Don't Cry Werewolf!

Steve Ditko was one of the undisputed masters of the comics craft, especially in his more than underappreciated efforts during the Bronze Age. Yes, he designed Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, but he did some of his best work for less renown publishers like Charlton in Issue 106 of their horror anthology Ghostly Tales. Mr. Dedd hosts this terror tale about Marilee who is a rather attractive blonde reporter for a movie magazine determined to interview the reclusive old horror film actor Anton Corvu, so after watching one of Corvu's old werewolf flicks she and her boyfriend Josh head towards his estate where they are denied entry by Corvu over the speaker phone. Not giving a tinker's cuss for private property, Marilee hops over the mansion wall while Corvu decides to pull a Scooby-Doo by putting on his old werewolf makeup to spook his trespasser. Marilee is chased by a hairy lycanthrope inside Corvu's house where she finds his monster makeup room where she's convinced the coot is just trying to scare her off but begins to play just a little too rough. In retaliation, Marilee picks up a gold Oscar trophy and bashes him over the head with it knocking the big bad wolf down dead. After the police arrive, they find out that Corvu wasn't wearing makeup at all but was a genuine werewolf as the hair and fangs were real. Normally this would violate the rules of monster killing, but it turns out that the Oscar was silver plated, even so that doesn't explain how the silver entered into the werewolf's body. Silver isn't like the werewolf version of Kryptonite in that just being around silver would kill it as it has to actually pierce the flesh to slay the monster. The method for destroying monsters varies from writer to writer, but Joe Gill's script didn't seem to take supernatural tradition into account when he penned this odd offshoot.