Elvira Mistress of the Dark (1993) comic books 2003-2005

Written by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Art by Ronn Sutton, Bruce Patterson, Tod Smith and Al Vey. Somebody's impersonating Elvira! Well, to do that, one would need...some body! Elvira's dashing to and fro to all manner of personal appearances -- too many, in fact, for any one Mistress of the Dark! Is that why an impersonator thinks he(!) can cut into El's action and take her place at some of these events? Based on a 'True Incident' in Elvira's career, "A Bargain at Twice the Price!" is by Frank Strom, Ronn Sutton and Bruce Patterson. Also: Elvira's role in a gladiator movie puts her in touch with actor Musscles Showe...and the goddess Venus (last seen in Soulsearchers and Company (1993) #48) in "Caesar's Salad Days!" by Janet Hetherington, Tod Smith and Al Vey. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Date with an Angle! - Written by Frank Strom. Art by Tod Smith and Bruce Patterson. Elvira's newest gal-pal is Venus, Goddess of Love -- and the deity is on a crusade: She wants romance to flourish again in anybody's life, and what better way to show off the old hearts 'n' flowers than to send Elvira on a parade of dates? The Mistress of the Dark gets fixed up royally, with hilarious results -- all in the name of love -- in this book-length bonanza! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Written by Frank Strom and Richard Howell. Art by Dan Day, Bruce Patterson, Tod Smith and Louis Lachance. Elvira's nasty boss, Roz, has the entire TV station automated. Trouble is, the new computer's out to eliminate Elvira, but any computer who'd threaten Elvira must be some sort of..."Resident Idiot!" By Frank Strom, Dan Day and Bruce Patterson. Also: The Venus trilogy concludes with "Sheer Cupidity!" By Richard Howell, Tod Smith and Louis Lachance. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Written by Frank Strom and Richard Howell. Art by Dan Day, Louis Lachance, Ronn Sutton and Bill Anderson. When Elvira clashes with the Anti-Elvira Revenge League (led by the Duke of A.E.R.L.), it's no-holds-barred -- except for excessive violence and salty language, of course, since the battle's being overseen by the Citizens' Committee for Comic Book Decency! It's all in "Fright and Malice!" by Frank Strom, Dan Day and Louis Lachance. Also: Elvira investigates monsters hijacking nuclear waste in "Bomb Warnings!" by Richard Howell, Ronn Sutton and Bill Anderson. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

10th Anniversary Issue! Dream a dream of Fear City...in a book-length extravaganza with the Deadbeats and the Soulsearchers & Company. By Frank Strom, Tod Smith, Louis Lachance, Richard Howell, Terry Austin, John Heebink and Bob Wiacek. Cover price $2.50.

Written by Frank Strom and Richard Howell. Art by Tod Smith, Terry Austin, Chuck Frazier and Louis Lachance. Imagine a future in which Elvira and Spooky Suzie are sisters, defeating all the techno-foes that menace Earth (like Cerebellax) and protecting El's secret identity. "The Elvira of 2952: Part 1" is by Frank Strom, Tod Smith and Terry Austin. Also: Elvira takes on a man-hating chat show, "The Spew!" By Richard Howell, Chuck Frazier and Louis Lachance. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

