Eerie
#7
(June-July 1952)
Avon,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale date
- 1952-04-04
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Avon Periodicals, Inc.
- Brand
- An Avon Publication
- Editing
- Sol Cohen
- Color
- Color
- Dimensions
- Standard Golden Age U. S.
- Paper Stock
- Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
- Binding
- Saddle-Stitched
- Publishing Format
- Was ongoing
Issue Notes
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1953, page 50, registration number B392960.
[contents page]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)
- Inks
- Everett Raymond Kinstler
- Letters
- ?
Indexer Notes
inside front cover
Blood for the Vampire
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Norman Nodel (signed)
- Inks
- Vince Alascia (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The small town of Ravennes in the Tyrolian alps is haunted by the vampire Erik Lustveg. When Rod and Dot Blair, descendants of the Lustveg family, come investigating their heritage, they find that the vampire legend is very much alive.
- Reprints
-
in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #66 (1966) -
in Nightmare (Skywald, 1970 series) #2 (February 1971) which is reprinted -
in Dossier Negro (Ibero Mundial de ediciones, 1968 series) #68 (enero 1975) - in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2369 - Skywald's Nightmare: Volume 1 ([May] 2019)
- in Black Magic Comics (Arnold Book Company, 1952 series) #11
-
Haunted Honeymoon
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Roussos
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Roy and Dot Evans stay overnight at a weird old man's place. They find out that he keeps a boy, his warden, prisoner and plans to kill him, but is afraid of his ghost to haunt him after death.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Hounds from Hell
text story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- In New Zealand, a man called Belter commands special abilities like being able to see in the dark. As a price for that he is haunted by ghostly apparitions every night.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
spot illustration
The Ghostly Diners
text story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A dining room in a New Orleans house is haunted and relives over and over a dinner from the past during which the guests were poisoned.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
spot illustration, probably by Joe Kubert
Black Means Death!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harry Lazarus
- Inks
- Harry Lazarus ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- Harry Walters can't stand the nagging of his wife Karen anymore. At a bar he meets the lovely Mara, looking like Karen's twin. Walters falls in love with Mara, kills Karen and then realizes that they were the same person.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
First-person narrative.
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
The Nightmare
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Kubert
- Inks
- Bob Bean ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Playwright Nathan Foxx writes a play which invokes the devil's appearance.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #66 (1966)
- in Nightmare (Skywald, 1970 series) #1 (December 1970) [with alterations] which is reprinted
- in Dossier Negro (Ibero Mundial de ediciones, 1968 series) #60 (mayo 1974)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2369 - Skywald's Nightmare: Volume 1 ([May] 2019)
- in The Joe Kubert Archives (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #1 - Weird Horrors & Daring Adventures (December 2012)
- in Black Magic Comics (Arnold Book Company, 1952 series) #11
-
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Previous indexer suggested Joe Kubert for inks, too.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Blood for the Vampire
-
1.
[contents page]
-
2.
Blood for the Vampire
-
3.
Haunted Honeymoon
-
4.
Hounds from Hell
-
5.
The Ghostly Diners
-
6.
Black Means Death!
-
7.
The Nightmare
-
8.
The Ghoul Walks!
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