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Wally Wood: Eerie Tales of Crime and Horror #[nn]

Mar 2013 · Vanguard Productions · 24.95 USD
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This fifth volume in Vanguard's Woodwork series collects Wally Wood's crime and horror stories from the 1950s, showcasing his masterful blend of gritty noir and macabre EC-style artwork. Featuring tales originally published in titles like Shock SuspenStories and Crime SuspenStories, the book highlights Wood's atmospheric linework and narrative punch across a range of eerie, suspenseful short pieces.

"Devil in Petticoats" delivers a chilling, pulpy tale from Jack Kirby’s visionary mind, illustrated with bold, dynamic art by Kirby and Wally Wood’s distinctive inks. Set on a remote Pacific island, the story follows a tribal chief who uncovers a hidden alien threat beneath a volcano—leading him to make a desperate, world-altering decision. The cover, a striking piece by Wally Wood, captures the tale’s eerie, otherworldly tension.

Contains 19 stories
Devil in Petticoats
8 pp · Crime, Spy
Captain Steve Savage Over Korea
22 pp · Aviation, War
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
25 pp · Horror-Suspense
Dr. Jekyll [Mr. Hyde]
The Repulsive Dwarf
3 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Tiger Queen
8 pp · Adventure, Jungle
The Slave Princesses
8 pp · Adventure, Jungle

In the heart of the untamed jungle, two royal sisters—once rulers of Ballah—now flee for their lives after their city falls to the tyrant Horab. Captured by a ruthless Arab slave trader and sold into captivity in the distant land of Dinora, their fate hangs in the balance until a mysterious warrior named Sabu intervenes. As the sisters struggle to reclaim their throne, danger, betrayal, and ancient secrets rise from the shadows.

Tiger Plague of N'Gessa
8 pp · Adventure, Jungle
Frank Buck
The Shanghai Chicken
10 pp · Crime
Johnny DevinePatsy MarleySoapy McAlpineShanghai KelleyHansonTommy ChandlerJohnny NylandBilly Maitland
"Legs" Diamond
8 pp · Crime
Jack "Legs" DiamondMartin KaneEddie DiamondNick RockerSpikeLeftyDawn
The Killing Punch
8 pp · Crime
Martin KanePug DooleyJimmy CinchMoose Harben
John Hamilton - Hard Luck Killer!
5 pp · Crime
Martin KaneJohn HamiltonBat GeigerEvieDr. Murdo
Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu
25 pp · Adventure
Dr. Fu ManchuSir Dennis Nayland SmithSir Lionel BartonRimaVan BergShan GrevilleDr. PetrieFah Lo SueeMr. Kennington
A Noose for News
8 pp · Crime
The Thing from the Sea!
7 pp · Horror-Suspense

In "The Thing from the Sea!", a drowned man’s vengeful return from the ocean depths begins with a single, relentless tread through the dark. After being murdered and dumped at sea, Eddie Murray’s body drifts home, drawn not by instinct but by a quiet, unrelenting purpose. As the killer courts the dead man’s love, the tide brings something far older and colder than grief—something that walks the seabed and knows the way back.

The Case of the Painted Beast!
7 pp · Horror-Suspense

In the quiet town of Maple Valley, an art competition ignites a chilling mystery when Ezra Vale’s unsettling painting, *The Forest of Fear*, draws scorn for its grotesque image of a monster among gnomes. When the painting’s bizarre vision begins to bleed into reality—first with strange disappearances, then with the victims appearing in the artwork itself—the town’s obsession with beauty and judgment takes a terrifying turn.

Edna Murray, the Kissing Bandit
8 pp · Crime
Edna Murray
Skull of the Sorcerer
7 pp
Davey KnoxRobert KnoxFrankMikeWallyDalai Rama of Karak
It Roams These Hills
3 pp · Horror-Suspense
The Creatures in the Volcano
5 pp · Science Fiction
TubuaiMauiki

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Full credits

writer, artist Jack Kirby
colorist Stan Goldberg
letterer Artie Simek
cover pencils, inks Wally Wood

Reprints

↩ Reprints Crime Smashers #7 (1942), Atomic Spy Cases #1 (1950), A Star Presentation #3 (1950), Frank Buck #70 [1] (1950), Super-Detective #2 (1950), Feature Presentations Magazine #6 (1950), Martin Kane, Private Eye #4 [1] (1950), Sabu "Elephant Boy" #30 [1] (1950), Inside Crime #3 [1] (1950), Martin Kane, Private Eye #2 (1950), Captain Steve Savage #[1] (1950), Attack on Planet Mars #[nn] (1951), Prison Break! #1 (1951), With the U.S. Paratroops Behind Enemy Lines #1 (1951), The Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu #[nn] (1951), Dark Mysteries #1 (1951), Dark Mysteries #2 (1951), Eerie #2 (1951), Eerie #3 (1951), Forbidden Worlds #3 (1951), Eerie #4 (1951), Famous Gangsters #2 (1951), Gangsters and Gunmolls #2 (1951), Prison Break! #2 (1951), Journey into Mystery #51 (1959)

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