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Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Frank Strom and Richard Howell. Art by Tod Smith, Dan Day and Terry Austin. The future Elvira and her sister face the sinister Skelloween and his plot to destroy Playcool Comics' shipment to Diamondopolis Dimensional Distribution, in "The Elvira of 2952: Part 2"! Plus: "Remember My Name"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Frank Strom and Richard Howell. Pencils by John Heebink and Tod Smith. Thefts of priceless kitsch-movie collectibles pit Elvira against a master wolf-burglar in "It Takes a Creep!" Plus, psychic investigators enlist Elvira's aid in "The Mansion Family!", Chapter 1 of The Haunting! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Frank Strom and Richard Howell. Art by Ronn Sutton, Tod Smith and Louis Lachance. Tabloid reporter Karl Koaltax sees supernatural causes lurking behind every crisis. Now he's enlisted Elvira to help him prove it in "The Fright Stalker Cometh!" Also, a wandering specter leads Elvira into danger in "Seeds of Danger!", Chapter 2 of The Haunting! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Frank Strom and Richard Howell. Pencils by Ronn Sutton and Tod Smith. Ghosts from the ice menace skater Irenya Spookskaya, so Elvira teams up with literary pooch Itchbone to freeze their assets in "Elvira on Ice!" Also, the evil forces beneath Wilkie House reach upwards in "Put the Emphasis on the Ladder!", Chapter 3 of The Haunting! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by Bobbie Kitchens. Stories by Frank Strom and Richard Howell. Art by Tod Smith, James Fry and Louis Lachance. Dracula's daughter Vladia wants to get married at Elvira's Vegas stage show, but what about the local madman who's kidnapping vampires, in "With this Ring ... I Thee Bled!" Also featuring "Doubles, Bungles, and Babes"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by Lynn Goldsmith. Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Art by Tod Smith, Dan Day and Louis Lachance. In "And to All a Good Fright," Elvira Is loaned out to a big-budget holiday extravaganza -- but how will "The Ginch" survive filmed by David Flynch or Tim Bourbon? Also, Elvira visits a farm town where the locals have been mutated by meteors, except for hunky Dark Dent, in "Mallville!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Art by Ronn Sutton, Tod Smith, Bill Anderson and Steve Leialoha. Something nasty is coming through the cable-TV lines, and Elvira's enlisted by dapper spy McSnee to go undercover and find out why Nuttizon Cable is a threat to modern culture. It's "Death at Savings of 30% or More!" Also featuring "Wheredevil, the Man Without Cheer"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Janet Hetherington and Frank Strom. Art by Tod Smith, Chuck Frazier, Terry Austin and Viscardi. Someone's kidnapped an animated canine kids' TV show host, and Elvira's got the blues tracing the clues in "Tint's Hints!" Also, Elvira runs afoul of deadly spy queen Offa Trollez in "After a Fashion: Part 1"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Richard Howell and Frank Strom. Pencils by Dan Day and Chuck Frazier. Elvira guests on one of those "talk to the dead" syndicated shows, but something may be awry in the avenue to the afterlife in "Post to... Ghost!" Also, the evil Countess Trollez leads Elvira on an international chase in "After a Fashion: Part 2"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Art by Ronn Sutton, Gordon Purcell and Bill Anderson. Elvira gets miniaturized in "To Squash an Elvira!" Also featuring "Dread Carpet Treatment!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by Lynn Goldsmith. Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Art by Tod Smith, Ronn Sutton and Andrew Pepoy. Elvira and friends are surprised by Squid-Men looking for love in "Dangers on a Train!" Also, Elvira is sent by her boss, Roz Wyck, to a flea market to film an antiques-evaluation TV show for "sweeps week" at K-WHA? in "Delectable Collectibles!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by Lynn Goldsmith. Stories by Janet Hetherington and Richard Howell. Art by Tod Smith, Dan Day, Al Vey and Kim DeMulder. Elvira uncovers a jocular racetrack mystery involving enchantments, eveningwear and equestriennes in "The Uncanny Tale of Tea-Biscuit!" Also, Elvira becomes a guest celebrity at a local clown college in "Take Back the Delight!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Elvira meets four daredevil ghosts and helps fight a house-squatting monster, in "The Corporeally-Challenged Adventurers of the Unknown," by Hetherington, Sutton and Anderson! And a trip to a bird show brings Elvira into a showdown with the aviary empress Nefratiki, in "Winging It!", by Howell, Smith and Villagran. Photo cover. B&W, 32 pg. Cover price $2.50.

Elvira's raising public-TV funds is usually fun, but not when the demon Ka'ashkow is summoned and everyone has to give...'til it hurts, in "Wanted, Pledge or Alive!" by Strom, Smith and Lachance. Also, a junkyard show unearths old enemies, in "Rotten to the Core!" by Hetherington, Purcell and Patterson. Photo cover. B&W, 32 pg. Cover price $2.50.

Elvira's show, Movie Macabre, isn't broken--but station manager Rosalind Wyck still pays big bugs for a media/imaging consultant to 'fix' it, in "Monster Ratings!" by Strom, Day and LaChance. Also: Elvira is menaced by a potted plant-turned-evil in "Little Crop of Terror!" by Hetherington, Barreto and Manley. Photo cover. B&W, 32 pg. Cover price $2.50.

Elvira is drafted into planning the annual Monsters' Ball--but her selfless efforts are hampered by the zealot Captain Creature, enemy of all monsters, in "Party Monster!" by Strom, Sutton and Anderson. Also, Elvira's new cell phone has a spirit all its own, in "Ring-A-Ding Zing!", written by Hetherington. Photo cover. B&W, 32 pg. Cover price $2.50.

Elvira's pal Gardenia's stage musical is threatened until a spell enables Elvira to give the lead role her own spin, in "Broadway Sorcery of 2004!" by Howell, Cool and Wiacek. Also, in "It Takes Two to Tango-Tango" by Strom and Smith, Elvira's racy pin-up shoot lands her in danger! B&W, 32 pg. Cover price $2.50.

Santa's enchanted bookcase, his gift to Elvira for Christmas, unleashes all manner of contents from its books, including tough-guy author Ernest Chandler, in "Read 'Em and Weep!" by Strom, Sutton and Vey! Also, an experiment on cats has the fur flying, in "Pussies Galore!" by Howell and Barreto! Photo cover. B&W, 32 pg. Cover price $2.50.

