Friday, October 31, 2025

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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Friday, October 24, 2025

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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Friday, October 17, 2025

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!

Friday, October 10, 2025

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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Friday, October 3, 2025

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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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-k...