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Editor-in-Chief
& Publisher
JAMES WARREN THE BUTCHERhave Gambinos health
died soon any
had failed. He would
Editor So why did someone send a hit man to wipe
W.B. DuBAY him out? And why did they kill the priest?
Production Manager
W.R. MOHALLEY CIRCUS OF KING CARNIVAL
Assistant Editor months. And Cassandra
One month. Two
LOUISE JONES would be dead. Her husband had a plan.
Writers This Issue
BRUCE BEZAIRE
GERRY BOUDREAU SHAFT OF FATE
BILL DuBAY
BUDD LEWIS
THE WINGED
collects freaks. A butterfly-
King Carnival
RICH MARGOPOULOS woman and a bird man are kept there. And
VICTOR MORA now a greater attraction. Dracula, himself!
BERNI WRIGHTSON
Artists This Issue
RICH CORBEN
REED CRANDALL
THE MANHUNTERS The tentacled
swallowed the Captain whole. She
alien had
LUIS GARCIA had seen it eat Jorg alive. But Brenda was
ESTEBAN MAROTO not terrified. And she couldn't imagine why!
JOSE ORTIZ
WALLY WOOD
BERNI WRIGHTSON
Interior Color
PURGE Meet Obed Black. A mean cop
powers of judge, jury and executioner,
with
MICHELE BRAND sworn to rid the world of naughtiness. And
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BILL DuBAY Obed Black is about to have a very bad day!

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ON THE LORP'S WORK FOR TWENTy /EARS IW HIS
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OUT THE AIP OF A 12 4& OR AV/^f.
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"IT ALL STARTED THREE
MONTHS AGO, FATHER... WHEN
PON CARLO QAMSINO LAY ON
H/S DEATHBBQ, RECEiVJNS
THE LAST RITES...*

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GANGSTER ON THE WEST SIDE, WAS
OEAO... KILLED 6Y PROFESSIONAL
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two rival gangs were killing
themselves off... you coulp feel
something omiafous in the air...
as though something even /mors
deadly was biding its time,
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ME ANP THE TWO HITMEN WEI?E ORDERED TO LAY
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THE AWN WHO HIRED U5 TO
KILL THE DON, POT ON A SHOW FOR THE PRESS THE
PUBLIC. ..AND HIS OWN BROTHERS /
*.BUT AFTER A MONTH'S
INTERMENT IN OUR EAT HOLE,
WE WERE TOO HAPPY TO BE
THINKING ABOUT MUCH BUT
OUR IMPENDING FfteEPOM..

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AND THE CROWD GONE
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LEAVING ONLY DEBRIS AND
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*IARK THEIR PASSING.
HO/WE

...BUT THEY WOULD, LIKE A PHOEMX, RISE FRO/IATHEIROWN ASHES WITH THE LIGHT OF WORNIN&
TO DELIGHT AND AMAZ ANEW. FOR THIS IS...

STORY: GERRY BOUDREAU / ART: ESTEBAN MAROTO / COLOR. MIOHELE BRAND

 The sun feels warm. Perhaps
it has always been this way I
wos never so aioare of ft
Yoo become aware of a lot of
things when you knom you
are going to die .

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for hanself than me. I
think he's afraid ot'bono
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the. first major evenf of
the circus... sormth/'n^
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EXCERP FROM THE POLICE
REPORT ON THE DEATH OF
KARL DRAPER

DcereporXa

victim by secuMLV
officer mcaiti.
..."bub I had no idea lie would
EXCERPT FROM THE DIARY OF Suddenly 1 sensed a change m
try to S2iea& hack in
CASSANDRA ttlLEy: his manner... f/e was happy...!
after* 1 left.' but if was not a natural
happiness. There was Some-
It was a good day >n Sf/te
thing almost evil in his smile
of Jackson, but the. time,
had come, to return home.,.'.
as he asked me to ataif for him.
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 EXCERPT FROM THE MISSISSIPPI
GAZETTE, AUSUST 28,1908.
A young cou-
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police yester-
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at-kson and Cassandra
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night. Friends say they i

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failed to return from they
carnival which they at-
tended early yesterday
r/7 \j
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morning.
n.
MAKES IT A preliminary search has
> MAN WHO TRIED
VSASlEAl
/HIM NOW.. .IT'S THE
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turned up no trace of the

lOPtCfc /MY ^f DOUBT ANYONE missing couple.
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/WHEN I PR'NG ^I^P^lA'' '"'^B

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EXCERPT FROM THE DIARY OF husband vanished,
CASaANCRA KILEY: I Aave come to know
fie came tcaiard me. this man well. Me is
/ kneu the scream had his face as white ai my
my friend,
death. Sot J knew
came from Jackson X companion, my
ran /aware/ -Me tent... he brought me the lover... his name,
but stepped out of the. g iff of... life.! is MACULA.'
...eternal life,'
shadows blocking my
path.
 )RACUIA ?fcVMN
EXCERPT FROAA7HE DIARY OF
cassanora Mtey-
IT SEEMS ALMOST FUNNY NOW!
AHEK I WAS LITTLE, I MAD
VISIONS OF RUNNING AWAY-
TO JOIN THE CIRCUS. PERHAPS
ASA BEAUTIFUL BARE3AC* ,
R/OER, OR AN ASR/AL/ST.. /.

