Chilling Adventures in Sorcery by Gray MorrowMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Chilling Adventures in Sorcery collects isssues #1-7 of the Red Circle horror title of the same name.
Since I've gone all in on the Archie horror line, I picked this up, not reading what the contents actually are. Aside from the Red Circle super hero titles, I'm pretty ignorant of the non-teenage Archie-style books Archie put out in the past.
The seven issues within contain horror approved by the Comics Code, albeit in 1973 after the code was relaxed a bit. The stories themselves are nothing spectacular, watered down DC style tales, much like what DC was doing on House of Mystery and House of Secrets in the early 1970s.
The art wound up being the big attraction here. Gray Morrow has his hand in many of the tales, drawing, writing, or both and really tears it up on art. How Gray Morrow never had a long run on anything for the Big Two, I'll never know. Alex Toth does a single story, as does Howard Chaykin. The first two issues feature horror done in the Archie house style and those wound up being my favorite just because of how unusual the approach was.
Story wise, Chilling Adventures in Sorcery was average but the abundance of Gray Morrow art raises the grade to a 3.5.
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