Creepy and Eeerie Return
The greatest casualty of the Comic Code Authority clamp-down of the 50s was EC, home of Tales From The Crypt and Vault of Horror, among many others. The only publication to survive from EC was Mad, which did so by converting to a magazine format and slipping past the Code and onto newstands. While a similar decision to save the horror titles wasn’t considered, if it had the result may have looked something like Warren Publishing’s Creepy and Eerie comic magazines.
Dark Horse Comics have announced that they not only plan on releasing all-new stories under the Creepy and Eerie titles by such horror luminaries as Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson, but that they will also be reprinting the earlier stories in hardcover collections.
When I first heard the news, I hoped that they were considering reprinting them in the same format as their upcoming Savage Sword of Conan reprints, similar to the Marvel Essentials or DC Showcase volumes. If anything would actually benefit from a pulpy presentation it would be Creepy and Eeerie. Here’s hoping this doesn’t mean they’re planning on colouring them.
July 30th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Please…no coloring!!! I have boxes and boxes of the originals but would easily pass on lots of other stuff for nice reprints. I hope they will break them down by character-especially NIGHT OF THE JACKASS.
Hmm… I wonder if there is a new NIGHT being pitched.
August 30th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
I was 12 when I read my first issue of Creepy (#10) and Eerie (#4). They were a brilliant combination of art (Steve Ditko, Gene Colon, Reed Crandall all come to mind-and those Frank Frazetta covers!) and writing (mainly by Archie Godwin-whoever he really was beneath this nom de plume). The writing and art were light years beyond even the ecceptionally high standards of E.C. Comics, and warped my young brain beyond all semblance of repair. I wouold love to get reprints of the origional stories- and hope that any new contributions will be up to snuff. Interesting to note I am still a fan even though I am older than the Sierras.