THE MOST HALLOWEENISH COVERS OF EERIE MAGAZINE

This is the last weekend before Halloween 2023, so, because last weekend’s review of the Spook stories in Eerie magazine was well-recieved, here’s a look at some of the most appropriate Halloween Season covers from that Warren Publishing horror magazine. 

EERIE #124

Cover Date: September 1981

Stories featured in this issue:

The Sea of Red, Pyramid of the Black Sun: Orka, God of Light, plus the Haggarth story The Sacred Scroll.

The one and only Frank Frazetta himself did the spectacular artwork for the cover of this issue.

EERIE #49

Cover Date: July 1973

NOTE: The monster on the cover is Warren Publishing’s swamp creature called the Dead-Thing, who was, shall we say … reminiscent of DC’s Swamp Thing with elements of Marvel’s Man-Thing and Hillman’s Golden Age monster the Heap.

        The Dead-Thing appeared in just two stories.

Stories featured in this issue:

One is the Loneliest Number, The Death of a Friend, Midnight Prey, Over Population, Fear Itself, The Vampire, and Jaime Brocal.

Plus the column Fanzine Reviews.

EERIE #30

Cover Date: November 1970

Stories featured in this issue:

The Entail, Mirror Mirror, Life Species, I Werewolf, Easy Way to a Tuff Surfboard, In Close Pursuit, The Return of Amon-Tut and The Creation.

Plus four fan contribution features:

The Prophetic Dream, Escape Claws, Nuts to You and The Mistake. 

EERIE #43

Cover Date: November 1972

Stories featured in this issue:

Inside Forty-three, Some Day, Musical Chairs, Bright Eyes, The Hunt, Showdown and Let the Evil One Sleep.  

Plus six fan contribution features:

Rich Margopoulis Profile, Life’s Dream, Encounter with an Artist, Cold Shoulder, Hate and Black Death.

EERIE #61

Cover Date: November 1974

NOTE: The monster on the cover is called Coffin and this issue marked his first appearance. He was an old west gunslinger who committed atrocities against Native Americans, who captured him, disfigured him and subjected him to a ritual which condemned him to an undead existence. 

Stories featured in this issue:

Gonzalo Mayo, Real Heroes Die, Don’t They?, Death Wish, Killer Hawk, Something Evil Came out of the Sea, A Battle of Bandaged Beasts and Foreplay.   

Plus the feature The Creative Man.

EERIE #40

Cover Date: June 1972

Stories featured in this issue:

The Brain of Frankenstein, The Once Powerful, The Paradise Tree, Deathfall, The Prodigy Son and Pity the Grave Digger.

Plus seven fan contribution features: Kingdom Come, The Grim Spectre, Snow, Puritan’s Progress, The Night the Snow Spilled Blood, Paradise Lost and Voice of Doom.

EERIE #70

Cover Date: November 1975

NOTE: The cover depiction of Coffin was an alternate way of illustrating his disfigurement, but it was a rip-off of the face of the 1950s Amazing Colossal Man in his sequel movies. 

Stories featured in this issue:

The Final Sunrise, Coffin Hill, Goblin Thrust, Crooked Mouth, Oogie and the Junkers, and Code Name Slaughter Five: From the Cradle to the Grave.

EERIE #74

Cover Date: May 1976 

Stories featured in this issue:

The Demons of Jedediah Pan, Father Creator, A Secret King and The Expedition.

Plus two special Warren Editorial features:

“Warren Publishing Company Will Pay a $500 Reward” and “Presenting the 1975 Warren Awards.”

EERIE #93

Cover Date: June 1978 

Stories featured in this issue:

The Rook: Strangers in the Strangest Places Part Two, Honor and Blood, Kingdom of Ash Moonshadow, The Einstein Factor and The Slime Creature of Harlem Avenue.

Plus a special Warren Editorial feature:

“Classics Illustrated: The Comic Books.”

EERIE #115

Cover Date: October 1980

NOTE: The distractingly stupid title Night of the Jackass refers to the slang term “jackassing,” a state of suicidal rampaging while under the influence of the fictional drug called Hyde 25.

Stories featured in this issue:

Night of the Jackass, Twenty-four Hours of Hell, Storm Before the Calm, The Children’s Hour, Excerpts from the Year Five and Endstorm.

EERIE #67

Cover Date: August 1975

Stories featured in this issue:

Death’s Dark Colors, Phoenix Fire, The Man Named Gold, The Kingmaker and The Hacker Files: The Hacker’s Last Stand.   

Plus a special Warren Editorial feature:

“The Art”

EERIE #11

Cover Date: September 1967

Stories featured in this issue:

Witch Hunt, When the Mummy Walks, To Slay a Dragon, Berenice, The Blood Fruit, Big Change, The Monster from One Billion B.C. and First Blood. 

NOTE: A lot of interior artwork in this issue was provided by the iconic Wally Wood. The cover art was by Joe Orlando.

EERIE #86

Cover Date: September 1977

NOTE: As indicated, the cover and interior art for this issue of Eerie were all provided by the one and only Richard Corben.

Stories featured in this issue:

Unprovoked Attack on a Hilton Hotel, The Oval Portrait, Shadow, Pinball Wizard, Change … into Something Comfortable, The Slipped Mickey, Friedhelm the Magnificent and Frozen Beauty.  

Plus a special Warren Editorial feature:

“The Worst and the Dullest Comic Books.”

EERIE #52

Cover Date: November 1973

NOTE: As indicated on the cover, this issue included stories featuring some of Eerie’s recurring characters like Dax, the Mummy, Hunter, and the Werewolf.

Stories featured in this issue:

Ghoulish Encounter, Darkling Revelation, Enter: Hunter, The Beheaded, The Golden Kris of Hadji Mohammed and Death Rides This Night.   

Plus a Warren special editorial feature:

Fanzine Reviews.

EERIE #128

Cover Date: January 1982

Stories featured in this issue:

Dr. Coven, Demon Queen, Zud Kamish, Blackstar, Avenger and Haggarth. 

NOTE: The witch-hunter called Dr. Coven debuted this issue.

In addition, the other characters were all recurring figures in Eerie.