Interesting topic, Yowza (and welcome to the boards!).

Off the top of my head:

There was a pretty good comics adaptation of "The Outsider" by a guy named Alec Stevens -- this was years and years ago, I don't even even remember which magazine it was published in. I'll see if I can track it down.

*Edit: It's in a mag called PRIME CUTS, issue #1, from Fantagraphics, way back in 1987. GCD says Stevens also adapted "The White Ship" in another Fantagraphics comic called ANYTHING GOES (#4, 1986).*

Marvel did an adaptation of "Haunter of the Dark" in one of their short-lived horror anthologies in the '70s (CHAMBER OF CHILLS maybe) as well as the Robert Bloch story it sequelized, "The Shambler From the Stars". Neither was all that great, as I recall.

*Edit: They're in JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #3 and #4.*

Around that same time, Marvel incorporated Cthulhu Mythos-type elements in the Dr. Strange strip in MARVEL PREMIERE for about six issues. Not a literal adaptation by any means -- in fact, they tried to pass off the Mythos stuff as being "based on concepts created by Robert E. Howard", either because Howard was way more commercially "hot" at the time, or maybe they didn't want to license the Lovecraft material through Arkham House but had a good relationship with the Howard estate, who knows. But the comics clearly owe more to HPL than REH -- there's an Innsmouth-type town, a degenerate witch-cult, Shamblers from the Sea, etc etc.

Didn't Rich Corben do "The Rats in the Walls" as a one-shot graphic novel? Again, I'll see if I can track it down through GCD or something. 

*Edit: Couldn't find anything on "Rats" -- maybe I dreamed it! Did find an interesting item: an apparently "All Lovecraft Issue" of the underground SKULL COMICS, issue #4. Adaptations of "Cool Air", "Pickman's Model", and "The Hound".

Which reminds me -- Berni Wrightson did an excellent adaptation of "Cool Air" in EERIE #62. Probably the best HPL comics adaptation I'VE ever read.*



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