Originally Posted by Wonder Boy
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My latest Halloween offering is 17 stories Basil Wolverton did in roughly 1950-1953. They were to be collected in a hardcover several years ago, but that ended up not happening, and the book disappointingly didn't contain any complete Wolverston stories.

I posted a few of them before in another Wolverton topic. Even the more science-fictiony stories are wonderfully horrific. Wolverton has a beautifully detailed linestyle that perfectly lends itself to horror, and to the splicing of horror with S-F.
Perfect Halloween reading.


Here are the Wolverton stories:


1. "Gateway to Horror" 6p ...........................originally in MARVEL TALES 104, Dec 1951

2. "Where Monsters Dwell" 6p....................... originally in ADVENTURES IN TERROR 7, Dec 1951 (r in CRYPT OF SHADOWS 1, Jan 1973) (r in CURSE OF THE WEIRD 3, Feb 1994)

3. "One of Our Graveyards Is Missing" 4p.........originally in JOURNEY INTO UNKNOWN WORLDS 14, Dec 1952

4. "They Crawl By Night" 5p ...................... originally in JOURNEY INTO UNKNOWN WORLDS 15, Feb 1953

(These four are all collected in BASIL WOLVERTON'S GATEWAY TO HORROR, June 1988, in black and white. )




5. "Planet of Terror" 6p...................originally in JOURNEY INTO UNKNOWN WORLDS 7, Oct 1951

6. "End of the World" 6p...................originally in MARVEL TALES 102, Aug 1951 (r in CURSE OF THE WEIRD 4, March 1994)

7. "The Devil Birds" 6p.....................originally in MYSTIC 4, Sept 1951.

8. "The Monster on Mars" 7p..................originally in WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE 3, Sept 1952

(These four are reprinted in PLANET OF TERROR, Oct 1987, from Dark Horse, all in black and white. )




9. "Brain Bats of Venus" 7p..................originally in MISTER MYSTERY 7, Sept 1952

10. "Nightmare World" 4p.....................originally in WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE 3, Sept 1952

11. "Escape to Death" 4p....................originally in WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE 2, June 1952

12. "Flight to the Future" 4p...............originally in WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE 2, June 1952

13. "Man From The Moon" 4p.................originally in WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE 5, Jan 1953

[ All 5 are collected in MR MONSTER SUPER-DUPER SPECIAL 8 (WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE), July 1987, all in color with offset printing. ]




14. "Robot Woman" 5p................................... originally in WEIRD MYSTERIES 2, Dec 1952.
(also in MISTER MYSTERY 11, May 1953)
(also in MISTER MYSTERY 18, Aug 1954)
(r in DEATH RATTLE 5, June 1986, with new colors)



15. "The Eye of Doom" 6p............................ originally in MYSTIC 6, Jan 1952
(r in WEIRD WONDER TALES 1, Dec 1973)
(r in CURSE OF THE WEIRD 1, Dec 1993)



16. "Swamp Monster" 6p................................originally in WEIRD MYSTERIES 5, June 1953
(r in MR MONSTER 3, Oct 1985, re-colored by Steve Oliff, offset printing)



17. "The Man Who Never Smiled" 3p............. originally in WEIRD MYSTERIES 4, April 1953
[r in MR MONSTER SUPER DUPER SPECIAL 2 (MR MONSTER'S HIGH-OCTANE HORROR) Oct 1986, re-colored by Steve Oliff, offset printing ]


Where possible I linked to complete online versions of the stories, in most cases in their original colors, in a few cases they were only scanned in black and white from reprints.

"They Crawl by Night" is written by SF author Daniel Keyes, who later won Hugo and Nebula awards for novella, and later book, Flowers For Algernon.

I posted these elsewhere, but Wolverton's stories were a nice sampling of the range of material in the Pre-Code era.