It's Claypool Jump-In Month, featuring new-reader-friendly adventures! In "Stop the World...I Want to Stay Put!" (by Frank Strom and Eduardo Barreto), a demon attempts to steal Elvira's past, featuring a complete history of Elvira and her colorful cast of characters. B&W, 32 pg. Cover price $2.50.

Elvira and pal Roger Sporman create a low-budget monster snowman, which to their surprise goes on a rampage. Get ready for "That's Snow Biz!" by Frank Strom, Tod Smith and Louis Lachance. Also, "The Wedding Hammer" continues its battery of celebrity nuptials, with story by Hetherington. B&W, 32 pg. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by Lynn Goldsmith. Stories by Janet Hetherington. Art by Tod Smith, Anna-Maria Cool and Louis Lachance. Elvira, Spooky Suzie and Yvonne Lacey the lady werewolf are loosed into a fantastic garden maze and hunted like animals, courtesy of crazed sportswoman Hunter S. Bounty, in "The Most Dangerous Dame"! Also featuring "The Wedding Hammer Part 2: Three Weddings and a Funeral (Almost)"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Stories by Frank Strom, Janet Hetherington and Richard Howell. Art by Tod Smith, Anna-Maria Cool, Chris Miraglia, Al Vey, Joe Rubinstein and Marie Severin. Elvira's staging a threesome of fearsome: with publisher Huge Heftee in "Frightening Development!"; with celebrity nuptials in "The Wedding Hammer Part 3: My Big Fat Freak Wedding"; and with those cute Larry Plotter kids in "Favor of the Month!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Frank Strom and Kurt Busiek. Pencils by Tod Smith and Richard Howell. Publisher Huge Heftee's staging a competition for his 'Staymate of the Year' pictorial, pitting Elvira against the revivified Marilyn Monwoe and Jayne Renfield, in "Revival of the Fittest!" Also, Shaboo the Wolf Boy returns in "You Can Take the Boy Out of the Jungle…"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Frank Strom and Richard Howell. Pencils by Dan Day and James Fry. Provocative documentarian Mitchell Mohr claims that horror films desensitize viewers, and Elvira's a doubter, so they wager on whether Rosalind Wyck can be terrified enough to prove the point! Featuring "Elvira Exposed" and "Hoodoo Academy Part 1: Frat Night"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Frank Strom and Richard Howell. Art by Eduardo Barreto, Richard Howell and Joe Rubinstein. Elvira's the magic consultant of the new thriller by demon filmmaker M. Dark Shyvverman -- but she might want to quit when real demons take over in "Ghouls on Film!" Also, vampire wannabes disrupt fraternity hazings in "Hoodoo Academy Part 2: The Brotherly Hood"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by Mary Ann Halpin. Stories by Janet Hetherington and Richard Howell. Art by Ronn Sutton, James Fry, Al Vey and Bill Anderson. Elvira's kidnapped and brought into the Bemusa Triangle by a band of flyboy adventurers, to use her charms to restore their leader's sanity, in "The Mystery of Lady Falconeer!" Also, preppy werewolves run rampant at college in "Hoodoo Academy Part 3: All Fur One"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Janet Hetherington and Frank Strom. Pencils by Ronn Sutton and Tod Smith. Mass hallucinations threaten society, and they also disrupt the ratings for 'Movie Macabre.' To save her show, Elvira must call in "The W.I.N.D.Y. Agents!" Also, an Arabian knight spirits Elvira away into a search for treasure in "Sheik Yer Booty!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Art by Anna-Maria Cool, Dan Day, Bob Wiacek and Louis Lachance. Elvira's kissing up a storm, putting her mark on the males in Hollywood. Why's she staging a smooch-a-thon? Find out in "The Super-Floozy of Tinseltown!" Also, forensics expands to include magic in "S.C.I. - Supernatural Crime Investigation!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by David Goldner. Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Pencils by Ronn Sutton and Dan Day. Elvira's enlisted by professional evil-thwarter Doc Feral to stop a shipment of DVDs infected with deadly Fatalium in "Death Cargo of Doom!" Also, the mystery of the zombie joggers is solved in the conclusion to "S.C.I. - Supernatural Crime Investigation!" 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Cover Photo by Mary Ann Halpin. Stories by Frank Strom and Janet Hetherington. Art by Tod Smith, Ronn Sutton, Bill Anderson and Al Vey. Elvira's dopier villains have banded together to form the '4-S Club,' but they can't convince mega-menace Skelloween to join, so Elvira offers to help recruit the big sourpuss in "Holiday Humbug!" Also, Trick Dark's New Year's Eve Blast is the target of demonic activity in "This is Vinyl Crap: Part 1"! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.