Here’s the original caption: “It is no ordinary Halloween party that is making the spooky house on the hill jump with gloomy glee. It is the grimly hilarious gathering of some of the most ghastly—but also most likeable—ghouls that ever crawled out of a graveyard at midnight. And fittingly, their transportation also came from the most decrepit automobile graveyard in all Christendom. Hollowed out pumpkins with triangular eyes and gruesomely grinning mouths dot the sinister landscape like Chinese lanterns at a Victorian garden party. The merry mood of prankish malevolence is inherent in the gnarled and twisted and jagged trees and in the bats and cats and owls that abound and in the two vultures sitting in the foreground like venomous vagrants waiting for a carcass to turn up. And over the whole scene the full moon casts a sickly glow while a baneful spider spins a great sparkling web of stardust from earth to sky. And the only normal thing that looks on this unhallowed revelry is a little ground squirrel peeking aghast from its snug burrow. The cover is the work of Victor A. Vaccerazza (Vic Vac), Globe-Democrat chief artist.” Actually the ground squirrel looks a lot like Chip from the Chip and Dale Disney cartoons. This cover painting has TEN cats in it, nine black ones and one tuxedo. The Auto Graveyard concept is complicated and fun to look at. The cobweb is printed in a special ink which sparkles on the original Sunday magazine cover. This cover is the last one I have from the Vic Vac Halloween series. I don’t know when Vic Vac stopped doing these special covers, he retired from the Globe-Democrat and passed away in 1990. I hope y’all have enjoyed this special series. I’ve heard NO comments at all about them. Happy Halloween!
Vic Vac’s Auto Graveyard
October 30, 2026
Childhood Nostalgia, St. Louis Comics History
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Mark
Here’s the original caption: “It is no ordinary Halloween party that is making the spooky house on the hill jump with gloomy glee. It is the grimly hilarious gathering of some of the most ghastly—but also most likeable—ghouls that ever crawled out of a graveyard at midnight. And fittingly, their transportation also came from the most decrepit automobile graveyard in all Christendom. Hollowed out pumpkins with triangular eyes and gruesomely grinning mouths dot the sinister landscape like Chinese lanterns at a Victorian garden party. The merry mood of prankish malevolence is inherent in the gnarled and twisted and jagged trees and in the bats and cats and owls that abound and in the two vultures sitting in the foreground like venomous vagrants waiting for a carcass to turn up. And over the whole scene the full moon casts a sickly glow while a baneful spider spins a great sparkling web of stardust from earth to sky. And the only normal thing that looks on this unhallowed revelry is a little ground squirrel peeking aghast from its snug burrow. The cover is the work of Victor A. Vaccerazza (Vic Vac), Globe-Democrat chief artist.” Actually the ground squirrel looks a lot like Chip from the Chip and Dale Disney cartoons. This cover painting has TEN cats in it, nine black ones and one tuxedo. The Auto Graveyard concept is complicated and fun to look at. The cobweb is printed in a special ink which sparkles on the original Sunday magazine cover. This cover is the last one I have from the Vic Vac Halloween series. I don’t know when Vic Vac stopped doing these special covers, he retired from the Globe-Democrat and passed away in 1990. I hope y’all have enjoyed this special series. I’ve heard NO comments at all about them. Happy Halloween!