Welcome to "The Walking Dead", written by Stan Lee, from Marvel and featuring zombies - buried corpses rising from the grave - in 1954,
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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.
A copy of Mystic Comics #2 from the second volume is currently up for auction at a 5.0 CGC grade from Heritage Auctions.
Arguably, Gang Busters was the precursor of today's True Crime podcasts, spinning out of the True Crime magazine of the thirties.
Heritage Auctions has something very rare taking bids today, a super clean copy of Federal Men Comics #2, with a Joe Shuster cover.
Doll Man was created by Will Eisner for Quality Comics in 1939, and was the first depiction of a superhero with shrinking powers,
Ghost Rider saves the day, but not in the way you expect. No, this is the original Rider, and he is taking bids at Heritage Auctions now.
Published in 1952, Farrell Publications' Voodoo Annual #1 is a 100 page squarebound Pre-Code Horror rarity containing Matt Baker art and more
American icon Uncle Sam became a comic book superhero in Quality Comics title National Comics, adapted for this purpose by Will Eisner.
During the Pre-Code era, the New York Legislature had issues with a Pre-Code Horror story drawn by Don Rico in Marvel Tales #97 in 1951.
Lev Gleason editor/creator Charles Biro sometimes seemed to use Daredevil Comics as an excuse to create a series of bizarre villains.
Bang-Up Comics #1's Lady Fairplay, had "unlimited energetic powers" making her "goddess of chastisement and dreaded foe of the underworld."
Chesler's Major Victory Comics #1 reprints his origin from Dynamic Comics #1, but includes the all-new debut of the Golden Age Spider-Woman.
Before the X-Men, Professor X was a criminology professor in Captain Flight Comics who knew everything there was to know about crime.
Inspired by World War II, the Korean War, and the looming Cold War, the war comics of the 1940s and 1950s have a strange history behind them.
Fiction House changed Rangers Comics from what was essentially a superhero title into a long-running war comic book series.
Best remembered for his creation of the Human Torch and other Golden Age work, Carl Burgos did hundreds of Marvel covers in the 1950s.
"The Island that Disappeared" in Atomic Attack #8 from Youthful Publications was inspired by Operation Ivy.
Spy Smasher remembers the Battle of Wake Island on the cover of Fawcetts's Spy Smasher #8 shortly after that history took place.
In what seems to have been a franchise reboot attempt, Captain Battle's son completed an important mission and saved his dad in the process.
Aviation-themed covers were a large part of the early era of L.B. Cole's career as a comic book cover artist.
Fiction House's Ranger Comics launched featuring the Rangers of Freedom, a costumed hero-centric group who faced the villain SuperBrain.
Heritage Auctions has a classic issue of Airboy Comics taking bids today, and the creator list for the issue will make your head spin.
Created by Chesler art director Charles Sultan, Punch Comics #1's Sky Chief, was a reflection of the aviation history of the era.