Monster of the Day #3380

Ah, Eerie Publications. “Wait, so if it’s a black and white magazine it isn’t under the Comic Code? And feature vampires and werewolves and other beasties also verboten by the Code. I mean, so can Warren. They have real writers and artists though. What can we do instead? Hmm….”

Notice that the destroyed woman is also a vampire, because it was a rule you had to have multiple monsters on these things.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Yikes. I think when I was a kid, even I would have objected to that cover.

  • Kirk

    I think that’s one of my cats.

  • Gamera977

    Yeah, I think I’d have thought it a little over the top even as a youngster.

    I have to say though it makes up in enthusiasm what it lacks in artistic skill.

  • Gamera977

    I’m not normally a fan of remakes but I think I like the ’80s ‘Predator’ better than this ’60s version.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    Let’s skip plan 8

  • THREE MONTHS OF HARD WORK, LAST INKING DONE, AND NOW I FIND OUT SOMEONE ELSE BEAT ME TO THE HOLY GRAIL! WHY MUST THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME? WHY GOD WHY?

    I am, of course, joking. Everyone knows I never finish an

  • Eric Hinkle

    I actually had one magazine with a cover like this as a boy, and while I loved monsters and grue, I thought this was mind-numbingly awful.

  • Ken_Begg

    They were terrible, but I had a couple. There was one local drugstore or magazine shop that carried these. They were hanging from clips up on suspended rod, presumably so kids couldn’t thumb through them. Terrible comics, mostly I remember their penchant for popped out eye balls.

  • BobTanaka

    Okay, so Roger Corman’s “Where the Wild Things Are” takes a *few* liberties with the source material…