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DEABEATS #77

Story and art by Richard Howell and Ricardo Villagran, cover by Richard Howell and Joe Rubinstein.

The only vampire who's immune to Kirby Collier's corrosive blood is his other-world counterpart. Now Vampire Kirby intends to destroy his rival, heedless of the fact that Kirby is crucial in the town's mission to prevent the disaster that's fated to destroy Mystic Grove, in "The Game is Afoot!"

32 pages, black and white, $2.50.

ELVIRA #156

Lead story by by Frank Strom, Tod Smith and Louis Lachance; second story by Janet Hetherington, Ronn Sutton, and Hilary Barta.

Elvira's incredible journey drops her on the Red Planet into a war between the four-armed Fershoomians--led by the heroic Jean Cartier--and their primate enemies "The Ape Pirates of Mars!", part three of "The Outer Burroughs!" Also, Elvira's beauty day is interrupted by aliens, in "Spa Tront!!"

32 pages, black and white, $3.50.