D.S. Publishing's short but memorable crime comic book line included the likes of Gangsters Can't Win and Pay-Off.
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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.
1954's Men's Adventures #26 from Marvel/Atlas is the debut of Kenneth Hale, who in recent years has been an Avengers associate and much more.
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.
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