HAUNTED no.10 January 1973

A most excellent issue of HAUNTED, if i do say so! We start off with a striking cover by Tom Sutton, which some readers today may find offensive, but as the old adage goes: never judge a book by it's cover! (although, that's counterproductive, as comics are indeed meant to be judged on the merits of their covers)
We'll get to "Udanga's Curse" in a moment, but first we have a weird one by Nick Cuti and the always able Jack Abel.

We follow that up with a western with a twist written and drawn by Warren Sattler, who flexes his chops here a bit more than he could in the pages of BILLY THE KID.

The obligatory text page, although its not too bad for being a simple one pager.

And then we come to the witch doctor tale of redemption and revenge. It's a doozy, and like i said, read before you judge.
(and i wonder if the title is a slight nod to the 1956 rockabilly rave-up "Ubangi Stomp" by Warren Smith)
Sutton masterfully brings each brush stroke here to really give you the creeps.
The GCD speculates that it's written by Joe Gill, but to me it doesn't have that Gill vibe to it, and i suspect Sutton himself wrote it , or perhaps Nick Cuti.

No filler comics in this one, folks! Enjoy!

EMERGENCY! no.1 June 1976

FOUR YEARS! IT'S BEEN FOUR LONG YEARS SINCE I LAST POSTED HEAR AT THE LIBRARY. NOT THAT I HAVEN'T WANTED TO, MIND YOU, BUT FOR SOME REASON I HAD BEEN DENIED ACCESS TO THIS HERE BLOG. SO, BASICALLY I HAD RESIGNED MYSELF THAT THE LIBRARY WAS CLOSED AND WOULD ONLY LIVE ON IN ITS ARCHIVE.
BUT! IMAGINE MY SURPRISE WHEN , ON A CHANCE WHIM, I TRIED GETTING BACK IN, AND....TA-DA! WE'RE BACK IN BUSINESS, BABY!

SO LETS GET RIGHT TO IT: EMERGENCY no.1, JUNE 1976: BEAUTIFUL PAINTED COVER BY JOE STATON, WITH INTERIOR BY JOE GILL , STORY, AND JOHN BYRNE, ART!

ITS GOOD TO BE BACK!