COLLECTORS BDifiOH XfUflWa
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WAS,
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THEN THESEMIRAOE WORKERS BROUGHT THEIR
CORW CApAVER ID UFEANPOFFgREP HER FRANK lO BE HIS WIFE, BUT SHE'D HAVE~
.
' THAT UTTLE HUNCHBACKEP HORROR. FRITZ, eaxGHT thkwa warm Fe<vf/ueyi«5«e7-rHeyKSRg'£»B*>' TO INSURE
WHERE HE <SOT IT, OR PERHAPS
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Nk3tfT, WEIVST
1972
ANNUAL EDITOR &
CONTENTS
PUBLISHER: James Warren
ASSISTANT PUBLISHER: Richard Conway
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: John Cochran
MANAGING EDITOR: Billy Graham
ORIGIN OF VAMPIRELLA Visit a world where water is blood and fate is the puppeteer, Original Story. Never before seen
j
An
t
CURSE OF CIRCE Hold a seashell to your ear and you will hear the sea, or Circe beckoning you from afar? From Issue ;±6, 1970
is it
m 19 t
COVER: Asian
ARTISTS: David
St. Claire Jose Gonzalez
Neal
Sutton Jerry Grandenetti Wallace Wood Jack Sparling
WRITERS: Bill
gilled
warriors pursue her.
• BB
Adams
Tom
J. R.
GODDESS FROM THE SEA Her skin is blue-green and seven From Issue #1, 1969
Parente Cochran
THE CURSE The fantastic story of a being from nowhere, and a girl called Zara. From Issue #9, 1970
SNAKE EVES A young girl discovers she has a strange talent which craves to be liberated.
From
t
fll
• w9
Issue =8, 1970
Don Glut Nicola Cuti
Gardner Fox
VAMPI'S FEART TALES
49
Wallace Wood Tom Sutton
FORGOTTEN KINGDOM Boy
is
From
boy and girl
is girl
and never the twain
shall meet.
Issue =4, 1969
VAMPIRELLA 1972 ANNUAL, PUBLISHED BY WARREN PUBLISHING CO. PRICE 75c PER COPV. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: 6 ISSUES FOR $3.50 IN THE U.S.A. ELSEWHERE: $4.50. EDITORIAL OFFICES AT 145 E. 32nd STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10016. TELEPHONE (212) 683-6050. ENTIRE CONTENTS COPYRIGHTED £ 1969, 1970, 1971 BY WARREN PUBLISHING CO. NOTHING MAY BE REPRINTED IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE PUBLISHER. PRINTED IN U.S.A.
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THE SKY 15 STILL... A PAIR OF MOONS OBSCUREP BYPASSING SHREPS OF CLOUP STANPAS IF IN WAIT. THE CREATURE STIRS ALMOST MOT70NLES5LY... AN EYE OPENS.
A//GHT.ANP TREE LIMBS GNARLED WITH ASE, HANG SIIENTVY... SMALLER BRANCHES MOVE /N THE SLIGHT
MNP, WE/GHTEP POWN BY THE FOREIGN PRESENCE OF A
SLEEPING BAT, ITS MNP FEET ALMOST ROOTEP TO THE BRANCH.,,
WNSS FOLPEP TIGHTLY AGAINST EACH OTHER FROM THE PAMPANP THE COLP, THE BAT
TTS
STARES INTO THE PARK.. -AHP A MUTEP PULSE QUICKENS. A ZUSTLE AHP THE BATS F/N6ERS BEGIN UNFOLP/NG THE CAPEOFSKlN...
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p^ ART BY JOSE GONZALEZ STORY BY JR. COCHRAN
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\Anp the attack, swift amp suppen, a small park 3irp lost amid the wings of the sat, causht there as if in a web, 7h/n contractep claws pigging inwarps. anp t bat almost floating wow.
THE PESCENT,THE SLOW, HALTING GUPE CLA WING AT THEAIR, IN SEARCH OF THAT FEAPFUL PULSE BEATING IN THE NIGHT...H/PPEN
i
. .
1
SOMEWHERE
, .
