CSCoCC 14: Dual Death

Here is the final story in my scans of the long lost 1950s horror comic Count Skully's Crypt of Convenient Coincidence #14.  This story is well known as one of the greatest endings in all of pre-code horror, if you exclude all other publishers and the complete run of Little LuLu and Casper.

Also included is the single page pin-up to round out this great, long lost treasure of comic art!

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And the Countess Skully pin-up, surely graced the walls of many teenage boys in the 1950s!

CSCoCC 14: A Meal To Die For

Continuing out scans of the long lost 1950s horror comic, we present another putrid slice of slop from Count Skully's Crypt of Convenient Coincidence #14.  Story and art by the top professional rabid squirrels in pre-code comics.

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CSCoCC 14: CheeseBlood

Up next in Count Skully's Crypt of Convenient Coincidence #14 is another slimy story in the shadows of ... er ... slime.  Written by a brick and drawn by two old buttons, a piece of string, and a bent paperclip.

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CSCoCC 14: Beauty is in the Eye of Beelzebub

The next frightful fable from Count Skully's Crypt of Convenient Coincidence #14 involves a woman wishing for beauty, the dark god that can grant her wish, and the art stylings of the banjo kid from Deliverance.

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CSCoCC 14: Can't Keep a Good Zombie Down

Here's the first story from Count Skully's Crypt of Convenient Coincidence #14, a quick little terror tale with art by somebody who seems to be suffering from a stroke and story by somebody who also seems to be suffering from a stroke while simultaneously being run over by a dump truck.

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Count Skully's Crypt of Convenient Coincidence

In 1954, with the publication of Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent and the follow-up Senate hearings, the notorious 50s pre-code horror and crime comics came to an end.

Lesser know was the 1954 publication of Sedation of the Insolence, which had absolutely nothing to do with the cancellation of Count Skully's Crypt of Convenient Coincidence, a poorly constructed rip-off of more famous pre-code horror comics.  Nor did the Senate hearing on art of that year; nothing in Count Skully's was considered art even though the senate held a lengthy hearing on the worthiness of lincoln log sculptures by slightly blind one-armed howler monkeys.

In modern times, many comic art scholars -- most of whom are locked in mental institutions for slaughting their families with cake frosting spatulas (it took a while) -- Count Skully's is thought of as a lost gem.  The rest wished it remained lost, but if there's anything this blog is good at, it's uneathing things people wanted to remained buried.  Or burned.  Or maimed beyond recognition.  Well, too bad, we have space to fill.

For Halloween 2012, we will be presenting a complete scan of the Oct 1952 (#14) issue of Count Skully's Crypt of Convenient Coincidence.

Yes, they had Comic Sans and Cracked fonts in the 50s.  Don't look it up, trust me on this.