Bernie Wrightson, Master of the Macabre

Turn your mind back to the 1950s: Eisenhower was in the White House, the Cold War was just beginning, and the great EC Comics terrified children everywhere with its brilliantly gruesome horror comics. Before the Comics Code Authority dictated what could and could not be shown in comic books, the genre was filled with ax murderers, alien monsters, and some of the best horror/science-fiction stories ever penned.

Unfortunately most of us were born too late to catch the original EC comics. Luckily, Pacific Comics brought back their flavor in the work of Bernie Wrightson, one of the great masters of horror in this fantastic series. So read, if you dare, but make sure you leave a light on. You never know who’s lurking out there in the dark…

Note: Although Wrightson’s first name is spelled “Berni” for this title, it is listed here (and elsewhere in ComicBase) as “Bernie” for consistency with the spelling used by him on his later work.

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#1

Jun 1983

Cover: $1.50

W: Bernie Wrightson, Edgar Allan Poe · A: Bernie Wrightson

Reprints Creepy (Magazine); Edgar Allan Poe adaptation (The Black Cat); Edgar Allen Poe adaptation (“The Black Cat”)

8 copies from $6.98
#2

Aug 1983

Cover: $1.50

W: Bruce Jones, Bernie Wrightson, H.P. Lovecraft · A: Bernie Wrightson

Reprints Eerie (Warren); H.P. Lovecraft adaptation (Cool Air)

5 copies from $7.00
#3

Aug 1983

Cover: $1.50

W: Bernie Wrightson, Nicola Cuti, Bill DuBay · A: Bernie Wrightson

Reprints Creepy (Magazine)

6 copies from $8.00
#4

Aug 1984

Cover: $1.50

W: Bernie Wrightson, Virgil North, Washington Irving · A: Bernie Wrightson, Jeff Jones, Alan Weiss

Includes 1-page pin-up; Washington Irving adaptation (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)

5 copies from $11.52
#5

Nov 1984

Cover: $1.50

W: Bernie Wrightson · A: Bernie Wrightson

Reprints stories from Web of Horror #2-3; Reprints Web of Horror #2-3; Final Issue; Published by Eclipse Comics

2 copies from $19.98