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Eerie Publications

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Parent company
  
Publication types
  
Comic magazines

Founded
  
1966

Fiction genre
  
Horror comics

Status
  
defunct (1981)

Founder
  
Ceased operations
  
1981

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Country of origin
  
United States of America

Headquarters location
  
150 Fifth Avenue, New York City

Key people
  
Robert W. Farrell, Irving Fass, Ezra Jackson, Carl Burgos

Headquarters
  
New York City, New York, United States

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Eerie Publications was a publisher of black-and-white horror-anthology comics magazines. Less well-known and more downscale than the field's leader, Warren Publishing (Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella), the New York City-based company was one of several related publishing ventures run by comic-book artist and 1970s magazine entrepreneur Myron Fass. Titles published during their 15 years of operation included Weird, Horror Tales, Terror Tales, Tales from the Tomb, Tales of Voodoo, and Witches' Tales. All of these magazines featured grisly, lurid color covers.

Contents

New material was mixed with reprints from 1950s pre-Comics Code horror comics. Writer and artist credits seldom appeared, but included Marvel Comics penciler/inkers Dick Ayers and Chic Stone, as well as Fass himself, with brother Irving Fass and Ezra Jackson serving as art directors. Mel Lenny initially and then Golden Age of Comic Books producer Robert W. Farrell had the title of publisher. Carl Burgos, creator of the Golden Age original Human Torch, was editor; he had created a short-lived character called Captain Marvel, no relation to either the old Fawcett Comics superhero nor Marvel's Captain Marvel, for Fass' M. F. Enterprises in 1966.

Fass' business partner, Stanley Harris, left in 1976 after a falling-out, and formed Harris Publications, whose comic book arm published Vampirella and other former Warren properties.

Eerie publications from 1973 and 1974


Titles published

Source:

  • Horror Tales (27 issues, June 1969 – Feb. 1979)
  • Strange Galaxy (4 issues, Feb. 1971 – Aug 1971)
  • Tales from the Crypt (1 issue, July 1968)
  • Tales from the Tomb (33 issues, July 1969 – Feb. 1975)
  • Tales of Voodoo (36 issues, Nov. 1968 – Nov. 1974)
  • Terror Tales (46 issues, March 1969 – Jan. 1979)
  • Terrors of Dracula (9 issues, May 1979 – Sept. 1981)
  • Weird (69 issues, Jan. 1966 – Nov. 1981)
  • Weird Worlds (5 issues, Dec. 1970 – Aug. 1971)
  • Witches' Tales (34 issues, July 1969 – Feb. 1975)
  • References

    Eerie Publications Wikipedia