Matt Baker covers always have a story to tell, but the cover of Giant Comics Editions #15 contains a complete romance story arc.
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Legendary artist Matt Baker and writer Dana Dash combine romance and science in this wild story for St. John's Teen-Age Romances #12.
Collectors Summit is an event geared towards serious collectors of Golden Age to Bronze Age comic books, pulp magazines, original artwork.
The "Death Wheel" in 1952's Tim Holt #30 cover by Frank Bolle has long been a matter of interest to people who research the Zodiac killer.
Suspense Comics #3 may get all the attention, but Suspense Comics with L.B. Cole covers are worth Pre-Code Horror collectors' time.
Tomb of Terror #16 from Harvey Comics in 1954 features an unusual mix of science fiction and horror behind a lurid Lee Elias cover.
The cover of Punch Comics #20 by distinctive stylist Paul Gattuso is a good example of the weirdly horrific style of the series.
Mysterious Adventures is an important Pre-Code Horror title with some classic covers and a publisher who leaned into the controversy.
Joe Maneely's wild cover for the 1954 Marvel/Atlas release Astonishing #30 is a perfect match for the lead story of this issue.
Mister Mystery #11 featured one of the most memorable covers of the Pre-Code Horror era by Spectre co-creator Bernard Baily.
Lev Gleason editor/creator Charles Biro sometimes seemed to use Daredevil Comics as an excuse to create a series of bizarre villains.
After a brief pause, the Harry "A" Chesler comic book line returned to comics in 1944 with Bulls-Eye Comics #11 featuring Lady Satan.
In Captain Science #7, Captain Science & Luana take on a Vampire Planet that intends to suck the life out of earth, Galactus style.
In an important moment for Pre-Code Horror, American Comics Group and Ace Magazines waged a war involving the usage of "Unknown."
Horrific #1's cover image is based on the interior story "The Dancer of Death" a creepy twist on the Danse Macabre or Dance of Death concept.
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.
Before the Guardian and the Newsboy Legion there was Captain Freedom and the newsboy gang called the Young Defenders in Speed Comics.
Ace Magazines did a one shot horror book in 1950 that has a pretty sweet cover, and you can snag it at Heritage Auctions.
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.
Early 1950s Fiction House series Ghost Comics rivals even EC Comics for horror, suspense, and adult situations in the pre-Code comics era.
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.
Marvel's original Werewolf by Night story appeared in Marvel Tales #116, cover-dated July 1953 in a Pre-Code Horror classic.
The creature on Norman Saunders' Stories from Another World #4 cover may look like a zombie, but it turns out to be something even worse.
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.
Eddie Bentz pulled off some of the most legendary bank robberies in American history and some of the proceeds to fund his collecting habits.
Magno the Magnetic Man was the underappreciated star of Ace Periodicals' long-running Super-Mystery Comics title, debuting in issue #1 in 1940
Mel Keefer's cover for the 1953 Toby Press release Tales of Horror #8 features a giant monster rampaging in New York City.