Halloween Hospital Horrors DRACULA "Invasion"

Disease Takes Many Forms...

...as this rather bizarre one-shot feature demonstrates!

Kool, eh?

Written by Estaban Maroto (who's better-known as an illustrator) and depicted by Jose Bea, this tale from New English Library's Dracula Magazine V1N5 (1972) originally appeared, in Spanish, in Buru Lan's Drácula V1N5 (1971)!

It was then published in America by Warren Publications in a trade paperback collecting the first six issues of Dracula Magazine, and as a standalone tale in full-color insert sections of the publisher's usually-all b/w magazines!

So older fans will probably remember it from several different places during the early 1970s!
Trivia: Despite being named "Dracula", the magazine had no Dracula content, except for a one-page humor strip on the back cover without captions or dialogue!
Ironically, it was the one strip not reprinted in the British or American editions...despite not needing translation!

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Dracula

the Trade Paperback

(from 1971, featuring the first six issues of the translated-from-Spanish Dracula magazine!)
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Halloween Hospital Horrors THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED "Wall of Flesh!"

Doctors are Supposed  to "Do No Harm"...

...but some let their emotions run amuck and overwhelm their sense of duty!

This story from Fawcett's This Magazine is Haunted V2N12 (1953) was so sordid and repulsive, it wasn't reprinted until 1992, and then, only in B/W!
Illustrated by Bob Powell, it's a visceral, nightmarish tale that rivals anything EC Comics did!

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The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics: Volume 2

Bob Powell's

Terror
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Halloween Hospital Horrors ALIEN WORLDS "Wasteland"

To Some Patients, the Most Terrifying Thing About Their Hospital Stay...

...is the poor choice of TV programming the hospital provides!

But when Fate offers some "alternative viewing"...

Scripted by Bruce Jones, and penciled/inked by Tom Yeates, this tale from Pacific Comics' Alien Worlds #5 (1983) combines a nightmare suffered by way too many hospital patients (myself included, during a recent stay) with the classic time travel trope of "don't change anything in the past, no matter how inconsequential, because..."
And if you have to ask "Does this really qualify as a Halloween Hospital Horror?"..well, it takes place in a hospital...and it's horrifying!

Besides, it's my blog!

Halloween Hospital Horrors WITCHES TALES "Tank of Corpses" & TALES OF VOODOO "Satan's Dead Demons"

Did You Know Hospitals Had Floating Corpses En Masse in Tanks of Formaldehyde?

..although not in a swimming pool-type glass tank as shown here!

Though this story from Harvey's Witches Tales #9 (1952), illustrated by Joe Certa, was not reprinted until over a half-century later (in 2012), the script (by an unknown writer) was reused for a redrawn version by Alberto Macagno that appeared only twenty years later in Eerie's b/w anthology magazine Tales of Voodoo V5N6 (1972)...and several subsequent reprintings in other Eerie Publications titles over the years!

I have no idea if the concept of a witch coming back to life if her hair is cut is an actual folk belief or just something conceived by the writer!

But it's kool, eh?

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Halloween Hospital Horrors ADVENTURES INTO TERROR "Body Snatchers"

We Begin Out Our Annual Halloween Presentation...

...with an Example of the Way Colleges and Teaching Hospitals Used to Acquire Specimens for Anatomical Study!

Illustrated by Al Luster and plotted by Stan Lee, this sinister story from Atlas' Adventures in Terror #24 (1953) was typical of the 1950s Horror Age material comics published until Dr Fredric Wertham almost destroyed the comic book business with his Seduction of the Innocent hysteria that inflamed the American Public into believing that "comics caused juvenile delinquency"!

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LINDA LARK: STUDENT NURSE "Introduction"

Writer/artist John Stanley is noted for a number of fascinating, unique, comic book series...

...including, most famously, the comic book version of the newspaper strip Little Lulu!

But he also dabbled in non-humor material creating the ongoing horror anthology Ghost Stories and the one-shot, oversized, Tales from the Tomb, along with this rather unique nursing series which played fast and loose with the genre's cliches and tropes...

With illustrator and co/creator John Tartaglione, John Stanley begins subverting the nursing strip genre from this never-reprinted introductory tale in Dell's Linda Lark: Student Nurse #1 (1961) onward.
She's not desperately-needy (and horny) like Nurse Helen Grant or the neurotic (and horny) Mary Robin R.N. and most other extremely horny comic book nurses!
She's hyper-competent, and actually has a (relatively) normal life outside the hospital!
During her eight-issue run, she was a student nurse, then a registered nurse (in just one issue)!
She also solved crimes, traveled into danger in foreign lands, appeared in a medical TV series...and became the first American woman in space!
Even when they did a story involving her former high school sweetheart who had become a doctor, the story didn't go quite like you'd expect!
And, she'll be replacing Doctor Dan Dazzler, whose series ends in November, as our ongoing feature!

But next week, it's the return of our annual...

Halloween Hospital Horrors Blogathon!

There's never a dull moment around here!

CONFESSIONS OF THE LOVELORN "Someone of My Own!"

Here's a never-reprinted tale that redefines "lovesick"...

...from ACG's Confessions of the LoveLorn #95 (1958)!

Writer Richard Hughes and illustrator Sam Citron add a new twist to the old "steal the doctor from the rich girl whose father is financing his research" plot so common in romance comics!

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Heart Throbs

Best of DC Romance Comics
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