You know it’s a story from ACG when you get a beautiful girl and her handsome boyfriend mixed up in some supernatural doin's. This time the young couple (and the girl’s dad) are in the Amazon. The natives warn the expedition that they will go no further. It is the fear of winged killers called Chiwallies. I have heard some names before — but
Chiwallies? — it makes me think of a breed of little dogs.
But no little dogs are as deadly as the Chiwallies. I would not want to put out a food dish for my pet and have a Chiwallie show up.
As with most ACG supernatural comics of this era, to no one’s surprise, love prevails over evil. “The Winged Terror,” with no author listed, but art credits going to George Wilhelms, is from
Forbidden Worlds #15 (1953).
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Who gets freed when in a cocoon and who gets stabbed seems to be rather arbitrary. And a cocoon itself should be expected to have little transformative effect. It should be assumed that something were done to Kathy immediately prior or immediately after being cocooned, or during the process of cocooning. Which is to say that Mike and Professor Dad should expect things to get ugly.
On top of everything else, ACG stories tended to be resolved by the hero acting suddenly and successfully either upon a hunch or upon some previously unrevealed bit of occult knowledge. In this case, we have the former.
I infer from your remarks that you've never seen a bunch of Chihuahua hatchlings emerging from a webbed ball, to feast upon a paralyzed toddler or Siberian husky.
It's high fives and congratulations all around as our heroes completely wipe out another whole species!
ReplyDeleteOne thing about these tales is how they are written backwards, you have the punch ending (moths flying towards lights) and you wrap everything else around it. It gives them a real snowball rolling down a hill feeling.
I liked the moth men, a good visual.
Hey Pappy,
ReplyDeleteThat looks a lot more like a tiger swallowtail butterfly than a purple moth!
Don Yost
Chiwallies does sound like a breed of small dogs. I have a pair of Chiweenies, part Chihuahua, part Dachshund(the weiner dog, get it?)
ReplyDeleteThey're another of the "designer" dogs like Labradoodle, Cockapoo or Puggle to name a few. They are no where near as fearsome as the Chiwallies I'm happy to say.
So this is the untold background for Tigon's 1967 "The Blood Beast Terror". I bet this went unpublicised because of that business with squirting mucus to paralyze victims.
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