#weird suspense

[smbhax]

Weird Suspense #2, April 1975. Larry Lieber cover pencils, Frank Giacoia inks.

Info from Grand Comics Database

[chernobog13]

The third, and final, issue of Weird Suspense featuring The Tarantula (January, 1975) from Atlas/Seaboard comics. Art by Rich Buckler.

The Tarantula was a weird combination of Spider-Man (he could climb walls and shoot webbing) with your standard werewolf curse. His "curse of the tarantula" caused the male members of his family to turn into man-spiders and eat people!

The difference between this guy and his ancestors, though, is that he decides to appease his hunger by eating crooks and evildoers. That's right: he fights crime by eating criminals!

How that is considered super heroic is beyond me. Also beyond me is how something like that could be approved by the Comics Code Authority. Then again, it was the Seventies, and the Comics Code was losing a lot of its teeth, but that's a story for another day.

[browsethestacks]

Atlas Comics #01's (1975)

(Atlas/Seaboard)

[dirtyriver]

The Thirty-One Days of Halloween: The Tarantula

Weird Suspense #2, April 1975, cover by Larry Lieber (pencils) and Frank Giacoia (inks)

[smbhax]

Weird Suspense #1, February 1975. Dick Giordano cover pencils & inks, Gaspar Saladino letters.

Info from Grand Comics Database

[dirtyriver]

The Thirty-One Days of Halloween: The Tarantula

Like most Atlas Seabord who lasted long enough to get a third issue, the creative team changed, albeit slightly, with Gary Friedrich replacing Michael Fleisher but Pat Boyette staying on art duties.

Weird Suspense #3, July 1975, cover by Rich Buckler

[dirtyriver]

The Thirty-One Days of Halloween: The Tarantula

Weird Suspense #1, February 1975, cover by Dick Giordano, interior story by  Michael Fleisher and Pat Boyette

[michaelallanleonard]

NIGHT OF THE LIVING GARGOYLE!

They're coming to get you, bug-eyes.

Rich Buckler, July 1975