Lizzie Borden and Creepy Comic Book
A Very Creepy Blog (yes, that is the name) posted on September 2 that a comic book called “Creepy” once published a Lizzie Borden story called “Reasonable Doubt.”
As far as I can tell, the issue was published July 1967. There are lots of copies out there on the Internets—so you are bound to be able to pick one up inexpensively.
Fourth is “A Reasonable Doubt” by Tony Williamsune (art) and Ron Parker (story). A man rescues a girl, Elizabeth, who is pursued by a mob. She tells him that they accused her of being a witch after her parent’s deaths. She tells him of her past and they head to a cabin in the woods. It is only there that he discovers the truth, that she’s Lizzie Borden, who quickly comes after him with a hatchet!
September 10th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
As soon as I saw this cover, my mind exploded. I had been collecting Creepy and Eerie and Vampirella and other Warren Publications horror magazines in the early 70s and I was very familiar with this cover. I must have sold the original copy in the late 80s when I cleaned out my comic book and magazine collection (something I will regret to my dying day). However, Creepy and Eerie had adult material that would make EC Comics blush. They also boasted top notch artists like Frank Frazetta, Jack Davis and Neal Adams.
Here’s a history of Creepy and Eerie:
http://popfiction.com/hotad/html/monstermania/creepy/index.html
I just bought a copy of this issue off of e-bay, it was only 6 dollars.