The Gredown Horror Comics List

Well, it’s taken some 6 months or so, but I can now confirm 250 Gredown horror comics titles! Avenging Spirit Awesome Apparitions Beware! Beyond Help Bite of the Scorpion Bite of the Vampire Black Doom Black Havoc Black Legend, The Black Spectre Black Terror Blade of Fear 1-8 Blind Despair Blind Terror Blood Plague, The Brute, The Buried Alive! Call From Beyond Call of the Monsters Chain of Pain Charons of Hell Chill of Fear Chills of the Supernatural Claustrophobia Claw of Pain Claws of Horror Crawling Horror Crawling Terror Creepy Things Cruel Beyond Cry of the Werewolf 1-5 Crypt of Creatures 1-6 Crypt of Souls Curse of Doom Curse of No Return Daunting Images Deeds of the Diabolical Deadly Horror Stories Deadly Mayhem Deadly Omen Deathly Horrors Death Rattle Death Wish Deeds of the Diabolical Demon is a Hag, The 1 Demon Phantoms, The 1-2 Demons Revenge Descent to Horror Devil's Brood Devil's Doom 1-3 Devil's Dilemma Devil's Inferno Devil's Seed, The Devil's Triangle, The 1-8 Doom Zone Doorway to Doom Dreaded Werewolf Tales Dread of the Dead Dread of the Unknown Edge of Fear Empty Tomb, The Endless Torment Eternal Hell Evil Eye, The Evil Ones, The Evil Shadows Evil Trap, The Evil Winds of Death 1-4 Escorpion Eyes of Night Face of Doom Fanged Monster, The Fate of Death Fearful Fancies Fearful Forces Fearful Freaks Fearful Spectres Fearful Tales of the Occult 1-3 Fearsome Stories Fear Zone Fiends and Demons Fiends and Things Fiends of Frenzy Fingers of Doom Fingers of Fear Flight Into Peril Forbidden Tales Forever Dead Foul Winds of Fear Frantic with Fear Fright! 1-3 Freaky Future Shock! Gasp! Ghastly Encounters Ghost Ghost Dancers Ghost Panic Ghostly Ghouls Ghostly Horrors Ghostly Shadows Ghostly Villains Ghosts and Ghouls 1-7 Ghosts of Terror Ghouls from the Grave Ghoul Tales 1-2 Gloom Grave Ghost's Tales 1-4 Grim Ghostly Stories Grip of Death Grinning Skull Grotesque, The Gruesome Nightmare Hand of Death Haunted Horror 1 Haunting Images Help! Hell Bent Destruction Hell Fire Hell Pit Hell's Doorway Hideous Haunts Horror Encounters 1-3 Horror Experience 1 Horror in the Dungeon Horror Tales of Vampires Horror Unleashed Ill Fated, The Infernal Nightmare Insane Jaws of the Deep 1-4 Kiss of Death 1-2 Knife Edge Living Horrors Living Nightmare Loathsome Ghosts Macabre Destiny Macabre Monsters Mad Fear Malignant Forces Maze of Monsters 1-4 Midnight Terror Mind Possessed Monsters from Hell 1-3 Monsters Incorporated Monstrosities Morlock 2001 Night Creature Nightmare Night Without End Orgy of Destruction Out of this World 1-2 Pact with the Devil Panic Struck Panther's Revenge Peril Below Phantom Fear Phantoms of Evil 1-5 Pit of Evil 1-13 Plague of Vampires Planet Doom 1-2 Planet of the Spirits Planet of Vampires 1-6 Portrait of Peril Princes of Darkness Prison of Fear 1-4 Pure Panic 1-3 Pure Madness Rampage of Demons 1-2 Ramparts of Evil 1-2 Reign of Terror Return from Death Road to Disaster Satan's Corpse Satan's Disciples Screaming Terror Secrets of the Supernatural 1-2 Shadow of Death Shadows of Doom Sheer Panic Shock and Dilemma Shriek of Despair Shriek of the Dead Shrouds of Mystery Shuddering Fear Shudder Tales 1-6 Sinbad Sinister Spectres Skulls of Death Sorcery 1-4 Spells of Blackness Spirit's Den Spirits from the Unknown 1-2 Spirits of Misfortune, The Spooks of Terror Stark Fear 1-4 Storm Forces Strange Encounters Strange Experience 1-10 Strange Macabre Tales 1 Strange Mission of the Weird Brain Strange Romance Tales of the Forbidden Tales of Horror 1-10 Tales of the Mystic Tales of the Zombie Tales of Torment 1-3 Tarantula, The Temple of the Dead Tentacles of Terror Terror Madness Terror Trail Terror Under the Sea Terror Unleashed 1-2 Thirst of Blood This Comic is Haunted 1-6 Thriller Tales Toll of Doom Tomb of Ghosts Tombstone Terror Tortured Mind Underground, The Undreamed of Horrors Vampire Havoc Vampire Killers Vampire Mania Vampires of Death 1 Vampire Panic Vampire Scare Vault of Demons 1-8 Vault of Fear Vault of Ghosts Vengeance of the Vampires 1 Vengeful Corpse Victim of the Vampire Vile Monstrosities Vile Tales of Havoc Visions of Doom Voodoo 1-2 Voodoo Tales TBC Voyage to Death Weird Experience 1 Weird Tales of the Macabre 1-7 Weird Tales of Werewolves 1-3 Werewolf Fangs of Horror Werewolf Prowls, The Wicked Witchs' Tales 1-2 Wild Fear! Witches Cauldron 1-4 Zombies From Below The majority of the issue numbers have also been confirmed, but note some are assumed in order to complete a sequence. I also expect two or three of the titles above are not so much horror titles as sci-fi, adventure or sorcery titles. Speaking of which, I’ve noted a few non-horror Gredown titles too: Strange Tales of the Wild West Wild Western Action Space Wars Raiders of the Lost Earth Battle Strike Action The Rats featuring Delta 99 Demons of the Deep featuring Five and the Infinite The Zombies featuring Delta 99 Bullet Western Hell Rider 1-2 Some of these are probably deemed horror hybrid genres (Hell Rider, the Delta 99 issues), but I'm keeping them separate for now as they are also ongoing serial features - I expect Morlock 2001 probably belongs to this list too. So keep the lists and updates and comments and corrections coming, and I'll keep updating the checklist. I'll also be adding a few more indexed issues soon.

