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

[Nschornhorst]

So long as we're posting some defenestration that sadly wasn't on a cover, I would've totally gone for the Garfield meme if I could've...

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[Iron Maiden]

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

His short story "The Pigeons from Hell" was adapted by the Horror anthology series Boris Karloff's Thriller. I recently watched that episode and zuvembies are brought up.

[ed2962]

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

The black and white magazines didn't have to follow the CCA rules. So you had Warren, Marvel and a few other publishers doing more mature content under that format. For fun compare the late 70's code version of Conan The Barbarian with the black and white Savage Sword of Conan. Same creators, same type of stories but in Savage you got to see Conan explicitly stab people, topless slave girls, etc.

For what it's worth, the CCA is the reason Mad comic book changed to Mad Magazine. That move pretty much saved the company after EC couldn't do their horror and sci-fi titles anymore.

[ed2962]

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.

I don't think it was popular but Marvel did try to do a black and white horror magazine that used the "zombie" term. Not an Entry

[Scott Taylor]

Ah but that was a voodoo zombie. Workaround! They were allowed to do that. Notice they also used the term "Walking Dead" which was a term like zuvembie, sanitized and allowed by the CCA.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Holy Crossover, Batman! I've voting for icctrombone this week!

[foxley]

Englehart Humperdinck

[Scott Taylor]

CaptCleghorn

Luke Cage in his tiara glory.

[CaptainEurope]

WestPhillyPunisher
I love that view of Gotham City.

[Zelena]

Englehart Humperdinck. Not only Jonah goes through the pane, he also goes through the page.

[Zelena]

So long as we're posting some defenestration that sadly wasn't on a cover, I would've totally gone for the Garfield meme if I could've...

Not an entry.

I’m sure many parents dream to do that with their teenagers…

[CaptCleghorn]

icctrombone 'cuz, well, it's Adam West, Burt Ward, and the Archies.

[babyblob]

icctrombone Gets my vote this week.

[Kirby101]

Zelena, with a honorable mention to Nschornhorst

[Kirby101]

I don't think it was popular but Marvel did try to do a black and white horror magazine that used the "zombie" term. Not an Entry

Like the Warren books, the Marvel B&W magazines were not subject to the Comics Code.