Thursday, October 29, 2009

A Powelloween celebration

We usually don't get into golden age comic books or pre-Comics Code horror comics, but with Halloween in two days who could resist these stories by Bob Powell from the Harvey horror comics of the early 1950s? They're beautifully drawn, they're strange, odd, delirious, weird...just right to read while outside the wind howls and skeletal fingers tap at your doors, the chains rattle in the attic, the moans come from the basement, and the red-eyed vampires peer in the windows...

Pappy provided the scans for "Servants of the Tomb." Thanks, Pap.

Copyright © 1951,1954 Harvey Comics

BLACK CAT MYSTERY #41, 1954:








THRILLS OF TOMORROW #17, 1954:








THRILLS OF TOMORROW #18, 1954:








WITCHES TALES #6, 1951:









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  1. peterOctober 13, 2010 at 7:48 AM

    i've just arrived here thanks to a link from the bloody pulp/eerie publications blog...............the slimy mummy..........the source story being - servants of the tomb - and now to find it was bob powell and there are three other bob powell's i hadn't read before accompanying it .....and all this being provided for last halloween ...............o what can the forthcoming halloween have in store/in its vaults for me ? thanks from the very pits and bowels of my very own blue eyeballs.... peter

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