Sunday, May 30, 2021

The Demon Phantoms #2

Gredown's The Demon Phantoms #2 was published c.February 1978:

The cover art is credited to Lopez Espi as per this listing for the Spanish comics magazine Vampus #42, February 1975:


As per the cover blurb Vampus #42 carried Warren material. I don't know if this cover appeared on a Warren magazine. (Keen Junkyard lurkers will recognise Lopez Espi as the artist of the Hulk poster in Newton's Planet of the Apes #1).
The contents hail from Eerie magazines:

The Spooks, originally published in Horror Tales v6#1, February 1974 
Isle of Demons, originally published in Terror Tales v2#4, July 1970
The Dead Demons, originally published in Terror Tales v2#2, March 1970 
Our Green-Eyed Princess of Dumbrille!, originally published in Weird v2#10, December 1968 
Burn, Witch, Burn!, originally published in Tales of Voodoo v3#4, July 1970 
The Living Dead, originally published in Horror Tales v6#3, June 1974 
The Bloody Demon, originally published in Horror Tales v3#6, November 1971
Death's Shoes, originally published in Weird v2#6, April 1968 

There are two Eerie Publications stories titled Burn, Witch, Burn! I have verified the source for the one in this issue from scans. The story in The Witches Cauldron #5 and Fearful Spectres is a different one. I don't have a copy of  Eyes of Night to advise either way. TBA.

Many of the other stories in this issue were recycled by Gredown, for example: The Spooks in Spooks of Terror; Our Green-Eyed Princess of Dumbrille! (along with the aforementioned The Living Dead) in Thriller Tales; The Bloody Demon in Claws of Horror and Voodoo #3; and Death's Shoes in Call of the Monsters.

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