An odd cover choice--a not bad cover(by Gutenberg Monteiro) slapped with a hideous, overly-big yellow banner. Yeesh."Creepy's Loathsome Lore" is about werewolves and is by Gray Morrow, reprinted from an earlier issue. That doesn't bode well...
The first story is called "Black Magic!", and is by Archie Goodwin and Steve Ditko, reprinted from Eerie #5. A fine tale about the misuse of magic, but it was barely two years old...
Next is "You Do Something To Me" by Bill Parente and Tom Sutton, an original tale, another tale about the Dark Arts. Goofy and gruesome.
Third is "The Day After Doomsday!" by Goodwin and Dan Adkins, from Eerie #8, about a guy facing surival after the end of civilization. As if he didn't have enough to worry about, there's still monsters around!
Fourth is "Room For A Guest", by Parente and Reed Crandall...more black magic! I sense a theme here.
Next is "Type Cast!" by Goodwin and Jerry Grandinetti, also from Eerie #8(wow, that took some guts), about a horror movie actor who takes The Method a tad too seriously. Grandinetti was superb at guys slowly going mad.
Last is "A Silver Dread Among the Gold" by Parente, George Hagenauer, and Tony Willamsune. A really silly tale about a Viking legend amid the frozen wastes of a mountaintop. About as scary as your average Casper comic, with the addition of a beheading. And a half-full issue of Creepy whimpers to a close...
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I read Creepy and Eerie from the mid-70s to the early 80s, so I'm amazed at the poor layouts of these earlier covers. From your descriptions of the stories, the interiors weren't much better. I'd love to know more about how Warren managed to pull these titles out of the tailspin because I thought the later books were quite good.
Jim Warren goes into great detail over this in The Warren Companion, but basically just as Creepy and Eerie were spiralling down, Vampirella came out and it was such a huge $uccess that it helped him get out debt, hire more staff, and have the time and cache to hire another round of top talent, which helped Warren make a huge comeback.
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