Vintage Comics: Beware, Issue #8, Terror in the Streets, The Watery Ghost, Come Die With Me (Pg. 16 - End)

 Wrapping up this shorter comic issue, Beware reminds me just how delightfully dark it was for a classic horror comic. I just love the twisted endings. The last one especially of the corpse having a night on the town with his 'friends' is particularly fun. You don't typically find these sorts of stories in 50s comics, and it's no wonder a lot of them became banned for a couple of decades until the American public lightened up.

Vintage Comics - Beware, Issue. 15: The Crystal of Time, Your Number is Up (Cover - 14)

First, apologies for the lack of color correction. I just got a new version of Photoshop elements, and like every edition before - - it's completely different from the last one I used, and every function is yet another learning process. On the bright side, the podcast may be getting a new logo when I figure this silly thing out. Anyway, onto the comic...BEWARE, ISSUE 15! Yet another vintage comic where the writers forgot they didn't need to describe every detail. Very much like the narration of a radio show, this may be a fun interactive little comic if you could get someone to read the dialog aloud.

The first story is more sci-fi romance than horror, which somehow seems to bring to mind Army of Darkness. I wonder if Sam Raimi was a fan? The second, a twisting tale of greed and numbers - - that actually cuts off before it gets really good. Ah well, the last frame is cartoonishly charming.