In Captain Science #7, Captain Science & Luana take on a Vampire Planet that intends to suck the life out of earth, Galactus style.
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L.B. Cole's cover for Jay Disbrow's Lost World-style feature Morass of Death makes Terrors of the Jungle #4 a 1953 Pre-Code Horror classic.
The stories in Fiction House's 1953 classic Monster #1 center around themes of combining science and the supernatural with terrible results.
Months before the launch of the Comics Code,1954 Marvel/Atlas release Journey Into Unknown Worlds #27 featured "Somewhere Waits the Vampire"
Suspense #7 has a lead story from the legendary Gene Colan, creator of Falcon, Carol Danvers and Blade, at the beginning of his comic book career.
In which the elusive Liberty Comics #14 gives us a hook into understanding the sometimes murky world of the comic book industry of its era.
D.S. Publishing's short but memorable crime comic book line included the likes of Gangsters Can't Win and Pay-Off.
One of the most famous crime comic books of the Pre-Code era, True Crime Comics #3 features work by the legendary Jack Cole.
Mel Keefer's cover for the 1953 Toby Press release Tales of Horror #8 features a giant monster rampaging in New York City.
The history suggests that Matt Baker was brought in to cover St. John's Amazing Ghost Stories to provide it with a very different look.
Strange Mysteries was an obscure Pre-Code Horror title for the American market from Toronto publisher Superior Comics, lasting 1951-1955.
Ace's PCH series The Beyond #2 features a classic vampire cover from Harvey Comics legend and Richie Rich creator Warren Kremer.
Menace #7's "The Witch in the Woods" by Stan Lee and Joe Sinnott in 1953 was a reaction to the comic book moral panic in the media of the era.
Adventures into the Unknown from publisher ACG is a vastly underrated comic book series which launched with stories by Frank Belknap Long.
Crime Does Not Pay #33 is one of the most-collected issues of the most notorious series in comic book history.
The Marvel/Atlas Venus series ended with a seven-issue run with covers, stories, art and even letters by legendary creator Bill Everett.
The Propeller-Head Monster by Gus Ricca for Chesler's Dynamic Comics #18 is one of the artist's strangest covers of the Golden Age.
Web Of Evil #20, a pre-code horror book from 1954, will remind you of another big, green atomic-inspired monster from that era.
Lev Gleason's Daredevil #24 from 1944 features a rather lurid Punch and Judy cover by Charles Biro, with an interior story to match.
Tales Of Horror is a book with some of the best pre-code horror covers around by the legendary Myron Fass, and is classic Pre-Code Horror.
A copy of Menace #6 from 1953 is currently up for auction and it has a few notable points including from one John Romita.
This cover for Beware #12 from 1954 is crazy cool, and probably scared people back then. Go to Heritage Auctions to buy it.
Welcome to "The Walking Dead", written by Stan Lee, from Marvel and featuring zombies - buried corpses rising from the grave - in 1954,
A famous pre-code horror comic, issue 27 of The Beyond, is taking bids at Heritage Auctions right now, and worth a look.
Lou Fine's classic early covers for Quality Comics' Hit Comics make the early issues of the series highly sought after by collectors.
Eastern Color Printing's 1934 debut of Famous Funnies launched one of the most important series in American comic book history.
Best remembered as the album cover of Molly Hatchet’s 1979 Flirtin’ With Disaster, Frank Frazetta's painting Dark Kingdom has sold for $6M.
Issue nineteen of Real Facts Comics, up for auction from Heritage Auctions today, has a cover by the late great Curt Swan.
One of the coolest werewolf covers ever, for Beyond #1, is taking bids at Heritage Auctions today. Check this thing out.
Perhaps the most notorious comic book title of all time, Crime Does Not Pay featured some wild covers by Charles Biro and others.