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Anne Ganley
ARTISTS: #14 30
Neal Adams
Pat Boyette
Johnny Craig
Reed Crandall IMAGE IN WAX
Steve Ditko
The heated rivalry between two wax works owners erupts ha
Rocco Mastroserio
into a fiery climax! From issue #17 MB
Tom Sutton
Angelo Torres
Alex Toth THE RESCUE OF THE MORNING MAID
The price of beauty is often beastly, but rarely as ugly as At
WRITERS: this! From issue #18 11
Johnny Craig
Archie Goodwin
Raymond Marais
SKELETON CREW
Crawling, all-consuming terror ships out on an ocean i
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The swell of fear is on her, g-rowing- as the ''Her head parts first this way, then that.,
night wind makes the trees anp branches starting at every shadow, each rattle of
creak and moan,.." dry leaves swept across the ©round..."
«f^Nf"
'S*'*^*)
FORGET
THe NAME,
THINK OF
THE TAKE/
LOOKIT
THIS CROWD
, THE RUBES
LOV£ TO
HATE YOU
The sounc of the gohg prives ames's tokturec thoughts back to the present... sack to the
glare op ovekheap lights afjp the pouncing leather,,, harp wilp punches rain im on hl/v\ to be
isnorep, suuesep off, anp returnep.' r-
SfAsr ^
/tM/yZ/HALF-
GORILLA^ HALF-
MAN... ^^/t^T"
MAN'
Keluctant to believe he wght lose his
meal ticket, walsh hap recheckeo amss's )
condition with the heart specialist,,
STARK COULD NOT SFEAK. HIS THROAT WAS PARCHED, DRy...BUT HIS SLOWLY, STARK LET
HANDS WERE MOIST, CLAMmV, AS THEY TI6HTLY ORIPPEP HIS RIFLE- THE WEAPON SLIP
DO NOT RAISE >OUR WEAPON! UNLESS YOU CHOOSE FROM HIS FINSERS.
TO PERISH BEFORE THE FURyOFWSERVANTS. HECOULD NEVER. YOUR BARBARiry HAS
RIPPED TO SHREDS BVA WHIRLWIND OF BESIN TO BRINS IT COST THE LIFE OF ONE
claws! I AM UUTH.HISH PRIESTESS OF TOPLAYASAINST WHO SERVED ME WELL
V/\smi,0OPDESS OF CATS.' YOUR '
ALLTHE SLEAMIM6- ...WHATPUNISHMENT
^FATE IS WINE TO DECIDE.. EYEP HORDE HE COULD BE MORE FITTIN6
' •
FACED. DESPERATELY, YOU
HIS MIND PROBED \ TAKE HlSPUte.
FOR A COO R5E OF
ACTI0N,HISFIN6ERS
BRUSHED A CI6AR-
ETTE LIGHTER IN-
SIDE HIS JACKET..
EVEN AS STARK'S LIPS BEMN TO FORM THE WORD "HOW".', LILITH MOVED FORWARD LONG NAILED FINGERS STRETCHED TOWARD HIM, HER
EVES, GLEAMING AND 610WIN6, ALMOST HyPNQTICALLY..PR0MISIN6 MORE CAUSER THAN ANY JUN61E BEAST YET RADIATING
AN IRRE-
SISTABLE APPEAL. HE COULD SMEILTHE RICHNESS OF HER FLESH,THe FRAGRANCE OF HER LUSH, FLOWING HAIR... HER. LIPS, MIOIST
AND BRILLIANT PARTED AND LIFTED UPTO HIS...
EUEW AS THE WORDS WERE UTTERED, LILITH PIED.
STARKTURNEP AMD FLERTHE HEAT OF HIS SELF-
Wy^OE INFERNO LICKIWG AT HIS BACK,TH£ PAINED
ROARS OF THE JUNGLE CATS ECHOING IN HIS
EARS.
