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PUBLISHER: JAMES WARREN EDITOR: BILL PARENTE COVER: RICHARD CONWAY
ARTISTS THIS ISSUE: TONY WILLIAMSUNE, REED CRANDALL, ERNIE COLON, EUGENE COLAN,
DAN ATKINS, STEVE DITKO WRITERS THIS ISSUE: ARCHIE GOODWIN BILL PARENTE
CONTENTS
CREEFV'S
LOATHSOME LORE
Another weirdo classic, as de-
scribed by Monster Moderator
Uncle Creepy

DGARUNCLE CREEPY
Your Letters will be the Death
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of us .

KEEP TOUR SPIRITS UP

A frazzling fortune teller foresees
a fantastic future for a frustrated
fellow y

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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W^A i&^M DEEP RUBY

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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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REAR RUDE AWAKENING and CAT- tering the lower, left of the
Completed reading CREEI>Y in

«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

UNCLE another Frazetta. On the other

hand, WAY OUT was awful! The
plot was horrible and the art-
this issue and think it's worth
framing.

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

tmFf work mediocre. GARGOYLE had Minn.

to be the best this Issue with will inform the reader about
QUICK CHANGE running a the stories inside. If some
No wonder WAY OUT stories are reprints, why not
second place. About JACK didn't weigh in with you
KNIFED, yecchhh. RUDE Wayne. With your insides in-
say so, people are going to
AWAKENING, that's another think you're trying to pull the
verted and your bones bartered
story. In though, have to wool over their eyes. I'd like
all !
. how could that mind blow-
. .
to see you confine your jokes
say I enjoyed the issue. ing showing give you a brain
BILLY CANTRELL to the letters page, keep your
blast? Sheeeesh! face out of the middle of the
^^. C'inton, Tenn.
book, it detracts from the
Just received issue #23 and mood. The script, WAY OUT
^F Ifs a thrill to chilt you this is the scoop.Tom Sutton's although good had poor art-
with my swill . . . Will. This cover was quite good but stil! work. For instance, the de-
time maybe, my wreck wrill rate a far cry from the ones mons on the first page didn't
a Ueccchhh Instead of a Frazetta used to do. The best look evil enough and that
yeccchhh! story, GARGOYLE. Angelo Devil, ludicrous! GARGOYLE
Torres art was just the great- once more showed the imagi-
write now because
I dis- I
est. A close second is WAY nation of Archie Goodwin and
like seeing a good product OUT. That had a new and dif- he combined an intriguing piot
ruined. have tteen abroad for
I
ferent twist and James witli an unexpected ending.
a number of months and the Haggenmiller should ge com- RUDE AWAKENING was one
last issue had purchased was I
mended for his paralyzing plot. of his lesser attempts though.
CREEPY #16. Since then I had RUDE AWAKENING was so-so see Bill Parente is starting to
I

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

Barry Rockwell's art in JACK along with Barry Rockwell's

WAY OUT and CAT NIPPED picked it up and when ! finally
reading was ap- KNIFED was different true, art,appealed to me the most.
As far as m concerned m I I
set to it, I

however, different doesn't He's an upcoming artist who

a lifelong fan of CREEPY It palled. ! remembered the beau-
tiful illustrations, and plots of mean better. At the bottom of seems to be on the way.
IS absolutely the wildest JOE M, TIERCE
an elder tradition. Now the the list is CAT NIPPED. The
spine chillingest mag ve I

artwas good but the story was ^_. Gary, Indiana

ever read, anywhere. As soon cover, the plots, the pictorials;
almost utterly atrocious. The rather boring I'm afraid.
as can rustle up a buck I'm DON JACOBSON ^F
I

going to join the Fan Club, I

was #23 and all to make
issue So who's pulling the wool
it was GARGOYLE and
up for ^._. St, Paul, Minn. over your orbs? I'm no knit
hope that's soon.
TONY RAMPE JACK KNIFED. And even wit why should try to dis-
. . . 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?

