Thursday, October 31, 2013

Giving Away Prizes!


Hi, Halloween Lovers! Today we announce the prize winners of the contest organized by Yoe Books and IDW. Together with the four blogs and sites mentioned below, they are giving away five books from the Yoe Books collection. In total 146 people entered their name at my special email adress and one came in late and was allowed to join by a special commission made up by me and myself. I forced a zombie to eat all the entries and then randomly picked one out when he couldn't keep it down. We said it would be gruesome and believe me, it was! The winner of the on ebook I was allowed to give away is announced below. Unfortunately it was someone who didn't leave his ground adress, so please get in touch with me at the same email adress as the contest used and I will take care that everything will be arranged for you when I get back from my trip to the comic festival in Lucca next Sunday.

These were the sites. Go there to see who the other winners is and if you like horror comics, please add them to you list.

1. http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com
2. http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/‎
3. http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/‎
4. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yoe-Books/157174217659112
5. https://www.facebook.com/idwpublishing/

The winner of my part of the contect is Rich Clabaugh. Congratulations. You understand you now have to visit my blog at least once a week! All the others, I suggest you pick up at least one of Craigs books or the Haunted Horror comic book to see what you have missed.

Just to remind you, it is stuff like this...

Monday, October 28, 2013

Final Days


Yesterday I showed two Mort meskin stories and mentioned a third without showing it. I wanted to say that Meskin also did a couple of stories for Standard with George Roussos, also including one upublished story, the original art of which I found at Greg Land's galery at Comic Art Fans. Wouldn't it be great to see this in color?


And now, a word from our sponsor..

THE CHILLING ARCHIVES OF HORROR COMICS HALLOWEEN GIVE-AWAY!

Fright Fans! You have five places where to win Yoe Books/IDW's complete Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! Those are the spine tingling collections of banned comics from the 1950s include "Dick Briefer's Frankenstein", "Bob Powell's Terror", "Zombies", the brand new, "Jack Cole's Deadly Horror" and the soon to be released "Haunted Horror hardback! Enter your name each place for four chances to win!

The sponsoring blogs and Facebook page are The Horrors of it All , Four Color Shadows, The Fabulous Fifties, the Yoe Books page on Facebook, and the IDW Publishing page on Facebook. Go here to each of them to win...

1. http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com
2. http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/‎
3. http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/‎
4. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yoe-Books/157174217659112
5. https://www.facebook.com/idwpublishing/

Enter your name in the contest by sending me an email at g.apeldoorn@eppo.nu

Gory details: Contest closes on the stroke of MIDNIGHT October 29th. Winners will be announced on the above URL''s on Halloween so check in each place! (Only continental U.S. residents eligible, you can enter the contest all four places, but you can only win one set of books. Void where prohibited by law. Judge's decision final. YO! Are you not feeling lucky because a Black Cat crossed your path?! You can still have a Happy Halloween: fearlessly order the books for yourself (and everyone on your Halloween gift list) at the Yoe Books site... http://yoebooks.com

Haunted Halloween

Another artist I keep hinting should be used more in Craig Yoe excellent Archive of Horror Comics and the comic one of the books is based on, Haunted Horror, is of course Mort Meskin. I know he didn't do a lot of horror stories and most of his stuff is more psychological horoor, but the few he did are all very well told and among his best work form the fifties. Apart from doing Your Dream of Dreams, he did a couple of horror fillers for Prizes Frankenstein and a few for Harvey (two of which remained unpublished and may be his best, such as the often reprinted MacBeth). The published Harvey story I am showing here is from one of the first post-code issues of Black Cat Mystery and it shows. The penultimate panel of the story will probably have features some horrific scene of revenge. In the scramble to make the deadline, the editors at Harvey couldn't think of anything but cutting the offending panel out. Wouldn't it be great to turn this into a contest and have the readers of Haunted Horror provide their own image?



And now, a word from our sponsor..


THE CHILLING ARCHIVES OF HORROR COMICS HALLOWEEN GIVE-AWAY!

Fright Fans! You have five places where to win Yoe Books/IDW's complete Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! Those are the spine tingling collections of banned comics from the 1950s include "Dick Briefer's Frankenstein", "Bob Powell's Terror", "Zombies", the brand new, "Jack Cole's Deadly Horror" and the soon to be released "Haunted Horror hardback! Enter your name each place for four chances to win!

The sponsoring blogs and Facebook page are The Horrors of it All , Four Color Shadows, The Fabulous Fifties, the Yoe Books page on Facebook, and the IDW Publishing page on Facebook. Go here to each of them to win...

