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DGARUNCLE CREEPY
Your Letters will be the Death
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of us .
WITCHES TIDE
A wave of monsters sweep in from
the sea -
THEIR
J0URNE7SEND
Are we all doomed to the dungeon
of our own dimension? Or dare we
defy the destruction of MINISTRY
, . . and seek escape in eternity!
IT THAT LURKS
Prehistoric horror rises from the
murk of a jungle pool
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CREEFV FAN CLUB
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monslrous offerings
amaze us with their
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w^m AN UNLIKELY VISITOR
Will the family curse cause a ca-
tastrophe when Cousin Stephan J J
arrives for a visit? 11 ^09®
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i: 6 ISSUES
CREEPY, PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY BY WARREN PUBLISHING
FOR »2.« IN THE U.S. ELSEWHERE: i3.'"
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SECOND CLASS MAIL PRIV-
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«23. Good, very good! I NIPPED ended for once with corner could have been de-
thought Sutton's cover was the human winning and the leted. Drop the sensational ap-
great. If he keeps up the good monster losing. Sutton did a proach and add another to
work, he just might become fantastic job with the cover acquaint your new readers
tDeluth,
I
WAYNE BODIN
with the message of the maga-
zine. Ail that lettering clutters
up the cover and after all, a
glance at the contents page
heard or seen othing of It un- but Alex Toth's art seemed shoulder more of the load
til just today. All saw on the kind of amateurish. Neat is the each issue. His JACK KNIFED.
Just finished reading your
I
stand was CREEPY, dealt in word for QUICK CHANGE. Bill QUICK CHANGE and CAT
October ish «23 and it was Parente's story gave a new NIPPED were all more than
really groovy All the stories
scarlet at the upper section of
the cover. Mechanically twist to the werewolf tale. average while JACK KNIFED
were fantastic especially I
- LImce. Ohio though they were both superb, ^^ Peptic Parente better guise your eyes when I'd much
@
^* If you're fixin to
up some grief beef, chief
round
. . .
they could not possibly make
amends for this sapping of
quality in
form the remnent that re-
CREEPY. Please, re-
watch whose tale he twists
from now on, Don
bristling
he's
v^h enough wolf
woes already, without wrink-
. . .
rather blind your mind?
we have GARGOYLE and what's EERIE's ish #17 in TO SAVE Ijust got #23. It Is just August
a gargoyle good for if he won't I just ran my insides out to FACE? You gave me quite a and have the October issue.
I
attack and draw any blood? the book store and bet my start. While I'm on the sub- I know you put them out early
And what about JACK KNIFED? bones that your new issue of ject, ! think the time has come but this early? Please explain
Supposed to be about Jack the CREEPY would bo.there. Sure to give your Cousin a good
Rtpper, right, so how come no enough it was and natch I flogging. The way he cuts you TIM PRATHER
blood? Then you have QUICK bought it. The cover of #23. up in his letter column, just _-. Austin, Texas
CHANGE, a wolf man's delight
and what do you think, right
again. RUDE AWAKENING and
CAT-NIPPED, both very good
beautiful, the stories, great and
especially the artwork; suoer
collassal! WAY OUT was pretty
shows you he doesn't respect
his elders. After all, you must
be at least three hundred
@
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whip
Production problems can
up quite a lather,
good, great idea to have a years older than he is. we keep
stories and still NO BLOOD! I
hippie story. But what's so RON KOHL
Prather . . . therefore
buy CREEPY to see action, well ahead of our dread dead-
spooky about a guy blowing Palm Beach, Fla.
line. But you can stop your
bloody action so let's get with his mind? GARGOYVE was really
it Unc, you're slipping. And 1
drooling and get my fearsome
good. I like 18th century tales, fooling by snipping the sub-
don't mean on any blood JACK KNIFED was absolutely ^P scription clipping out, and slip-
the best artwork and mystery
ME older than burp . . .
MICHAEL STILTNER belly! Come on Ron, quit the ping It IN the mail, pronto!
in the entire book. How does
-*. Sasser Georgia con otherwise when the
. . .
Mr, Rockwell draw like that?
Gremlin gets gonked for that
His real life tones are good!
^^ Not slipping SIP- QUICK CHANGE was a shocker gunk about my junk, you get
silly . . .
the whip for your lip!
PING! No wonder your palate and I enjoy the way you Inter-
is parched for plasma and if rupt the story on page six, just
you're not quick on the lick, like a show with an intermis- CREEPY #23 had i
&j^33
Asa body the/
turned to the sound
of horror and as a
body they were rdunpep
with revulsion at the
vast pulsating ivave op
slitheriwo, gropin& -
monstrosity,. ,
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THERE IS NOT EVEN A RIPPLE ON
THE JUN6LE 6 WITHOUT SOUNP. THAI m^Ct^, STAGNANT \NATER, THE
THERE IS NO BREEZE. EVEEYTHlNc (AONSTER IS PERFECTLV STILL, AS
15 FERFECTL-l- 5TILL, IT HA5
BEEN
THOUGH IT \NERE AWARE OF OUR.
