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VAMPI'S SCARLET MAIL., ,,,, Caden isn't sure if Vampi is "suited" to be the heroine of a space opera but he's willing to hold judgement. Just what "suit'' did he refer to?
VAMPI : BABY THEDA n»»gh H had been nearly sixty years since Theda was the darling of the screen, her film biography v=" K**- ing considered Guess who was the star.'
THE QUEST The beautiful girl had come to the Holy City to become a pri there to worship yet she would b her sword again or be victim BARBARA LEIGH a of the hoard! (In Vampi's Costume)
Writers This Issue THE COMIC BOOKS i„„zi„e P„b CARY BATES Ushers often work on narrow margin of profi NICOLA CUTI they are always looking for ways to save s" BILLDuBAY a amount of money. J. B. BUDD LEWIS warns of one costly sch ROGER McKENZIE
Artists This Issue rlbn DM I I Neptune City was humanity's JOSE GONZALEZ last hope to feed its population Andre Jordan RTJSS HEATH had sworn to make the bubble city work despite ESTEBAN MAROTO disasters PAULNEARY but he wasn't ready for free enterprise! ALEX NINO RAMON TORRENTS VAMPI CONTEST WINNERS VAMPIRELLA No. 67 PUBLISHED MONTHLY In VAMPI #66 we published the answers to the six EXCEPT FEBRUARY. JUNE AND NOVEMBER unfinished mysteries, in i««ii*> «'*> liano the 8Y WARREN PUBLISHING CO. EDITORIAL, thi* SUBSCRIPTION S BUSINESS OFFICES AT 145 winning letters. Is your letti EAST 32nd STREET. NY 10O16. TELEPHONE: (212) 683-6050. SUBSCRIPTIONS: 9 ISSUES FOR $12.00 IN ELSEWHERE $14.00. HOME THE U.S.: CANADA AND SWEET HOROLOGIUM SECOND-CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT NEW Each night, when the beast stalked his home, he YORK, N.Y. AND AT ADDITIONAL MAILING OF- had been able to drive it away It kept returning in ENTIRE CONTENTS COPYRIGHTED FICES. search of... what? an alien world, 61977 BY WARREN PUBLISHING CO. ALL On who knows? RIGHTS RESERVED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD UNDER THE UNIVERSAL COPYRIGHT CONVENTIONS, THE INTERNATIONAL COPY- RIGHT CONVENTION AND THE PAN AMERI- CHOICE CUTS Their plane had crashed CAN COPYRIGHT CONVENTION. VAMPIRELLA on the lifeless sands of the desert where survival IS REGISTERED U.S. PATENT OFFICE. MARCA under the relentless sun meant desperate ac- REG1STRADA. MARQUE DEPOSEE. NOTHING tion. Even then only one was likely to MAY BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART survive! WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE PUBLISHER. SORRY. NO RESPONSIBILITY CAN BE ACCEPT- THE LAST DRAGON KING™, ED FOR UNSOLICITED MATERIAL-PRINTED IN refused to join the Sals in their U.S.A. Dragon Kings had and his mo- NEW SCRIBERS, PLEASE ALLOW 8 WEEKS FOR conquest of humanity Now only Gwan DELIVERY OF FIRST ISSUE. ther stood between the beasts and extinction!
