Snake-Women! Why did it have to be Snake-Women?

Charlton Comics had an ample amount of horror hosts for their various scary comics. Probably the most product of their time characters from out of the entire list was Winnie the Witch, a blue-skinned, green-haired mod mama who regularly wore giant sunglasses and a fashionable cape. Aside from Ghost Manor and Ghostly Haunts, Winnie would regularly be seen in Charlton's horror anthology Ghostly Tales, frequently drawn by Spider-Man creator Steve Ditko. One particular story had Winnie being pinned all over the pages as she narrated the tale "Kiss Of The Serpent" written by Joe Gill in Ghostly Tales #154 from 1966. Roger Swann was a pompous upper class twit living in London who went to great lengths to discover the lost temple of a Central American snake goddess of the made-up Mixtec tribe, even sleeping with the resident expert in ancient linguistics Miss Primm, a silver-haired fox that was swayed by his playboy tactics into giving him the data he needed for his expedition to locate the temple and all its treasure. He hired some locals to carry his gear but stop when they finally reach the temple which Swann is attacked by a large snake which he shoots dead. Once inside the Mixtec pyramid, he encounters a scantily clad priestess who dresses more like someone out of ancient Egypt instead of Central America. The priestess named Essissa worships Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec god of learning who according to her centuries before the Aztecs got their act together. Swann is immediately swept away by the nearly naked Essissa and starts making out with her after seeing her big diamond while being offered some spiked wine. Essissa however transforms into a naga-like creature with her lower half changing into a snake tail and bites Swann to death. Turns out the mousy Miss Primm was secretly working for Essissa and Quetzalcoatl who appears after Swann was killed by them which makes the reader how long they've been running this ponzi scheme. Did they run ads in old comics next to the whoopee cushion catalogs ensnaring greedy men into falling for their sacrificial swindle. Definitely one of the most elaborate but esoteric rackets in the history of horror comics!

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