Eerie #90 - Warren

Feb. 1978 - A great cover by Richard Corben, featuring four stories all derived from this cover, a neat gimmick.

First up is "Carrion" by Gerry Boudreau and Gonzalo Mayo, who delivers a steady stream of scary monsters, creepy wizards, and of course (this is a Warren mag, after all) nubile, barely-dressed jungle women. Hubba hubba!

Next is "The Show Must Go On!", by Roger McKenzie and Leo Duranona, a girl who is left on a planet with her pet beastie and is challenged the local gunfighter to see who's fastest. Oh, and she's naked a lot, too.

Next is the color segment, "A Woman Scorned" by Bruce Jones and Corben. A very silly tale, keeping in spirit with the easy-going opening page:

"The Fianchetto Affair or: A Matter of Great Delicacy", by Bob Toomey and Jose Ortiz, which starts off goofy and ends with a gruesome act of violence which I found really unpleasant. The fact that the whole thing seems to be a big joke on the story's intended victim made it all the more repellent to me.

Last is The Rook in "What Is the Color of Nothingness?" (though the table of contents calls it "Edge Surfers"), by Bill DuBay and Alex Nino.

As usual, Nino pulled out all the stops, and delivered a twenty-page story made up mostly of vertical double-page spreads:

...how did he do stuff like this and not go insane?

Finish it all up with eighteen pages of Captain Company ads and you've got a decent issue of Eerie, that one story aside.