I was still making my way through the complete run of SHAZAM that I had borrowed from my grade school friend Donald Sims. SHAZAM #6 featured the series’ second photo cover, and it was a bit less successful and convincing than the prior one which had run on issue #2. But there was something appealing about the fact that it was set up as an “infinity cover”, with the cover appearing within the…
DC Finest: Horror - Where Dead Men Walk by Gerry Conway, Alex Toth, Marv Wolfman, Bernie Wrightson, Len Wein, Gray Morrow and more. Cover by Neal Adams and Jack Adler. Out in October.
"A chill in the dark. A whisper in the hall. A doorway no one should step through. DC Finest: Horror: Where Dead Men Walk gathers some of DC’s most iconic horror anthology issues into one volume.
DC Finest: Horror: Where Dead Men Walk plunges readers into the spine-tingling legacy of classic anthology series like HOUSE OF SECRETS, HOUSE OF MYSTERY, THE WITCHING HOUR, and THE UNEXPECTED. From gothic nightmares to twist-ending morality tales, these stories capture the grainy, shadow-soaked style that defined DC’s Bronze Age horror books—where every page turn brings a chill and every narrator smiles just a little too widely.
Whether it’s haunted mansions, cursed bargains, vengeful spirits, or roads better left untraveled, DC Finest: Horror: Where Dead Men Walk curates the era’s finest frights. Presented in the DC Finest format, these stories return in restored clarity for new readers and longtime horror fans alike.
Collects HOUSE OF SECRETS #86-90, HOUSE OF MYSTERY #186-190, THE PHANTOM STRANGER #7, THE WITCHING HOUR #8-12 and THE UNEXPECTED #118-123."
Tatjana Wood (1926–2026): The Colorist Who Defined an Era
Legendary DC colorist Tatjana Wood has passed away at 99. The news was shared by former Vertigo editor Karen Berger, on BlueSky.
So sad to share that legendary colorist Tatjana Wood has passed away at the age of 99. Her pioneering painterly touch graced scores of DC &
Wood’s work shaped the emotional tone of DC Comics for decades. She is best known for her interior coloring on Saga of the Swamp Thing, Animal Man, and The Question, as well as for serving as DC’s primary cover colorist from 1973 to 1983.
Born Tatjana Weintraub on March 2, 1926, in Darmstadt, Germany, Wood’s early life was marked by upheaval. The daughter of a Jewish father and Christian mother, she and her brother attended a Quaker boarding school in the Netherlands during World War II before emigrating to New York. She studied at the Traphagen School of Fashion and later married legendary cartoonist Wally Wood in 1950.
Her earliest comics work in the 1950s was uncredited, assisting on EC Comics projects alongside her husband. After their divorce in 1966, she forged her own path, beginning freelance color work for DC in 1969—just as the company transitioned away from in-house production.
By 1973, Wood succeeded Jack Adler as DC’s primary cover colorist, a role she held for over a decade. For a generation of readers, the first impression of a DC comic—whether superhero, war, western, or horror—was filtered through her eye.
Before digital coloring, she mastered the brutally limited newsprint palette of the era, coaxing mood and nuance from a system that often allowed only a handful of color combinations. Former DC publisher Paul Levitz noted that she could make those restrictions “sing,” and when better production tools became available, she made them “positively operatic.” She won Shazam Awards for Best Colorist in the 1970s and later became the first colorist inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame who was not also a cartoonist.
Wood retired in 2003 after the Green Arrow/Green Lantern storyline “Black Circle: Urban Knights,” closing a career that stretched across five decades.
Tatjana Wood died just shy of her 100th birthday, and by all accounts, she was as distinctive in person as on the page—artistic, outspoken, and unforgettable. She was a dressmaker, tapestry weaver, and theater costumer—an artist in every sense of the word.
Rest peacefully, Tatjana Wood. The colors still hold.