/ AND IF THAT ENPINS DOESN'T JEHK YOU UP.THEN
yOliO BETTER inPE ALONS ON UTTLE CAT FEET AND SINK
YOUR CLAWS INTO WNEJCT HORRENPOUS HOWLER
HEH, HEH.' SO, PAY FRIENDS OF THE ftBVS5, HERE WE STAND ON THE PRECIPICE
OF ANOTHER HORRIFYING TftLE FROM OL' UNCLE CREEPY THIS STORY CONCERNS
.
i?A^PlN6, SHE PAUSED TO REST, AND AS HER EVES SCANNED THE For LONG MINUTES SHE REfAAlNED THERE, BUT TO
VALLEY BELOW, SHE SAW THE TRAIL OF TORCHES HEa.DiN6 BACK STAY THERE MEANT CERTAIN DEATH, SO SHE ONCE
TOWARD THE TOWN. THE TOWNSPEOPLE HAP GIVEN UP THE CHASE. AGAIN BEGAN THE UPWARD CLI^AB. TIME LAPSED
INTO AN UNREAL DIMENSION. MECHANICALLY,
BUNCH OF LOUSY DO-GOODERS I'LL
I SHE CLAWED HER WAY UP UNTIL DUMBLY, SHE
TEACH YOU TO RUN WE OUT OF TOWN '
WAS AWARE OF THE CABIN JUST AHEAD...
I LL GET EVEN IF IT S THE LAST
THING 1 EVER DO
From the depths of a nightwarish dueaw, 5he woke WAR,^A ME ? ARE -iOU
SUDDENLV TO THE REftLlTV OF HER SURROUNDINGS, ft KIDDlMSrrriAT FIR.EPLACE
YOUNG, HftNDSOME MAN HOVERED OVER HER.... FEELS LIKE A BLAST
FUE.MACE' VOU YOU
DOM'T BE AFEMD LIVE HERE ALL ALONE ^
MY NA^AE 15 LUKE
HOW po you
FEEL?
we
__ OF COURSE YOU GET THE ^^AYOR TO COWE
!
t}\
Late the following nisht, after a cold and bitter journey Fearfully, the mayor dip as he was told.
down fro^a the mountain, she huddled in the shadows until the car crept silently from the town,
THE NAAYOR'S car TURNED SLOWLY INTO THE DRIVEWAY AND CAME across we valley and up the mountain
TO A STOP, THEN... road until, with wheels spinning and
BE QUIET, you PURITANICAL OLD FOOL! IF motor whining, it stalled in the drifts,
yOUr.'^OU BRCXEN VDU WANT TO LIVE, TURN THIS CAR AROUND from there, they continued on wot...
HUSSEY; how ^ AND DRIVE EXACTLY WHERE IS'
WHA. STUPID. I SAYJ BUND AND 6TUPID.'- HEY... WHAT'S YOU THOUGHT TO USE ME AS A
STUPID ?.' DO you THINK I WANT TO POSSESS TH(S WRONG = YOU TOOL TO 6WN YOUR. REVENGE,
WMY. EMPTY SHELL OF A MAN SO I CAN LIVE YOU RE BUT YOU W\ISJUDGED ME I
I
IN HIS HOUSE r DO YOU THINK I CARE PIFFE^ENT DON T CARE A FIG FOR. YOU OR
ABOUT POLITICS OR. WEALTH 0(^ yOUE REVENGE IT WAS /
'
THAT SOhAEONE
HA! HA HA HA I nCAiE! fTOP!
BULLETS CAN'T
HURT ME WOMAN
,
INNK££P'
Ciicouraged
tiysuccess,
*-cJstieo( head-
long into -the
business ..,
And whei^
nature was
slow to
pi'Oduce
the 'goods'...
Tde next day...
«i
AND THE SRAVEYARP.' STILL U&n/ AS YOU SAIP-.-TWEY'RE.
UNWATCHEP ANP POYOU THINK AFRAIPTO COME OUT'
UNPROTECTEP ' SOMEONE IT'S A HELP PAY,
FROM THE A
MR. PEACH...
VILLASE. f/aP CWf!
AllSHT...
..cJ&ybAs^^
ftf-ife'
V *.
^^
THIS IS THE
LAST THAT CAU A FINE PAY'S WORK, MR, PEACH,' HE'LL EMPr/
FIT,' A VAN RYPER'S PURSE
FULL AT lO WITH THIS LOT.'
POUNPS A 5HOULP KEEP
HEAP, MR. HIM ANP MEPICAL
THWACKUM ' SCIENCE BUS/
fOR SOME
TIME.'
SPECIMEMS SALORE
FOR YOU TOmSHT,
pr. rvper.' a
whole van
full!
