Another fine Creepy festooned with another fine Frazetta cover. This looks like it could've been taken right from a pulp horror magazine from the thirties."Creepy's Loathsome Lore" is back, this time about the catch-all phrase "ghoul" drawn by the one and only Jack Davis! As usual, Davis manages to instill humor in even the most gruesome material.
First up is "Swamped!" by Archie Goodwin and Angelo Torres, combining the rare subjects of vampires and the bayou!
Next is Edgar Allan Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart!" by Goodwin and Reed Crandall, who puts in a fantastic art job. Third is "Howling Success!" by Goodwin and Torres again, an EC-esque werewolf tale.
Gray Morrow illustrates "Haunted!", written by Goodwin(again!), a classic haunted house tale, and does the same for next tale "Incident In The Beyond!", which is set about as far away from a haunted house story as possible--the deep recesses of outer space.
"Return Trip!" is the rare non-Goodwin story, drawn by Joe Orlando, about a guy who uses sheer force of will to come back from the grave and extract revenge. Now that's determination.
Another great issue, with Warren solidly continuing in the EC tradition, of course, using a lot of the same talent--Orlando, Torres, Frazetta, and Davis. It was issues like these that were inspiring a whole new generation of writers and artists, many of whom whose work would show up in Creepy itself in just a few years...
4 comments:
Rob-
There's a goodly amount of Max Schreck in that Frazetta!
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-Craig
One minor correction - You mentioned Morrow was an EC guy. Gray Morrow actually never did any work for EC (although his work did look a lot like Torres's, at least IMHO). Everyone else was correct.
Great issue, the early days when they were using the EC guys (Frazetta, Orlando, Torres, Williamson, Krenkel, Davis, Craig, Toth, Wood) certainly were amazing. As one who was an EC fan long before he was a Warren fan, its good to see their improved work approximately 10 years after EC's demise. My only dissappointment was Williamson; his work was absolutely amazing in EC but didn't seem as good to me at Warren, even in classic stories like "Success Story". Maybe it was because Frazetta, Torres and Krenkel collaborated with him so much in his EC days and their sudden absense from his work showed him to not be as good as his EC work made him appear to be? Dunno. And that the greatest of all the EC horror artists, Graham "Ghastly" Ingels never did a Warren story was dissappointing as well, by that point he had given up comics entirely. The Tom Sutton tribute story from issue 61 certainly was nice though.
-Quiddity
>>You mentioned Morrow was an EC guy. Gray Morrow actually never did any work for EC<<
D'OH! duly corrected! i got a little ahead of myself, typing that.
thanks for the correction! i have my very own Ombudsman! :)
Guys-
The first Warren b & w's were a blatant attempt at a revival of EC (it was only a decade since Gaines' best horror stuff, and even less time since his similar "Picto-Fiction" mags.)
The artists; the twist endings; the Horror Hosts... even up to including a War book!
-Craig
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