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ACG COLL WORKS ADV INTO UNKNOWN SOFTEE #14
(W) Various (A) Harry Lazarus (CA) Na
The "original horror comic" Adventures into the Unknown in our SOFTEE format from PS Artbooks, featuring the issues #78-83 of the seminal 50's title. Just when it got into its stride! With the artistic and storytelling talents of legends such as Ogden Whitney, John Rosenberger, Kurt Schaffenberger, Harry Lazarus, Pete Costanza and Emil Gershwin. They gave us heroes, spacemen, aliens, monsters, ghosts, wizards and witches enough to satisfy all growing ghouls and boys! Collects Adventures into the Unknown #78-83 (November 1956-April 1957).
PRE CODE CLASSIC ADVENTURE COMICS HC #1
(W) Various (A) Joe Kubert (CA) Joe Kubert
Classic Adventure Comics is just like those old Saturday morning cinema clubs -there's the Son of Sinbad securing the release of the slave girl and recovering a fortune in gems and jewels in the process. Daring exploits of US foreign agents during the Cold War in Secret Missions, and The Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu, and High Adventure and Great Exploits! All reproduced completely from cover to cover, featuring some of the best comic book talent including Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, Wally Wood, Alvin Hollingsworth, Bernie Krigstein, Frank Borth, Art Peddy, Morris Waldinger and Enrico Bagnoli. Collects Son of Sinbad #1 (1950), Secret Missions #1 (1950), The Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu #1 (1951), High Adventure #1 (1957), and Great Exploits #1 (1957).
PRE CODE CLASSIC ADVENTURE COMICS SLIPCASE ED #1
(W) Various (A) Joe Kubert (CA) Joe Kubert
Classic Adventure Comics is just like those old Saturday morning cinema clubs -- there's the Son of Sinbad securing the release of the slave girl and recovering a fortune in gems and jewels in the process. Daring exploits of US foreign agents during the Cold War in Secret Missions, and The Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu, and High Adventure and Great Exploits! All reproduced completely from cover to cover, featuring some of the best comic book talent including Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, Wally Wood, Alvin Hollingsworth, Bernie Krigstein, Frank Borth, Art Peddy, Morris Waldinger and Enrico Bagnoli. Collects Son of Sinbad #1 (1950), Secret Missions #1 (1950), The Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu #1 (1951), High Adventure #1 (1957), and Great Exploits #1 (1957).
PRE CODE CLASSIC TERRIFIC HC
(W) Various (A) Don Heck (CA) Na
Weird Tales of Terror spun by the Master of Horror "The Teller" and his Team of Terrors - Garry Ghoul, Freddie Demon, Victor Vampire and Walter Werewolf, whose faces gloriously adorn the covers. 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 with Don Heck at the drawing board, his cover artist, he eagerly obliged. So, with the obvious answer staring you in the face you four-color fiends - go get 'em pronto! Collects Horrific #9-12 (January-July 1953) and Terrific #14 (December 1954).
PRE CODE CLASSIC TERRIFIC SLIPCASE
(W) Various (A) Don Heck (CA) Na
Weird Tales of Terror spun by the Master of Horror "The Teller" and his Team of Terrors -- Garry Ghoul, Freddie Demon, Victor Vampire and Walter Werewolf, whose faces gloriously adorn the covers. 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 with Don Heck at the drawing board, his cover artist, he eagerly obliged. So, with the obvious answer staring you in the face you four-color fiends -- go get 'em pronto! Collects Horrific #9-12 (January-July 1953) and Terrific #14 (December 1954).
PS ARTBOOK MAGAZINE PRESENTS H RIDER HAGGARDS SHE
(W) H Rider Haggard (A) Henry C. Kiefer (CA) Vince Napoli
Stories by Famous Authors Illustrated #3 presents She by H. Rider Haggard (as Sir Rider Haggard) adapted by Dick Davis, with artwork by Henry Kiefer and Vincent Napoli. This is the world famous and renowned fantastical adventure featuring Leo Vincey, who told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to discover the land and its secret of immortality, said to be contained within a mystic fire. Eventually they stumble upon Kor, revealed to be a hidden civilization ruled over by an immortal queen, called She, who believes Vincey is her long-lost lover John Vincey, Leo's ancestor.
PS ARTBOOK MAGAZINE PRESENTS TOR
(W) Norman Maurer (A) Joe Kubert (CA) Joe Kubert
Tor the prehistoric warrior, is a loner whose only true friend is his pet monkey, Chee-Chee. Joe Kubert described Tor as superior to the others in his clan, with an extra spark of humanity, who was instinctively striving for a better, more civilized way of life and with thanks to the work and obvious love that went into the series, what might have become a standard adventure strip, with man battling monster within the unusual prehistoric-world settings and situations was actually elevated to art! We're absolutely positive your gonna love the thrills, adventure and danger that lurked on prehistoric earth everywhere one million years ago! Collects 3-D Comics #2.
PS ARTBOOKS KONA MONARCH MONSTER ISLE SOFTEE #1
(W) Sam Glanzman (A) Sam Glanzman (CA) Victor Prezio
Debuting in DELL's Four Color Comics #1256 (February 1962) before his own self-titled series started a few months later with issue #2. KONA saves the lives of Dr. Henry Dodd, his daughter Mary and his grand children Mason and Lily after this group crashes their army surplus airship on the prehistoric Pacific island Monster Isle that KONA calls home. Befriending them, KONA becomes their protector and saves them from many huge array of animals and monsters. Scripted and drawn by Sam Glanzman, and featuring superbly painted covers are by Victor Prezio. Collects KONA Monarch of Monster Isle #1-4 (February/April to October/December 1962) plus Reptilicus #1 (August 1961).