NOW, A FEAESOWE FBOUC INTO THE PARK ASES FOR SOME PARK POINSS-.- HOPE ALL YOU
HySTERlCAU HISTORIANS WILL EKJOV THE KEEKiKe RESERVATIONS I'VE PREPARE!? FOR
^^ Wfejj
mM ^^M
THINK I COULDN'T &UESS YOUR ThOUTHTS
...SUSPECT YOU'D HOPE TO CARRY AWAY
BLAINE? SHE'S TOO FOOLISH TO APPRECI
ATE WHAT I'VE GIVEN HER, AND YOU ILP/E
FOR HOPING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT
Eric slammed home the bolt on the door al
MY LADV-' IF you WOULD THERE IS LITTLE TO ready there were sounds on the stairs
ESCAPE THIS HOUSE OF DECIDE,' LON& YEARS
WALKING- DEAD, DECIDE HAVE X YEARNED TO PRAY IT HOLDS LON&
NOW.' WE MUST MOVE BE FREE OF MY FATHER'S ENOU&H TO SERVE OUR V\l
auiCKLY/ HOLD, TO ABANDON THE NEEDS, WHAT LINEN YOU
CASTLE AND ITS CARRION HAVE MUST BE CUT
ATMOSPHERE NTO STR PS
The WILDERNESS OF THE STORM HAD LAPSED INTO A SLOW STEADY RAIN
GRADUALLY WASHINO AWAY THE MOST PERFECT OF MA&NUS THE MAGICIAN'S LOOKS LIKE ERIC'S
ART, THE LONO DEAD DAUGHTER HE'D CREATED A FORTRESS OF FEAR
. ,
POTENTIAL ROMANCE
TO PROTECT, HAS JUST DISSOLVED
AWAY,,, OH, WELL,
ELAINE iVMGHT HAVE
BEEN A GOOD KID,
BUT FRANKLY, Z
THINK HER FATHER
WAS FOR THE BIRDS,'
, .
Step right up, fear fanciers, and gbt on line for your terror tickets
INTO the macabre MUSEUM OF CLAUDE RENAIS/ WHERE EACH AND EVERY
FEAR- INSPIRIN& EXHIBIT IS A TERRIFVING-. .
IHE
frfii
OWNER OF THE POPULAR PARIS MUSEUM TURWS AND STRIDES STIF=FLy AWAY FROM &ERARD VIGO
^^ t^'4ii'
COMPETITOR, SMARTING FROM THE CURT DISMISSAL, VIGO cST ONLYMOVE aS^OPILV
1'S^^.ffi^'^
AMONG THE LOOMING EXHIBITS, STARING NOW AT THE BESTIAL FURy OF A WEREWOLF, NOW THE GHOUL'S
GLOWER OFA SORCERER ... AMD WITH EACH VIEWING HIS DE-
PRESSIoriSlD^R&ENTOEKT GRo'wi'*'^
I^H >j^
IH r^^^^K
Wi ^iS^k
^^H
iPl
W Wm
l# MKf
ART BY TOM SUTTON/SCRIPT BY ARCHIE GOODWIN
LOOK AT THEM.' CROWD[N& LIKE Vl&O ELBOWS HIS WAV TO CLAUDE RENAIS,
CATTLE... I WAS IN BUSINESS BEFORE PUSHING- CLOSE TO THE ALOOF, IMPASSIVE
HIM, IT SHOULD 8E MY PLACE THEV'RE FORM, PLEADING DESPERATELY TO &A1N
AT/ AND IT STILL CO£/i.O, IF ONLY THE ATTENTION OF THOSE UNBLINKING,
f?ENAIS WOULD SIVE ME SOME HINT, DISTANT EYES...
SOME CLUE..
I CAN TELL RENAIS, I'M
YOU NOTHING, PeSPmATC! YOU'VE
MONSIEUR VI&O. GOT TO HELP ME,,.
MUSEUM IS UNIOUE I'LLGIVE EVERY
you CANNOT DU- FRANC I'VE GOT
TO LEARN
^
MADE AOE A SLAVE -MADE
^
M^ LIVE IN HORt^lP OQUALOr! ^^^^^|H
^y-
^
CAN'T CONTROL MV
Muscles i she's
TOO STRONG -'
MAYBE -IF I GO
^LONG EASV
NOW
H I DID IT.'I SHE'S dead! ^^^^H| With a cry of joy he leaped across the de-
caying, ROTTED ROOFTOPS,' iN HIS EXCITEMENT,
HE FOROOTTHAT me was a BRUTE- forgot HE
WAS A CREATURE OF THE SHADOWS - FORGOT ALL |
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