Creepy Things #3: "The Grass is Always Greener"

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Sporting a beautiful cover painting by Tom Sutton, "The Grass is Always Greener" was written by Mike Pellowski and illustrated by Mike Vosburg.

Monster Hunters #5: "Thief's Gold"

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Here is yet another story illustrated by Carlos Vila and this time credit is properly accorded to the Über-prolific Joe Gill, which I missed the first time around. [Sigh...] That's what I get for blogging well into the wee hours of the morning. This time out I'll also be certain to point out that the cover painting is courtesy of the inimitable Tom Sutton.


While I was updating this blog entry with the proper writer's credit assigned, I thought I would also tack on the story that was drawn by then newcomer Mike Zeck, which is called "The Last Monster Hunter!" According to the Grand Comics Database, this story was reprinted in Hot 'N Cold Heroes (A-Plus Comics, 1990 series) #1 .

Scary Tales #4: "Fear-Feeder"

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One nice thing about Charlton comic books was that they could be both unpredictable and downright weird and I mean that in a good way. While Marvel Comics and DC Comics offered mostly standard, predictable fare within their line of horror anthology comics, Charlton was an alternative—a breath of fresh air. "Fear-Feeder" was one of those pleasant exceptions. That and Countess R. H. von Bludd could tell me a bedtime story any day of the week.

I don't know who scripted this story, but the art is by the vastly underrated Carlos Vila. Oh, and that beautiful cover painting is courtesy of "Terrifying" Tom Sutton.

Monster Hunters #4: "That Old Gang of Mine"

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Monster Hunters #4 came to me via a stocking stuffer on Christmas and I am glad it did as I might have passed this one over on the racks at Rexall's Drugstore, despite the allure of the beautiful cover painting courtesy of the still-underrated Tom Sutton. "That Old Gang of Mine" was written by Joe Malloy and drawn by a then-unknown Mike Zeck and the entire thing just sucks you into the story with "you cannot run fast enough or hide well enough... for when they catch your scent, you can do but one thing... you can DIE!"

Weird Wonder Tales #15: "The Man Who Owned The World!"

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Tom Sutton comes up with a nifty story in Weird Wonder Tales #15 about a selfish multibillionaire who is financing his survival by investing in suspended animation technology because the earth's atmosphere is rapidly disintegrating and he wants to cryo-sleep his way through the crisis, but all the while his attitude is that the world can go hang itself. However, when he wakes up in the year 2035 he finds a world that... aw, I can't spoil it and tell ya! Take a gander and find out for yourselves!!