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Vampirella's final issue, featuring a cover by Martin Hoffman, his sole Warren appearance. Jose Gonzalez provides art on the table of contents page.

The first of two Vampirella stories is first, "The Walker of Worlds" by Jose Gonzalez (art) and Rich Margopoulos (story). Vampi encounters the Walker of the title, a mysterious man who walks around with a large number of floaing eyes. The Walker figures out that Vampi won't love him since she loves Adam, so he goes to kill Adam. Vampi is able to convince him that she isn't worth his love however by saying its okay to kill Adam, and he leaves the both of them alone. Gonzalez's art is extremely good here.

Second is the Fox, in "Shadows of the Mind" by Luis Bermejo (art) and John Ellis Sech (story). Will gets very sick, so Sha Ming heads into his mind to help him. There she encounters various enemies including Will himself who tries to kill her. She stops him and in the real world he gets better. A rather poor end to this saga, with Bermejo's art being quite bad compared to how good he used to be.

Third is the latest segment in "Torpedo" by Sanchez Abuli (story & art). Luca is hired to take out a rival mob boss. He does so by using a woman friend to sleep with the man and lead him right into a place where Luca is hiding. He plans to kill the woman whom he had promised half the proceeds to, but she turns the table on him and escapes with her life, the money, and his car.

Fourth is "Ransom" by Auraleon (art) and Michael Fleisher (story). A man's wife is kidnapped, so he goes to the police, who plan to hand over the money they requested, but when the man heads into the house, the police announce themselves, causing his wife's death. The kidappers are killed in a car crash shortly after discovering that the suitcase of cash they were given was actually filled with newspaper. The real cash was taken by the man, who planned this all, including the announcement from the police to kill his wife and get away with the money.

Fifth is "Limbo" by Esteban Maroto (story) and Bill Dubay (story). Aliens from the planet Limbo encounter the barbarian Krak, who they argue on whether to bring back to their planet, where their race is being attacked by evil lizard creatures. The male, Enore thinks they shouldn't bring Krak to their planet, bringing violence to their people, while Leejah, the female thinks they should bring him back. Eventually they go along with Leejah's plan and Krak kills numerous lizard men while Enore is killed. With the lizard men defeated however, Leejah regrets bringing so much violence to Limbo in the first place.

Last is another Vampirella story, "Feeding Frenzy" by Gonzalo Mayo (art) and Rich Margopoulos (story). Vampi and Pantha, reunited, are on a cruise when suddenly the cruise is taken over by terrorists. The terrorist leader wants to take those on the ship hostage and force society to stop using nuclear energy, as he was in a power plant that had a meltdown. Vampi, whose blood substitute was destroyed goes on a rampage and kills all the terrorists in her blood lust except for the leader, who goes crazy.

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Enrich's final Warren cover kicks off this issue of Vampirella. Jose Gonzalez provides a table of contents image of Vampirella.

First up is "A Feast of Fear" by Jose Gonzalez (art) and Rich Margopoulos (story). This issue features a murder mystery where Vampirella and Adam investigate. It ends up that a demon a woman summoned went out of control. Vampi and Adam are able to defeat the demon, but unfortunately for Vampirella she and Adam find it hard to redeem their prior romantic relationship.

Next is "The Masque of the Red Death", an adaption of the classic Poe story by Auraleon (art) and Rich Margopoulos (story). This classic tale tells of a plague that arises, killing many. Prince Prospero and his friends barricade themselves in a castle safe from the plague, and won't let any of the sick people in. They hold a ball where a mysterious masked man arrives with a skull like face who touches them, causing them to all die of the plague themselves.

Third is "Jeremy" by Paul Gillon (art & story), the latest story in this series. The pirate ship that Jeremy is on heads to an island where they are fought by new enemies. Later Jeremy takes advantage of an internal scuffle to escape along with Dona Aurelia.

Fourth is "Torpedo" by Alex Toth (art) and Sanchez Abuli (story). Luca, our hero from the previous story is attacked by a young boy, the orphaned son of one of his victims. Luca flashes back to how the man, who was a good friend of his was killed by him years ago in order to keep the mob from coming after him. Another pretty good story in this series, which would continue, without Toth in the next issue.

Fifth is another Auraleon drawn story, "Nightwind", featuring a story by Gerry Boudreau. A young man murders one of his father's tenants, a young black woman who he had fallen in love with but was forbidden from being with. His arrest and pleading of guilty due to insanity sparks an uproar that between a mob of black men and the young man and his father, with them all end up perishing.

Sixth is "The Queen of Souls" by Esteban Maroto (art) and Bill Dubay (story). My favorite story of this issue, this story also features some very good art by Maroto. The Queen of the Valley of Souls encounters a handsome man, Tristan, and his lover in the woods. The Queen asks him to become her husband, but he refuses so she kills her lover. He still refuses her demands and decides to kill himself instead. The Queen, desperate to bring him back to life finds her advisors and servants no help, until she finds an old woman who tells her of a boatman in a valley. She heads there and he brings her to 'The Dark Pit of Torment', where she finally finds him. He tells her there is no escape however, that they are in hell, where she is trapped forever and faces an eternity of torment.

The issue concludes with "Tales of Lost Drakulon" by Gonzalo Mayo (art) and Bill Dubay (story). This story was to kick of a new sequence of Vampirella stories, featuring Vampirella in her youth. With Vampirella coming to a quick end due to Warren's bankruptcy only this story was made in this serial. The story features Vampirella as a teen (still wearing her usual costume) and Tristan trying to save some lizard creatures on Drakulon. A very short story at only 4 pages long.

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Yet another Enrich cover starts off this issue of Vampirella. Jose Gonzalez provides artwork for the table of conents.

First is "Spawn of the Star Beast" by Jose Gonzalez (art) and Rich Margopoulos (story). Vampi once again fights a star beast who arrives on Earth from a meteor and starts attacking people so it can spread its spawn around the Earth. Vampi and Conrad are able to defeat the monster.

Next is the second part of "Sweetwater Nessie" by Auraleon (art) and Don McGregor (story). Our heroes look for the Loch Ness Monster to photograph it, but instead it ends up being captured and apparantely killed. The series ended abrubtly here and was not concluded in Vampi's two final non-reprint issues.

Third is "Circus Monstrous", which ended up being Pantha's final story. Art is by Jose Ortiz and story is by David Allikas. Pantha along with Arrowsmith search for a man who can turn into a Panther like her. They arrive at a circus with a freak show with many part animal part human freaks. The freaks are all artificial, products of surgery but end up getting revenge on the owner and turn him into a freak like them.

Fourth is "The Beast Lies Sleeping", the latest 'The Fox' story, by Luis Bermejo (art) and Nicola Cuti. Our heroes continue with their quest, this time heading to an archaeological site. By this point I've grown pretty bored with this series.

Fifth is the third part of "Jeremy" by Paul Gillon (story & art). Rudy Nebres provides an uncredited first page. Jeremy has headed out to sea, only to be picked up by a group of pirates. There he is forced to be a servant for a young girl who is a hostage of theirs. Eventually some man of war ships arrive, there is a big battle and the ship is destroyed, but both Jeremy and the girl, Dona Aurelia make it out okay.

Last story is "Torpedo, 1936" by Alex Toth (art) and Sanchez Abuli (story). This story was originally printed in the spanish version of Creepy. It features a hit man who falls in love with a girl he has been hired to kill, so he lets her live and uses her clothes to claim credit for killing her. Eventually the money runs out and she starts seeing other men behind his back, so he ends up hiring someone to kill her.