Eerie Publications was a publisher of black-and-white

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 horror

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-anthology comics

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 magazines. Less well-known and more downscale than the field's leader, Warren Publishing

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 (Creepy

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, Eerie

Eerie

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, Vampirella

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), the New York City

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-based company was one of several related publishing ventures run by comic-book artist and 1970s magazine entrepreneur Myron Fass

Myron Fass

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. Titles published during their 15 years of operation included Weird, Horror Tales, Terror Tales

Terror Tales

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, Tales from the Tomb, Tales of Voodoo, and Witches' Tales. All of these magazines featured grisly, lurid color covers.

New material was mixed with reprints from 1950s pre-Comics Code horror comics. Writer

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/artist

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 credits seldom appeared, but included Marvel Comics

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 penciller/inkers Dick Ayers

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 and Chic Stone

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, as well as Fass himself, with brother Irving Fass and Ezra Jackson serving as art directors. Long-time Golden Age comics

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 producer Robert W. Farrell had the title of publisher. Golden Age great Carl Burgos

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, creator of the original Human Torch

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, was editor; he had created a short-lived character called Captain Marvel, no relation to either the old Fawcett Comics

Fawcett Comics

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 superhero nor Marvel's Captain Marvel

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, for Fass' M. F. Enterprises in 1966.

Fass' business partner, Stanley Harris, left in 1976 after a falling-out, and formed Harris Publications

Harris Publications

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, whose comic book arm published Vampirella and other former Warren properties.

Titles published

• 3-D Monsters
• Horror Tales (27 issues, June 1969 - Feb. 1979)
• Strange Galaxy (4 issues, Feb. - Aug 1971)
• Tales from the Crypt (1 issue, July 1968)
• Tales from the Tomb (33 issues, July 1969 - Feb. 1975)
• Tales of Voodoo (36 issues, Nov. 1968 - Nov. 1974)
• Terror Tales
  Terror Tales
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  (46 issues, March 1969 - Jan. 1979) — revival of 1930s pulp magazine
  Pulp magazine
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   published by Popular Publications
  Popular Publications
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• Terrors of Dracula (9 issues, May 1979 - Sept. 1981)
• Weird (69 issues, Jan. 1966 - Nov. 1981)
• Weird Worlds (5 issues, Dec. 1970 - Aug. 1971)
• Witches' Tales (34 issues, July 1969 - Feb. 1975)