The Garden of Death!

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atomic bomb, golden age, Hiroshima, occult, Strange Tales, Vernon Henkel

The April, 1954 issue of Strange Tales contains four illustrated shorts and one text piece. Early work by Joe Sinnot appears in The Cask in the Cave. Vernon Henkel provides the eerie artwork for the brief but dramatic Garden of Death! This tale, narrated by Death, scanned a bit better than the other tales. Let’s take a look!

Collector’s Guide:
– From Strange Tales #27; Marvel, 1954.

It Was Liquid Ecstasy! Richard Corben in Penthouse Comix

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Gone Fishin, Indie Comics, mermaids, occult, Penthouse Comix, Richard Corben

A friend mailed us a copy of Penthouse Comix a couple years ago and it blew our minds. While we’ve been aware of the… other pleasures of Penthouse since adolescence, we never thought to check out their comics magazine.

This issue has a cool story by Richard Corben. It harkens back to classic horror tales by Berni Wrightson, and puts a new spin on the theme of eroticized underwater adventures. Kevin O’Neill also illustrates a disturbing story in this issue, and even Galactus makes an appearance.

Given the graphic sexual content of most of these stories, we leave them to your imagination, only presenting what we find to be a tasteful story of mermaids and mortality.

Collector’s Guide:
– From Penthouse Comix Vol 2 #14, August 1996.
Story & Art by Richard Corben

Alex Niño: I Never Dreamed the Ray Would Transmit a Living Being!

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Alex Nino, Corporal Kelly's Private War, dreams, George Kashdan, occult, war, war comics, Weird War Tales

Alex Niño’s work was featured in DC Comics publications such as Weird War Tales, House of Mystery, and House of Secrets. You will also find Alex Niño in issues of Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion, Secrets of Sinister House, Weird Mystery Tales, and The Witching Hour. Alex Niño also appeared in Warren’s Creepy and Heavy Metal.

Here on Mars Will Send No More we have a nice collection of Space Voyagers, and an ongoing gallery of work from the out-of-print Satan’s Tears.

If you’d like to dig into our whole online Alex Niño gallery, just click Alex Niño.

Alex Niño: I Beseech You to Send Forth a Demon!

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Alex Nino, Demon Child, House of Mystery, occult

Alex Niño’s work was featured in DC Comics publications such as Weird War Tales, House of Mystery, and House of Secrets. You will also find Alex Niño in issues of Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion, Secrets of Sinister House, Weird Mystery Tales, and The Witching Hour. Alex Niño also appeared in Warren’s Creepy and Heavy Metal.

Here on Mars Will Send No More we have a nice collection of Space Voyagers, and an ongoing gallery of work from the out-of-print Satan’s Tears.

If you’d like to dig into our whole online Alex Niño gallery, just click Alex Niño.

Alex Niño: Something Stagnant… Like the Odor of Sulphur! It CAN’T Be!

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Alex Nino, Demon Catalogue, House of Mystery, occult

Alex Niño’s work was featured in DC Comics publications such as Weird War Tales, House of Mystery, and House of Secrets. You will also find Alex Niño in issues of Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion, Secrets of Sinister House, Weird Mystery Tales, and The Witching Hour. Alex Niño also appeared in Warren’s Creepy and Heavy Metal.

Here on Mars Will Send No More we have a nice collection of Space Voyagers, and an ongoing gallery of work from the out-of-print Satan’s Tears.

If you’d like to dig into our whole online Alex Niño gallery, just click Alex Niño.

Alex Niño: The Attack Goes on until Earth is Wiped Clean of Life!

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Alex Nino, Conquerors, Jack Oleck, occult, war, war comics, Weird War Tales

Alex Niño’s work was featured in DC Comics publications such as Weird War Tales, House of Mystery, and House of Secrets. You will also find Alex Niño in issues of Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion, Secrets of Sinister House, Weird Mystery Tales, and The Witching Hour. Alex Niño also appeared in Warren’s Creepy and Heavy Metal.

Here on Mars Will Send No More we have a nice collection of Space Voyagers, and an ongoing gallery of work from the out-of-print Satan’s Tears.

If you’d like to dig into our whole online Alex Niño gallery, just click Alex Niño.

I Have Suffered the Tortures of the Damned!

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Challenge of the Unknown, Ghost in the Portrait, golden age, occult

The Ghost In The Portrait from Challenge of the Unknown…

Just your usual boy-meets-girl meets hideous grave-defiling spectre – type story.
Enjoy!

Courtesy of the Digital Comic Museum.
See more of our Golden Age Comics Gallery!

Alex Niño: I Can’t Stand Them! They Should Be Destroyed!

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Alex Nino, House of Mystery, Museum of Murder, occult, Robert Kanigher

Alex Niño’s work was featured in DC Comics publications such as Weird War Tales, House of Mystery, and House of Secrets. You will also find Alex Niño in issues of Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion, Secrets of Sinister House, Weird Mystery Tales, and The Witching Hour. Alex Niño also appeared in Warren’s Creepy and Heavy Metal.

Here on Mars Will Send No More we have a nice collection of Space Voyagers, and an ongoing gallery of work from the out-of-print Satan’s Tears.