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I was bothered by VAMPE's treatment I have just completed reading of Cedrin (The Mad King of Drakulon), VAMPIRELLA #64, and I was but not because he didn't deserve to be completely enwrapped throughout strung up to keep his own artificial river fhe seven story sequel. of blood flowing, Gerry Boudreau has really put I was disturbed because it doesnt together a masterpiece. seem fair of VAMPI to lull this mad but Gonzalo Mayo's intricate artwork dangerous idiot along, then drain his also met with my undying approval veins when he least expected it! to say the least! This is the first time VAMPI has used In my years of collecting Warren sex as a weapon. magazines, I would have to place this was Maybe necessary, since Vampi #64 among the best... alongside Cedrin was a Drakulonian...and Dax, the Warrior and The Night of the therefore as strong, and with the same Jackass serials. powers as VAMPI herself. CHARLES GARSKE I just hope she doesn't get into the New York, New York habit of seduction and betrayal! MARTHA ALEXANDER Tampa, Fla. "What Joe Brancatelli's column gets longer about and longer. ..two whole pages in Did VAMPIRELLA's very VAMPIRELLA #65. And that's just too definite seductive powers take much! re-instituting unfair advantage of Drakulon's Since I don't follow anything but the
Warren magazines, I can't say if what Mad King Cedrin? thefan^jageT"
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I really liked the Mystery issue of couldn't care less. VAMPIRELLA #65 really disturbed ALEX RUDNOV me. VAMPIRELLA ... and the contest issue New York, N.Y. in EERIE! I hope VAMPIRELLA and the rest of
But I have an even better idea that the Warren magazines are not going to would make all the Warren Magazines revert back to the childish, fan-club even more fun! "Ihope oriented books they were before Bill How about running fan filled DuBay took over as editor. pages with amateur art and stories, like you First we had that embarassing Rook \ftMPlisn't did a long time back. contest in EERIE, where all the little
. I wasn't buying Mags then (I Warren . kiddies get to draw pictures of robots was too young) but every now and then and monsters and send them in to their
I run across an old issue and I really like favorite comic book and get their names the idea. in it, etc. How about it? to the childish. That was bad enough, but now we have this aggravating issue of TOM ZIMMERMAN No Address fan-oriented VAMPIRELLA to plod through where none of the stories have endings to them. Mk Your suggestion is under 1LA discussion right now, Tom, books To be honest, I felt cheated. ^S although others (see Kieran I bought Warren magazines Diamond's letter on this page) because they were both Intelligent and ofa few wouldn't agree with you. entertaining—not the low-quality trash What do you other readers say? that the other companies put out. years ago!" From what the editors of the Warren The artwork was terrific, and with the Magazines have seen (judging from exception of a few artists, still is. the variety and quality of contest Has Pantha's amulet (you see, I've The inferior artwork put out by people submissions) there's talent out there solved mystery #1) lost its power or like Leopold Sanchez, Luis Bermejo somewhere. what? and others is far outweighed by the Should Warren reinstitute the fan- In VAMPIRELLA #50, when a person brilliance of Auraleon, Ramon (Adam, The Egyptian Junk Peddler, etc.) Torrents, Jose Gonzalez, Jose Ortiz, put on the Panther Amulet, they became and Rich Corben. Are you interested in the work of fellow readers? a Panther in form. But it seemed to have The same goes for your stories. effect Or do you feet, like absolutely no on Cedrin? Except for an occasional bomb like What's the score? Nick Cuti, or more likely Roger Kieran, that fan pages JEFF CASEY McKenzie, the stories are usually make the books seem Atlanta, Ga. excellent. "childish"? The covers are a treat to the eye, as Mk The Panther Amulet affects only they always have been. Tjja the race of Cat People from I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels which Pantha was lamp! ^ descended this way. I have a feeling that most of and ...humans. Since Cedrin is a your readers want VAMPIRELLA, native of Drakulon. ..with, presumably, Scariet CREEPY, and EERIE to stay the way PUBLISHING the ability to alter shape into bat-form they have been for years now. CO WARREN only, the amulet simply has no effect KIERAN DIAMOND 145 EAST 32nd STREET on his body's chemistry! Philadelphia, Pa. NEW YORK.N.V. 10016 4 PROLOGUE
