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''Creepy Magazine'' was a black-and-white comic book publication that ran from to 1964 to 1983. It went under the title of a magazine to avoid UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode.
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''Creepy Magazine'' was a black-and-white comic book publication that ran from to 1964 to 1983. It went under the title of a magazine to avoid UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode.
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* MethodActing: [[invoked]] The story "Type Cast" in issue #24 features Roland Bryce, who, forced into horror roles despite hating them, gets in-character by actually mutilating corpses, sacrificing animals and so on. He eventually snaps from guilt and pressure and strangles his agent, ending up in an asylum, which he's mistakenly released from some time later. The asylum director, calling to check on him, is informed that he has a job at another studio. The picture he's appearing in? ''The Story of Jack the Ripper''...
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* WholePlotReference: In "Home Is Where", two crooks break into a creepy curio shop. They make their way into the dungeon-like basement where they encounter many dangerous monsters that they barely escape. The final panel reveals that the curio shop belongs Uncle Creepy himself and that the monsters are his associates. The whole plot is a recreation of "While the Cat's Away" from ''[[Creator/ECComics The Crypt of Terror]]'', only there it is the Crypt Keeper whose house gets broken into.
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* ManEatingPlant: In one story, [[spoiler:a gardener is mistaken for a vampire because she exhibits many of the trademark vampire traits. She's really just finding victims to feed to her plants, which are vampires]].
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* ManEatingPlant: In one story, "Blood and Orchids!", [[spoiler:a gardener is mistaken for a vampire because she exhibits many of the trademark vampire traits. She's really just finding victims to feed to her plants, which are vampires]].
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* OriginsIssue: Uncle Creepy's origin story is told in one issue. He's a [[spoiler:mish-mash of different monsters formed after a strange substance was spilled in a house full of monsters]].
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* OriginsIssue: Uncle Creepy's origin story is told in one issue. "Monster Rally!". He's a [[spoiler:mish-mash mish-mash of different monsters formed after a strange substance was spilled in a house full of monsters]].monsters.
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In "X-tra X" from issue #34, a mutated form of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome Klinefelter syndrome]] causes the extra X chromosome to be affected by the full moon's gravity and produce a certain fluid which is responsible for lycanthropic transformations.
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In "X-tra X" from issue #34, a mutated form of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome Klinefelter syndrome]] syndrome causes the extra X chromosome to be affected by the full moon's gravity and produce a certain fluid which is responsible for lycanthropic transformations.
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* CreepyDoll: An issue of the revamped comics has a story titled "The Doll Lady". Needless to say, it's creepy.
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* {{Ghostapo}}: In "Army of the Walking Dead" in ''Creepy'' #35, a Nazi MadScientist uses then-current technology to create a bunch of zombies that obey only his verbal commands. This ends up biting him in the butt when he breaks his jaw during a plane crash.
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* {{Ghostapo}}: In "Army of the Walking Dead" in ''Creepy'' from issue #35, a Nazi MadScientist uses then-current technology to create a bunch of zombies that obey only his verbal commands. This ends up biting him in the butt when he breaks his jaw during a plane crash.
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* MonsterClown: An issue of the revamped series features a murderous clown who kills "demons" wherever he sees them. He sees them everywhere.
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Creepy Magazine was a black-and-white comic book publication that ran from to 1964 to 1983. It went under the title of a magazine to avoid UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode.
Hosted by the namesake Uncle Creepy, it specialized in pulp horror tales and featured the likes of Frank Frazetta, Joe Orlando, Reed Crandall, Neal Adams, Dan Adkins,Johnny Craig, Steve Ditko, Gray Morrow, John Severin, Angelo Torres, Alex Toth, Al Williamson and Wally Wood. Archie Goodwin is remembered as being the one of the comic's best writers.
Creepy has been revived as a comic publication by Dark Horse, who are publishing the original Creepy comics as the Creepy Archives.
Hosted by the namesake Uncle Creepy, it specialized in pulp horror tales and featured the likes of Frank Frazetta, Joe Orlando, Reed Crandall, Neal Adams, Dan Adkins,Johnny Craig, Steve Ditko, Gray Morrow, John Severin, Angelo Torres, Alex Toth, Al Williamson and Wally Wood. Archie Goodwin is remembered as being the one of the comic's best writers.
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* BodyHorror: Many, many examples. For example,[[spoiler: a man who wrongfully sentenced his victim to death has the head of the executed man grow on his chest]].
