According to 2 recognized Comic Book Historians, J. David SpurlocK and Roger
Hill... this cover was NOT done by Wally Wood. I provide the following
communications with them as evidence proving so...

Roger Hill... Not by Wood. It's a Sid Check cover. Check out a copy of my EC
FAN-ADDICTS FANZINE and you'll learn more about this cover, and about Sid
Check.

J David Spurlock... Wood shut down his original Story-Art Studio in Manhattan
in the Fall of 1950, to move to a house in Rego Park, Queens, NY. So, despite
Check continuing to show Wood influence after working in Wood's studio, post
Fall of 1950 (cover dates around New Years '50-'51), contributions to Sid's
assignments by Wood or Orlando are unlikely. Though unlikely, it isn't
impossible that at some time, on some crash deadline, Sid might have sent out a
call for help. In fact, that is how Frazetta and Angelo Torres first met. Sid
called Williamson for help but as Al was tied up, he called his friends
Frazetta and Torres both of whom turned up at Sid's place and met there.

Roger Hill... This cover has been mis-credited to Wood for many years. These
old photostats turned up in the defaulted storage locker of Sid Check many
years ago. I wound up with a lot of this material, which I wrote about in my EC
FAN-ADDICT FANZINE #2 and #3. Check was a guy who liked to keep photostats of
his art before he turned it in to the publishers. Note the differences between
these two. Check probably had to get pencils approved by the editor (like a lot
of artists did) before finalizing his inks. And, you'll note that even the
inked stat here was not final. The editor made Sid do a paste-over on the
vampire's face, and drop out some of the background, plus make a change to the
coffin before it could go to press. And his signature got removed from the
final cover too. Par for the course in those days. Background removal happened
on other Avon covers during the 1950s. Probably because Sol Cohen (the Editor)
was a bit strict about how he wanted things to be.