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WHAT PUCE IS K pw**«7t5 i, I MPS.'.' ?r' WJk THIS IN0EER THAT *a7S [ARE AFIRE! > ENEMIES LIKE BUTTER, j » 1 LEAVING ONLY SEEPING GREASE OF THEIR MEAT, yET LEAVES ME, A fff/e/W, UNHARMEQ. ! ^1^M" T 1 -:\i £l U/SAMiTV.I WHAT v/*laHB # Jj « this place ? the resy iafil '-':'".>../' ki S Otf OF MV FLESH ao/is fw EPILOOOE END ' THE COMIC byJoe Braneatelli run the risk of being for- cret" banks offering the days—to the mailing and ever labelled a curmud- "totally free" interest- processing time of sending I geon for saying this, but bearing accounts for a mere the deposit to New England here goes: I'm not so sure $6.66. and it could that comic fandom is' in Leaving Saavedra's mor- week delay before you can better shape today than it als and sales pitch aside, let write a check against your was in 1967, the year I dis- us consider the matter of deposit. No sound financial covered it. In fact, if this these "secret" banks that advisor would recommend doddering 24-year-old had offer interest-bearing tying up checking account his druthers, I'd rather it be checking accounts. Yes, 'PATENT dollars for two weeks. fans friends, there are banks 1967, a time when Saavedra is also quick didn't have much money that offer interest-bearing MEDICINE" to point out that there and you knew the fanzine checking accounts, official- is nothing illegal about publishers and comic-book ly called "negotiable orders PROFITS? this system since there are dealers were in it only for of withdrawal (NOW)." no "residency require- secret. fun. But they are hardly a ments." That's true. It is more than forty Time—and cliches—do For to do. Substantial sums of also true that it really march on, however, and years, the federal gov- cash are usually kept in a doesn't matter if your only the most ignorant fans ernment has specifical- savings account because check comes from your lo- would insist that comic ly forbid banks and savings that's where the most in- cal bank or a New England fandom is still just for fun and loan institutions from terest can be accrued. Any- bank when you're buying or just a hobby. For the offering interest on ac- way, do you know what 5 comics through the mails. vast majority of fans and counts generically known percent interest on an aver- But what happens when ' ' dealers and fanzine pub- as ' checking accounts. age daily checking balance you traipse into your neigh- lishers today, comic fan- That is still the case in 44 of $100 is? Over the span borhood store hoping to dom is a business, a "mar- states, except for New of one year,' chances are it cash a personal check? ket"—and a highly lucra- England. The government wouldn't amount to much What clerk in his right tive one at that. Even a cur- recentiy waived the rules in more that the price of the mind would cash a check mudgeon such as 1 would these six states for a com- magazine you're holding in from New England, espe- grudgingly admit that pendium of reasons too your hand. cially if you claim to live fandom today is more a boring to discuss and too So much for the huge "just around the corner." marketplace- for dollars complex to bother with. amounts of capital comic Saavedra and his "finan- than a marketplace for In a nutshell, that's it. fans can get from these so- cial associates" also don't For $6.66, Saavedra can tell called "secret" accounts. bother to point