Halloween Hospital Horrors HAUNT OF HORROR "Nightmare Patrol"

We lead off out annual Halloween Horror-fest with a fascinating Vietnam War-set tale...

...created in 1974, just after American participation in the drawn-out conflict ended!

This never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Haunt of Horror V2N1 (1974) was part of a wave of horror tales prompted by the loosening up of the Comics Code to allow "traditional" monsters (who had been banned since the mid-1950s) back into comics!

DC was having some success with their new Weird War Tales book as well as the long-running Our Army at War/Sgt Rock and several others, but Marvel's war titles had been reduced to just Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos...and that had just gone reprint!

So a new war-oriented title was out of the question, and the story found a home in the premiere issue of the second version of Haunt of Horror (the first was a short-lived digest featuring novelettes and short stories).

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SECRET HEARTS "David!"

Dont worry, neurotic Mary Robin R.N., isn't back...

...but, since this tale does present a romantic triangle with a nurse at one corner, that's an understandable assessment!

Written by Gerry Conway, penciled by Alex Toth, and inked by Dick Giordano (using the pen name "Ric Dano"), this cover-featured, never-reprinted story of two sisters, a guy, and misunderstanding from DC's Secret Hearts #149 (1971) is typical of the romance genre.

BTW, the reason Giordano used a pen-name is that he was the editor of the book, and technically, an editor wasn't supposed to edit their own material...whether it was script or art!
But it happened a lot more frequently than most thought, mainly due to tight deadlines!

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