Two Silver Bullets

"'...It's eyes ... even burning like they were ... were strangely human!' - Maria"“Two Silver Bullets” is a black-and-white horror and supernatural comic story written by Don Glut with art by Reed Crandall. It was first published in September 1969 in the first issue of the horror magazine Vampirella, published by Warren Publishing, along with several other comic stories as part of the anthology.

Plot Summary
In Canda, a young girl, Marie, is attacked by a vicious wolf. She screams for her father's aid and he runs over and shoots the wolf dead center, but the wolf doesn't react. He shoots it twice in the skull, but the animal only stares at him with red "almost human" eyes before running off.

Marie and her father retire to their cabin where they nurse Marie's wounds, she has a scratch on her shoulder from the wolf, and her father examines his gun for faults. The father comes to the realization as he stares at the full moon--it was a werewolf that attacked them. He leaves the next morning with a plan to get rid of the wolf.

And Marie is left behind in the cabin but she finds herself haunted by strange dreams and feelings. She dreams of running with the wolves and wishes to find the wolf who attacked her in order to be with him.

The father seeks the advice of the local priest who offers him two silver bullets to kill the beast.

At night, the wolves begin to howl. Marie runs out to join her new pack and her father discovers she is missing from her room. He panics and assumes she has been kidnapped by the mad wolves and rushes out to save his daughter.

He finds two wolves and using his two silver bullets he shoots them both; as he stares at the "almost human" eyes of one of the wolves he realizes who she is, but it is too late.

He rushes forward to the dead human bodies of a young man and his daughter and begins to mourn.

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 * Vampirella Archives Vol. 1