CREEPY Comics Horror Magazine
Publisher: Warren Publications

Used
FINE or better with the usual surface wear & slight rubbing to covers from book being handled read and stored. Some stress at spine.

Please refer to scanned images- they are accurate and have not been edited or corrected and as always are worth at least a thousand words.

31. cover: Vaughn Bode & Larry Todd (Feb. 1970)
1) Creepy’s Loathsome Lore: Torture! [Bill Parente/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 1p [frontis]
2) In The Face Of Death [Al Hewetson/Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico] 4p
3) Telephoto Troll! [R. Michael Rosen/Roger Brand] 6p
4) A Night’s Lodging! [Rhea Dunne/Maurice Whitman] 7p reprinted from Creepy #17 (Oct.
1967)
5) Snowmen! [Tom Sutton] 8p
6) The Creepy Fan Page: The Master [Marc Rendleman] 1p [text story]
7) A Wooden Stake For Your Heart! [Don Glut/Bill Black] 6p
8) Death Of A Stranger [T. Casey Brennan/Ernie Colon] 6p
9) Laughing Liquid [Kevin Pagan/William Barry] 8p

Notes: Underground artists Vaughn Bode & Larry Todd would do a number of covers for Warren over the next couple of years. This one depicts an odd chicken-like alien who’s apparently just ripped in half a very human looking robot. The original version of this cover was too bloody with too many entails {making one suspect the gentleman torn in half was originally intended to be an actual human} so before publication the original painting was amended by the Warren production department. Reprints begin to be eased out probably in response to the advent of Web Of Horror a rival B&W magazine from Major Publications which featured all original stories. Major Publications were also the publishers of the humor magazine Cracked at the time. Both Eerie Publications and Stanley Publications had copied Warren’s lead in publishing B&W magazines in the mid 1960s but Warren quite rightly never considered them a threat as those magazines were mostly composed of pretty lousy retouched 1950s horror reprints. Web Of Horror wouldn’t last long {only three issues} but clearly their use of former Warren writers (Otto Binder & Clark Dimond) and artists {Bill Fraccio & Tony Tallarico {with a new pen name} Jeff Jones Donald Norman Roger Brand and more} along with the brightest young turks from the fanzines {Berni Wrightson Michael Kaluta Bruce Jones Ralph Reese Frank Brunner etc.} had an effect on Warren. In fact a letter by one-time Warren editor J. R. Cocharan that appeared in Canar #21-22 (May-June 1974) stated clearly that Warren’s infamous “war letter” to writers & artists which basically declared that one could either work for the B&W competition or one could work for Warren but you couldn’t work for both was a direct result of the existence of Web Of Horror. Along with a story in the Jan. issue of Vampirella this was future Skywald editor Al Hewetson’s professional writing debut. ‘Snowmen!’ by Tom Sutton was quite good and would win the first Warren award for best story. After several appearances on the fan pages Bill Black made his professional art debut on ‘A Wooden Stake For Your Heart!’ Kevin Pagan also made his professional writing debut.