Elvira Mistress of the Dark (1993) comic books

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Pencils by Ronn Sutton and Dan Day. Elvira's enlisted by professional evil-thwarter Doc Feral to stop a shipment of DVDs infected with deadly Fatalium in "Death Cargo of Doom!" Also, the mystery of the zombie joggers is solved in the conclusion to "S.C.I. - Supernatural Crime Investigation!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by Mary Ann Halpin. Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Art by Tod Smith, Ronn Sutton, Bill Anderson and Al Vey. Elvira's dopier villains have banded together to form the '4-S Club,' but they can't convince mega-menace Skelloween to join, so Elvira offers to help recruit the big sourpuss in "Holiday Humbug!" Also, Trick Dark's New Year's Eve Blast is the target of demonic activity in "This is Vinyl Crap: Part 1"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Art by Eduardo Barreto, Ronn Sutton, Terry Austin and Bill Anderson. In this year's new-reader-friendly jump-in issue, Elvira's career at station K-WHA? is recounted, as a tabloid reporter ferrets out a sordid secret, in "A Nose for Sleaze!" Also, demons disrupt Elvira's appearance at Trick Dark's New Year's Eve Blast in "This is Vinyl Crap: Part 2"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Frank Strom and Richard Howell. Pencils by Tod Smith and James Fry. Featuring "The Outer Burroughs Part 1: How Many Licks Does it Take to Get to the Center of the Earth?" Plus more! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Art by Tod Smith, Dan Day, Louis Lachance and Joe Rubinstein. In Prehistoric Heights, Elvira and hunter Richard Baboone stalk the Deusasaurus Rex, and face down evil Baron Schemo and his fiendish Eco-Equalizer in "The Outer Burroughs Part 2: The Plan that Time Forgot!" Plus, Elvira keeps summer-camp terrors at bay in "The Curse of Camp Gonegetcha!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Pencils by Tod Smith and Ronn Sutton. Elvira's incredible journey drops her on the Red Planet into a war between the four-armed Fershoomians, led by the heroic Jean Cartier, and their primate enemies! Don't miss "The Outer Burroughs Part 3: The Ape Pirates of Mars!" Also featuring "Spa Tront"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by Neal Preston. Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Art by Ronn Sutton, Dan Day, Joe Rubinstein and Al Milgrom. Elvira's gumball machine prize turns out to be an object of vast mystic power, and the only thing standing between her and a frenzied cult is the mysterious pulp hero The Visage, in "The Visage of Bitter Fruit!" Also, a charity event turns accursed with "The Monster of Sureweed Forest!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Art by Tod Smith, Ron Lim, Bill Anderson and Al Milgrom. Elvira's promotional trip to a western dude ranch leads her into danger, when a meteor in the hills creates a horde of giant mutant toads, in "Gurl Crazy!" Also, a monster in the grocery aisle causes a huge food fight in "Beware...Ugglor the Improbable!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Pencils by John Heebink and Tod Smith. Pop psychologist Dr. Chill has a way to make Elvira and Spooky Suzie empathize with each other's travails -- when he switches their bodies via an enchanted mirror in "Division of Loveliness"! Also featuring "The Good, the Bad, and the Even Worse"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by Austin Young. Stories by Richard Howell and Frank Strom. Art by Eduardo Barreto, Tod Smith, Joe Rubinstein and Bob Wiacek. Elvira's remote moviemaking up a rainforest river lands her in danger from a local exotic evil goddess in "The Lady Elvira!" Also, Elvira's foray into graverobbing at gunpoint yields surprising results, complete with animated skeletons, in "A Fistful of Hollers!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Pencils by Tod Smith and Dan Day. In "Elvira of Two Worlds," a microwave Spiff-E-Pop accident propels Elvira to the war-torn world of Beta-Earth, ruled by the iron fist of her own extra-dimensional counterpart, Czar-Elvira! Also, a secret admirer sweeps Elvira into a harem in "The Shriek of Araby!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by Lynn Goldsmith. Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Pencils by John Heebink and Gordon Purcell. When Elvira's mailbox is burgled by mystical bandits, girl detective Nancy Klew takes charge of finding out whodunit whether Elvira likes it or not in "Enigma Don't Pay the Rent!" Also, Elvira's modelling dresses have her coming apart at the seams of "Night of the Living Threads!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by Chris Ameruoso. Stories by Frank Strom and Richard Howell. Pencils by Tod Smith and James Fry. A giant gorilla movie marathon at Movie Macabre springs a trap on director Peter Smackson, one of Elvira's most monstrous menaces, in "Challenge of the Super-Ape!" Also, Elvira's sexy Glinda Garter, Night Nurse TV pilot causes controversy in "Nursing a Grudge!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Janet Hetherington and Frank Strom. Pencils by Tod Smith and John Heebink. Elvira's joyous holiday prep is threatened by the most cosmic bean-counter of all, here to add Earth to his tally, in "Heed the Harold of Abacus, Collector of Worlds!" Also, an axe-wielding maniac tries to spoil a females-only sorcery festival in "Best Holiday Witches!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by Lynn Goldsmith. Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Pencils by Tod Smith and Ronn Sutton. A young evil sorcerer wants to sport the name 'Archduke of the Dark.' Trouble is, it infringes on Elvira's mystic trademark, and there's no way that she's abandoning it in "Restraint of Trade!" Also, Elvira's living the same day over and over again in "S.O.S. Mrs. Monstrodamus: Part 1"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Stories by Richard Howell & Cassandra Peterson and Janet Hetherington. Art by Tod Smith, Ronn Sutton, Bob Wiacek and Al Milgrom. Final Issue! Elvira's cable-hostess rival from 'Kitsch 'n' Magic' wants to steal her look and her act for a food-prep show in "Cooking with Sass!" Also, a mystery woman appears to help Elvira out of her time-loop in "S.O.S. Mrs. Monstrodamus Part 2: A Clear and Redundant Danger!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.