out the I this said, however, you what is already public Some financial matters damage you do to your lo- there remains no ex- knowledge: that a handful Saavedra and his "fi- cal credit rating by check- A cuse for the cheap-shot of financial institutions in nancial associates" ing out of state. Suppose wheeler-deeler in comics New England legally pro- don't bother to dwell on in you drop into your local fandom. There is no excuse vide interest-bearing check- their advertisement, how- bank looking for a loan or for the wise guy, hit-and- ing accounts to their custo- ever, involve the incredible hoping to qualify for a ruin profitmaker. I point mers. inconvenience of having a credit card. If you're a specifically to one David efore you go rushing checking account in New first-time borrower, your Saavedra, National Central Bioff to a New England England if you don't live only solid credit reference Bureau No. 695, who has . bank to open a NOW there. Take, for instance, is likely to be the manner in been offering around a account, you should also making a deposit. Since which you handle your "secret" list of banks pro- know that the federal gov- you'd have to mail your de- checking account with the viding interest-bearing ernment will probably al- posit to the New England bank. But you don't bank checking accounts. low all banks to offer in- bank, you'd have to do one there. You bank in New Saavedra's ad, which I terest-bearing checking ac- of three things: England. Any normal loan happened to catch in a re- counts within the next year. —send cash through the officer at your local bank cent issue of The Comics So much for Saavedra's mail, a risky, if not totally will turn you down. And Journal, says fans are "in- $6.66 secret. insane, proposition. don't go looking to your vited to discover who and There is also the matter —send a money order, New England bank to make where these hanks (offering of Saavedra's financial ad- which costs money, proba- a loan. They'll laugh like interest-bearing checking vise to generally under- bly more money than the dickens at you. accounts free of charge) ex- advised comic fans to be you're likely to earn in please, listen to the ist, how they came to be considered. He and his "fi- interest. So,curmudgeon just this claim and to select . . . banks you nancial associates" —send a check from your once. Skip the "se- . can open an account with." an interest-bearing check- local checking account, cret" offer and wait until The ad touts the value of ing account will "add more which means you can't re- your local bank is allowed these interest- bearing ac- capital to your net worth" ly solely on Saavedra's "se- to offer interest-bearing ac- counts with claims that because "earning interest cret" gold mine. It also counts. Rest assured they'll "collectors . . . depend on on your Chequeing (sic) ac- means that since you're tell you when they are good cash flow funds" and count makes more capital." depositing an out-of-state available. that "when your money sits Well, maybe, but only if check in your New England Oh, for the good old days in a checking account it you keep huge amounts of account, it will usually take of comic fandom when earns nothing." money in your checking ac- seven days to "clear." none of us even had enough Saavedra promises to count, something most Add this clearing delay- money to have a checking send you this list of "se- people are wise enough not local checks clear in three account! The opinions Expressed oi iy not reflect the thinking of Warren Publishing Company i W: Hi ^SUB-P TO f NEPTUNE. PREWRE 1 Ii.0CK-P. I'M COMINGS HOM£- m A- rfS ' WE'LL HAVE TO AW/6 THE CfTY TD ANOTHER LO\ CATION. TELL AfWOS TO SeSIN fiEMS? THE FLC0H TO j L PIU/IRS /W EMPTY THE j . MLLAST TONKS. jA <*&$*&'^*- ntouse JOKING.' PAY CLOSE 4TTENT;0N^ ' KNOW yoUGWE FROM A ANOtie. THIS IS HOW \WU BAIT/O, L LAB, SUTAMRWE RESe/WCHJI HOOK. w*< >WS BEEN YOUR LIFE. / Ke#7 s COMMANDER.' J«* J IN THROUGH THE CRACK ANP | J |\TH£)"ff£ LIKE