Hey, good deal!

I remember some of those AGC books being written by Shane 'O Shea and/or drawn by Ogden Whitney... the same creative team that brought us Herbie! I don't care as much about the early issues but I'd love a collection of that stuff.

Finished Locke and Key 1 and Hellboy and the BPRD 1952 so im now up to 17 for the month.

Read:

Dead Men Tell No Tales: NEW, 2015 Good ending to the series. I have "Everything with pirates" on my pull list at the comic shop.

Haunted # 4 (Charlon) 1972 - Some good Ditko, some less good other artists.

Action Girl # 13 1997- One of my favorite anthologies, ran through the late '90s. Cute and fun, mostly female creators. This was the Halloween special!

Team Up Books!

Brave and the Bold # 180 - Batman and the Spectre by Jim Aparo and Michael Fleisher.

Brave and the Bold # 109 - Batman and the Demon! Kirby's Demom went back and forth between horror and fantasy, but this one ends with a haunted statue getting hung by a magical noose. A rare off-script from Haney, but GREAT art from Aparo. I'm STILL surprised by how good he is every time I read these books - and I've read 'em a lot!

World's Finest # 214 - Superman and the Vigilante vs. a werewolf. Kind of nonsensical script by committee, but I really like Dick Dillin's work here.

Action Comics Annual # 1 - From 1987. It took them a long time to get around to doing an annual. Anyway, this is from the period where John Byrne was writing and drawing Action as a team-up book. Byrne writes but Arthur Adams draws - and it's really, really great! I can't think of a better superhero story off the top of my head. Some good shock value jump scares, a really disturbing looking yet sympathetic vampire villain (who wears a Mister Peanut shirt), solid slow-building tension. And a scene where the townspeople surround Batman yelling "Get the Vampire!"

All-New Batman the Brave and the Bold # 12: (2011) Batman and Zatanna have to figure out who toilet papered the House of Mystery. Guest starring Cain, Abel, Mr. Mxyztplk, Klarion the Witchboy, Doctor Destiny, Solomon Grundy, Man-Bat, the Vampiric Monk, Swamp Thing, the Demon, Tomcat, Dala (I don't even know who the last two are!) Blue Devil, Deadman and the Spectre. And maybe a couple more I forgot.

Scooby Doo Team-Up # 12: (2015) I can't in good conscience count the Secret Squirrel issue as horror, but this one has Catwoman dressing up as a ghost to steal a cat's eye emerald from Poison Ivy. So close enough.

Marvel Two-In-One # 11 (The Golem) and # 14 (Son of Satan) and DC Comics Presents # 8 (Supes and Swampt Thing vs. Solomon Grundy. By Steve Englehart and Murphy Anderson. Weirdly terrible.)

And Marvel Chillers # 3, reprinting stuff from Marvel's original content late Silver Age horror anthologies.

And I got the Simon and Kirby Library Horror and Kurt Buseiek's Dracula: Company of Monsters from the library.

read Giant Size Creatures #1 featuring a Werewolf by Night and Tigra story (including Tigra's origin), double size issue from 1974

also just read the first volume of Injection by Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire-it's a bit of sci-fi, horror, urban fantasy and ghost story wrapped into one. Collects issues 1-5

and read the Legion of Monsters #1 magazine (the Frankenstein and Manphibian stories, I had read the Thomas/Giordano adaptation of Dracula in its entirety a year or so back so skipped it this time).

ups the horrific tally to 28 now...

The tally so far

American Vampire 11 - 12
Coffin Hill 8 - 20
Five Ghosts - Monsters and Men
Hellboy and the BPRD 1952
Hellboy in Hell 1 - 5
Locke and Key 1 - 6
Locke and Key Head Games 1 - 6
Locke and Key Crown of Shadows 1 - 2
Shaolin Cowboy
Sons of the Devil 5
Tower of Shadows 2
Wytches 1 - 6

so thats 45 so far.

I included Shaolin Cowboy because I figured 100 odd pages of zombie kung-fu slaughter deserves a place, man how did I ever miss this insanity, anyone else out there shaking their head in absolute disbelief What a book!!

Starting to REALLY like Hellboy, the more I read the more he gets stuck in my head.
Locke and Key has been a pleasant surprise, not at all what I expected.
Finally read Wytches, which was...different, going in a different direction as well, but I dont think Im entirely liking the end result, but that artwork by Jock is gorgeous, actually kind of inspiring me to try some stuff.

I'm working my way through the Simon and Kirby Library: Horror (including their dream journal comic, which doesn't really count) SO great. Like, I always expect old Kirby stuff to be pretty good, and it's always better than I expect.

I'm also re-reading Atlas Era Menace from Marvel. It's Stan Lee basically trying to rip-off the EC formula, with a tight pool of his best artists (Maneely, Romita, Everett, Tuska, Colan) doing horror stories, with Stan writing every issue.

Honestly, I prefer the concurrent Strange Tales and Journey into Mystery stuff, with a greater pool of artists and... well, I just don't think good hearted Uncle Stan was much of a horror fan.