have Listened" appeared in BEWARE #12 (Youthful, October 1952) and drawn by Vince Napoli, who began his art career supplying the early issues of WEIRD TALES with interior illustrations. On a humorous note, in one panel the artist is worried that his work will be eclipsed by other artists like Ed Goldfarb, Bob Baer, Harry Harrison, Ernie Bache, and Steve Kirkel, all who drew for Youthful!

A HALLOWEEN HORROR SUSPENSTORY

GOOD LORD! Here's a grisly tale from EC's SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES #2 (April-May 1952) that only Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein could think up for Graham Ingels to illustrate. Colors are by Marie Severin and lettering by Jim and Margaret Wroten.

Happy Halloween, everybody!

EC Comics are copyright (c) by William M. Gaines, Agent, Inc.

THE CREEPING DEATH

I've always enjoyed plant horror stories and there were plenty of them during the pre-Code era. In this second issue of ADVENTURES INTO TERROR (Atlas, February 1951) with art possibly by Allen Bellman, a botanist receives a strange plant from a colleague in South America. As expected in a story like this, it soon grows out of control until . . .