If you’d like to dig into our whole online Alex Niño gallery, just click Alex Niño.

Alex Niño: They’re Not Like Any Animal I Ever Saw!

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Alex Nino, Claws of Death, occult, Weird War Tales, Werewolf

Alex Niño’s work was featured in DC Comics publications such as Weird War Tales, House of Mystery, and House of Secrets. You will also find Alex Niño in issues of Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion, Secrets of Sinister House, Weird Mystery Tales, and The Witching Hour. Alex Niño also appeared in Warren’s Creepy and Heavy Metal.

Here on Mars Will Send No More we have a nice collection of Space Voyagers, and an ongoing gallery of work from the out-of-print Satan’s Tears.

If you’d like to dig into our whole online Alex Niño gallery, just click Alex Niño.

Siezed by an Aura of Ancient and Consuming Evil!

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Asylum, Berni Wrightson, Indie Comics, New Comics Group, occult

The hideous horror of underwater love!

Collector’s Guide:
– From Asylum #1; New Comics Group, 1989. Cover by Berni Wrightson.

Alex Niño: Kiss Him with Lightning!

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Alex Nino, Arnold Drake, Evil Eye, occult, war, war comics, Weird War Tales

Alex Niño’s work was featured in DC Comics publications such as Weird War Tales, House of Mystery, and House of Secrets. You will also find Alex Niño in issues of Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion, Secrets of Sinister House, Weird Mystery Tales, and The Witching Hour. Alex Niño also appeared in Warren’s Creepy and Heavy Metal.

Here on Mars Will Send No More we have a nice collection of Space Voyagers, and an ongoing gallery of work from the out-of-print Satan’s Tears.

If you’d like to dig into our whole online Alex Niño gallery, just click Alex Niño.

In those Dark Days when only Slime Crawled the Earth!

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Challengers of the Unknown, Keith Giffen, occult, Swamp Thing

Keith Giffen really pulled out all the cosmic stops to draw Challengers of the Unknown in 1977 and 1978. Also featuring Deadman and Swamp Thing. Here are some especially awesome pages to blast your brain!

This issue packs immortal demons from space, muck monsters from the bog, gorgeous gals in distress, sonic ray guns with sweet visual effects – you can’t ask for much more entertainment factor! Giffen’s entire run is a blast, and the art gets even weirder as it goes along.

Collector’s Guide:
– From Challengers of the Unknown.
The entire story runs from #81-87, the final issue.

Strange Gods, All Dark and Mysterious!

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Image Comics, KISS, occult

In the late 1990s, Image Comics put out 31 issues of Kiss Psycho Circus. Possibly a promotion for a Todd McFarlane line of licensed toys, Psycho Circus features some mind-shredding artwork from the Image studios.

If you like KISS, and you think seeing them as celestial beings of great power might kick some major ass, then this is right up your alley! A few of these issues have really solid stories, but mostly it’s about the WOW factor of the artwork. Dig some of these covers, splash panels, and 2-page spreads!

My Comic Shop has the single issues of Kiss Psycho Circus for about a buck a piece.

The Slain Slaying the Slain a Second Time!

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occult, war, war comics, Weird War Tales

Why does it seem like crawling out of our grave is going to totally rock?!

Leave it to Weird War Tales to make your zombified remains dance to the dread drums of death!

You might also like our extensive Alex Niño Gallery, featuring a lot of his backups from Weird War Tales. Just let me put my brains back in first!

Time You Tasted The Serpent’s Kiss!

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George Perez, occult, Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman and her supporting cast journey to a hellish underworld to confront the god of fear. Inimitably rendered by George Perez, Wonder Woman kicks some demon butt! George Perez’s 1987-1989 run on Wonder Woman remains a favorite visual interpretation of our favorite Amazon princess.

-from Wonder Woman #5, DC Comics, 1987

A Seething Universe of Images!

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Brad Joyce, Jim Fry, Len Kaminski, Marvel Comics Presents, occult, Werewolf, Werewolf By Night

A seemingly innocent issue of Marvel Comics Presents reveals an epic journey through planes of consciousness to reunite the man and the beast in cosmic fusion. YES!

Collector’s Guide:
Children of the Beast Chapter V: Communion starring Werewolf by Night:
Script by Len Kaminski, pencils by Jim Fry, inks by Brad Joyce.
– From Marvel Comics Presents#58, 1990.

Alex Niño: Gallery of the World’s Most Evil Creatures!

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Alex Nino, House of Mystery, John Albano, occult

Alex Niño’s work was featured in DC Comics publications such as Weird War Tales, House of Mystery, and House of Secrets. You will also find Alex Niño in issues of Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion, Secrets of Sinister House, Weird Mystery Tales, and The Witching Hour. Alex Niño also appeared in Warren’s Creepy and Heavy Metal.

Here on Mars Will Send No More we have a nice collection of Space Voyagers, and an ongoing gallery of work from the out-of-print Satan’s Tears.

If you’d like to dig into our whole online Alex Niño gallery, just click Alex Niño.

Eye-popping, jaw-dropping artwork by Alex Niño makes this short occult thriller come to life! The Hunter! -from House of Mystery #220. DC Comics, 1973.