Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 31: "Then there was the time moss grew all over me...gee, that was uncomfortable!"

Cover of Tales from the Tomb one-shot (Dell Giant, October 1962), painting by John Schoenherr (?)
The really scary thing? The stories in this fright-fest Dell Giant were written by John Stanley...yup, the same John Stanley who wrote Little Lulu. (And two of the best comics you've may never have read, Dunc & Loo and Thirteen (Going on Eighteen).)

BOO! And Happy Halloween!

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 30: Huey, Louis, and Dewey go in drag for Halloween

Cover of Dell Giant #50 [Marge's Little Lulu and Witch Hazel] (Dell, October 1961), artist unknown

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 29: X-ray specs not included

Cover of X, the Man with the X-Ray Eyes one-shot (Gold Key, September 1963), painted cover by George Wilson, with a photograph of Ray Milland as Dr. James Xavier*



*Professor Charles Xavier's hairier, x-rayier brother.

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 28: I don't think I am allowed to read comic books about an orgy of wild lust...oh, cool, Vincent Price!

Cover of Movie Classic #490 [The Masque of the Red Death] (Dell, August-October 1964), photograph of Vincent Price as Prince Prospero

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 27: Not to be confused with Millie the Model

Cover of Millie the Lovable Monster #2 (Dell, August-October 1962), pencils and inks by Bill Woggon

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 26: The really frightening thing is the logo

Cover of Twilight Zone #86 (Gold Key, August 1978), artist unknownb

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 25: And this is why you shouldn't feed your dogs scraps from the table

Cover of Ripley's Believe It or Not! #8 (Gold Key, February 1968), artist unknown

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 24: Wordy Wrappington

Cover of Movie Classic #537 [The Mummy] (Dell, September-November 1962), artist unknown

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 23: Sales of Wolf-in-a-Box plummet after a promising weekend

Cover of Grimm's Ghost Stories #18 (Gold Key, August 1974), painted art by George Wilson

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 22: And now, Increasingly Ridiculous Dracula

Cover of Dracula #3 (Dell, February 1967), pencils by Bill Fraccio, inks by Tony Tallarico

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 21: Increasingly Ridiculous Frankenstein Weekend, Night 3: Well, this'll kill some time until we have to appear on Yogi's Space Race

Cover of Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles #1 (Gold Key, January 1967), pencils and inks by Phil de Lara

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 20: Increasingly Ridiculous Frankenstein Weekend, Night 2: I'm putting my money on Frankenstein

Cover of Frankenstein #3 (Dell, December 1966), pencils and inks by Tony Tallarico

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 19: Increasingly Ridiculous Frankenstein Weekend, Night 1: The World's Most Inaccurately Named Comic

Cover of Frankenstein #1 [aka Movie Classic #12-283-305] (Dell, March-May 1963), Vic Prezio

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 18: Mickey Mouse and the Terror That Can Only Be Represented 4/7 Accurately in a Standard Comic Book

Cover of Four Color #27 [Mickey Mouse] (Dell, 1943), pencils and inks by Ken Hultgren (?)

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 17: Daphne's sister didn't find as fun ghost-hunting companions as Daphne did

Cover of The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor #1 (Gold Key, May 1973), painted art by Jesse Santos

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 16: The Gruesome Death of John Gnagy

Cover of Ghost Stories #4 (Dell, October-December 1963), artist unknown

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 15: You're traveling through another dimension

Cover of Four Color #1288 [The Twilight Zone] (Dell, February-April 1962), painted art by George Wilson

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 14: Read this comic, nevermore

Cover of Movie Classic #309 [Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven] (September 1963), photo of Vincent Price as Dr. Erasmus Craven

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 13: A scary tale of WAIT WHY DOES PORKY PIG HAVE A HAM IN HIS FRIDGE?!?!?

Cover of Four Color #226 [Porky Pig] (May 1949), pencils by Ralph Heimdahl (?)

Hellmouth: Dell/Gold Key, Night 12: I'm pretty sure this is not Ben Grimm but it would be really cool if it was

Cover of Grimm's Ghost Stories #11 (Gold Key, August 1973), painted art, artist unknown