Eerie
#8
(August-September 1952)
Avon,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1952-05-20
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Avon Periodicals Inc.
- Brand
-
An Avon Publication
- Editing
- Sol Cohen
Issue Notes
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1953, page 50, registration number B392961.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Harry Lazarus (signed as HL)
- Inks
- Harry Lazarus (signed as HL)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
[no title indexed]
table of contents / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Everett Kinstler (signed as
Everett Raymond Kinstler) - Inks
- Everett Kinstler (signed as Everett Raymond Kinstler)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Stark horror gripped them!
Indexer Notes
inside front cover
The Monster of Zollmort Castle
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There was evil in the old ruins...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Peter Fletcher; Alice Fletcher; Quadro (caretaker)
- Synopsis
- Novelist Peter Fletcher visits Zollmort castle in Central Europe. By opening a sealed door in the dungeons, he releases the Zollmort monster. He and his wife have to fight for their lives.
- Reprints
in 
in 
in Song of the Undead!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harry Lazarus
- Inks
- Vince Alascia
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Stark horror faced John and Dorothy Blaik...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- John Blaik; Dorothy Blaik; Xatl
- Synopsis
- John and Dorothy Blaik travel through Mexico looking for folk songs. Native woman Xatl introduces them to the "Song of the Undead". Any singer will be doomed and fall prey to vampires. The couple does not heed the warnings.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
The Alchemist
text story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sid Check (spot illustration)
- Inks
- Sid Check (spot illustration)
- Colors
- ? (spot illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the year 1720...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A chemist poisons himself while searching for the elixir of life.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
One small illustration (by Sid Check) presumably lifted from an existing comic story.
The Phantom Python
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dark are the mysteries of Africa!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Tani; Loganzi
- Synopsis
- British Colonial East Africa: The commissioner's daughter Tani is seriously ill and seeks help from native witch doctor Loganzi. She dies during the ceremony and Loganzi is hanged. But he and Tani haunt the land in the shape of a giant python snake.
- Reprints
The Deformed of Zoar
text story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ed Goldfarb (spot illustration)
- Inks
- Bob Baer (spot illustration)
- Colors
- ? (spot illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The valley of Zoar...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A crime happens in the valley of Zoar. A family robs and murders a traveler and gets cursed for generations by being born with deformities.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
One small illustration (by Goldfarb/Baer) presumably lifted from an existing comic story.
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
The Curse of the Bulaga!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gene Fawcette
- Inks
- Vince Alascia
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Out of the frozen wastes it came...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Jon Norland; Althea
- Synopsis
- Explorer Jon Norland travels to Antarctica to hunt the fabled Bulaga beast. He finds it caught in a block of ice. After thawing it, the Bulaga comes alive and chases Norland around the world to his doom.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
["Stark horror gripped them!"]
-
2.
The Monster of Zollmort Castle
-
3.
Song of the Undead!
-
4.
The Alchemist
-
5.
The Phantom Python
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6.
The Deformed of Zoar
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7.
The Curse of the Bulaga!
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