Eerie
#3
(October-November 1951)
Avon,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1951-07-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Avon Periodicals Inc.
- Brand
-
An Avon Publication
- Editing
- Sol Cohen (editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1951, page 201, registration number B332952.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Eerie (Thorpe & Porter, 1952 series) #3 (1952) which is reprinted -
in Alter Ego (TwoMorrows Publishing, 1999 series) #137 (January 2016) - in Horror House (AC, 1994 series) #1 (1994)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #12 (2011)
- in Wally Wood: Eerie Tales of Crime and Horror (Vanguard Productions, 2013 series) (March 2013)
-
[contents page]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Reprints
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #12 (2011)
-
Indexer Notes
inside front cover
The Case of the Painted Beast!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Wally Wood; Joe Orlando; Sid Check (sourced)
- Inks
- Wally Wood; Joe Orlando; Sid Check (sourced)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The town of Maple Valley holds an art painting competition. When Ezra Vale's picture of a gruesome monster doesn't win, strange things begin to happen. A fiendish beast like that in the picture attacks the prize judges and kidnaps Vale into its nightmare world on canvas.
- Reprints
-
in Golden Comics (Univers Comics, 2009 series) #1 - in Eerie (Thorpe & Porter, 1952 series) #3 (1952)
- in Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) #17 (August-September 1954)
- in Horror House (AC, 1994 series) #1 (1994) [under the title: "The Painted Beast"]
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #12 (2011)
- in Wally Wood: Eerie Tales of Crime and Horror (Vanguard Productions, 2013 series) (March 2013)
- in Pre-Code Classics: Eerie (PS Artbooks, 2016 series) #3 (May 2016)
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Indexer Notes
The Wallace Wood Checklist (TwoMorrows, 2003) by Bhob Stewart and Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. credits Paul Gattuso on pencils, and inks possibly by Wood. Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. changed his mind about the pencils and suggested Maurice Gutwirth. Current credits based on Check's records.
Was He Dead?
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Mo Marcus (signed)
- Inks
- Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Showgirl Marilyn asks her lover to kill her husband. The murderer, however, is haunted by visions of his victim. He goes to check on the corpse and is imprisoned in the dead man’s tomb.
- Reprints
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #3 [retitled]
- in Eerie (Thorpe & Porter, 1952 series) #3 (1952)
- in Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) #17 (August-September 1954)
- in Gorgana's Ghoul Gallery (AC, 1994 series) #2 (1994) [Orginal title: Was He Dead?]
- in Pre-Code Classics: Eerie (PS Artbooks, 2016 series) #3 (May 2016)
-
The Monster of the Storm
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- John Unter runs amok in the town of Mossy Glen. Before he can be apprehended by the police, lightning strikes and kills Unter. From now on Mossy Glen is cursed. With every thunderstorm Unter comes alive as a ghoulish monster and strangles someone.
- Reprints
- in Eerie (Thorpe & Porter, 1952 series) #3 (1952)
- in Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) #17 (August-September 1954)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #27 (2015)
- in Pre-Code Classics: Eerie (PS Artbooks, 2016 series) #3 (May 2016)
-
Kill a Witch
text story / 3 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Eerie (Thorpe & Porter, 1952 series) #3 (1952)
- in Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) #17 (August-September 1954)
- in Pre-Code Classics: Eerie (PS Artbooks, 2016 series) #3 (May 2016)
-
Indexer Notes
The spot illustrations used on pages 2 and 3 of this text story are both taken from the story "The Lost Princess" published in An Earth Man On Venus (Avon, 1951).
The Mirror of Isis!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- An antique mirror from Egypt channels evil energy into Elyse, fiancée of Brad Stanfield. In a state of trance she stabs a servant in her grandfather’s home. Stanfield and archeologist Redmond soon find out about the connection. A last-minute destruction of the magic mirror prevents Elyse from killing Brad.
- Reprints
- in Golden Comics (Univers Comics, 2009 series) #4
- in Eerie (Thorpe & Porter, 1952 series) #3 (1952)
- in Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) #17 (August-September 1954)
- in Nightveil's Cauldron of Horror (AC, 1989 series) #1 (1989)
- in America's Greatest Comics (AC, 2002 series) #4 (2002)
- in The Joe Kubert Archives (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #1 - Weird Horrors & Daring Adventures (December 2012)
- in Pre-Code Classics: Eerie (PS Artbooks, 2016 series) #3 (May 2016)
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Indexer Notes
Kubert confirmed by Robin Snyder and others.
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
[contents page]
-
2.
The Case of the Painted Beast!
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3.
Was He Dead?
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4.
The Monster of the Storm
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5.
Kill a Witch
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6.
The Mirror of Isis!
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