THE SHAPOW OF NIGHT LIKE A WRAITH, THE BAT BEGINS A METAMORPHOSIS. ONCE MORE ITS .
.
.
.
.
WINGS SPREAP WIPE ANP THE BONES OF BIRPS TUMBLE FORTH...
/iPlfe
?v» THE CREATURE SPILLS FORTH A COCOON.. LONG, SLEEK FINGERS .
TUMBLE FORU/ARP WITH A LIFE OF THEIR OWN... THE CLOAK OF WINGS 3ECOMEA SILKEN VEST...
...ANP WHO IS THIS SHAPOINV FIGURE?. THIS GIRL OF UNEARTHLY BEAUTY WHOSE
IS VAMPIRELLA-.COAAE FORTH FROM A SMALL, LOPING BAT. PREAM UPON HER FOR SHE HAS NO PREAMS. HER ONLY WISH IS TO KEEP THAT SMALL ANP EVER FLICKERING CANPLE OF UFE BURNING IN A WORLD OF VIOLENT WINPS,,,
NAME ,.,
>\.--4T& .-* V£-
;^>A
*&&
THE OKIGfft OV
PRAKULON.ONCEA LUSH, NAW-PEOPLEP WORLP, NOW ...FOR EVERN CO/WNG PF PAN NERALPS THE INESCAPABLE NO MORE THAN A SKELETON OF ITS FORMER. PRESCENCE OF PEATH. PRAKULONSJWIN SUNS... NOT SELF...STRUGGUNG TO KEEP ALIi/E,.. AT NIGHT.. UNLIKE THE FURIES-. CASTING 7HElR VENGEANCE ON ITS IN THE COOLIA/G PARKNESS. RIVERS BURNING AWAY'THE ONCE AHP MIGHTY FLOlNlNG ARTERIES UNT/L NO MORE THAN GRSYIN6 PEBBLES ANP EHPLESS PATCHES OF CRACKING EARTH REMA/NEP...
,
EVES FROM OF PAY-.. THE GRIM LIGHT &ETURA/S HER TO THE BEGINNING WHEN MER WORLP SESAN ITS COLl/SION COURSE WITH THE TWIN SUNS-, WHEN EVERYTH/N6 AROUNP HER LIKE THE COMING OF THE APOCALYPSE WENT OUT OF CONTROL, ANP THE SEASONS CHAN&EP WITHOUT APPARENT CAUSE... M4MPIPELLA SH/ELPS
HER
FAST...7D THE
7HECOM/NS
.
.
.
...SACK 70 THAT ENCHANTEP PAY BYTHERi\^R.„PA» TO TRISTAN. HER LOVER, MIRTH/STAN, UNABLE TO
CHANGE WITH THE CHANGE ALL AROUHP HIM, ...A CHILP WHO REFUSE? TO GROW OLP...POOMEP FOPEVER TO REMAIN STfNTEp R4THEXTHANASSUME ASE, '
',
/please, tristan.vou MUST. WE
ALTH0U6H HE WAS NEAR PEATH, SHE PIP NOT KNOW IT THEN,.- HE HIP HIS FEARS FROM HER LIKE A CHILP HOARPINS TREASURE. LOOK .TRISTAN
M
FATTEP GRONOS..'...FAT FROM FEEDING ON OUR DEAR
WE MUST CATCH
IT
HELP ME, TRISTAN
HAVE TO LIVE. PLEASE HELP /WE.. TOGETHER, WE COULD KILL IT EASILY. LOOK AT HIM, TRISTAN. HE LUMBERS LIKE A SNAIL. HURRY.
SO THAT WE MAY LIVE
.
ARMS IN A S7XANSB HOLP AROUNP THE Smu6<SUM<S GROfiJOS
ff£R
VAMPIRELLA CONQUERS.'
,
WOUHPSP, THE BAT ues Mor/oA/iEss
SRAB
HER.'
HER ARMS BEHIND HER.'
PIW
Lunging forward, vanpirella
gouges the neck of her assailant. like an animal too free to know enslavement, she fights free with all her w/u. the memory of tristans last moments burner into her as surely AS WITH LASSERS. ,
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0/STURB/NG MEMOR/ES HURL VAMPIRELLABACKTO THE PRESENT WHERE SHE MUST P£4L WITH THE PROBLEMS OF 7DPAY *MP NOT 7HE MEMORIES OF YESrEFnAY.