Issue #23 was great with a

better watch your wagon! few exceptions. The cover was
mains to the maximum glory ling any ends in the were-Iair!
Here on horror homestead you good as usual and think you 1
you have known in the past,
know what we do with rust- should reprint all your best
D. L CORRIE covers and sell them as a pin-
lers? Vah(>oo...why we FANG Oxon Maryland
I think you're getting better
^-. Hill,
with age even though there up posters. This issue, the best
'em natch!
^
. . .

were some top performances stories were GARGOYLE, JACK

Don't weep Creep - ster, . . when you were a bit younger. KNIFED and QUICK CHANGE.
Hey, what gives? I pick up give your glance another How about a few more classi- The only one didn't care for I

CREEPY #23 and what do I

chance and sneak a peep at cal horror tales in upcoming was WAY OUT. One other prob-
get, or should I say what my latest, greatest heap from issues Unc? By the way, what lem I can never find your is-
didn't get? No blood! First
I
the horror harvest! were you doing in Cousin sues. missed 20. 21 and 22.
I

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
@
^P
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 . . .

-*.
^^ Not slipping
PING! No wonder your palate
is parched for plasma and if
you're not quick on the lick,
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!
SIP- QUICK CHANGE was a shocker gunk about my junk, you get
silly . . .
the whip for your lip!
and I enjoy the way you Inter-
rupt the story on page six, just
like a show with an intermis- CREEPY #23 had i

Mick you'll never get bled

. . . sion. Toth and Goodwin come cover by Tom Sutton but more
fed! up again with a gqpdie in detail was needed and the let-
ART BY REED CRANDALL / STORY BY BILL PARENTE
VOU WAVE DARED TO ENTER TH|
DOWINION OF THE DEAD.
WHAT REASON HAVE YOU
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Or rilS A^EMORY.-C»NTE RETURNED 1Q WITH EACH FEVERISH STROKE OF HIS BRUSH'

HIS CAWAS THE VIVID HYSTERIA HIS
SPlRtr MAD WITNESS ED-
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BACK TO HIS NEW STUDIO THE IMAGES OF EACH
TRIP HIS SPIRIT MADE. AND AS BEFORE, ONCE THOSE
VISIONS BEGAN TO FADE IN FRUSTRATION OF
FORGOTTEN /VlCrt^ENTS
.-.MNTE WOULD FILL THE BUNK OF HIS MIND
WITH BIZARRE REMINDERS OF EACH PSYCHIC
VOYAGE
 AS DANTE WSSES THROUGH THE MEfWCING
PORTAL C^OAEVBRj'^
IT CLOSES WltH OMINOUS FINALITY—

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ART BY EUGENE COLAN/SCRIPT BY ARCHIE GOODWIN
As THE FLAMES FED ON
THEIR DREADFUL FUEL,
SO DID VfOLA WHtTBy'S
AN&ER FEED ON THE SI&HT
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FROM THE TOO RKENT FAST,
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WHERE I'VE AKEANSEP AN APPOINTMENT TOR VOU WITH ...

ART BY DAN ADKINS/SCRIPT BY ARCHIE GOODWIN

SUCH ARE m THOUSHTS AS I CLINS UNBEUEVIN6LV TO THE BlNOCUl^KS,
CONSTKICTEP WITH
CAN VOU COMFREHENP
WHAT THIS MEANS TO
WITH MOIST PALMS, BUT W« THROAT IS TOO TIOHTW
EXCITEAAENT FOR MORE THAN A CHOKEP WHISPER TO PR.
SEEMAS OF - »E AS A NATURLIST ?
I WKDIvlG, KAW\5EV?
AN UNPISCOVEEED
WAS SPECIES .' IT'S SOWE-
ISN'T EVEKVTHIN&
IT 1
THINC- VOU OREA^A
SAID IT TO BE ?
ABOUT... ONE OF THE
MAIN PURPOSES IN THE
EXPEPITION COMING TO
THIS AREA ... ANP I'VE
tWNE IT .'
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TO STRIKE CAMP... WITH THE ENP IN S16HT WHV TION, YET IT DOESN'T COMPARE TO THIS PITIFUL
SHOULP I TAKE UNNECESSARY RISKS, ESPECIAL- DRIVING NEED OF SERNA5...
LY A&AINST A QUANTITY SO UNKNOWN AS THIS ..

