CLAYPOOL COMICS FOR DECEMBER

DEADBEATS #75

Story and art by Richard Howell and Ricardo Villagran, cover by Richard Howell and Louis Lachance.

As the "Year of Climaxes" concludes, detective Mike Trigger uncovers the secret behind the roving city Chiroptolis and--along with Kirby, Mason, and Dakota Kane--invades it, to battle the bat-god Murcielago and discover the fates of the kidnapped Adam and Rachel Collier, in "The Unkindest Cult of All!"

32 pages, black and white, $2.95.

ELVIRA #152

Lead story by Frank Strom, Tod Smith and Al Vey; Second story by Janet Hetherington, Ronn Sutton, and Bill Anderson.

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!!"

32 pages, black and white, $2.50.