Eerie Comics No. 1: An Avon Comic

This is a scanned copy of Eerie Comics Issue #1 from 1947. It was the first true, stand-alone horror comic book and is credited with establishing the horror comics genre. The scanned pages are very good quality and are easy to read, however, since the original comic is over 70 years old there are some imperfections.The comic book's glossy, cover depicts a red-eyed ghoul clutching a dagger and a rope-bound, voluptuous young woman in a derelict moonlit ruin. The book's contents comprised six full-length horror feature stories and a two-page humorous tale.The issue featured six stories that were fairly tame in the depiction of the gore and violence generally found in horror fiction. "The Eyes of the Tiger" follows a man haunted by the ghost of a stuffed tiger; "The Man-Eating Lizards" (with a script by Edward Bellin and pencils by Joe Kubert), tells the story of an island infested with flesh-eating lizards; and another, "The Strange Case of Henpecked Harry" (with art by Fred Kida), follows a man spooked by the bloody corpse of his murdered wife. Other feature stories include "Dead Man's Tale", "Proof", and "Mystery of Murder Manor". A two-page humorous tale starring Goofy Ghost rounds out the issue. Members of the creative team include Fugitani and George Roussos.Following the January 1947 issue, Eerie disappeared from newsstands shelves, until it is rebooted in 1951.

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