COVER CONTEST Dec 6 - Dec 12 I Feel Your Pain...or is it Pane?

[Kirby101]

This is the first image I thought of. To bad it's a splash page and NOT A COVER. Great Kirby-Stone piece.

[babyblob]

Did they get around the comics code rule of not mentioning the Walking Dead by calling this a magazine?

[Iron Maiden]

That Eerie magazine came out in 1972, long before Robert Kirkman came out with the Walking Dead comic book series.

[babyblob]

That Eerie magazine came out in 1972, long before Robert Kirkman came out with the Walking Dead comic book series.

I know the post cover came out well before The Walking Dead comic by Kirman. That is not what I meant.

I meant the comics code authority rules that stated a comic cant use the word terror or use things like The Walking Dead. Did they get around that rule by classifying it as a magazine and not a comic? Were the rules different for magazines? The Comics Code was in effect in 72 so I was just wondering how Eerie got around it.

[Kirby101]

I know the post cover came out well before The Walking Dead comic by Kirman. That is not what I meant.

I meant the comics code authority rules that stated a comic cant use the word terror or use things like The Walking Dead. Did they get around that rule by classifying it as a magazine and not a comic? Were the rules different for magazines? The Comics Code was in effect in 72 so I was just wondering how Eerie got around it.

Warren did not follow the Code with any of his magazines. The idea behind them was to do stories in the spirit of the pre-code EC books. They were not comics.

[babyblob]

Warren did not follow the Code with any of his magazines. The idea behind them was to do stories in the spirit of the pre-code EC books. They were not comics.

K thank you for the answer. I didnt know if the rules were different with magazines then they were for comics.

[Scott Taylor]

Trivia - the CCA rules changed in 1971, a year before that Eerie issue, to allow vampires, ghouls and werewolves. Oddly, zombies were still taboo under that new rule unless they were the traditional voodoo zombies. So Marvel comics at the time referred to them a zuvembies instead. Really, there are comics with that term in them. At the time both DC and Marvel were finding all kinds of ways to workaround the rules of the CCA, and still retain the stamp of the CCA, it became a kind of joke.

[Englehart Humperdinck]

Jonah Hex #66

[CaptainEurope]

Trivia - the CCA rules changed in 1971, a year before that Eerie issue, to allow vampires, ghouls and werewolves. Oddly, zombies were still taboo under that new rule unless they were the traditional voodoo zombies. So Marvel comics at the time referred to them a zuvembies instead. Really, there are comics with that term in them. At the time both DC and Marvel were finding all kinds of ways to workaround the rules of the CCA, and still retain the stamp of the CCA, it became a kind of joke.

And "Zuvembie" was a name coined by Robert E. Howard.

In the story, a woman can become a zuvembie by drinking the Black Brew. The resulting creature is no longer human, knowing no friend or relative. It cannot talk, or think like a human. It doesn't need to eat and will live forever, staying in a cave or an old house. It has certain powers—it can command owls, bats, snakes, pigeons and werewolves. It can hypnotise the living with its voice, and command the body of someone it has killed until the body is cold. It can only be killed by lead or iron.[1]

[Scott Taylor]

And "Zuvembie" was a name coined by Robert E. Howard.

You gotta love that someone in Marvel at the time was familiar with the Robert E. Howard books.

[foxley]

You gotta love that someone in Marvel at the time was familiar with the Robert E. Howard books.

Someone at the company that was publishing the Conan the Barbarian comic was familiar with the works of Robert E. Howard?! Fancy that!

[Speed Force League Unlimited]

Who breaks more windows than our venerable Dark Knight?

[Catlady in training]

I try not to post covers of comics I'm not familiar with, but everything seems to be taken, so...

[Catlady in training]

This is the first image I thought of. To bad it's a splash page and NOT A COVER. Great Kirby-Stone piece.

My first thought was similarly not a cover (can't believe there wasn't one of it). Not an entry:

[Scott Taylor]

Someone at the company that was publishing the Conan the Barbarian comic was familiar with the works of Robert E. Howard?! Fancy that!

Bet it was Roy Thomas.