12
YOU WEREMV
FAIR.
FORGIVE &.E. I
..
MY
WIPE MY FACE
CLEAM
ONLY... BUT,
AM NOT DRESSED
FOR THE OCCASSIOM ALLOW WE TO .
YOU ARE MOST BEAUTIFUL THAT
WAV... AS I HAVE ALWAYS WANTEP YOU. ..AT YOUR WEAKEST... YOU WERE ALWAYS SO STROM G
ANDI...I
ALWAYS SO WEAK. MOW My SWEET, THE TABLES ARE
TURNED
.'
CRY NO TEARS FOR HIM ONCE CALLEP TK/SrAM.' FOR MO LONGER WILL I BE KNOWN J
t
IDYLLIC TRISTAN/
X\WHERE, PRAYTELL,IS OUR / MIGHTY VAMP1RELLA7 NOT STRUCK DUMB WITH
LOVE,
IS
SHE?. ..HER
PRAYERS ANSWERER.. FAIR /^^Zs**?, TRISTAN THE WEAKLING, TO HER. _.
V
.
*h* ISAMPlERELLA WAITS /N
LASER BEAMS.., BURNING AWAY..,
SILENCE .LISTENING TO THE SMALL AMP FRlGHTENEP
ALWAYS SO
SOBS COM/NG FROM TRISTAN
WEAK... WHY AAA I WgAK NOW?,,,
FALUNS.-
WHERE YOU COME
DID .
FROM,
,,
TRlSTAN?l lisER 2&t>
.
\
n*
f^r
^
<IH M?' tfY'J
\
k sf I
-
s^ 'Others came in the night,,, those few " were left... come to bury the peap.-.
who
"T/YEY
LIKE
THE GROUNP WAS WET ME WHEREWATER PRIPPINS IN ON ME.., OF A BLANKET shroup- REMEMBER everything...
TOOK
"alone, in mV
BEING LEFT" THERE. ..FOR
BURN/NG-
IT WAS BLOOP, THEY BURIED ME WHERE
A RIVER HAP FLOWEP BEFORE THE DROUGHT-. BLOOD SINKING POWN INTO THE EARTH, DEEPER, FLOWING INTO ME,.. RESTORING ME... FADING FROM ABOVE ...SINKING INTO THE EARTH, INTO ME... I WAS THE EARTH ANP THE EARTH WAS FEEPINGME 16
PEAP...
MY WOUNPS
I WILL TAKE YOU SOME PAY, / VAMPIRELlA ! TAKE YOU IN
'THE DARKEST OF NISHT
!
TAKE YOU PY THAT BESUILIMG THROAT YOU, MY SWEET.'
AND... KILL
I WILL FOLLOW YOU, VAMPIRELLA ROLLOW YOU .'
UNTIL YOU ARE AT YOUR WEAKEST / FOLLOW YOU WHEREVER YOU MAY go: FOLLOW YOU AND MURDER YOU AS SURELY AS YOU ,MURDERED ME WITH ,
'
YOUR
PITY/
Unaware of anything but his Oivm ALL-CONSUMING RAGE, TRISTAN'S GRIP CLOSES IN
ON
AIR,.,
ACCURSED CREATURE/ HOW COULD I LOSE YOU SO EASILY
"?
*m*5: T?\
S-0.1 PLEASE TRlSTANi STOP.' r DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO HURT YOU / X COULDN'T
STAND TO HURT YOU!
r>7
PLEASE
.'
NO LONGER,WILL I BE
KNOWN AS PITIABLE TR|STA>1. WILL SBAieXCAPO i HEAR ME, \N\UP? MERCAPO.
