The Secret Nazi Zombies Of WWII!!

The Third Reich had a secret scientific project to save the wear for them!

Well, Hitler is impressed by this development...

And the Allied forces have no defense!

Hitler dances a zombie jig!

Not so fast, dude.

A literal fog of war descends on the battlefield. And the zombies are so stupid, they get turned around and start attacking their own troops!

And so Hitler is less happy!

Well, having the zombies respond only to Sporich's voice is a pretty big design flaw, if you ask me. So the scientist rushes to the front to restore zombie order.

[What, they never thought to prerecord his voice giving orders? Or set up a radio link? Or...]

But his plane crashes in the fog! So when Sporich finally gets to the front...

I'd advise you to talk through the pain, mister...

Too late!

Anyway, the fog clears, the air support bombs the zombies to pieces...and Hitler is really, really not happy now!

And so the secret of Nazi science-zombies was lost to history!

From Creepy #35 (1970)

Kirby And Simon Created The Walking Dead 75 Years Ago!

It seems like every day, Bowery bums run amok.

Today is no different, but...

Well, that was unpleasant.

Who's behind this?

Why, it's the Lord Of Death!! And he immediately calls his best bud in Germany!

A million a job? What a steal!!

Soon, when Steve and Bucky were on patrol at the docks...

Well, leave it to Steve to recognize:

Not even mere zuvembis--ZOMBIES!!!

Soon it's like a scene out of Romero...

But Captain America doesn't put up with such tomfoolery!!

Oh yeah?!?

Even drowning won't kill these saboteur zombies!!

The Lord Of Death continues his reign of terror, sending out his, well, walking dead to wreak havoc and chaos:

Holy crap!!

Well, Cap & Bucky stop this latest wave (SPOILER ALERT: hand grenades!).

But they have yet to get to the root of the problem. So, since bums are being kidnapped to make these zombies, our heroes disguise themselves as bums!

And it works!

Of course, Lord Of Death must monologue!

Still, you're up against Captain America, so...

Which, of course, leads to the most famous phone call of all time...

Kirby and Simon--having society overrun by zombies decades before those other pretenders...

From All-Winners Comics #1 (1941)

Best Cover You've Never Seen--2000 AD #1384 (2004)!

Cover by Frazier Irving.

Manic Monday Bonus--Zombie Gorllas!!

Yuck...Monday. And double yuck--Monday after losing an hour yesterday.

You know what we need to wake us up?

ZOMBIE GORILLAS.

(With mechanical brains).

You might think this an odd concept, but in Eastern Europe, even the local peasants are familiar with the concept:

That was Ernie Chan and Mike Royer giving us zombie gorillas (with mechanical brains). What about Jack Kirby's version?

You're welcome.

Walking Dead The Sandman#3 is from 1975.