NOWMQ ^xve eves seen YOU'VE POLLUT6P OUR WATERS WITH YCua OIL AMD CHEMICALS, YOU'VE KILLEPOPF OUR WHALES AW NOW LEAKASB FRO//, VOUR ATOMIC KMSTE5 HAVE CRSAjee THOSE MUTATBP OeASTS.. . ^y J-OU'VE GOT a/itS/ ^m JOU'RE AN AMPHlBtANy ITS THE RESULTS OP -*fV ANCESTORS you SHOULDN'T n>,,v., * J BREAK JNTOA SIRL'6 \ MATING WITH /«/« ANCESTORS. SAILORS ARE BOUPOfR, CWW4NP£R J ' *07 CHOOSy.' -JT'S *OT POLITE. ; / J *& 'J J Sw^ Ill 1 1 i i v T r T 1 1 T i I lid Li" j_ tery Contest Issue, challenged mystery cconclusions. Now, Warren Magazine and will be VAMPl's co-star iers to solve six cliff hangers. The Publishingg proudly introduces Jim in a role to be announced next issue. ~ ilifornia ... the We hope to have a picture of him to BELOW: A QUICK SYNOPSIS OF THE MYSTERIES fully solve all print as well! Congratulations, Jim! It looks like mm varded $100.00 plus a you did the almost impossible! J UH fcliii^ll!I VAMPIRELLANo.65! MAD KING HIDE AND STRANGLED PHAROAH'S BRIEF GOODBYE, OF DRAKULON STOCKBROKER LADY INTERRUPTION NORMA JEAN VAMPI returns to Drakulon, where she Elizabeth comes to hear the will of late The strangled corpse of Valentine P. The commoner Isisi, an Eygptian "A man gets off a train. He knows no one Two-headed Norma Jean's husband, Eric Coron, meets Cedrin, a mad native of the but the supposedly dead Harlequin was discovered on the con- maiden, wanted immortality enough to in town. He checks into a cheap hotel, Tom, left her when he learned that planet, who, like her, escaped destruc- man challenges his guests to tocate and ference table near the elevator entrance murder the Pharoah's wife, then the goes directly to bed but cannot sleep. He Norma's second head did not appear un- tion. finds kill him before he kills Elizabeth to Harlequin's office. everyone She an amulet she recog- them! Almost Pharoah himself, in order to take their gets up, opens the hotel directory, se- til she was seven... a fate that could nizes, and, after disposing of the "Mad falls in love with Michael, who keeps her had a grudge against him and six people place in a pyramid that would confer lects a number and dials. When the await his young daughter, Lestie Anne. the planet's surface in safe during the while with for vis- King," journeys to day he wanders a motive murdering him had eternal life. The gods punished her, party on the other end answers, "Hello," Now Tom is coming home, with no idea search of —who or what? the house hunting the evil Eric. But ited that night. Who killed Harlequin... transforming her into.. .what? he hangs up and goes to sleep. Why?" how bad things really are. How bad are where is he? how and why? Carberrymust solve this riddle or die! they? ANPHERE,IN HIS OWN WORDS,AM JIM ELKINS' PRIZE WINNINGANSWERS! "VAMPI finds the would-be 'Queen of "Michael and Eric Coron are the Jim writes; "James Bentley first planted "The gods were angered Isisi's same at imper- 'The sound of heavy snoring coming "Norma has started to grow a third head Drakulon' who can alter shape at will,.." person," Jim divulges. "Elizabeth kills a poisonous snake in the shoebox in tinence;" writes Jim, "and changed through the thin walls of the cheap hotel, on her other shoulder," writes Jim. "If the writes Jim, "Pantha, the cat-woman who- him and, not only inherits the old Harlequin's desk. In his terror to Isisi's man- escape human head for that of a Jackal kept the man awake. He looked up the sight of two heads was repulsive enough left Earth in a spaceship bound for her sion, but the as well. be- the Harlequin. , .climbed on the (for the king had called her curse She snake a jackal as he room next to his in the hotel directory, to drive Tom away, the sight of three ancestral among the stars back in home comes a vampire, waiting for the next conference table, When Bentley saw his died.) She would thus be a little goddess and, by ringing the phone, awoke his heads would drive him mad. Norma- #50!" VAMPIRELLA guests' to play the game of Hide and plot had failed, he strangled Harlequin, of death' ... (like the animal-headed neighbor and the snoring stopped. He Jean would become Norma-Jean-Alice Seek... and free her as she freed using the pole and rope with which he Egyptian ;/•"' gods) but without thei hung up the receiver and went to sleep." ...the only Siamese triplets in history... Michael." handled the snake. He killed Harlequin immortality.' I** •V U'iA Jim tells us this is Larry Carberry's cor- though her daughter was okay!" a/J Jfcfc: because he'd discovered Bentley's rect solution! v,W *& 1 thefts!" ..