...X
VO you HEAR ME,
MBRCAPO/
17
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So you're, gotiiqto be, CWPI&
about it ? Yon say yoic waMt Loss- for your ntmeu't Here's a su/eet
wzuw
WTtiwfw'ttlHtiP amuse you. white your 6(00
d tums coCd to ttk
?*>'<
©UT0FTHEMIST5 OF FOLKLORE AND LEGENDRY COMES THE TERRIBLE WHISPER OF EVIL ENCHANTMENT AND LETHAL LE6EN0RY KNOWN AS CIRCS. THE OLD TALES ARE WRITTEN OFF A5 MAUNDERINSS OF IMAGINATIVE MINDS, BUT THE LADY OF TOE PISS
IS
AS REAL AS
TODAY .'ON HER ISLAND, MEN ARE TURNED TO BOARS ANDTUSKER5,ANDHER 'ISLAND CAN BE FOUND BUT READ ON, READ ON
COME TOME, YOU TRAVELERS OF THE STORM-TOSSED SEAS.' HERE ON MV ISLAND THERE IS NO TIME— NOTHING BUT MV BEAUTY TO ENTHRALL YOU AND MY WILL TO MAKE YOU FORGET YOUR CARES AND WOES.
IO! IQ! COME
TOME...
!
H WAS A ME?£ WHISPER IN THE WIND THAT MOANED ABOUT THE CRUISE I ! ON iS ,CE WHICH PAUL MADDEN WAS VOYAGING THROUGH THE MffifrreWAN^ISEA.
SHIP
ART BY JERRY GRANDENETTI/STORY BY GARDNER FOX
19
STRANGE! IT'S AS IF THE MNP WERE-TALKINGTO ME.' INVITING ME TO GOME WITH
IT.
.TO PARPLACE5...BUTTHAT'S J
RIDICULOUS.'
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT THE WIND GREW S^DWSiR...STHOHGEHi UNTIL TOWARD MORNING, DRIVEN BV TREMENDOUS GALE5--THE CRUISE SHIP STRUCK A STONE WALL-- WHERE NO WALL COULD POSSIBLY EXIST!..
[THE ENCHANTRESS 8ECK0N5...AND ALL MEti
MUST
OH,
I'M
GOING TO
LIKE IT HERE.'
OBEY.'..
YOU SHALL REST, FIRST AND THEN YOU SHALL BATHE AND AFTER THAT--THE FEASTING AMD THE LOVING.
BEMUSEP--YET NOT QUESTIONING !
HIS FATE--PAUL
RESTS
THEN... YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS, HELEN. BUT I DON'T HOLD IT
AGAINST
YOU.
ANY GIRL
WOULD BE JEALOUS OP-
WA*N£P YOU.'
M0W
WOMgM
/ SONG / AMD OP COURSE -WOMEN SUCH AS BAUL MADDEN HAD NEVER SEEN. AND SMILING DOWN FROM HB? EBONY AND IVORY THRONE,. THE LOVELIEST OF THEM ALL
AND HELEN WANTED TO"^ SCARE ME OFF FROM
****»
r '
—
AFTER THE FEASTING THE LOVING, MY HANDSOME DARUNSi IT'S SEEN A LONG TIME SINCE ANYONE LIKE >OU VISITED
MY
ISLAND.'
AL/FEUKETHIS.'
IN
THE
SHADOWS OF THE
NIGHT,
MUCH
LATE?..
THE ARMS OF (§L7lS@6 A MAN FORSETS HIS NAME, WHAT HE WAS AND WHAT HE EVER HOPES TO ALL HE KNOWS IS PLEASURE IN
'BUT
IN
THE MORNING?.
BE:
WHERE
IS
SHE? AND--
WHATAMJ DOING ON THE FLOOR?
I FEEL
SO STRANGE. HAVE I
SHRUNK?
OR...
A BOAR CANNOT SCREAM. OR
PAUL MADDEN MIGHT HAVE /
SCREAMED HIS LUNGS OUT ON SEEING WHAT HE IS AND WHAT HE HAS BECOME.'... / â&#x20AC;&#x201D;/ THIS CANT BE HAPPENING.' OUT.' OUT! YOU'RE JUST I-I'M DRUNK AND DELI ROUS ONE Of HER SWINE NOW/A--,-^-- SOMEWHERE
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PALSIED WITH FEAR AND SHOCK, PAUL MADDEN RAN THROUGH THE ISLAND WOODS. DAZED AND INCREDULOUS, HE STILL CANNOT ACCEPT HIS FANTASTIC FATE... ,
]
?
