Old horror comics: can you help me find it?

[Inkwolf]

Recently on Yahoo Answers, someone asked if anyone remembered an old horror comic story. I did, but couldn't remember what comic book it was from. It also jogged my memory about another story, which may have been in the same comic book.

Most likely (but not sure) it was from the 1970's.

They may or may not have been in the same comic book--we didn't have many horror comics, and I've already found two we owned which were not the ones. I have looked at covers online for some time without seeing anything I recognized, and I think the cover art I have in my mind may just be the first splash panel of the werewolf story. :(

Story #1: A man gets on a subway. As the car starts moving, he recognizes another man in the car. He starts having flashbacks about a Nazi death camp, and its evil, sadistic commander, who made a point of especially tormenting one man. The narration goes something like "You came here and made a new life, and thought you would never see him again." The subway stops, and the man runs for it. The second man looks up as he does, recognizes him, and runs after him, shouting. The first guy gets killed. (Hit by a subway train?) It turns out that the first guy was actually the camp commander, and the guy chasing after him was his victim.

Story #2: A man is stranded on a snowy mountain (plane crash?) in what has been said to be werewolf country. He is starving, and undergoes various disasters as he tries to escape and find help. By the time he finds other people, he us so dehumanized that he attacks them, and the last panel shows him eating them, looking like some sort of werewolfish beast.

Thanks for any help you can give!

[dan bailey]

Story #1: A man gets on a subway. As the car starts moving, he recognizes another man in the car. He starts having flashbacks about a Nazi death camp, and its evil, sadistic commander, who made a point of especially tormenting one man. The narration goes something like "You came here and made a new life, and thought you would never see him again." The subway stops, and the man runs for it. The second man looks up as he does, recognizes him, and runs after him, shouting. The first guy gets killed. (Hit by a subway train?) It turns out that the first guy was actually the camp commander, and the guy chasing after him was his victim.

Gotta be the justly famous "Master Race" by Bernard Krigstein from EC's Impact #1 (1955), which I strongly suspect has been reprinted more times than are listed at the link. That, or a wholesale ripoff of the story.

Story #2: A man is stranded on a snowy mountain (plane crash?) in what has been said to be werewolf country. He is starving, and undergoes various disasters as he tries to escape and find help. By the time he finds other people, he us so dehumanized that he attacks them, and the last panel shows him eating them, looking like some sort of werewolfish beast.

Sounds very much like the last story (the final page appears on the back cover, I'm almost positive -- that was a semi-regular practice of the publisher's) of an issue of Stanley Publication's Shock from 1970 or so, which means it would've been reprinted from the '50s & may well have been reprinted elsewhere as well. That panel is one that stuck with me since chidhood, & I finally reacquired a copy a couple of years ago, though offhand I can't recall the issue data.

Edit: Checking the GCD, I see it's gotta be "Werewolf of the Rockies" from Shock v.1 no. 6, cover-dated March 1970, which means an actual newsstand appearance in late '69.

Dunno where you are &/or were at the time, but I see it was also reprinted in the Australian Haunted Tales #10 about 3 years after that. Again, it could've appeared elsewhere after that as well.

[Inkwolf]

Gotta be the justly famous "Master Race" by Bernard Krigstein from EC's Impact #1 (1955), which I strongly suspect has been reprinted more times than are listed at the link.

OMG, that's IT! Thanks, I will pass that on to the other guy who asked about it, too!

[zryson]

Hi Inkwolf - noticed you are new to CBR so wanted to say welcome to you!

[Inkwolf]

Sounds very much like the last story (the final page appears on the back cover, I'm almost positive -- that was a semi-regular practice of the publisher's) of an issue of Stanley Publication's Shock from 1970 or so, which means it would've been reprinted from the '50s & may well have been reprinted elsewhere as well. That panel is one that stuck with me since chidhood, & I finally reacquired a copy a couple of years ago, though offhand I can't recall the issue data.

Edit: Checking the GCD, I see it's gotta be "Werewolf of the Rockies" from Shock v.1 no. 6, cover-dated March 1970, which means an actual newsstand appearance in late '69.
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(I'm in the US) Nope, that doesn't seem to be it. Someone put the whole story online ( http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.co...n-wake-of.html ) and though the first couple of panels made me think it was a possibility, it's definitely another story. But thanks, and thanks for letting me know about your update!

I kind of searched GCD for stories with 'werewolf' in the actual title, and didn't come up with anything that sounded familiar.

And thanks for the welcome, Zyrson!