The Mole People - Warren

This was one of Warren Publications' oddest experiments--taking an old black and white horror or sci-fi movie, and using stills from it to tell the story in a sort of sequential-comic-book style. It's usually called "fumetti" but you won't see that word anywhere in this magazine.

Warren tried this a couple of different times, but since by the time of this publication--1964--the featured movie, The Mole People, was loooong gone from theaters, so I'm not sure how this was supposed to capitalize on anything.

After our two intepid explorers (John Agar and Hugh Beaumont(!)) find the lost land, run afoul of the Mole People, and then escape, the movie ends with Agar's love interest, Gizelle, getting crushed by a falling pillar (it's all so very sad). In the movie, while it does have that downer note, there is that 50s-ish at-least-we-learned-something uplift at the end, complete with music swell.

In the magazine, Gizelle gets crushed, Agar yells "No! No! Gizelle!" and then--bang!--THE END. Sheesh. And to think, I coulda spent my 35 cents on Creepy.