CLAYPOOL COMICS FOR AUGUST

ELVIRA #160

Lead story by Richard Howell, Eduardo Barreto and Josef Rubinstein, second story by Frank Strom, Tod Smith, and Bob Wiacek.

Elvira's moviemaking remote up a rainforest river lands her in danger from a local exotic -- an evil goddess, in "The Lady Elvira!" Also, Elvira's foray into graverobbing at gunpoint yields surprising results: animated skeletons, in Part Two of "The Good, the Bad ... and the Even Worse!"

32 pages, black and white, $2.50.

DEADBEATS #79

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

Christine's frightening descent into madness takes her to a vision of her own future ... as a murderous, undead creature of the night -- unless her friends can prevent her unknown attacker from killing her and transforming her into a vampire, in "Lost, Lonely, and Wretched !"

32 pages, black and white, $2.50.