While not a Halloween story per se, this is an all time favorite spooky cover of mine.
This cover was penciled, inked, colored and lettered by one of the all time great comic book artists, the late Wally Wood. Wally was a true renaissance man in the field of comics. He could do it all: Write, pencil, ink, letter, color, edit, publish. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if he ran the printing presses. And what was really amazing was not only could he do it all, he was one of the best at everything he did. Even more amazing, it was all different genres, too. Superheroes, science fiction, horror, romance, westerns, teen comedies, funny animals, war, satire. He was at or near the top in everything he did.
The cover of Weird Science 16 has always stayed with me from the moment I first saw it. It was so unbelievably stark and terrifying. What if kids who looked like they stepped right out of a Norman Rockwell painting stumbled on a massive Alien invasion? At a time when flying saucers was a real gut churning fear that many Americans had?
This cover was the inspiration for the Topps Mars Attacks trading cards of the early 1960's. The trading cards in turn inspired the 1996 Mars Attacks movie directed by Tim Burton.
This cover was penciled, inked, colored and lettered by one of the all time great comic book artists, the late Wally Wood. Wally was a true renaissance man in the field of comics. He could do it all: Write, pencil, ink, letter, color, edit, publish. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if he ran the printing presses. And what was really amazing was not only could he do it all, he was one of the best at everything he did. Even more amazing, it was all different genres, too. Superheroes, science fiction, horror, romance, westerns, teen comedies, funny animals, war, satire. He was at or near the top in everything he did.
The cover of Weird Science 16 has always stayed with me from the moment I first saw it. It was so unbelievably stark and terrifying. What if kids who looked like they stepped right out of a Norman Rockwell painting stumbled on a massive Alien invasion? At a time when flying saucers was a real gut churning fear that many Americans had?
This cover was the inspiration for the Topps Mars Attacks trading cards of the early 1960's. The trading cards in turn inspired the 1996 Mars Attacks movie directed by Tim Burton.