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NOW THAT I AM OSAD, I AVUtf

JOINED THE Cl RCUS AS A FREAK,
.

AN O0OWY...A VAMPIRE.

STORY: GERRY BOUDREAU / ART: ESTEBAN MAROTO / COLOR: MICHELE BRAND

 NEITHER OF US WHAT IS IT
REALIZED THAT THE YOU WANT FROM
UNHOLY DEED HAD AND WHAT DO
US... ]
BEEN WITNESSED &y YOU OFFER IN
A CREATURE WHO RETURN T
i^'ONE /MOMENT I CALLED HIMSELF
)D A LONELY HUMAN... YET ISN'T IT
...^HTENED woman, SOMEHOW SEEMED WHAT
STRICKEN WITH A VILER... MORE WANT.^AND
TERMINAL DISEASE... O0SCNE THAN THE IN RETURN YOU
AftONSTROSI TIES SHALL HAVE
HE DISPLAYED. PROTECTION
DURING THOSE
DAYLIGHT HOURS
WHEN YOU ARE
MOST
VULNERABLE.

EXCERPT FROM THE DIARY OF

CASSANDRA KILEY:

D3ACULA IS A STRWN<5E 8F'M'

LOVE MIM...8UT I ALSO t

HIM..OFTEN I WONDER WHAT

SECRETS HE HOLDS WITHIN HI?
SOUL,
TALLAHASSEE Tt/HES. EXCERPT FROM A LETTER "I KNOW YOU WILL EO&GIVE
SEPTEMBER 13, 1908' DATED SEPTE/WBER 11, 190S, MB FOR WHAT I HAVE DONE, AND
FROM HERBERT LARKIN TO REALIZE THAT ONLY MY LOVE
MISS EVELYN HlCMS t FOR YOU COULD DRIVE ME TO
"DEAREST EVELYN, THE T\ME HAS SUCH DEPTHS OFOESPERATfOH!'
COME FOR -ME TO ACT. TOO LONG
HAVE FALSE HOPES AND
POVERTY KEPT US APART...
DENIED US THE LIFE VVE HAVE
PLANNED TOGETHER FOR SO
LONG.../"

EXCERPT FROM THE DIARY

"MEET ME WITHOUT FAIL ON OF CASSANDRA KILEY-"
THE MIDWAY OF THE CARNIVAL
TOMORROW AFTER SUNDOWN. A CURIOUS INCIDENT OC-
FROM THERE, WE SHALL MOVE CURRED TONIGHT DRAOJLA'S
TO A NEW CITY, AND YOU WILL ATTENTION! TURNED TO A
HAVE EVERYTHING I'VE EVER YOUNG WOMAN IN THE
PROMISED you. CROWD, AND THE CHANGE
THAT CAME OVER HIM WAS
REMARKABLE. HIS TALL,
STEADY FRAME BEGAN TO
QUIVER, AND 1 FEARED FOR
A FOMENT HE WOULD
COLLAPSE.../
THE WOMAN WALKED BY. NOT GOOD AFTERNOON,
vens'MG us. but a peep, MISS PARROT. YOU WEAR
WISTFUL UDOKCAAAB INTO L
yoUR SADNESS WELL/
DRAOJLAS eyES...A LOOK
OF HOP, A LOOK OF PAIN... .'

YET HE SAID NOTHING, AND

1 COULD DO NO MORE
THAN WONOBR AS TO ITS
CAUSE.
 ...but mv. My
DARLING, WILL
live fo"eve>*.'
 THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO ^
DO BUT TURN MYSELF /yV. I
WAS WILLING TO BE A
FUGITIVE FOR YOUR LOVE,
MY DARLING, BUT WITHOUT
IT THERE IS NO POINT. I DON'T
EVEW CARE WHAT HAPPENS
TO ME- NOW..