* ComicBookAdaptation: The comic adapted various horror stories by authors such as Creator/EdgarAllanPoe and Creator/BramStoker
* DarknessEqualsDeath: "Thing of Darkness"
* DisintegrationChamber: "The Silver Stallion Conspiracy" is about a vast conspiracy of famous but supposedly dead political, military, business, and criminal leaders which rules the world from behind the scenes, using cloning technology to fake their own deaths, and the disintegration chamber to execute traitors from within their ranks. [[spoiler: The whole thing is a sham, perpetrated by a bunch of actors who've had plastic surgery to look like famous dead people. Then they're all assassinated by an agent of the ''real'' shadowy conspiracy which secretly rules the world.]]
* DownerEnding: Many. Special mention goes to "A Hero Within": [[spoiler: a small child is eaten alive by a vicious dog owned by his equally vicious foster family.]]
* FunWithAcronyms: "V.A.M.P.I.R.E."
* FurAgainstFang: Several stories.
* GuestHost: Cousin Eerie. The host for Frazetta's werewolf story was different, too.
* HenpeckedHusband: The protagonist of "Fun & Games"
* HorrorHost: Uncle Creepy
* KarmicDeath: This happens in almost all the stories in Creepy.
* ManEatingPlant: In one story, [[spoiler:a gardener is mistaken for a vampire because she exhibits many of the trademark vampire traits. She was really just finding victims to feed to her plants, who were vampires.]]
* OriginsIssue: Uncle Creepy's origin story is told in one issue. He's a [[spoiler: mish-mash of different monsters formed after a strange substance was spilled in a house full of monsters.]]
* OurOgresAreHungrier: "Ogre's Castle"
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Loads of examples.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Just as many.
* VoodooDoll: [[SarcasmMode Suprisingly]] appears in a story titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Voodoo Doll"]]
* {{Wolfman}}: Self-explanatory
* ComicBookAdaptation: The comic adapted various horror stories by authors such as Creator/EdgarAllanPoe and Creator/BramStoker
* DarknessEqualsDeath: "Thing of Darkness"
* DisintegrationChamber: "The Silver Stallion Conspiracy" is about a vast conspiracy of famous but supposedly dead political, military, business, and criminal leaders which rules the world from behind the scenes, using cloning technology to fake their own deaths, and the disintegration chamber to execute traitors from within their ranks. [[spoiler: The whole thing is a sham, perpetrated by a bunch of actors who've had plastic surgery to look like famous dead people. Then they're all assassinated by an agent of the ''real'' shadowy conspiracy which secretly rules the world.]]
* DownerEnding: Many. Special mention goes to "A Hero Within": [[spoiler: a small child is eaten alive by a vicious dog owned by his equally vicious foster family.]]
* FunWithAcronyms: "V.A.M.P.I.R.E."
* FurAgainstFang: Several stories.
* GuestHost: Cousin Eerie. The host for Frazetta's werewolf story was different, too.
* HenpeckedHusband: The protagonist of "Fun & Games"
* HorrorHost: Uncle Creepy
* KarmicDeath: This happens in almost all the stories in Creepy.
* ManEatingPlant: In one story, [[spoiler:a gardener is mistaken for a vampire because she exhibits many of the trademark vampire traits. She was really just finding victims to feed to her plants, who were vampires.]]
* OriginsIssue: Uncle Creepy's origin story is told in one issue. He's a [[spoiler: mish-mash of different monsters formed after a strange substance was spilled in a house full of monsters.]]
* OurOgresAreHungrier: "Ogre's Castle"
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Loads of examples.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Just as many.
* VoodooDoll: [[SarcasmMode Suprisingly]] appears in a story titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Voodoo Doll"]]
* {{Wolfman}}: Self-explanatory
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* AnimatedTattoo: The story "Pelted" involves a mobster getting a demon tattooed on his chest for accomplishing his first kill. The demon in question is not very nice, nor still.
* BodyHorror: Many, many examples. Forexample,[[spoiler: a example, [[spoiler:a man who wrongfully sentenced his victim to death has the head of the executed man grow on his chest]].
* ComicBookAdaptation: The comic adapted various horror stories by authors such as Creator/EdgarAllanPoe andCreator/BramStoker
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Darkness".
* DealWithTheDevil:
** In "The Cool Jazz Ghoul" from issue #34, a jazz musician whose day job is at a funeral parlor offers his soul in exchange for enough money to start his own jazz club -- then slips the devil's human form some wine laced with embalming fluid and sells the body to a circus.
** In "Gunsmoke Charly" from issue #35, a gunslinger wannabe sells his soul to the devil in exchange for invulnerability to bullets. Eventually, the guilt and paranoia get to him.
* DeterminedHomesteader: In "Family Reunion" from issue #5, two of the three Cartwright brothers come back from the grave to prevent the third brother from selling the family farm to the local lawyer.
