The Undead Thread: Pre-Code Horror 21 21

[Dave Henson]

Black Cat Mystic 61

Another one I got back in the ‘90’s. This one was $25 from a great dealer named Bear. You’d remember if you ever dealt with Bear. He was missing both legs but that didn’t keep him from getting around. And I have to say he did look like a bear  . He had a code written on all the backing boards that he used to keep track of how much $$ he had in the book. It took a while but we solved the riddle of the Bear Code. We would help Bear setup his books at shows and take them down. He wasn’t lazy, but didn’t mind talking with other dealers while we did all the lifting!

But back to Black Cat. How are you getting values for your horrors? I’m using GoCollect to inventory them but they don’t have values for a lot of horrors. They list the sold prices from eBay, Heritage and Comiclink but so many books don’t have any recent sale data. I’m inventorying to finally get the books insured.

[Electricmastro]

[fifties]

3 hours ago, Dave Henson said:

 

 

But back to Black Cat. How are you getting values for your horrors? I’m using GoCollect to inventory them but they don’t have values for a lot of horrors. They list the sold prices from eBay, Heritage and Comiclink but so many books don’t have any recent sale data. I’m inventorying to finally get the books insured.

The best way to value a collectible is simply by way of closed sales.  eBay of course is the usual path, CL and HA would be another.  These books by and large don't come up for sale that often anymore, as they used to.  I'm guessing partly because they are sitting in collections, as mine are, and not available for sale.  I'm afraid the Overstreet guide is hopelessly inaccurate for the genre.

[Electricmastro]

[Dave Henson]

I was so happy with my first submission to CGC that I’m sending off a few more next week. 

 

 

[Jayman]

1 hour ago, Dave Henson said:

I was so happy with my first submission to CGC that I’m sending off a few more next week. 

 

 

These books make me happy whether or not they get submitted or not! Very nice! 

[Electricmastro]

[Electricmastro]

Was interested to learn about the recurring horror features that were in comics from 1940-1947, before Adventures into the Unknown helped popularize the horror genre in comic books, and this is what I came across:

Weird Tales (1940, Quality):

Frankenstein (1940, Prize):

Madam Satan (1941, Archie):

Tales From the Witch's Cauldron (1942, Archie):

Stories of the Black Witch (1942, Archie):

Ghost Stories (1942, Fawcett):

The Werewolf Hunter (1944, Fiction House):

Grimm - Ghost Doctor (1944, Elliot):

Grey Mask (1944, Temerson):

Mr. Nobody (1944, Temerson):

Satan (1944, Temerson):

Famous Tales of Terror (1944, Charlton):

Arch Oboler's Lights Out (1944, Street and Smith):

The Man in Black (1945, Harvey):

Sergeant Spook (1945, Novelty):

Ghost Gallery (1946, Fiction House):

Unknown (1946, Ace):

The Heap (1946, Hillman):

Edited June 29, 2020 by Electricmastro

[Black Bat]

1 hour ago, Electricmastro said:

Was interested to learn about the recurring horror features that were in comics from 1940-1947, before Adventures into the Unknown helped popularize the horror genre in comic books, and this is what I came across:

Weird Tales (Quality, 1940):

 

Frankenstein (Prize, 1940):

 

Madam Satan (Archie, 1941):

 

Tales From the Witch's Cauldron (1942, Archie):

 

Stories of the Black Witch (1942, Archie):

 

Ghost Stories (1942, Fawcett):

 

The Werewolf Hunter (1944, Fiction House):

 

Grimm - Ghost Doctor (1944, Elliot):

 

Grey Mask (1944, Temerson):

 

Mr. Nobody (1944, Temerson):

 

Satan (1944, Temerson):

 

Famous Tales of Terror (1944, Charlton):

 

Arch Oboler's Lights Out (1944, Street and Smith):

 

The Man in Black (1945, Harvey):

 

Sergeant Spook (1945, Novelty):

 

Ghost Gallery (1946, Fiction House):

 

Unknown (1946, Ace):

 

The Heap (1946, Hillman):

 

Dude!!  Nice work!!  Thanks so much!!!

