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).