Update 23 January 2023: This list has been substantially updated and corrected: notes from the junkyard: The complete Gredown comics list

The Zombies: Delta 99

….and here’s another Gredown issue featuring Delta 99…

The Rats: Delta 99

Based on the cover The Rats appears to be another regular Gredown horror/sorcery issue, but it is in fact a dedicated Delta 99 issue.

Delta 99 were also featured in Strange Mission of the Weird Brain (see cover image here). Check out Kevin Patrick’s blog for more information on Gredown features such as Delta 99 and 5 and the Infinite, including details of some interesting local editions and their publishing origins.

I showed this issue to Kevin a week ago and he says the cover looks like the work of Phil Belbin. So many of the Gredown horror covers featured generic ‘adult horror’ images but in this case it certainly appears to be specially commissioned as it is based on images appearing in the first story.

“The Rats” is the name of the first 24-page installment, and the second is titled “Super-Delta”.

Ditko Alert - Haunted Tales #31

A heads-up on an otherwise regulation Haunted Tales issue featuring “A Demon and his Boy”, a Steve Ditko tale originally published in House of Mystery #258, May-June 1978.

Also of note in this issue is a reprint of “We Battled the Storm Creature”, originally from My Greatest Adventure #40, February 1960 and reprinted in Five-Score Comic Monthly #25, c. June 1960. I’m unaware of any subsequent US reprint of this story, so this may be another of those K.G. Murray oddities in which a story is pulled from the archives to fill out an issue.

The Alex Toth Reprint Stocktake Part 6

I hear from one of my fellow K.G. Murray Toth-watchers that the Robert Kanigher/Alex Toth story "White Devil... Yellow Devil!" which originally appeared in Star Spangled War Stories #164, 1972, is reprinted in Army at War, a 96 page $0.95 cover price Murray Comics one-shot circa 1980.

I don’t have a copy of this issue but I recommend checking out this review with accompanying page scans. I’m sure this Toth piece is as compelling in its black and white incarnation as I’ve come to expect from Toth reprints, but looking at these scans I’m also reminded just how well his art comes up when coloured appropriately - I know not everyone is enamoured of the 'muddy muted tones' approach to colouring, but in the right hands it can be just the subtle touch required. Not sure how often this story has been reprinted, but I’m willing to bet it looks best on an old tanned comics page - at least that's what I expect based on these scans.

Tip Top Comic Monthly: The Complete Collection

Very happy to report that the junkyard is now the proud custodian of a complete collection of all 127 issues of Superman Presents Tip Top Comic Monthly.

No photocopies. No coverless rebound copies. No US edition placeholders. No United Features funny animal Tip Top Comics, Sky Hawk Extra, or any other variety. Not even the whitebread! Just The Real Thing! 100%!

And it only took 10 years or so... about as long as the series ran!

So expect to see a few choice Tip Tops featured in the near future.