1. http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com
2. http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/‎
3. http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/‎
4. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yoe-Books/157174217659112
5. https://www.facebook.com/idwpublishing/

Enter your name in the contest by sending me an email at g.apeldoorn@eppo.nu

Gory details: Contest closes on the stroke of MIDNIGHT October 29th. Winners will be announced on the above URL''s on Halloween so check in each place! (Only continental U.S. residents eligible, you can enter the contest all four places, but you can only win one set of books. Void where prohibited by law. Judge's decision final. YO! Are you not feeling lucky because a Black Cat crossed your path?! You can still have a Happy Halloween: fearlessly order the books for yourself (and everyone on your Halloween gift list) at the Yoe Books site... http://yoebooks.com

Friday, October 25, 2013

Happy Halloward


To keep the special Halloween contest by Craig Yoe and IDW up here where it belongs, I am showing horror stories all week. If you are from the mainland of the US be sure to enter this contest, because the prizes are fenomenal. These books by Craig are great and they won him the 4th Annual Jerry Bails Award For Excellence in Comics Fandom only this week.

But I do have abone to pick with Craig. I mean, great books. And jack Cole, Bob Powell, they were all deserving of these books. But where is the collection of Howard Nostrand stories? I know most of Nostrand's work for the Harvey horror titles (if not all) have been reprinted quite well by PS Books, but imagine how they would look in Craig's slightly oversized format how well one of his heads would do on those covers. And of course, Craig would be able to do an introduction and then he would have to come to me for some scans of Nostrand's newspaper work and I would get a free sample...

THE CHILLING ARCHIVES OF HORROR COMICS HALLOWEEN GIVE-AWAY!

Fright Fans! You have five places where to win Yoe Books/IDW's complete Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! Those are the spine tingling collections of banned comics from the 1950s include "Dick Briefer's Frankenstein", "Bob Powell's Terror", "Zombies", the brand new, "Jack Cole's Deadly Horror" and the soon to be released "Haunted Horror hardback! Enter your name each place for four chances to win!

The sponsoring blogs and Facebook page are The Horrors of it All , Four Color Shadows, The Fabulous Fifties, the Yoe Books page on Facebook, and the IDW Publishing page on Facebook. Go here to each of them to win...

1. http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com
2. http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/‎
3. http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/‎
4. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yoe-Books/157174217659112
5. https://www.facebook.com/idwpublishing/

Enter your name in the contest by sending me an email at g.apeldoorn@eppo.nu

Gory details: Contest closes on the stroke of MIDNIGHT October 29th. Winners will be announced on the above URL''s on Halloween so check in each place! (Only continental U.S. residents eligible, you can enter the contest all four places, but you can only win one set of books. Void where prohibited by law. Judge's decision final. YO! Are you not feeling lucky because a Black Cat crossed your path?! You can still have a Happy Halloween: fearlessly order the books for yourself (and everyone on your Halloween gift list) at the Yoe Books site... http://yoebooks.com

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Cole Train

Halloween week


In honor of the ongoing Halloween promotion of my friend Craig Yoe, I am giving you another horror treat instead of the normal fare. I will try and keep this contest (with FREE PRIZES) on top of my blog for as long as the promotions runs, adding a different story everytime. In honor of Jack Cole, who is the artist of one of the books, I am showing a little know gem from Web of Evil. It has everything a good horror story needs, a mad scientist, suicide, chills... and terrific art by Jack Cole.

THE CHILLING ARCHIVES OF HORROR COMICS HALLOWEEN GIVE-AWAY!

Fright Fans! You have five places where to win Yoe Books/IDW's complete Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! Those are the spine tingling collections of banned comics from the 1950s include "Dick Briefer's Frankenstein", "Bob Powell's Terror", "Zombies", the brand new, "Jack Cole's Deadly Horror" and the soon to be released "Haunted Horror hardback! Enter your name each place for four chances to win!

The sponsoring blogs and Facebook page are The Horrors of it All , Four Color Shadows, The Fabulous Fifties, the Yoe Books page on Facebook, and the IDW Publishing page on Facebook. Go here to each of them to win...

1. http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com
2. http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/‎
3. http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/‎
4. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yoe-Books/157174217659112
5. https://www.facebook.com/idwpublishing/

Enter your name in the contest by sending me an email at g.apeldoorn@eppo.nu

Gory details: Contest closes on the stroke of MIDNIGHT October 29th. Winners will be announced on the above URL''s on Halloween so check in each place! (Only continental U.S. residents eligible, you can enter the contest all four places, but you can only win one set of books. Void where prohibited by law. Judge's decision final. YO! Are you not feeling lucky because a black cat crossed your path?! You can still have a Happy Halloween: fearlessly order the books for yourself (and everyone on your Halloween gift list) at the Yoe Books site... http://yoebooks.com

Saturday, October 19, 2013

The Lost EC Stories Part Three

Here is the next of John Severin and Colin Dawkins remarkably EC-like stories for Timely.