- Eerie Publications
Eerie Publications was a publisher of black-and-white, horror-anthology comics
magazines . Less well-known and more downscale than the field's leader,Warren Publishing ("Creepy ", "Eerie ", "Vampirella "), theNew York City -based company was one of several related publishing ventures run by comic-book artist and 1970s magazine entrepreneurMyron Fass . Titles included "Horror Tales", "Terror Tales", "Weird", "Tales from the Tomb", "Tales of Voodoo", "Terrors of Dracula", "3-D Monsters" and "Witches' Tales". All of these magazines featured grisly, lurid color covers.New material was mixed with reprints from 1950s pre-
Comics Code horror comics.Writer /artist credits seldom appeared, but includedMarvel Comics penciller/inkersDick Ayers andChic Stone as well as Fass himself, with brotherIrving Fass and the pseudonymousEzra Jackson serving as art directors. Golden Age greatCarl Burgos , creator of the original Human Torch, was editor; he had created a short-lived character calledCaptain Marvel , no relation to either the oldFawcett Comics superhero nor Marvel's Captain Marvel, for Fass'M. F. Enterprises in 1966.Fass' business partner,
Stanley Harris , left after a falling-out and formedHarris Publications , whose comic-book arm publishes "Vampirella" and other former Warren properties.References
* [http://www.empire-of-the-claw.com/Eeriepubs_html/ddemons.htm Eerie Publications: Comix from Hell]
* [http://www.badmags.com/bmmyronfass.html Myron Fass: Demon God of Pulp]
* [http://www.dixonverse.net/articles/article4.html Chuck Dixon: My First Brush with Comics Professionals]
* [http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/oddball/index.cgi?date=2003-08-15 Oddball Comics]
* [http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/capmarv1.htm Independent Heroes from the USA: Captain Marvel]
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