This devilish tale was summoned up from the depths of Scary Tales #26 (January 1977) from Charlton Comics and the voices have been provided by the crawling chaos that is the Beastly Browns from Cruelorado. Check out the respective channels of Sharon, Rina and Kade.
Scary Tales was a horror-suspense anthology comic book series published by Charlton Comics from 1975 to 1984. The book was "hosted" by Countess R. H. Von Bludd, an alluring female vampire in a tight-fitting dress. Artist Steve Ditko was a regular contributor to the book during its entire run.
Scary Tales was part of a wave of new horror and suspense comics published by Charlton during this period. Its sister titles, with many of the same creators, were the Charlton anthologies The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves (with host Dr. M.T. Graves), Ghostly Tales (with host Mr. L. Dedd, later I. M. Dedd), Ghost Manor (with host Mr. Bones), Haunted (with hosts Impy and then Baron Weirwulf), and Ghostly Haunts (with host Winnie the Witch).
Tonight's story is called The Valley of Death and is taken from Scary Tales #2 a Charlton Comic from October, 1975. All the voices for this video are done by Metarog, a pillar of the YouTube comic book community.
Scary Tales was a horror-suspense anthology comic book series published by Charlton Comics from 1975 to 1984. The book was "hosted" by Countess R. H. Von Bludd, an alluring female vampire in a tight-fitting dress. Artist Steve Ditko was a regular contributor to the book during its entire run.
Scary Tales was part of a wave of new horror and suspense comics published by Charlton during this period. Its sister titles, with many of the same creators, were the Charlton anthologies The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves (with host Dr. M.T. Graves), Ghostly Tales (with host Mr. L. Dedd, later I. M. Dedd), Ghost Manor (with host Mr. Bones), Haunted (with hosts Impy and then Baron Weirwulf), and Ghostly Haunts (with host Winnie the Witch).
Here's a horrid horror gem dredged from the depths of Ghostly Tales #150 published Charlton Comics, August 1981.
Ghostly Tales was a horror-suspense anthology comic book series published by Charlton Comics from 1966 to 1984 (though it was primarily a reprint title from 1978 onward). The book was "hosted" by Mr. L. Dedd (later changed to I. M. Dedd), a middle-aged gentleman with purplish skin and horns who dressed like a vampire. Mr. Dedd spun his "ghostly tales" from the parlor of his "haunted house".
Ghostly Tales was part of a wave of new horror and suspense comics published by Charlton during this period. Its sister titles, with many of the same creators, were the Charlton anthologies The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves (with host Dr. M. T. Graves), Haunted (with hosts Impy and then Baron Weirwulf), Ghost Manor (with host Mr. Bones), and Ghostly Haunts (with host Winnie the Witch).
Here's another look at some more of my awesome Birthday Books, check 'em out folks 😀
Strange Suspense Stories #9
Grade - VG
Cover - Jim Aparo Story - Charles Nicholas, Vince Alascia, Fred Himes, and Mo Marcus
Art - ? Ammortu's Moon Neville Smyth is an explorer in Central Africa, when his guide Kajal is fatally wounded by a buffalo a local medicine man called Ammortu manages to save his life much to Neville's shock. His assisstant Helen Bliss comments on the strangeness of the green hued moon that night, Neville ponders that the moon shouldn't be like that at all at this time of the month. Ammortu claims that the moon healed Kajal and ot appears to have dissapeared after the healing ritual. Kajal is changed after the healing and seems to be in a hypnotic state under Ammortu's influenece He later saves the life of a rich chief and it seems that he takes all the riches of those that he cures. Neville and Helen confront Ammortu and he threatens and sets his controlled minions onto them. They spy on him later and discover that the strange green moon is actually an alien space craft, the plan is that Ammortu will use his powers to heal the leaders of the World some day and will control them to the aliens advantage. Neville makes Ammortu a gift of 'Green Fire' a 100 pound lump of pure uranium, it's green hue matches the 'moon' so he travels up to the ship with it as a gift to his alien masters and the modern machinery around it somehow causes it to explode!! The thralls of Ammortu are freed from his influence with the witch doctor's death. There is a 1 page text story next "The Ghost of Gonzales Garcia" A House Needs a Friend Fred Corby a real estate agent is showing the Sims around an old house, "a house where no living people should ever live again! That is what the neighbours say..." The unwelcoming spirit of Fothergill Tate, he cursed the house it seems. During his life Tate ruined a man's life and then killed him in a duel, he fixed his oppenents pistol so it was loaded but had no firing pin, the sabotaged pistol from that fateful day graces the mantelpiece. Spooked by a flying vase they leave but Mrs Sims has dropped an earring inside she returns for it seemingly under the spell of Fothergill's spirit, he wants her to live in the house with him forevermore. Mr Sims comes to her rescue and the spirit tussles with him, Mrs Sims points the tampered gun at Fothergill and by some miracle it fires at him and he drops to the floor and fades away. Mrs Sims ponders "I did a funny, didn't I Walt? I shot a man who wasn't there with a gun that couldn't work!" They decide to buy the now ghost free house and in the last panel we see that although Tate's spirit has been banished he hasn't gone far as he stands by a tree in the garden staring at the house. Behold Beauty This last one I won't go into as I used it as one of my 13 Nights of Halloween series of videos recently, so you can just watch that here for the full story.