I STILL
THIS
IS
DONT
REALITY,
WOMAN MUST
HALF OUT OF HIS MIND, ALMOST BELIEVING THAT
HE IS MAD, THE BOAR THAT WAS PAUL MADDEN FLED THROUGH THE DENSE WOODS OF THIS EERIE ISLAND,
BELIEVE
IT,
THEN THAT BE.
.
SLOWLY
HIS
BODY CHANGED... ST..
i'//>j
i ^
WORK
ON...
J
^^W
ii i^fr
HAND
IN
HAND PAUL AND HELEN, FLED
I!
ONCE AGAIN A STORM
KOSE, TRAPPING THE
"WE'RE GETTING
SWIMMERS
IN
ITS
VAST WAVES...
OF HERE, HONEYAND YOU'RE COMING WIT
— WHY ARE THEY WEAR- A ING'EM'^EY.'MAVBE rr was one op them p^i
"~rc5=-riiyy '
costvms pawies!
L»
YES.
THAT
MUST BE
I
,
THE ANSWER.
1
HOPE YOU ENJOYED THAT
BITTY- I'LL TRY ON ONE OF THOSE CHTON5 LITTLE
THINK
WANNA HELP /ME,
suys' \\
T5T'
ART BY NEAL ADAMS/STORY BY DON GLUT
IVHEN A MAN SE£S SUCH A YtS/OM ,7HB WOKP 'wArr'coEs not sx/sr.. he was pash/ng OUT /NTO THE SANP..X
FROM OTHERS OF MV RACE.' I FLED FROM ATLANTIS TO VOUR SURFACE WORLD... TO ESCAPE THE TyRANNV, THE V SUPPRESSION
OF THE
<T
> tVARlOXPS... BUT AS r ESCAPED, X (A/AS OBSERVED.. AND FOLLOWED I MANA<SED TD EVADE THEM FORAWHILE BUT THEy <SA/NED Ofi MB ! .'
'.
-J
THERE ARE SEVEN PURSUING /ME.,. ENOUGH TD PLUCK ME FROM THIS MASSU/B SURFACE WORLD... ANP
PREVENT MY REPEALLING TO THE LAND DWELLERS THE SECRETS AND jb^HORROES OF ATLAWTIS /
s^»
V
iS^>=
youR sroRy is prettv hard to TAKE/ BUT,,. OKA// I'LL TAKE you TO, \ the cny \A/HERE THEVU. NEVER / .
[\
K
X^
fimp
you/ ^A.
SUPPENLY .OBSCEHELY SHATTE&MS THE MOMENT OF LOVE BETWSEH THE WHAPITA^PS OF TWO
MJOPS..
BUT THE UPS OF THE SURFACE AAAM SOKHER PXOT7ES7S../WP SHE/HEL7EP...
PR/SEP
ZT WAS
/HSr/HCT.AAfP LOVE..KATHEI?
THAH LO&/C THAT GU/PEP
THE THOUeHT OPiALORA'S CHNGEX KAC£P THPOC/SH J/M'S M/ASP...SEE7H/A/GKA6E
COCXSEP 7HP0O6HH/Sl/£/HS...r-
^JfrfS
HAHPS..
BE/Z/NS i/POH THE P/STC/RBAHCE JIM'S poyY£gFOL HAMP YANKEP A**Y THE FALLEH WAR',
LOXPS
IA/EAPOH...
J HE
r
ONLY ONE.' ATTACK THE TERB^N/ IS
ovce the thkill of 8at7l£ ahimatep jupson he fought li/ce a pemon possess?...
jim
^^
r^
LAlora's screams wcrrEi? him to HEVJ FORY, JIM JUPSON LOH6EP' AGAJhl ANP A6A/N...
Amp
/h his a/ext breath... = "- "
•
•"
V, ''
A6A/N ANP ASAIH. THE BEAUT/ SCREAMEP, AS M/6H7V HAHPS PRA66EP HER TOWARP THE SEA.
