Ghost Manor #19
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeGhost Manor #19 (July 1974) marks the debut of Baron Weirwulf, the horror host who would go on to headline his own rebranded Charlton title — Baron Weirwulf's Haunted Library — and anchor Charlton's horror line through the rest of the Bronze Age. The character's introduction here was part of a deliberate editorial push by Charlton to refresh and expand its stable of ghost hosts across multiple interconnected anthology titles, a strategy that kept the publisher competitive in the early-1970s horror-comics boom. Because Charlton's anthology hosts rarely crossed over into other publishers' purview, Baron Weirwulf stands as one of the more distinctive proprietary characters the Derby, Connecticut outfit produced in this period, making this issue a concrete starting point for tracking that lineage.
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The Baron Weirwulf feature pages in this issue were written by Nicola Cuti — who served as an editor and creative driver of Charlton's horror line at the time — and drawn by Don Newton, an Arizona-based artist and former elementary school art teacher who was just beginning his professional comics career. Newton designed the Baron Weirwulf character himself under Cuti's editorial guidance, and Ghost Manor #19 contains his very early Charlton work; the painted cover was contributed by Pat Boyette, another Charlton horror stalwart. The issue's anthology stories were scripted by workhorse writer Joe Gill and drawn by Boyette, Wayne Howard, and Tom Sutton, reflecting the tight roster of freelancers Charlton rotated across its horror titles.
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- First appearance of Baron Weirwulf, the horror host character who would later lend his name to Charlton's rebranded title Baron Weirwulf's Haunted Library (formerly Haunted).
- Published July 1974 by Charlton Comics as part of the Ghost Manor volume 2 (1971 series), issue #19.
- The Baron Weirwulf feature pages were written by Nicola Cuti and drawn by Don Newton — Newton designed the character.
- Don Newton's Charlton horror work began in 1974; his very first published comic story appeared in Ghost Manor #18 (May 1974), making #19 one of his earliest professional appearances in print.
- The issue contains two Baron Weirwulf one-page features: 'Baron Weirwulf's Library' and 'Vampires of the World,' both scripted by Cuti and drawn by Newton.
- Anthology stories in the issue include work by Joe Gill (script), Pat Boyette, Wayne Howard, and Tom Sutton — the core creative team of Charlton's Bronze Age horror output.
- The painted cover is by Pat Boyette.
- Baron Weirwulf subsequently took over as host of Haunted beginning with issue #21 (April 1975), at which point that title's cover logo was renamed Baron Weirwulf's Haunted Library, though the indicia retained the original title.
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Reprinted in Ghost Manor #19 (1977), Scary Tales #5 (1978), Ghost Manor #4 (1978), Ghostly Tales Album #11 (1980), Ghostly Tales #161 (1983), Ghostly Tales #162 (1983)
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