[Electricmastro]

More early horror stories:

The Vampire (1939, Centaur):

Satan (1941, Harvey):

Dr. Horror (1941, Lev Gleason):

House of the Walking Dead (1943, Harvey):

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1943, Gilberton):

The Inner Sanctum (1943, Street and Smith):

Dr. Vampire (1944, Chesler)

Vampire Moon (1944, Temerson):

The Roads We Take (1944, Temerson):

Phantom Bridegroom (1944, Temerson):

Three Shall Die (1944, Temerson):

Graves Ghost Hunter (1945, McCombs):

Ghost Woman (1945, Cambridge House Publishers):

No Face (1945, Temerson):

Sentence of Death (1945, Temerson):

A Matter of Text (1945, Temerson):

Mister Lucifer (1946, Baily Publishing Company):

Madame Nobody (1946, Temerson):

Lucifer's Lush (1946, Harvey):

Dead Man's Tale (1947, Avon):

Doctor Holmes (1947, Lev Gleason):

Edited June 29, 2020 by Electricmastro

[Black Bat]

Damn this batch is even more bad than the first!  Satan! Dr. Horror!  And perhaps the first appearance of the walking dead???? There's some pretty heavy stuff here- surprised so much precedes the PCH era.   

[mstrange]

1 hour ago, Electricmastro said:

More early horror stories:

The Vampire (1939, Centaur):

Satan (1941, Harvey):

Dr. Horror (1941, Lev Gleason):

House of the Walking Dead (1943, Harvey):

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1943, Gilberton):

The Inner Sanctum (1943, Street and Smith):

Dr. Vampire (1944, Chesler)

Vampire Moon (1944, Temerson):

The Roads We Take (1944, Temerson):

Phantom Bridegroom (1944, Temerson):

Three Shall Die (1944, Temerson):

Graves Ghost Hunter (1945, McCombs):

Ghost Woman (1945, Cambridge House Publishers):

No Face (1945, Temerson):

Sentence of Death (1945, Temerson):

A Matter of Text (1945, Temerson):

Mister Lucifer (1946, Baily Publishing Company):

Madame Nobody (1946, Temerson):

Lucifer's Lush (1946, Harvey):

Dead Man's Tale (1947, Avon):

Doctor Holmes (1947, Lev Gleason):

What books are these from??

[Electricmastro]

14 minutes ago, mstrange said:

What books are these from??

Amazing Mystery Funnies #v2#2 (February 1939)

Pocket Comics #1 (August 1941)

Capt. Battle Comics #2 (Fall 1941)

All-New Short Story Comics #3 (May 1943)

Classic Comics #13 (August 1943)

Super-Magician Comics #v2#7 (November 1943)

Skyrocket Comics (1944)

Suspense Comics #2 (February 1944)

Suspense Comics #4 (June 1944)

Terrific Comics #4 (July 1944)

Suspense Comics #5 (August 1944)

Crown Comics #1 (1945)

Star Studded Comics (1945)

Suspense Comics #8 (June 1945)

Suspense Comics #9 (August 1945)

Suspense Comics #10 (Winter 1945)

Spook Comics #1 (1946)

Suspense Comics #12 (September 1946)

Black Cat #3 (December 1946)

Eerie Comics #1 (January 1947)

Crime Does Not Pay #53 (July 1947)

[fifties]

I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight...

[Electricmastro]

Cool page from Beware #15. Art by John Forte:

[fifties]

[Hap Hazard]

7 hours ago, fifties said:

HangMan's Son I've always considered a underrated classic.

[Electricmastro]

Splash page from Mysterious Adventures #6. Art by Lou Cameron.

[Jayman]

Voodoo 7

[Black Bat]

On 7/3/2020 at 11:30 PM, fifties said:

Lease share what books these are from! ?🙏