SINCE THAT 5H1N^' REPTILIAN PRESENCE ANP COULPN'T CARE
HEAP BROtiE THE POOL'S MURK.Y LESS, NOW THE 6KEAT HEAP
SURFACE. THERE IS ONO «V 5LOWLV TURNS TOWARP US...
BREATHING, MUCH TOO FAST... I
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THEKE IS NO CKV, NO SCREAM. NO THUNPEE-
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SOFT &UeBLlNG AS THE HU6E &ULK SUB-
MER^ES INTO THE IMKY PEFTH5—
...ANP TO MY HORROR I
REALIZE THE SINKING
&EHEMOTH CARRIES THE
POCTOR ALONG WITH HIM...
THERE 15 N0THIN6 LEFT PUT TO RETURN! '
WHA... LORC7/ "^ [7ARUN6,
TO CAMP ANP TELL THE OTHERS, VET AS OH LORP,.
I TURN, THERE 16 THE CHURNING OF
WATER E€HINC? ME...
THE PELLET'S WORN OFF ALL REAI7V '
THE WATER IS COLl?, ANP THE TU>3 AND FULL OF THE MOSS ANP SLIWE IS UNPLEASANT BUT I
SMELL HER PERFUME, REVEL IN THE WARMTH OF HER VOICE, ANP NEEP HER TOO MUCH TO STOP
&UT WITH EACH FATAL STEP, THE FULL TRUTH SLOWLY COMES TO ME...
IT 15 NOT THE MONSTER THAT CLAIMEP SERNA5, NOW, IF THAT ISN'T A CASE \
PUT THE FCOL.' THE FOOL THAT WAITS. OF ITIRTY fVOL. I PON'T KNOW
PATIENTLY, CUNNIN1SLV...FEOPUCIN6 WHATEVER WHAT IS.' WONPER HOW MANY
IS MOST EFFECTIVE R:>R ITS PREV TO SEE. OTHERS ARE COWN THERE
THE STRONGEST PESIRE ALWAYS WINNING &E6IPE5 RAMSEY ANP 5ERNAS?
OUT, t7RA66IN(3 FT'S VICTIM IN... EVEN A5 THIS TAKE A LOOK... OOPS-'
PAKK.SLIMV MURIC NOW CLUTCHES ME... THERE'S A REAPER WHO
WONT GET TO FINISH THIS
ISSUE. ..OH WELL, THINK HOW
LUCKV THE REST OF YOU
ARE...
NEW!!!
JUST ARRIVED
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mad axeman returned the
muttering of the drunk, and
soon the brisk night breezes
had returned to reclaim the
debris it had brought to the
, . . Our reckless rebel better watch that remarkable robot H he
the future ... all in the pages doesn t want to be ruthlessly ruined' Even though DARING D. returned to reclaim the de-
of his missal! CABRERA from Miami Florida tells us our hero has that har- bris it had brought to the
Satan's missals or GRI- rowing hallucinat'on under control it looks like the double park earlier. This time how-
MOIRES as they are known, dealing dude m the derby is pushing all the buttons' ever, they had claimed a
are dark volumes of sorcery. scrap of litter not previously
all manner and method of necromancer whose search Glad you could peek in at carried before, A wrinkled
necromancy contrived within invoked the fury of Hades, our PEEK-IN. ..rot tots! Now newspaper that, when called
each page. The black books the GRIMOIRE became his that you've joined the crowd by the wind, revealed fully
contain the chants of de- dictionary o( doom. In the In the catacombs, If you the motionless Lannon, un-
mons and druids the . . . GRIMORIUM VERUM which won't mind a shattering affected, quite silent and
spells of witches and war- was published in 1517 by splatter of batter chatter. . . peaceful as a result of his
locks . . . secrets that could Alibeck the ore
Egyptian, chaw on this next choice decapitation that evening in
summon the dead or silence learned how become invis-
to chunk of gore gunk coming the park. Deserted forms
the living! The first GRIMOIRE sible. Or perhaps it was hate up! JARRING JOSEPH ALAS- from the sky suddenly re-
was introduced in Greece your preferred to conjure up KEY warns us about a sleep- turned to grey with the
about 100 AD and from that ... or sickness PAIN! . . . ing stranger so let's find out " END
moment on, the volumes Legend tells us of SATAN'S whose lying there on that . .
seek the chapter of his what fate awaits you should the sky and delivered the
choice, for binding pacts
were carefully imprinted on
you chance to find a book wind's refuse to the city
park. It skimmed the wide
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the parchments. Power, word-
. take care it's black cover
. .
does not invite your eyes in- walks and bounded airborne i||ffiWw||g
ly riches, fortunes beyond real side! Might it be the SATAN'S silhouettes of tumbleweed
Ity could be had for the ritual GRIMOIRE seen only by against a grey twilight sky.
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of blasphemy and the prom- those who assemble in . . . Like rousing signals of im-
ise of one's soul. For the HADES!!! minent-dangeri This of
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VOU EERm ENTHUSIASTS ARE JU5r IN TIME TO TAKE PART IN A LITaE TERROR TRANS-
ACTION I'M ARRANeiN6...A5 U^UAL IN MY PEMONIACAL PEAL5, THERE ARE A FEW
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