Witches Tales (1969 Magazine) comic books

Cover by Chic Stone. Stories and art by Ezra Jackson, Don Weaver, and Ken Battefield. Tales of horror and the macabre, featuring altered reprints from 1950s pre-Code comics. Paranormal investigator Dr. Trimm realizes that Ellen's uncle Caleb is not a ghost, or even dead at all. Kolah (a renamed Rulah the Jungle Girl) encounters the terrifying ape women of Antilla. A woman is possessed by the spirit of a witch after relocating to Salem, Massachusetts. Devil on His Shoulder; Broom for a Witch; Green Horror; Grimm, Ghost Doctor; Mirror of Madness; The Antilla Terror; Ghost-Bait; Ohhhh, Brother! 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by Bill Alexander. Stories and art by L.B. Cole and Rudy Palais. Tales of horror and the macabre, featuring altered reprints from 1950s pre-Code comics. A ballerina's partner returns from the grave for one last waltz. A "ghost doctor" investigates after a plastic surgeon is apparently murdered by a dead ex-patient. The ghost of King John arises to protect the original copy of the Magna Carta. Until Dead - Rot; Witches Haunt; From Beyond the Grave; Portrait of Death; The Genius; Death Is Only Skin Deep; Death to a Traitor; A Taste of Blood. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 52 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $0.35.

Cover by Bill Alexander. Stories and art by Larry Woromay, Oscar Fraga, Jack Sparling, and Carl Burgos. Tales of horror and the macabre, featuring altered reprints from 1950s pre-Code comics. A glutton and his mother disparage his wife's cooking abilities - until she makes him a meal he'll never forget, in the memorably titled "Yeech!" A desperate man turns to murder and robbery to feed his family. A man builds a robotic woman companion for himself, but the tech support is a killer. The Devil's Monster; Doom Creatures; Yeech!; Nightmare; Blood and Old Bones; Until Death Do Us Part; Thief of Souls; Over Her Dead Body. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 52 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by Bill Alexander. Stories and art by Antonio Reynoso¸ Oscar Stepancich and Joe Doolin. Tales of horror and the macabre, featuring altered reprints from 1950s pre-Code comics. A robotologist creates a robot duplicate of himself, then gets blamed after it goes on a killing spree at Mardi Gras. A vampire weds an unsuspecting young woman, only to learn that she too is a vampire. A diver ignores warnings that beautiful black pearls are cursed. The Winged Monsters; The Hungry Vampire; Black Death; The Bloody Ax; Death at the Mardi Gras; Ghouls Castle; The Jinxed Genius. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $0.50.

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Cover by Johnny Bruck. Stories and art by Ralph Milne Farley¸ Eddy C. Bertin, Oscar Novelle, Oswal, Oscar Fraga, and Ezra Jackson. Tales of horror and the macabre, featuring altered reprints from 1950s pre-Code comics. Fishermen encounter a Viking spirit. Scientists create a living blob in their lab that soon grows beyond their control. Room 1313 in the Rex Arms hotel drives guests to suicide. Plus a classic horror tale from the original Weird Tales by Ralph Milne Farley. Cover painting by Johnny Bruck originally appeared in Germany's Perry Rhodan. The Bloody Blob; Dark Horror; Sea Ghost; The Devil's Sword; Abductor Minimi Digit; Horror Comes to Room 1313; The Living Dead; Crack-Up. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $0.50.

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Stories and art by Ruben Marchionne, Antonio Reynoso, Oscar Fraga, Robert Norton, Dick Ayers, and Ezra Jackson. Tales of horror and the macabre, featuring altered reprints from 1950s pre-Code comics. Figures from nursery rhymes are brought to life as murderous minions. A sinister clause in their wealthy uncle's will pits two greedy brothers against each other in a fight to the death. A 17th-century witch is freed from her grave by a Nazi bomb and begins to fulfill her curse. The Zombies; Monsters of Evil; The Graveyard; The Horror of the Salem Witch Trials; The Corpse; Web of the Widow; Death Is No Stranger; The Witch's Curse. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $0.60.