Chicken Little

I think they were trying to imitate 'Grim Fairy Tales' from TALES FROM THE CRYPT. This was originally in MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #25 in 1954, scanned from BEST IN HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION from 1988

The Way To a Man's Heart

This isn't from the pile of coverless comics and pages my father gave me, but I had to post it for Mother's Day. I have the b/w version from a magazine called SHOCK published in 1969, though it originally came from a comic called WEIRD MYSTERIES in 1952. In the late 60s and early 70s, comic publishers tried to compete with horror magazines like CREEPY and reprinted stuff they published 15 years earlier rather than commission new material, presumably not to pay anyone and to circumvent the Comics Code. You may recognize the bikini panel from the first page used in SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT. For some reason, the title of the story was changed from "Mother's Advice"

More Jumpin'Jupiter

Yet another Jumpin' Jupiter story by Basil Wolverton, this one from WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE #4.

Jumpin' Jupiter

Here's another of the comics my father cut from magazines and didn't save the rest because the other pages weren't done by people who did work for EC. Up now is a story from WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE #2 in June 1952.

Now I'LL tell one

When I was 12, my father gave me a bunch of stories that he cut out of comics as a kid in the 50s. Partly because everything else in the comic was crap, and also to hide them from his mother (my grandmother) who believed much of the anti-comics hysteria at the time. Most of the stories were ECs which I sold on Ebay a long time ago. Much of them are now public domain so I'll be putting them up here every few days. One thing about them is that he cut a lot of the stories to the edge of the panels, cutting out margins and sometimes the content. I've had 27 years to look at various indexes to figure out where they came from.

First up is a story from MISTER MYSTERY #3 some time in 1953. It looks a bit like Harvey Kurtzman but the artist is actually Charles Stern. They were studio-mates at one time so it's likely one of them influenced the other.



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