by Richard Corben
from Eerie No. 86, September 1977
UPDATE: After consultation with reader Turtle, I found the 'missing' prologue page that accompanied this comic when it was first printed in black and white in Creepy No. 70 (April 1975). Subsequent color reprintings deleted the prologue page.
I guess Jim Warren was too cheap to make the story an 8-pager when he 'recycled' it for the 1977 Eerie issue.........