DOES IT MATTER^ YOU

DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS
TO YOU BECAUSE yoU'CE COMELY
BUT GOING TO JAIL IS NOT THE / /
POLICE IF you
ANSWER WHAT'S DONE IS
.
I WANT TO, BUT THAT]
OOAIE/BUJ CASTING YOURSELF A WON'T DO EITHER
INTO A PR/SON CELL WON'T 4\ ONE OF US ANY
MAKE THINGS EASIER. A X^GOOD.
 CAUSE OF DEATH HAS NOT YET SEEN/ DE
=VERE WOUNDS AROUND THE NECK AND hkiI

JLICE TO SUSPECT FOUL PLAY. LARKIN WASALSO

"' ^OLICE
FOR QUESTIONING IN AN EWBEZ.ZLE/V\ENT
CASE EARLIER THIS WEEK.../

BUT SOMEHOW, THE KACeS

ALWAYS STAY THE SAME.'
PROLOGUE
\TU BEEN A LONG TWE SINCE ANYONE TQUCHgi? BRENPA. A9 THE VR\
SCALY 7ENACLE EHCIRClED HER BODY, IT TCUCHEP S0MBTH1NS 0PR
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THAN FEAR.
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 BLACK WAS AH ENFORCER.
AH OFFICER OF THE LAW.. J AND
ON THIS JULY FRIDAY IN (989, He
BEGAN HIS DAY FACING
TWO FELONS.

STORY: BRUCE BEZAIRE / ART: JOSE ORTIZ

 ,
SIR/
[ COME UP/ I

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NOW AT THE LYCEUM
SHIRLEV TEMPLE BLACK
JR.

BS5. HEIDI
LINT EASTWOOD
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FROM THE
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OVERZEALOUS ACTION BY ENFORCERS
THE EARLY UNEASE WITH TED SOME OF THE OLD THE A.C.L.U.'S TOM BEAM- OF ENFORCERS (NAE),
WHICH THE PUBLIC TREPIDATIONS BY RUL- LEY OF THE DECISIONS, AGREE THAT IT WAS IN-
VIEWED THE CONCEPT OF ING THAT ENFORCERS THE FIRST OF THEIR KIND, DEED JUST A MATTER OF
ENFORCER JUSTICE HAS WERE GUILTY OF OVER- WHICH FOUND ENFOR- TIME. "AFTER ALL, WHAT
BEEN LAID REST BY FIVE REACTION IN TWO SEP- CERS KEVIN DAVIS OF ORGANIZATION OR INDI-
YEARS OF FAULTLESS ARATE CASES. TULSA, AND RON QUEEN VIDUAL CAN CLAIM PER-
PERFORMANCE BY THE "IT WAS JUST A MAT- OF SYRACUS, GUILTY OF FECTION. BESIDES, THESE
"STREET JUDGES". TER OF TIME, AND NOW IT OVERZEALOUS EXECU- WERE MINOR MATTERS
IN THIS LAST WEEK, APPEARS AS THOUGH IT'S TION OF THEIR OFFICES. AND THE ENFORCERS'
HOWEVER, TWO BOARDS ALL STARTING TO COME SPOKESMEN FOR THE MISJUDGMENT WAS NOT
OF INQUIRY RESURREC- DOWN AT ONCE," SAYS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SERIOUS IN EITHER CASE:'
STORY: BUDD LEWIS and VICTOR MORA / ART: LUIS OARCIA
Across a love hauntep dream of
unsubstantial wonder.. beguiling,
.

enthralling was the gwi, the

NIGHT, THE BECKONING SffA

Whirling, swirling, enticing him, enchant-

ing HIM, CLOUDING HIS SOUL WITH DREAMS
REALIZED AMD PROMISES WHISPERED, HE She drew him unerringly
. . ,

CHASED BEHINP HER.

.

peurfously, to the tombing

depths ...the tombimg, knoll-
ing, brooding depths...
j
She did no T WRITHE IN VOMIT SSUIWG MADNESS, NGITI- ER DID SHE VOID .
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HER BOWE S IN DIAR 3HETIC CC NVULSIONS OF HORROR. /AS DID Aff/

dCMKSLhT 1$Pfc
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TVfK SIMPLY CAME. TO M4ff HIM.
 CREEPY NO. 75
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU
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SCRIPT:BUDD LEV REED CRANDALL/COLOR:BILL DUBAY
 YOU SEE, MARAM, THE
' THEORY CONCERNING THESE
ASTBAL BEINGS IS, THE/'KE
CONSTRUCTED OF PA/tTlCL$,
~'"'E AS VOTJ OR I PARTICLES
PLEA5E PON'T STRUGGLE,
MAN/ Z AM NOT THE 8E4ST/
WE MUST COMBINE TOGETHER
TO KILL THE TRUE AKWSTEfi
HERE.'

A BEAST /A/PEEP. A BEAST THAT

CALi-5FOR HELP, SAyiNG A GMOST
15AFTER HER. GHOSTS? YS. THE
GHOSTS OF COUNTLESS V/CTMS
LIKE MYSELF THAT WAIL IN THEIR
MISERY, HOPING AGAINST HOPE TC>
<EEP V" MORE tY/CT/M FROM
ENTERING THIS HOUSE.