..WE'RE SOlNe
TO NEED ALL THE
OTHERS BEFORE
WE TACKLE THAT
THINS .'
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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.
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SOFT &UeBLlNG AS THE HU6E &ULK SUB-
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MONSTROSITY... IMAAERSiNG HIMSELF FURTHER
ANP FURTHER INTO THE EBONV PEPTHS...

...ANP TO MY HORROR I
REALIZE THE SINKING
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POCTOR ALONG WITH HIM...
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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 '

MAVBE I CAN GET OFF ONE SHOT PE-

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STRIItES-

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...

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PUT THE FCOL.' THE FOOL THAT WAITS. OF ITIRTY fVOL. I PON'T KNOW
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THE STRONGEST PESIRE ALWAYS WINNING &E6IPE5 RAMSEY ANP 5ERNAS?
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WONT GET TO FINISH THIS
ISSUE. ..OH WELL, THINK HOW
LUCKV THE REST OF YOU
ARE...
NEW!!!
JUST ARRIVED

NO C.O.D.'s PLEASE. Print

There's the spell bell course, didn't affect Lannon.

J^
. . .

KNELL GNOMES ... so But, then again, nothing had

into your SHOCK
Slither
SEATS for our second SA-
—
had
at least not since night
fallen. Despite the re-
TANIC SEMINAR of scarify- cent reports of a maniacal,
ing social studies! Just flip axe murderer roaming the
your fright folder to the let-
ter B and we'll begin the
V. city streets after dark. But
why should this bother
I,

brutality with some blab Lannt had ained

about the "irf^/^Xi^ »l
1 napping on the park bench,
. . .

Mm\ i^mS F even while the flying shad-

ows of debris blended into
the darkening The

Slowly we approach the

ilL^mii Pi'f
threats
sky.
of the city meant
nothing to him, he slept
mist draped scaffold, parti-
cles of powdered asti rising v^S^niL^ peacefully, his face hidden
beneath the wrinkled news-
to break against the shim- papers. Footsteps could be
mering net of busy spiders. A 1/ heard as they slowly ap-
sickening stench settles upon proached Lannon's prostrate
the choking darkness and
4
fv^
body. A hapless drunk,
then, a whiri of molten
smoke unclouds a black
robed prophet standing with-
jM1 search for company. As he
reached the park bench, he
saw Lannon, Immediately he
in the vapors. SATAN! His
sightless eyes survey your
trembling body from his pul-
pit, and then, an aching
measure to each move, he
lifts his tieshfess fingers onto
WS^f\"^m ^a
j^^M^^r
k
'jO j?A^j^
sat at
speaking
his
in
feet and began
alcohol-choked
words that Lannon merely ig-
nored. After the drunk real-
ized that his silent audience
might just as soon lie left
a ponderous, black book. Stay
back
you . .
.the silence warns
.
. .

keep distance beyond

^Pn ,T
V'
^jjU^Wf,
alone, he stood up and stag-
gered away, leaving Lannon
just as he had found him.
the minister of evil who cries
the deafness of his magic
fM ^\ P^^ 1 v^^p^ m^jl Only the mumbling of non-
sensical rumors about the
into your ears. He hopes to
chant your soul ... for in
that book all things of death
are written. The past
present
the
verse that reads
, . .
jfmCdk /•

;^
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 . .

which followed became the GRIMOIRE fabled by all

. . ,

solemn scriptures of damned. infamous mortals through

Ayone who sought to impose
upon the Deuil had only to
the ages to reap the havoc
of their sins. Who can say Brisk night breezes swept
p litfUHiijjjJII'i^iiiim

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
1 llffiliglljjjll
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.

1 iiJBiii
. . .

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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