AS
THE WATER FUVPEP H/S SOP/, BLOATING H/M, THE /MA&E OF HIS SOPPESS BROUGHT #/M 7Q &R/M REHiny.OHE B&EF
MOM\£MT OF SAU/ry BURST TH/?Oi/&H BEFORE SLACKNESS OA/MEP U/MSJJFE.
JIM
JUDSOM
BLEW/ rr.PIPNT
HE? HE SHOULD HAVE IZEP FROM THE START THE TALE OF ATIAKTIS WOULD BE HARD TO
SWALLOW/
f?EALI
-
Ue WAS AFP?AIP. |
MUCH HE KNEW. ANP THAT SOMETHING HAP
"THAT
JUST HAPPENEP...
SOMETHING TERRIBLE, BUT
WHAT IT WAS HE PIP MOT
KNOW, PIP NOT
HE
KNOW
WHERE HE WAS
OR HOW COME-
HE H/AP
TO
«fc
BE THERE-.. yy/'/\\v.v
y^^f^H
...
rr
was as
if
THIS WAS THE VERy FIRST MOMENT
OF TIME... ANP FOR HIM IT WAS. THERE WAS NO MEMORY OF YESTERPAY TO SIVE HIM
IPENTITY...
THAT NOT ME.'
NO.'
THIRSTY..
IS
WHAT-?/
NO/
V-1
W
SB
(
He soon came upon a clearing,
and...
wwÂŽ
'
WHAT IS YOUR CURSE?
\
I WILL
TELL
THE
YOU OF THAT j WHEN IT IS you PO /TIME-. BUT I
SWORD
IS
ENCHANTED.. IT WILL KILL
A
WITCH,
NO
MATTER WHAT MAGICAL
f
I
WILL~
ALL YOU NEED FEAR IS THAT
ATTRACT HER WHOLE ATTENTION TO ME, AND
YOU
IT...
HELP YOU AVOID THAT.
EMERGED FROM THE FOREST..
'—
(Mm*
"T ONE MORE QUESTION, ZARA.
ARE YOU A WITCH TOO'?
DO
HER ILLUSIONS,
SHE HAS
PRESENTLY, THEY
VERY
WELL... I WILL
APPARITIONS.. ANP I CAN
you WILL
PROTECTION
w
T
WILL BEGIN TO BELIEVE IN
jp
j®\
mm
<**&, " NO. 1 AM NOT../^ BUT I LEARNED SOMETHING OF SORCERY FROM..
MY MOTHER. I
,
but now;
NO MORE QUESTIONS.'
WE
WILL
SOON BE IN THE LANP OF ARACHNE.. SO BE
|
PREPARED...
ty#m
...FOR
MADNESS/
LOOK
'
.'
UP ON
THAT
l\
CLIFF.'
...AND. IT
V-
IS
GROW
A SIGN
\l/ WE ARE ENTERING ^* THE LAND OP THE WITCH... IT SERVES ^\V TO DISCOURAGE INTRUDERS I ^^f([
FEELING THE FEAR HIS HEART, AND
IN
WITH GREAT MISGIVING S, ZORG FOLLOWED THE GIRL
PAST THE HOLLOW STARE
OF THE
EERIE SENTINEL...
\),
ST
33
SUPOEULV, AS THEY ROUNDED
A
BEND..
^HE/ FOUND CONCEALMENT BEHIND A BOULDER, AND FROM THEIR VANTAGE POINT WATCHED THE EMERGENCE OF A GHASTLy ARM/â&#x20AC;&#x17E;, Atf ARM/ OF THE DEAD/
fcl
wmx
}£ara INPICATEPA BOUlPEf?, ANP HE PUSHEP
T QUICK. INTO^jS 1
THE TUKNEL.' JPJ -M. THEy HAVE £
.SEEN
US.'
///Ml
m
iY ZARA...BUT
f k
I.. I
AM
AFRAIP...
1
IT
ASIPE...
PI
^^^^^^VJ K Jtt
MOMENT of panic, amp he ^ OF A GIANT SPIPER, HE
was
insipe/ at the sight
PAUSED, INDECISIVE...
His flesh CRAWLING IN ANTICIPATION
OF PAIN, HE STRODE INTO THE FLAMES...
