House of Hammer (UK 1976 Top Sellers) comic books 1978

Painted cover by Brian Lewis. Stories by Steve Moore, Steve Parkhouse, Jean-Marc Lofficier, Tony Crawley, Alan Frank, and Tise Vahimagi. Art by Brian Bolland, Trevor Goring and Brian Lewis. Edited by Dez Skinn of Warrior fame, House of Hammer presented comics adaptations and articles based on Hammer Films' legendary horror movies, featuring an array of British comics talent early in their careers. A comics adaptation of Hammer's Plague of the Zombies features early art by art legend Brian Bolland. An 1800s Cornish village is terrorized when the dead seem to be rising from their graves. In a Terror Tales short, grave robbers invade an ancient burial site, in a story written by future British comics legend Steve Parkhouse. Plus a preview of Star Wars before that film was released in Britain, the history of zombie movies, and the Paris Fantasy Film Festival. Plague of the Zombies; Media Macabre/Review; Star Wars; Fantasy Festival; Dead That Walk; Van Helsing's Terror Tales: The Curse of Cormac One. 8-in. x 10.5-in., 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Painted cover by Brian Lewis. Stories by George A. Romero, Steve Moore, Jean-Marc Lofficier, Tony Crawley, and Alan Jones. Art by John Bolton. Edited by Dez Skinn of Warrior fame, House of Hammer presented comics adaptations and articles based on Hammer Films' legendary horror movies, featuring an array of British comics talent early in their careers. A comics adaptation of Hammer's One Million Years BC, the rare film combining the unlikely talents of Raquel Welch and Ray Harryhausen. The comics version features early art by art legend John Bolton. An article by George Romero (!) about his 1978 vampire film Martin, and an interview with horror-film legend John Carradine. Plus the making of the Raquel Welch version of One Million Years BC, and a retrospective of movies featuring cavemen or prehistoric monsters. One Million Years B.C.; Media Macabre/Review; Fact File; Romero on Martin; John Carradine; Lost World Movies; Festival Revisited. 8-in. x 10.5-in., 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Stories by Dez Skinn, Steve Moore, Donne Avenell, John Brosnan, David Pirie, Tony Crawley, John Fleming and Tise Vahimagi. Art by John Bolton and Patrick Wright. Edited by Dez Skinn of Warrior fame, House of Hammer presented comics adaptations and articles based on Hammer Films' legendary horror movies, featuring an array of British comics talent early in their careers. Father Shandor (hero of Hammer's Dracula Prince of Darkness and its comics adaptation from issue #6) returns to battle a plague of zombies, featuring early art by John Bolton. In a Terror Tales short, a man guilty of a hit-and-run killing gets an ironic comeuppance. An interview with Michael Carreras, head of Hammer Studios. Plus a multi-page article on Star Wars (starring a Hammer veteran, Peter Cushing) and behind the scenes of Hitchcock's Psycho shower sequence. Star Wars; Media Macabre/Review; Father Shandor, Demon Stalker: River of Corpses... Tower of Death; Hammerhead; Star Wars Competition; Psycho Stabbing; Homebodies; The New Dracula; Van Helsing's Terror Tales: A Spot of Blood. 8-in. x 10.5-in., 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Painted cover by Brian Lewis. Stories by Steve Parkhouse, John Brosnan, Tony Crawley, John Fleming and Tise Vahimagi. Art by Brian Bolland and Sergio Goudenzi. Edited by Dez Skinn of Warrior fame, House of Hammer presented comics adaptations and articles based on Hammer Films' legendary horror movies, featuring an array of British comics talent early in their careers. A comics adaptation of Hammer's Vampire Circus features early art by art legend Brian Bolland. Villagers realize a traveling circus is connected to the vampire they destroyed fifteen years before. In a Terror Tales short by future British comics legend Steve Parkhouse, a tyrannical carnival owner abuses his employees once too often. An interview with Michael Carreras, head of Hammer Studios (continued from the previous issue). Plus selections from the sketchbook of effects and animation legend Ray Harryhausen, and a retrospective of carnival-themed horror films. Vampire Circus; Media Macabre/Review; Hammerhead; Castle of the Living Dead; The Harryhausen Scrapbook; Fairgrounds of Horror; Van Helsing's Terror Tales: Carnival of Fear. 8-in. x 10.5-in., 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Cover by Bill Phillips. Stories by Donne Avenell, Jean-Marc Lofficier, Tony Crawley, Alan Frank, Bob Sheridan and Tise Vahimagi. Art by Neal Adams, Dick Giordano, Terry Austin and Ramon Sola. Edited by Dez Skinn of Warrior fame, House of Hammer presented comics adaptations and articles based on Hammer Films' legendary horror movies, featuring an array of British comics talent early in their careers. This issue features a monster tale by comics legend Neal Adams, originally published as a Peter Pan/Power Records comic-and-record set in the 1970s (and later expanded in Adams' Monsters HC (2003 Vanguard)). (Inks and backgrounds were provided by Dick Giordano and future Marvel legend Terry Austin, respectively.) A convoluted series of events pits Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and a werewolf against each other. In a Terror Tales short, the administrator of a Victorian medical school learns of a shortage of human body parts, and sets out to rectify the situation. An interview with Peter Cushing, star of Star Wars and countless Hammer horror classics. Plus a history and filmography of the Hammer film studio. Frankenstein, The Werewolf, Dracula; Media Macabre/Review; Answer Desk; Peter Cushing Interview; Communion; History of Hammer; Van Helsing's Terror Tales: Body Snatch. Final issue before the series relaunch with #19. . NOTE: Issues #1-18 are listed under House of Hammer (1976 UK); #19 & 20 (UK edition) are listed under House of Horror (1978 Top Sellers); #20 (US Edition) and #21-30 are listed under Halls of Horror (1978). 8-in. x 10.5-in., 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.