Ryan B's Top 5 Comic Book Witches

"I put a spell on yooou, because your miiine."

And now that you are no doubt playing that song inside your own head, I suggest you also grab a cup of brew and hold on to your broomstick, because here comes a countdown of my top five bewitching women of comic bookdom.

Here comes...

Ryan B's Top 5 Comic Book Witches!

#5 - Mordred from DC's The Witching Hour

Mordred is what you'd call your classical witch. Just look at her! Old, ugly, pointy hat, black cat, broom. She's everything you could want a witch to be and she keeps to the old ways no matter what.

And that's about all she is.

A crotchety cliche who keeps the stereotype alive. Unfortunately that's also why she can't rise higher than number five.

#4 - Sabrina Spellman from Archie Comic's Sabrina The Teenage Witch

Sabrina is the cute, spunky girl next door... who also happens to be able to hang you upside down just by pointing her finger. So she's the girl next door if you happen to live in Transylvania. Luckily she's so gosh darn wholesome that she would never use her powers for true evil, only dating. Well, I guess you can't have everything in a woman.

#3 - Mildred from DC's The Witching Hour

The second of DC's "three witches", Mildred is the proverbial "mother". She's not the old crone or the young maiden, she's just the middle aged and slightly pudgy mom type in between. She knows the old ways like Mordred, but is close enough to her young daughter to know that sometimes the modern way works also. Speaking of her daughter...

#2 - Cynthia from DC's The Witching Hour

Wowza! That's one voodoo doll to stick a pin into.

Her look is so similar to Sabrina's that it feels almost on purpose (or maybe the younger witch generation just has a thing for headbands, I dunno), however, where Sabrina was the young, modern, sweet witch, Cynthia is the young, modern, SEXY witch. She's not afraid to stray into the dark side, even if her mother and grandmother sometimes disapprove of her modern methods of getting there, like buying freeze-dried eye of newt instead of fresh. She's the seductive sorceress type of witch from Greek legend and a horror hostess to boot just like her foremothers. She'll tease you with a chilling tale and then send you on your way without giving you any of hers, but that's why you come back for more.

#1 - The Old Witch from EC's The Haunt of Fear

Who else could it be?

She's the one who started it all. The first lady of horror comic witchery. None of the other ladies on this list would exist without this bag of bones here. She had the old crone thing going on, but this lady was no relic. She had a dark, creepy, lively sense of macabre humor when introducing her tawdry tales. She had charisma and, although she never did much magic, she always had a giant, simmering cauldron of... who knows what, but she was always stirring it and occasionally you could see limbs and skulls inside, so maybe you didn't want to know what it was after all.

She was the only female GhouLunatic, but appeared far more often than her male compatriots by getting an extra story at the end of every issue of Crime SuspenStories. It helps  her appeal (or maybe her appal) that she was mostly drawn with ghoulish dripping deformity by the great "Ghastly" Graham Ingels who gave her her trademark one bulgy blue eye.

Also, unlike the others on this list, Old Witchy got a whole story all to herself. An origin story explaining how she started out as the offensive offspring of an undead werewolf father and vampire mother, who were both buried and resurrected in a satanic cemetery before conceiving her. I think you'll agree that she deserves the number one spot on this list, because if you don't... well I'd watch out, she's got her eye on you.