He knew, and
/et did
Not know, that he was fighting phantoms... he felt pain as sharp teeth rippep into his
THROAT.
Suddenly, his mind was clear... and he saw that the beast was his own HAND.' THEN
HE
REALIZED...
pOR A MOMENT THERE WAS ABSOLUTE SILENCE ...THEN THE VERy AIR ABOUT THEM WAS RENT BY UNSEEN FORCES, ANP THE SPIPER WAS NO LONGER A SPIPER BUT
A VERY OLD WOMAN
BUT
IN
THAT INSTANT,
ZORG ACTED.
Then sword dropping from nerveless fingers he turnep to the fallen zara...
And then), as he craplep the fallen
I WANT TO PIE ...THAT WAS PART OF My PURPOSE IN COMING HERE.' THE OTHER PART WAS TO AVENGE M/SELF Oti //£#..
sorceress in his arms, she began to speak, in a voice almost
BUT... NOW TAKE ME OUT OF HERE...IPO NOT WISH TO PIE IN THIS
INAUPIBL-E...
PLACE... ZARA, I
r
DON'T UNDER-
WAS NOT SHE 1 WHO CAST THE SPELL
STAND...
SHE
<
BECAUSE
WHAT?/
YOU?
upon you... IT WAS \ it WITH \ depth you WILL )gam be FREE/
BUT... 1...
.
MY
IS
PEAD, BUT I AM STILL THE
SAME...
THAT IS IT
T^^B
-
1 I
PON'T... PLEASE DON'T HATE ME
k.
ZORG... I TRICKED
/you BECAUSE
I
FORGIVE ME... ANP PO NOT WEEP... I AM MORE THAN A THOUSAND /EARS OLD, AND WEAR/ OF LIFE.
My CURSE WAS IMMORTALITY'
COULD NOT SLAy HER NEEPED SOMEONE TO DO IT ** WHILE I FOCUSSEP MySELF...I
,
Mm
HER
MAGC
OH
ME...
rjpjl
WifWWjMi
1
W}^
sjspgsi.
'^c£MP
In this venomous little tale, you will meet a CM4&M/AS0 reptile WHO SW/A/GS INSTEAD OF SCITHe/tS. WE GUARANTEE THAT SHE'LL HAVE YOU MESMERIZED WITH HER
NAK
%T WAS A WARM
SUMMER NIGHT, HAzy AND FULL OF THE CRISP
EVENING SOUNDS OF FROGS AND CRICKETS. yOUNG SARA FELT A KINSHIP
FOR THE COLDBLOODED NIGHT CREATURES YET SHE WAS ATTRACTED TO THE SUMMER HOUSE EVEN THOUGH SHE KNEW IT CONTAINED ONLy MAMMALS.
ART BY JACK SPARLING/STORY BY NICOLA CUTI
HEy THERE, My NAME'S CHARLIE PITT. DO VOU WANNA SEE My
HAMSTERS? COME ON
IN.
Sara was a celebritv at hoffman university her reptilian features, her hissing voice, her cold piercing eyes inspirep both fascination and fear in
her peers
HI THERE, SSSSARA. \ DO YOU LIKE My GLOVES LOOK ESSSSPECIALLy } SARA? THEy'RE MADE OF GENUINE
My BUT yOUR FANGS
I
SSSSHARP TODAy/ /
SNAKESKtN/
QQOWEVER SARA IS NOT WITHOUT A DEFENDER. CHARLIE'S
CHILDHOOD
HORROR
HAS MATURED INTO
LOyALTV
AND
INTEREST.
NOBOPy TALKS
I'LL PICK yOU UP AFTER yOUR BALLET CLASS. WE'LL HAVE A BITE TO EAT AT
LIKE THAT/
APOLOGIZE
CHARLIE,
SURE/
LOOK,
WE DIPN'T MEAN ANy HARM/ WE'RE
Charlie the dreamer had matured into charlie the
schemer and he had ideas— a million ,
dollars worth/ IT GETSSS WORSSSE EVERy DAY. My FACE BECOMES MORE AND MORE SSNAKE-
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