•... •GASP'- *tp. ISP t A ffl "mmssM Isisi: Pantha returns to human form! Elizabeth destroys the vampire! James Bentley: Harlequin's strangler! the jackal goddess of death! Larry Carberry: His money & his life! Norma-Jean-Alice: Siamese triplets! FAR OUKBUT WRONG)SOLUTIONS BY CREATIVE CONTESTANTS! readers obviously hadn't read According to Metzger, Elizabeth John A few Kim "Stanley Carter killed Harlequin," says Seen and Harmon Hughey both "The man is an insomniac," writes Jim 'Norma Jean" was a story with a limited where Pantha last appeared, split concluded that Isisi issue #50, was the murderess... a personality Robert Abernathy," when Harlequin dis- had been trans- Shanks in a burst of inspiration. "He number of possible endings... or so we it for interesting an- who killed in theft." formed into a Sphynx, and made some had Eric Coron earlier and as- covered him a "Harlequin was while Michael had, in the past, enlisted the help of a thought. The VAMPI readers came up Heyes swers. Floyd Sydgaard was convinced sumed Michael's persona to commit the knocked unconscious by his son, and Robert Dawkins turned her hypnotist. Now, when he has trouble with answers we'd never considered! that VAMPI would find her mother reign- other murders (shades of Psycho). Can- David," says Terry Spencer'. into a lifeless stone statue of a goddess. "Poisoned sleeping, a post-hypnotic suggestion Gary Dell believed that not only was ing as Drakulon's queen, while Jim Morgan, his Mark Gaddy wrote that, dace Russel Carpenter and by daughter, Elizabeth," writes "conceived in compels him to make a phone call. On Norma-Jean growing a third head .. . her Lamoreux was sure she would meet Tony Coliado all that William Henderson! "Plotted against by the fires of her own ambition, the Phoe- believed hearing the word, "Hello," he falls daughter was growing two heads as Dracula. George Freiday saw a giant Eric/Michael was a succubus! And his wife, Lillian, "says Stephen Presley. nix was born," And James Steagal felt peacefully asleep!" Good guess, Jim! welt! Eric Von Rhein passes the "three- maggot-queen feeding on dead Drak- David Whilten's creative solution was But all three agree that the murder was that she was transformed into a giant "Carberry cannot guess the riddle and headed affliction" to young Leslie Anne ulon's corpses and Iris Matsuno and that Eric/ Michael's body was kept alive completed by Stanley Carter. D. Towns, brain, godlike in its power, whose soul so commits suicide," says David Finley, alone. Tim Smith has Leslie Anne grow a Clyde McClure felt that VAMPI would beneath the pyramid of skulls in the li- however, was convinced that Harlequin would die the instant it ceased "and in doing so, discovers the answer boy's head. And Richard Sherra has the mate with Cedrin on Drakulon as The brary. The murders were sacrifices to had committed suicide! functioning! to the riddle." child keep her one head but grow an en- Mad King's Queen! the Egyptian gods! tire additional body! Since we are determii.. mysteries after the Grand Prize win- e more $25.00 pri ;ive $25.00. No one at n guessed alll tion" proved i — •ie we will ' a situation in which CONTEST'S RUNNERS UP? three-quarters of ing tl as they say, better luck next Ik „ HjUB-P TO *- I NEPTUNE. PREWRE 1 &LOCK-P.IMCOMINGJ HOAK. piii dtlilEH llllt ToF p*> « i . ..;.-. ^^i" ww. '§S0^sili :; } 'WIS .' .3... _«•? .