: TA/EP TO WARM GA5PAR. HE

COULP ASOT LISTEN. HE WAS TOO
LOGICAL TO BELIEVE IN LMMG
GtfOSTS.

WELL, I >/> TRX NOW I AM

BEYONP TRYING AGAIN. IT WILL
0E CASPAR'S TURN NOW TO
WARN THE NEXT V\CTM OF THE
3&4ST ON BACON STREET.

GOP GRANT HIS SUCCESS

 "'.-
COMPLETELY CERTAIN.' '-

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i IKWEW NOT WHAT 1 WAS. 1 ONLY

KNEW 7H,4T I SHOULD NOT BE.

STORY and ART: BERNI WRIOHTSON

tJC^->, FOR A TIME I SENSED
DARKNESS AND PEACE.
[
THE BREEZE IS COOL. AND THE FAINT GLIMMER OF EARLY LIGHT
I BRIGHTENS A FINE, MISTY VALLEY THAT SEEMS TOGO On FOREVER
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as The Monster, Marty Feldman as Igor, plus Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr,
Kenneth Mars and Madeline Kahn. The paperback book based on this 20th
Century-Fox movie is now available along with this terrific full-color poster
(shown above), T-Shirt, etc.! Be the first ghoul on your block to have all
this great YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN stuff!
 CORBEN! CRANDALL! GARCIA! MAROTO! ORTIZ! WOOD!
WR1GHTSON! THE COMIX INTERNATIONAL No. 2 UN
Rich Corben is a gentle, affable man who spends most of his
time at his drawing board. His quiet exterior hides a dyna-
mic soul of incredible talent and perserverance. His work
has successfully survived its transition from major "under-
ground" art to mainstream comics and has arrived integ-
. . .

rity intact. He is an artist of mixed media and incredible

facility. His stunning ability to distort realism and thereby
create a more believable has resulted in some of the
reality,
most dramatic stories to Warren magazines.
appear in
Reed Crandall has worked for most of the top names in
comics. He achieved recognition for his art on Quality
Comics "Blackhawk" series and his many fine contributions
to EC. He was a major artist in the early years of Warren
Publishing's magazines, creating some of their most moody
and dramatic tales. His accomplished use of fine-line shading
gave these stories an almost gothic quality. The feeling of
studied realism he created gave his horror stories believ-
ability. They were both frightening and memorable!
Luis Garcia s comic work is beautiful almost photographic.
. . .

His mastery of the mysteries of light and shadow, of design,

of form, give even his most fanciful stories a feeling of in-
tense, solid realism. His illustrative talents are greatly ap-
preciated both in the United States and abroad. An artist of
truly international reputation, Garcia is dedicated...
thoroughly involved in his work. Comics, he believes, can of-
fer something to everyone. His art is a fine example of this.
With talent and perception, he has created applauded art!
Esteban Maroto learned to draw by looking at comics. He
has read them all his life. And he believes that comics should
not be the exclusive property of any one age group. Like
films, comics are a visual medium. If approached correctly,
they can appeal to everyone. Maroto is working to present
a sophisticated image in a medium which, with some notable
exceptions, has been consigned scornfully to the realm of
children's entertainment. Maroto believes in the potential of
comics as entertainment for everyone! . . .

Jose Ortiz is an artist of international repute. He has illus-

trated comic stories in Spain, Great Britain and the United
States and has universally been considered among the finest
talents in every country in which his work has appeared. His
work is admired by professionals and fans the world over.
And deservedly, for the forty-year-old artist spends most of
his time in his studio, creating page after beautifully drawn
comic page, in a style uniquely his own. His reputation as a
fine, creative artist is well earned. And accurate!
Wally Wood's work is a mainstay of any comic in which it ap-
pears. Think of EC war and science fiction comics and you
think of Wood and of the incredible humanity and subtle
. . .

humor of his work, even at its most frightening. His genius

later provided Mad Magazine with some of its finest, fun-
niest parodies. And the world enjoyed his own publication,
"Witzend." Nowadays, he freelances for most of the major
comic companies. His style has changed over the years, but
his skill has not. Wood an artist to be reckoned with!. . .

Berni Wrightson spent his early childhood in a haunted Bal-

timore rowhouse. His playground was a tomb-stone strewn
cemetery. He read every comic he could get his hands on.
And he was born knowing how to draw. Extraordinary begin-
nings produced an extraordinary artist. By seventeen, he was
working as cartoonist for a local paper. At eighteen, he had
his own National comic. His work has vitality drama. And . . .

even now, in between paintings and lectures, Berni still man-

ages to squeeze in an eagerly anticipated comic job or two!
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