All I can say is Divina was no lady!! Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #70
Grade - ?
Cover - John Severin Story - Gary Friedrich
Art - Dick Ayers/John Severin The Missouri Marauders! The Howling Commandos meet up with a bunch of guys with a similar temperment and grit for fighting Nazis, the Missouri Marauders. This is their 1st appearance and I think only appearance almost with the story completed in #71. The Marauders were National Guardsmen who had recieved the best Commando training and were to link up with the yowling yahoos for their 1st combat mission. Fury is not happy to play nursemaid to a bunch of green hillbillies and the Marauders are a proud bunch of testosterone fueled tough guys. In a pub in London they get into a fight with some sailors, they go to hightail it out and bump into and get into a fight with Fury and Dum Dum Duggan on their way in! They have to stop fighting as they are due at base in an hour to get on a plane to drop into France. Once on the ground in enemy territory they are to blow a bridge up together, they are abrasive towards each other but soon begin to impress each other with their grit and determination as they rally against harsh odds in trying to complete their mission. Nick Fury, Agent of Shield #14
Grade - ?
Cover - Herb Trimpe/Sam Grainger Story - Gary Friedrich
Art - Herb Trimpe/Sam Grainger
A Day in the Life I guess Nick survived that mission in France from the last comic as here he is now heading up Shield. The question is though will he survive this day in his life? After 2 weeks of observation inside the psycho-projector he is sent home by Dr Kraus his examiner, Fury has no memory of his testing and feels like he's had a hard night partying. Agent 72 of Hydra has been tasked to kill him within 24 hours and is trying his darndest to complete his task or risk his superiors deadly wrath. He puts gas in Fury's shower and a guillotine in his cupboard both of which traps are narrowly avoided. He has to take out 2 agents on his way out of his building and then narrowly avoids electrocution from a rigged shaver socket on his flying car on the way up to the Shield helicarrier. He has to parachute onto the heli-carrier after his car malfunctions! Once on board he has a meeting with the Gaffer a tech guy who shows him a new flying bicycle, then goes to his office for some shut eye. He has some interaction with an Agent Huff, his secretary, who is ga-ga for him (this is her 1st and only appearance in the comic though). We see that Nick's own agents are spying on him as part of his psycho-projector observation, Kraus is convinced he is a double agent!! In previous issues there was a run in with a Super-Patriot and the death of a Shield agent that he says has him suspicious but it turns out that he himself is actually Hydra agent 72. Dum Dum Duggan has him sussed though, he breaks cover gassing Duggan then goes to assassinate Fury. He has a bead on him when Agent Huff disturbs him giving Nick the chance to get the drop on him. Other Shield agents come to try and apprehend Kraus/72 but he jet packs away. Nick hugs Huff to thank her for her efforts but is still concerned thinking to himself as to why the Super-Patriot looked so much like him when he was unmasked!! Next Ish: The Assassination of Nick Fury!
Here's another look at a few of my 'birthday books' once again!
