The Undead Thread: Pre-Code Horror 21 21

[fifties]

12 hours ago, Black Bat said:

Lease share what books these are from! ?🙏

They Never Return - Mysterious Adventures 23

Fate Plays The Violin - Mysterious Stories 2

Ghost Town - Mysterious Adventures 18

The Hangman's Son - Captain Science 7

The Wage Earners - Weird Terror 1

Dream Of Horror - Strange Fantasy 9

[Black Bat]

These just in... both quite undead.

 

[Black Bat]

Been looking for a solid copy of this for years... finally came in from comicconnect april(?) auction.  Looks great in hand, the red sky and green wall, the guy with the trident in the back ground.  Fun stuff and worth the wait.  I usually avoid the "women being tortured" covers, but those skeleton hands look like they're gonna take good care of her..

 

[fifties]

It took them THREE MONTHS to send it to you?

[Electricmastro]

Spook Comics #1 (1946, Baily Publishing Company). Art by John Giunta.

[Jayman]

Spooky Mysteries Lev Gleason 1946 Series

Edited July 25, 2020 by Jayman

[Black Bat]

3 hours ago, fifties said:

It took them THREE MONTHS to send it to you?

 

My bad- 2 months. The action was May 20. 

Edited July 25, 2020 by Black Bat

[Black Bat]

Cover detached- looks like a 6?  Priced like a 3? Take!  Quite undead indeed!

 

[Robot Man]

9 hours ago, Black Bat said:

Cover detached- looks like a 6?  Priced like a 3? Take!  Quite undead indeed!

 

Love those “shot gun wedding” covers!

[RICK STARR]

On ‎7‎/‎24‎/‎2020 at 5:49 PM, Black Bat said:

Been looking for a solid copy of this for years... finally came in from comicconnect april(?) auction.  Looks great in hand, the red sky and green wall, the guy with the trident in the back ground.  Fun stuff and worth the wait.  I usually avoid the "women being tortured" covers, but those skeleton hands look like they're gonna take good care of her..

 

Great book

The hands are going to take care of this guy too.

[Jayman]

1 hour ago, RICK STARR said:

Great book

The hands are going to take care of this guy too.

Great book but ever since it’s been pointed out that there are 2 right hands, I can’t unsee it! 

[Frisco Larson]

[RICK STARR]

Doesn't anybody knock!!

 

[RICK STARR]

On ‎7‎/‎24‎/‎2020 at 10:08 PM, Electricmastro said:

Spook Comics #1 (1946, Baily Publishing Company). Art by John Giunta.

Nice copy of a very, very tough book. I regret selling my copy a couple years ago

[MrBedrock]

On 7/29/2020 at 12:22 PM, Jayman said:

On 7/29/2020 at 11:16 AM, RICK STARR said:

Great book

The hands are going to take care of this guy too.

Great book but ever since it’s been pointed out that there are 2 right hands, I can’t unsee it! 

Removed from want-list.

[Robot Man]

On 7/30/2020 at 11:14 AM, RICK STARR said:

Nice copy of a very, very tough book. I regret selling my copy a couple years ago

My attitude about selling books is, you finally land one, you sell it for mere money and at the end of the day you have no book and usually no money. I usually really try to keep my "regrets" to a bare minimum...

Edited July 31, 2020 by Robot Man

[Robot Man]

I also love this book!

[fifties]

1 hour ago, Robot Man said:

My attitude about selling books is, you finally land one, you sell it for mere money and at the end of the day you have no book and usually no money. I usually really try to keep my "regrets" to a bare minimum...

It wasn't always that way.  You'd buy a book, read it, and if it then didn't seem worthwhile to keep, you'd sell it and buy another.  That was my experience on eBay 20 years ago, and a reason I don't have many full runs.  Different world now.  The stories of a potential purchase can almost always be perused on one of several websites, save for EC and DC books, to determine if they are worthwhile.

 The raw horror books are getting harder to find because they are being slabbed, so that a zero or two can be added behind their offer price.  As a collector-reader I hate to see that, but $$$ talks.

[Jayman]

Spook-Fest 2020! 

[exitmusicblue]

Sheer breadth of titles is just stunning.  I wonder how many total different horror books were published in the GA.  Thousands, no doubt.