Saturday, May 29, 2021

Tracking Eerie's The Living Dead in Gredown issues

If you've ever tried tracing the original appearances of horror stories published by Gredown you'll understand the many difficulties this entails. One of the most frustrating hurdles is the generic titles of some of the stories - differentiating between them on reference databases such as the GCD is dependent on details such as page counts and, hopefully, plot synopses or creator credits. And sometimes, with the benefit of scans, some degree of accuracy can be achieved.

There are three stories titled The Living Dead published by Eerie comics, and all three stories were published twice by Gredown.

Here's a scan of the splash page of The Living Dead in The Demon Phantoms #2:


This is an 8-page story signed Macagno and was originally published in Horror Tales Vol. 6 #3.

This story was recycled later by Gredown in Thriller Tales:


This version of the story has been censored - note the whitewashing of the wound and blood on the character in the foreground of the first panel.

Another story titled The Living Dead.... was originally published in Weird Vol. 6 #2. This is a 6-page story signed by Cerchiara and appeared in Gredown's The Devil's Triangle #4:


This story is reprinted by Gredown in Beware!. This latter version is also censored - for example, the sounds effects of gunshots and screams are omitted.

Another story titled The Living Dead was originally published in Weird Vol. 4 #3 and was published by Gredown in Crypt of Creatures #4:


This is a 4-page story reprinted later by Gredown in The Vengeful Corpse.

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