Tower of Shadows #1
Grade - GD (2.0)
Cover - John Romita At the Stroke of Midnight! Story - Jim Steranko
Art - Jim Steranko This books shows the debut of Digger this book's story host. He later joined the team Night Shift led by The Shroud, one of their bases of operations is the Tower of Shadows Unusual art here with the panel count doing all kinds of freaky stuff. The Fowlers have inhabited a vast mansion from Lou's uncle and are searching through it for hidden treasures. They are argumentative, Marie hen-pecks Lou; during their search and chat we discover that he killed his uncle and that the dead man was a studier of magic. A painting of Lou's uncle seems to move and point them to a hidden room, inside they find treasure, adorning themselves with some of the precious jewels they find. They also find a passageway that leads them back into the past to the time of revolutionary France. The Uncle beckons them from where he stands beside a guillotine. They were never seen again, I guess they looked like royalty with all that jewellery and lost their heads! From Beyond the Brink Story - Johnny Craig Art Johnny Craig/John Romita Arthur Watson is a writer working on a book about Psychic/Spiritualist de-bunker Hayden Hathaway. The book is almost done he just needs to get into Hathaway's head about "Why" he does what he does so fervently. They go to a session with Madame Angelica and spirits seem to appear. Hathaway tears the room apart trying to work out how the 'con' is created and upon realising that it is true, the secret of his search is revealed. Hathaway has been dead for some time and Angelica leads him to the afterlife that has eluded him all this time, leaving a stunned Arthur bemoaning that he can not finish his book now as nobody would believe it! A Time to Die Story - Stan Lee Art - John Buscema/Don Heck I featured this story during my 13 Nights of Halloween
In it an old man is seeking the secret to immortality. He has a mute assistant an escaped murderer from prison who he treats like dirt and berates constantly. The harassed henchman bides his time until the secret formula for eternal life is discovered where upon he makes his move, causing his master's death and taking the potion which has terrible results. Ghostly Tales from the Haunted House #75
Grade - ?
Cover - Jim Aparo The book starts with an introduction page from the book host who was apparently called Mr. Dedd.
Phantom Patrol
Art - Sanho Kim
Here's another one that I featured in my 13 Nights of Halloween series
A soldier is called into a foxhole by a superior officer who orders him to get a message back to fire artillery on their position. He relays the message as ordered but says not to do it as it will kill the officer and his men. The barrage is completed anyway and the artillery officer tells the soldier that the man he saw was a ghost who had been sighted a number of times previously relaying similar attacks.
The Last Voyage
Art - Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia
After being sent a mysterious letter promising riches Paul Dumas arrives at the dock where Captain Neelton takes him on his ghost crewed ship to a fog shrouded island. There he finds Lasoir who had been imprisoned on the island by Neelton as punishment for killing his crew, before abandoning him he agreed to send the letter that beckoned Dumas to the meeting. Dumas wants Lasoir's money but Lasoir's wants something far more sinister, he wants his soul to take over Dumas' body so he can escape the island posing as him. Lasoir chants magic that swaps souls and the body of Dumas goes back to the mainland with Lasoir's cash, but it turns out that it is instead Neelton who now lives as Dumas with Lasoir's money with I imagine the 2 men's souls lost or still entrapped on the island.
The Ghost of Glory!
Art - Pat Boyette
A two page story/feature about the death of chivalry in the battle for the skies during WWI, talking about how the honour of the Red Baron was usurped by the ruthlessness of Herman Goring.
No Other Man!
Art - Steve Ditko
A recently widowed woman seeks a new husband who she molds into the image of her deceased partner, with the intention of having the new guys spirit usurped by the old. There's no happy ending in this quirky haunted tale.
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #123
Grade - VG
Cover - Curt Swan
Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen was published from October of 1954 until March of 1974, spanning a total of 163 issues. With issue #163, the title officially changed to Superman Family.
The Sacrifice of Jimmy Olsen!
