Three Times A Scream Queen

After a big one-shot hit in 1947, Avon Periodicals figured they'd wait four whole years before giving Eerie its own ongoing series. The anthology was praised for introducing stand-alone horror stories, but despite the praise Avon still tried to skimp out on paying for original cover art since three of its issues all had the exact same model on it. First in Issue 5, the cover drawn by Sid Check who went on to work for EC Comics, the lady shown here is a brunette who was dumb enough to walk into an Egyptian tomb and get cornered by a living mummy. This is a standard of scream queens with some hopeless dame glued to the floor while some menacing monster slowly creeps up on them, but Avon liked the image of this particular cover girl so much that they bleached her hair and used her again twice. The next time this final girl shows up is on Issue 9, although this time its drawn by Sheena artist Jay Disbrow highlighting a specter strangling a guy in a graveyard while his doting lady friend just stands there like an idiot. A few months later, Alvin Hollingsworth who was one the first black comic artists ever got stuck with reusing the exact same dimwit damsel on Issue 13, only this time she's outside of a front yard of a house filled with skulls as a zombies strolls up to her as she is shocked with awe unable to move her undrawn feet. The weird part was, Issue 13 was a variant of Issue 4 which also has a zombie chasing a trespasser off his lawn, so Eerie had a nasty habit of regurgitating similar cover art. Aside from the rotating swipe of the same character with different hair, Avon was usually less thrifty when it came to the actual stories their recycled covers had in Eerie.