PS ARTBOOKS
PRE CODE CLASSICS HORRIFIC HC
(A) Don Heck
Comic Media were a respectable publisher that produced two horror titles, Weird Terror and Horrific, and we've selected a few of these fabulous weird tales of terror issues here in this collection! The odd thing about these titles is that the publisher was convinced that faces sold comics; he insisted that every issue have some sort of a face dominating the cover, and Don Heck, his cover artist, eagerly obliged. Werewolf faces, monster faces, terrified faces -- always faces. Go get 'em, pronto, because by 1955 Don was recruited by Stan Lee and went on to be one of the architects of what became known as "The Marvel Age of Comics" so you won't be getting any more of those fabulous covers! Collects Horrific #4-8 (March to November 1953).
PRE CODE CLASSICS HORRIFIC SLIPCASE ED HC
(A) Don Heck
Comic Media were a respectable publisher that produced two horror titles, Weird Terror and Horrific, and we've selected a few of these fabulous weird tales of terror issues here in this collection! The odd thing about these titles is that the publisher was convinced that faces sold comics; he insisted that every issue have some sort of a face dominating the cover, and Don Heck, his cover artist, eagerly obliged. Werewolf faces, monster faces, terrified faces -- always faces. Go get 'em, pronto, because by 1955 Don was recruited by Stan Lee and went on to be one of the architects of what became known as "The Marvel Age of Comics" so you won't be getting any more of those fabulous covers! Collects Horrific #4-8 (March to November 1953).
PRE CODE CLASSICS THE BEYOND HC #5
(A) Lin Streeter
There's something spooky about the flight crew featured on the cover of the penultimate volume of Ace Magazines' The Beyond, and the scares don't end there, Captain, as, of course, you would expect with such a creative line-up of sketchers and scribblers featured in issues 21 through 25 from the glorious golden years, I mean, hey, we're talking Sy Grudko, Dick Beck, Lou Cameron, Jim McLaughlin, Lin Streeter, Ken Rice and Louis Zansky So don't hang about, when you thought it was gonna be safe to put your wallet away, think again cos here comes even more fun 'n' games in the form of ghouls and cadavers, vampires and ghosts! Collects The Beyond #21-25 (July 1953 to March 1954).
PRE CODE CLASSICS THE BEYOND SLIPCASE ED HC #5
(A) Ken Rice
There's something spooky about the flight crew featured on the cover of the penultimate volume of Ace Magazines' The Beyond, and the scares don't end there, Captain, as, of course, you would expect with such a creative line-up of sketchers and scribblers featured in issues 21 through 25 from the glorious golden years, I mean, hey, we're talking Sy Grudko, Dick Beck, Lou Cameron, Jim McLaughlin, Lin Streeter, Ken Rice and Louis Zansky So don't hang about, when you thought it was gonna be safe to put your wallet away, think again cos here comes even more fun 'n' games in the form of ghouls and cadavers, vampires and ghosts! Collects The Beyond #21-25 (July 1953 to March 1954).
PS ARTBOOKS AMAZING GHOST STORIES SOFTEE #1
MONSTER CVR
(A) Matt Baker
This material is heartily recommended for the more discerning horror comics reader. Surely boasting some of the most magnificent artists of sixty-plus years ago; Matt Baker, Ed Goldfarb, Edd Ashe, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Ray Willner, Sol Brodsky, Frank Giacoia, Bob Powell, Carmine Infantino, George Tuska, Dan Barry, George Roussos, Marvin Stein, Maurice Whitman, Anthony D'Adamo, Jerry Grandenetti, John Belcastro, Bill Benulis, Bill Discount and Art Peddy are captured within these pages... they'll have any self-respecting comicbook fan absolutely drooling! Collects Amazing Ghost stories #13-16 (October 1954 to February 1955) and Monster #1-2 (January, June 1953).
PS ARTBOOKS IT RHYMES WITH LUST SOFTEE
(W) Arnold Drake (A) Matt Baker (CA) Matt Baker
This "picture novel" has been called comics' first graphic novel. This also has the distinction of being the first comic book work by writer Arnold Drake of Deadman fame. The story is very much in the pot-boiler/noir genre featuring Hal Weber, onetime crusading journalist, who is summoned to Copper City by his old flame Rust after the death of her husband, mining magnate and political heavyweight Arthur "Buck" Masson. As editor of The Express, a newspaper with an anti-Masson stance secretly owned by Rust, Hal is drawn back to her even as he falls for her stepdaughter Audrey. Collects It Rhymes With Lust (1950).
PS ARTBOOKS MAGAZINE ANARCHO DICTATOR OF DEATH #0
(W) Otto Binder (A) Al Carreno (CA) Matt Baker
A complete adventure story in comic book form! This one-shot is an adventure of Radar the International Policeman, familiar from Master Comics, But sole cover billing goes to his foe Anarcho, whom Radar proceeds to battle all over the world in the course of a book-length story. Albert "Al" Carreno was born in Mexico City and attended the University of Mexico. First working as a caricaturist on the Chicago Daily News, later moving to New York and moving to comic book illustration, he worked variously at Fox, Fawcett, National, Prize, Marvel, Pines and Ziff Davis throughout the 1940's and 1950's. Collects Comics Novel #1 (1947).
PS ARTBOOKS WEIRD TALES OF FUTURE SOFTEE #2
(W) Various (A) Basil Wolverton (CA) Na
Bug-eyed monsters, two-timing homicidal husbands and wives, rampaging corpses and even one or two cases of severe halitosis or crossed-eyes. This title has the lot... including a better-than-healthy dose of the one and only Basil Wolverton! His intricately detailed grotesques of bizarre or misshapen people earned him the title of "Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet." Just the covers alone have had the gang at PS muttering in their sleep just crossing off the days that this baby would come along. Collects Weird Tales of the Future #5-8 (January to July 1953).