In the late 1960s, these horror comics were a little risqué for a young teen. After all,
they were the size of a magazine, printed in black-and-white, were sold next to
Playboy in the 7-11, and just for your teenaged-boy mind, they featured scantily clad,
buxom women. I have only one issue that I actually managed to hang on to (Vampirella
13 from 1970), but I surreptitiously soaked up many other issues of Creepy and
Eerie with fabulous covers by Frazetta and Krenkel. The earliest Eerie time
travel that I’ve found so far was an adaptation of Robert Bloch’s story “The Past
Master” in Eerie 12; and Creepy 9 had an (original?) Alex Toth (who adapted
The Time Machine for George Pal) story called “Out of Time” in June 1966.
Be silent. . . there is little time! From the pages of the
great black book came the incantation that has drawn you from the future.