#entertaining comics

[thestonedranger]

"Halloween" originally printed in Shock SuspenStories #2 by EC Comics. 1952. very nice horror comic.

[panelswithoutpeople]

The Rover Boys from Tales from the Crypt No. 37

by Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, and Graham Ingels

[antleredandy]

Cover of Crime SuspenStories #22, April-May 1954, pencilled and inked by Johnny Craig. The cover would become infamous when brought up as anti-comic evidence during the 1954 Senate hearings on the topic, which would lead to the implementation of the Comics Code.

[siryl]

The title page of a story from the May 1951 issue of Weird Science from Entertaining Comics, scanned from a 1994 reprint. It was written by Bill Gaine and Al Feldstein, and drawn by the latter.

The Grand Comics Database notes that this story was inspired by "The Monster from Nowhere" by Donald Wandrei, which is almost correct. It shares a premise and one scene with a short story of that name by Nelson S. Bond, published in the July 1939 issue of Fantastic Adventures.

Donald Wandrei did write a short story about an amorphous being from beyond entitled "The Monster from Nowhere," printed in the November 23 1935 issue of Argosy Weekly, but it's about a creature of living metal rather than a three-dimensional manifestation of a four-dimensional organism. Interestingly, the earlier story does mention the fourth dimension, but not in the context of explaining the monster.

[panelswithoutpeople]

The Rover Boys from Tales from the Crypt No. 37

by Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, and Graham Ingels

[panelswithoutpeople]

Iwo Jima! from Frontline Combat No. 7

by Harvey Kurtzman

[siryl]

Panels from "Ghost Ship," which was written and drawn by Al Feldstein and published in The Crypt of Horror #19 (August 1950), the last issue before it was retitled Tales from the Crypt. The comic was revived to coincide with the television adaptation, and these images were scanned from issue #3 of that series (March 1993).

[aletdownsquid]