>. YOU'VE POLLUTE? OUR WATERS WITH VOUfl OIL ANP CHEMICALS, YOU'VE WLL6P0FF OUR WWALE5 Am NOW LSAKAQE PROM VOUR ATOMIC WASTES HAVE CPEATGD THOSE MUTATED BEASTS. . ^y , %\ V V/ r4 BBZl WE'LL NEEP SPBCIAL " £0(/rPA*&fT. THE SUBMARINES HAWE BEEN PESTROYEP AW AT THIS J PEPTH, OUR SUITS AM? BREATHERS J ' WTSE ENOUGH TO SUSTAIN USyt »;:* A*> ,M k *- W- 57 yo 1™ SmBES ^BAITf, i 11 1i\ II YK L 1iW WAMPIRELLA #65, the first All-Mys- . Issu 3-year subscr pti in O VAMPIRELLA V tery Contest Issue, challenged mystery concl usions. Now, Warren Magaz ne and wil be VAMPIs co-star readers to solve six cliffhangers. The Publishi ng pr udly introduces Jim in a ro e to be an ou iced next issue. first person who solved all six myste- Elkins o La M rada, California ... the We ho >eto h ve ap cture of him to ries would win $100.00, co-star in a only entrant to successfully solve all print a well! VAMPIRELLA episode, and receive a six myst 'ries! Con ratulat on i, J ml It looks like 3-year subscription to VAMPIRELLA Jim ha sbeen awarded S100.00 plus a you die theal nos t irr possible! MAD KING HIDE AND 0FDRAKU10N STOCKBROKER VAMPI returns to Drakulon, where she Elizabeth comes to hear the will of late The strangled corpse of Valentine P. meets Cedrin, a mad native of the Eric Coron, but the supposedly dead Harlequin was discovered on the con- planet, who, like her, escaped destruc- man challenges his guests to locate and ference table near the elevator entrance tion. She finds an amulet she recog- kill him before he kills them! Elizabeth to Harlequin's office. Almost everyone nizes, and, after disposing of the "Mad falls in love with Michael, who keeps her had a grudge against him and six people King," journeys to the planet's surface in safe during the day while he wanders with a motive for murdering him had vis- search of —who or what? the house hunting the evil Eric. But ited that night. Who killed Harlequin... where is he? how and why? ANPHERE r IN HIS OWN WORDS, ARE Jl "'VAMPI finds the would-be 'Queen of 'Michael and Eric Coron are the same Jim writes: "James Bentley first planted ." Drakulon' who can alter shape at will. . person," Jim divulges. "Elizabeth kills a poisonous snake in the shoebox in writes Jim, "Pantha, the cat-woman who htm and, not only inherits the old man- Harlequin's desk. In his terror to escape left Earth in a spaceship bound for her sion, but the curse as well. She be- the snake Harlequin. . .climbed on the ancestral home among the stars back in comes a vampire, waiting tor the next conference table. When Bentley saw his VAMPIRELLA #50!" 'guests' to play the game of Hide and plot had failed, he strangled Harlequin, Seek... and free her as she freed using the pole and rope with which he Michael." handled the snake. He killed Harlequin because he'd discovered Bentley's thefts!" Pantha returns to human forrr Elizabeth destroys the vampire! James Bentley: Harlequin's strangler FAR OUT(BUT WRONG) SOWTI A few readers obviously hadn't read According to Kim Metzger, Elizabeth "Stanley Carter killed Harlequin," says issue #50, where Pantha last appeared, was the murderess ... a split personality Robert Abernathy, "when Harlequin dis- and it made for some interesting an- who had killed Eric Coron earlier and as- covered him in a theft." "Harlequin was swers. Floyd Sydgaard was convinced sumed Michael's persona to commit the knocked unconscious by his son, find her mother reign- of 1 that VAMPI would other murders (shades Psycho). Can- David," says Terry Spencer . "Poisoned ing as Drakulon's queen, while Jim dace Morgan, Russei Carpenter and by his daughter, Elizabeth," writes Lamoreux was sure she would meet Tony Collado all believed that William Henderson'. "Plotted against by Dracula. George Freiday saw a giant Eric/Michael was a succubus! And his wife, Lillian,"says Stephen Presley. maggot-queen feeding on dead Drak- David Whitten's creative solution was But all three agree thai the murder was ulon's corpses and Iris Matsuno and that Eric/Michael's body was kept alive completed by Stanley Carter. D. Towns, Clyde McClure