Story - Leo Dorfman
Art - Curt Swan/George Roussos After believing himself an orphan for years Jimmy is suddenly pick up by limousine and taken to his super wealthy father Mark Olsen's estate. He has locked himself inside a glass house in a vault in his basement! Jimmy goes in to talk to him and learns of a terrible crime Olsen senior has supposedly committed and for which he has chosen to undergo a self sentenced penance for. He intends to stay locked inside the glass prison for one year but Jimmy offers to do the penance for him instead. Superman turns up as Jimmy has been absent for two days and is assured that all is well and Jimmy will emerge after a year as a prisoner. Superman flies off pondering what deeds Olsen Snr may have committed but we won't get to find out till next issue although the DC wiki synopsis says that Mark Olsen in actually Hal Rand... but then has no more information on the character. A bit of searching reveals that after this 2 part story wraps up he reappears in 128 with Superman on the cover rejecting his appeal in court to adopt Jimmy! (I did some more research and can reveal that Hal Rand was a collegue of Jimmy's father who suffered from amnesia so thought he was Mark Olsen. The crime was to steal from a Mexican tomb and get the curse of Kulkukan that demanded penance.) The Robber Robot! Story - Jim Shooter Art - Pete Costanza A scientist, Prof Harker hatches a plan to ridicule Jimmy as he was angered by a news peice done about him. He gives Jimmy a robot which is actually a human in disguise but the idea is for him to extol the virtues of this mechanoid in a live interview with Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show and then for the man in the suit to reveal himself making Olsen look the fool for believing the hoax. The plan seems to go as it was supposed to with people starting to laugh at Jimmy's expense but then Jimmy reveals himself to be a robot and turns the tables on Harker instead! It's revealed that Jimmy observed something about the robot during his time with it/him that The Puzzles of Space and Time! Story - E. Nelson Bridwell Art - Pete Costanza Jimmy Olsen turns up for a meeting of his fan club dressed up in a "perfect replica" Superman suit and talks about the importance of observation to the group. He illustrates some examples of the importance of this through a few anecdotes of encounters he'd had. Kidnapped and seemingly blasted into space he realises through careful observation that he was actually in a movie studio. A scientist's time viewing machine is similarly revealed to be a hoax. Jimmy then challenges his club members and the readers to test their powers of observation by spotting a lie that he has recently told. The sharp eyed will have realised that his "perfect replica" Superman suit actually has the red & yellow in the 'S' emblem inversed. So that was this week's look into my books, a couple of horror anthologies and a silly Jimmy Olsen book haha thay are quite silly but fun in a Silver Age madness kind of way!!
Join me if you dare for a tale of terror, this ghastly story is from Ghost Manor #8, September 1969.
Ghost Manor was a horror-suspense anthology comic book series published by Charlton Comics (in two volumes) from 1968 to 1984 (though it was primarily a reprint title from 1978 onward). Volume one was "hosted" by the Old Witch (not to be confused with the Old Witch who hosted the 1950s EC title, Haunt of Fear), while volume two was hosted by Mr. Bones.
Ghost Manor was part of a wave of new horror and suspense comics published by Charlton during this period. Its sister titles, with many of the same creators, were the Charlton anthologies The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves (with host Dr. M. T. Graves), Haunted (with hosts Impy and then Baron Weirwulf), and Ghostly Tales (with host Mr. L. Dedd, later I. M. Dedd). Unfortunately, Charlton's low page-rates and slapdash production values resulted in few notable characters or stories; Ghost Manor was typical in this regard.
Join me if you dare for 'Phantom Patrol' a tale of terror taken from the pages of Ghostly Tales #75, another Charlton Comic from September, 1969.
Ghostly Tales was a horror-suspense anthology comic book series published by Charlton Comics from 1966 to 1984 (though it was primarily a reprint title from 1978 onward). The book was "hosted" by Mr. L. Dedd (later changed to I. M. Dedd), a middle-aged gentleman with purplish skin and horns who dressed like a vampire. Mr. Dedd spun his "ghostly tales" from the parlor of his "haunted house".
Ghostly Tales was part of a wave of new horror and suspense comics published by Charlton during this period. Its sister titles, with many of the same creators, were the Charlton anthologies The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves (with host Dr. M. T. Graves), Haunted (with hosts Impy and then Baron Weirwulf), Ghost Manor (with host Mr. Bones), and Ghostly Haunts (with host Winnie the Witch).
Join me if you dare for "Behold Beauty", a tale of terror taken from Strange Suspense Stories #9, Sep 1969. Strangely mycomicshop.com calls the story "Ammortu's Moon" and credits it to an unknown writer with art by Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia. This comic was the last in the Strange Suspense Stories series.
