Why Your Parents And Grandparents Won't Have Any Estate To Leave To You!!

Did you ever look at those old Warren horror magazines?Where the last 25+ pages of each issue were solid advertising?

I mean, who could resist this? We weren't made of stone, you know!

And that was before The Empire Strikes Back!!

Close Encounters got some love, too...

And the non-neck-breaking version of Superman was there to suck away our money, too!

Is it any wonder nothing is left for your inheritances?!?

From Eerie #100 (1979)

Bold Fashion Choices--Winnie The Witch!!

Horror anthology comics have a long history of employing "hosts"--supernatural characters to introduce their tales, sometimes narrate them, sometimes even take part in them. Think The Mysterious Traveler, Cain, Able, Doctor Death, etc.

Sometimes, though, we had a host who gave the artist an opportunity to provide a little bit of cheesecake into an otherwise dark tale. Such was the case of Winnie The Witch, hostess of Charlton's Ghostly Haunts.

These tales were published in the 1970s, and the artists tool advantage to present something of a more mod host, who also liked to pose a bit provocatively on occasion.

Winnie had a definite "uniform" for the first several issues, but note the deviations the artists made, particularly hair style, glasses, the necklace, belt buckle, garter, and...ahem...skirt length.

Pete Morisi:

Sam Glanzman:

Jean Elier:

Charles Nicholas:

Fred Himes:

Artist unknown:

Pat Boyette:

Steve Ditko:

Steve really liked Winnie involved every page, as in this strip that ran down the center of 6 panels, with the witch commenting (and posing):

More Ditko:

Fred Himes:

Winnie sometimes even showed up on the cover (Ditko!!):

Pat Boyette:

Pete Morisi:

By issue #25, they were getting a bit bored, I guess, as they started varying her look (Pete Morisi):

Fred Himes:

Ditko:

Maybe DC can bring back Winnie someday...?

From Ghostly Haunts #20-25 (1971-1972)

When A Lame Super-Villain Created Bitcoin 40 Years Ago!!

This may not seem too strange to us today...

...but obviously it was a noteworthy thing in 1976!

So, they probably forgot to mention this in history class:

I guess it really was "mad money!"

The JLA rounded up the ill...

But, yeah, what about the economy?!?

Don't worry--top men are on the problem!

OK, that's as close as they were gonna get to "crypto-currency" during the Ford administration.

And it's probably faster than that damned chip!! Ammirite, folks?!?

"Direct deposit"?!? What is this witchcraft?!!?

And nothing could possibly go wrong...

Uh-oh.

Because it turns out that "Dr. Dunkirk" is really...

See, the original money plague was all part of his master plan, so...

WHAT?!?!?! Where the hell did THAT come from?!?

See, that was all part of this story:

Sadly, nothing nearly as cool as those covers ever happened in these issues. Because, honestly, who doesn't want to see Hal Jordan get his ass kicked by a yellow giraffe?

Sonar tries to take advantage of the newly intelligent beasties, and use them to take over the country. But it didn't work.

We'll let Batman explain--this works best if you imagine him speaking with a Charlton Heston voice:

It's a madhouse!!! A madhouse!!!

Of course, animals never fought amongst themselves or ate each other or whatever before they got "human stupidity"...

Anyway, yeah, Earth-1 America got rid of all it's paper currency and replaced it with electronic money in 1976. And it was never mentioned again...

From Justice League Of America #131-132 (1976)

Bold Fashion Choices--Disco Darlings Fashions!!

Admit it...

...you miss the 1970s, don't you?

From Betty And Veronica #290 (1980)

Bold Fashion Choices--This Is Why He Was Replaced By H.E.R.B.I.E.!!

It's George Perez's first issue of the Fantastic Four!!

Let's look what he does with Johnny Storm!

Uh...what is he wearing?

O.M.G.

Oh, dear...

Sweet Melissa...

Egads!

Bonus: when he has to "de-flame" his arms in order to catch a falling dude:

Good gosh.

Let's make sure to share the blame with inker Joe Sinnott and colorist Petra Goldberg.

Don't worry--I'm betting this Perez kid can overcome this and make something of himself in the industry someday!

From Fantastic Four #164 (1975)