felt that VAMPI would beneath the pyramid of skulls in the li- however, was convinced that Harlequin male with Cedrin on Drakulon as The brary. The murders were sacrifices to had committed suicide! Mad King's Queenl the Egyptian gods! TT TJ7WTTTT CONTEST'S RUNNERS UP? LLA MYSTERY CONTEST = ;ei i;j :|[fTk' BELOW: A OUKK SYNOPSIS OF THE MYSTERIES DINVAMPIRELLANo.65! PHAROAITS BRIEF LADY NORMA JEAN The commoner Isisi, an Eygptian "A man gets off a train. He knows no one Two-headed Norma Jean's husband, maiden, wanted immortality enough to in town. He checks into a cheap hotel, Tom, left her when he learned that murder the Pharoah's wite, then the goes directly to bed but cannot sleep. He Norma's second head did not appear un- Pharoah himself, in order to take their gets up, opens the hotel directory, se- til she was seven... a fate that could place in a pyramid that would confer lects a number and dials. When the await his young daughter, Leslie Anne. eternal life. The gods punished her, party on the other end answers. "Hello," Now Tom is coming home, with no idea transforming her into... what? he hangs up and goes to sleep. Why?" how bad things really are. How bad are Carberry must they? solve this riddle or die! . M ELKINS' PRIZE WINNINGANSWERS! "The gods were angered at Isisi's imper- "The sound of heavy snoring coming "Norma has started to grow a third head tinence," writes Jim, "and changed through the thin walls of the cheap hotel, on her other shoulder," writes Jim. "If the Isisi's human head for that of a Jackal kept the man awake. He looked up the sight of two heads was repulsive enough (for the king had called her a jackal as he room next to his in the hotel directory, to drive Tom away, the sight of three died.) She would thus be a 'little goddess and, by ringing the phone, awoke his heads would drive him mad. Norma- of death' ...(like the animal-headed neighbor and the snoring stopped. He Jean would become Norma-Jean-Alice Egyptian gods) but without their hung upthe receiver and went to sleep." ...the only Siamese triplets in history... immortality." Jim tells us this is Larry Carberrys cor- though her daughter was okay!" rect solution! 1 Isisi: the jackal goddess of death Norma-Jean-Alice: Siamese triplets! ONS BY CREATIVE CONTESTANTS! John Seen and Harmon Hughey both "The man is an insomniac," writes Jim 'Norma Jean" was a story with a limited concluded that Isisi had been trans- Shanks in a burst of inspiration. "He number of possible endings.. .or so we formed into a Sphynx, while Michael had, in the past, enlisted the help of a thought. The VAMPI readers came up Heyes and Robert Dawkins turned her hypnotist. Now, when he has trouble with answers we'd never considered! into a lifeless stone statue of a goddess. sleeping, a post-hypnotic suggestion Gary Dell believed that not only was Mark Gaddy wrote that, "conceived in compels him to make a phone call. On Norma-Jean growing a third head ... her the fires of her own ambition, the Phoe- hearing the word, "Hello," he falls daughter was growing two heads as nix was born." And James Steagal felt peacefully asleepl" Good guess, Jim! well! Eric Von Rhein passes the "three- she transformed that was into a giant "Carberry cannot guess the riddle and headed affliction" to young Leslie Anne brain, godlike in its power, whose soul so commits suicide," says David Finley, alone. Tim Smith has Leslie Anne grow a would die the instant it ceased "and in doing s<" " boy's head. And Richard Sherra has the child keep her one head but grow an en- tire additional body! Indeed, all the mysteries were '( sotved, but only Jim guessed all! tic "Hide and Seek" was guessed most than - frequently. Almost three-quarters of ing thes. Home Sweet Horologium r .:,:v;:;i;j-..;r>^ : _; STORY: NICOLA CUTI/ART: PAUL NEARY BID STORY: GARY BATKS/ART:RUSS HEATH •'RELENTLESSLY TUB PAYS 'SLEEP PROVIPED NO ESCAPE AT ALL --IT ONLY "FOOD/ WITH EACH PASSIN& SH1MM0REP ON.' 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