* DisintegrationChamber: "The Silver Stallion Conspiracy" is about a vast conspiracy of famous but supposedly dead political, military, business, and criminal leaders which rules the world from behind the scenes, using cloning technology to fake their own deaths, and the disintegration chamber to execute traitors from within their ranks.[[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The whole thing is a sham, perpetrated by a bunch of actors who've had plastic surgery to look like famous dead people. Then they're all assassinated by an agent of the ''real'' shadowy conspiracy which secretly rules the world.]]
* DownerEnding: Many. Special mention goes to "A Hero Within":[[spoiler: a [[spoiler:a small child is eaten alive by a vicious dog owned by his equally vicious foster family.]]
family]].
* ExtraYExtraViolent: The story "X-tra X" from issue #34 has a strange {{inverted|Trope}} example -- here, violent behavior is linked to an extra ''X'' chromosome (known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome Klinefelter syndrome]]), hence the title. To make matters more complex, the story focuses on a genetic {{mutant|s}} whose extra X chromosome is sensitive to the gravity of the full moon, producing a fluid that induces a physical transformation along with a violent psychological state -- in short, making the man a werewolf.
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* %%* HenpeckedHusband: The protagonist of "Fun & Games"
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Creepy.
* ImAHumanitarian: An issue of the revival series has a story about a homosexual couple, one of whom is a cannibal, the other one wanting to be his victim.
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stories.
* ManEatingPlant: In one story, [[spoiler:a gardener is mistaken for a vampire because she exhibits many of the trademark vampire traits.She was She's really just finding victims to feed to her plants, who were vampires.]]
which are vampires]].
* OriginsIssue: Uncle Creepy's origin story is told in one issue. He's a[[spoiler: mish-mash [[spoiler:mish-mash of different monsters formed after a strange substance was spilled in a house full of monsters.]]
*monsters]].
%%* OurOgresAreHungrier: "Ogre's Castle"
* OurVampiresAreDifferent:Loads In the story "Valley of examples.
the Vampires" from issue #28, vampires are humanoids with the ears, wings and feet of a bat. Their supposed weakness to garlic, holy water and crosses is a myth perpetuated by them, but they can be harmed by ordinary bullets.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent:Just as many.
*In "X-tra X" from issue #34, a mutated form of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome Klinefelter syndrome]] causes the extra X chromosome to be affected by the full moon's gravity and produce a certain fluid which is responsible for lycanthropic transformations.
%%* VoodooDoll: [[SarcasmModeSuprisingly]] Surprisingly]] appears in a story titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Voodoo Doll"]]
* {{Wolfman}}: Self-explanatoryDoll"]].
%%* WolfMan: Self-explanatory.
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* ComicBookAdaptation: The comic adapted various horror stories by authors such as Creator/EdgarAllanPoe and
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* DealWithTheDevil:
** In "The Cool Jazz Ghoul" from issue #34, a jazz musician whose day job is at a funeral parlor offers his soul in exchange for enough money to start his own jazz club -- then slips the devil's human form some wine laced with embalming fluid and sells the body to a circus.
** In "Gunsmoke Charly" from issue #35, a gunslinger wannabe sells his soul to the devil in exchange for invulnerability to bullets. Eventually, the guilt and paranoia get to him.
* DeterminedHomesteader: In "Family Reunion" from issue #5, two of the three Cartwright brothers come back from the grave to prevent the third brother from selling the family farm to the local lawyer.
* DisintegrationChamber: "The Silver Stallion Conspiracy" is about a vast conspiracy of famous but supposedly dead political, military, business, and criminal leaders which rules the world from behind the scenes, using cloning technology to fake their own deaths, and the disintegration chamber to execute traitors from within their ranks.
* DownerEnding: Many. Special mention goes to "A Hero Within":
* ExtraYExtraViolent: The story "X-tra X" from issue #34 has a strange {{inverted|Trope}} example -- here, violent behavior is linked to an extra ''X'' chromosome (known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome Klinefelter syndrome]]), hence the title. To make matters more complex, the story focuses on a genetic {{mutant|s}} whose extra X chromosome is sensitive to the gravity of the full moon, producing a fluid that induces a physical transformation along with a violent psychological state -- in short, making the man a werewolf.
%%* FunWithAcronyms: "V.A.M.P.I.R.E."
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%%* HorrorHost: Uncle
* ImAHumanitarian: An issue of the revival series has a story about a homosexual couple, one of whom is a cannibal, the other one wanting to be his victim.
%%* KarmicDeath: This happens in almost all the
* ManEatingPlant: In one story, [[spoiler:a gardener is mistaken for a vampire because she exhibits many of the trademark vampire traits.
* OriginsIssue: Uncle Creepy's origin story is told in one issue. He's a
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Loads of examples.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Just as many.
* VoodooDoll: [[SarcasmMode Suprisingly]] appears in a story titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Voodoo Doll"]]
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Just as many.
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