The Pre Code Horrible Covers: Celebrating the lame attempts of horror 2 2

[Jayman]

2 minutes ago, retrocomics said:

Ha,  I always liked that cover. I mean, c'mon, a skeleton wearing a chain linked visor? Awesomeness

I like it too, that's my copy. But c'mon man, as far as a scary horrific cover goes? Ole Skelly even bored his fellow co-workers to death! 

[Robot Man]

Here's one. I bought this because it was cheap pre-code horror. I hoped the inside might be better but it wasn't. Never did finish reading it...

[catman76]

21 hours ago, Scrooge said:

I've never cared for this one. Neither the girl's posture nor the monster's face and design do it for me. Still I have a copy ...

 

The girl looks like a cut and paste job to me. She just sticks out from the rest, isn't even looking at the thing or reacting in the right direction and how she is positioned she would be coming out of the table if you could see behind the wording. The editor or whoever probably saw that cover without the girl and said stick a girl in there and someone cut the girl from some other cover or something and stuck it in there quick.

[retrocomics]

4 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

Here's one. I bought this because it was cheap pre-code horror. I hoped the inside might be better but it wasn't. Never did finish reading it...

I have to agree. A genie riding in a wrecking ball submarine shooting a witchopus? 

[Robot Man]

4 minutes ago, catman76 said:

The girl looks like a cut and paste job to me. She just sticks out from the rest, isn't even looking at the thing or reacting in the right direction and how she is positioned she would be coming out of the table if you could see behind the wording. The editor or whoever probably saw that cover without the girl and said stick a girl in there and someone cut the girl from some other cover or something and stuck it in there quick.

Looks like the standard Avon horror girl. Most of the Eerie books with covers by Woody share the same girl in the same pose.

[TheFifthHorseman]

H-A-T-E this gd cover

WTF is that thing??

Edited July 30, 2017 by TheFifthHorseman

[Jayman]

36 minutes ago, TheFifthHorseman said:

H-A-T-E this gd cover

WTF is that thing??

The Crawling Horror? 

But seriously I getcha. If they made the beastly translucent and showed skeletal bones of the men inside it being dissolved, it would've been a much better cover! 

[Jayman]

2 minutes ago, Jayman said:

 

23 hours ago, Scrooge said:

I've never cared for this one. Neither the girl's posture nor the monster's face and design do it for me. Still I have a copy ...

 

The girl looks like a cut and paste job to me. She just sticks out from the rest, isn't even looking at the thing or reacting in the right direction and how she is positioned she would be coming out of the table if you could see behind the wording. The editor or whoever probably saw that cover without the girl and said stick a girl in there and someone cut the girl from some other cover or something and stuck it in there quick.

 

Plus the guy in the background handwashing mini sausage links isn't too scary either!

[retrocomics]

3 hours ago, TheFifthHorseman said:

H-A-T-E this gd cover

WTF is that thing??

This is what crawls out of my P.F. Changs box from the fridge after I forget about it for six months. 

Edited July 31, 2017 by retrocomics

[atomic1950s]

On 7/29/2017 at 7:20 PM, retrocomics said:

This title is full of stinkers, covers and stories both, but here is one of the worst.

 

Haha that is awesome, I don't think I could hate any pre code cover no matter how corny.

[exitmusicblue]

So far the original post still wins it for me, I almost started cracking up at that face... 

[retrocomics]

8 minutes ago, exitmusicblue said:

So far the original post still wins it for me, I almost started cracking up at that face... 

It is quite mesmerizing, though

 

[retrocomics]

Here's one that is on the verge. The red hooded skeletal creature looks pretty cool. That's where it ends. Why he's humping a very phallicesque gargoyle, I don't know. 

[atomic1950s]

5 minutes ago, retrocomics said:

Here's one that is on the verge. The red hooded skeletal creature looks pretty cool. That's where it ends. Why he's humping a very phallicesque gargoyle, I don't know. 

That...that is just plain weird.

[Jayman]

This title has been mentioned earlier. Not my copy but This is THE silliest werewolf cover EVER!

 

[rjpb]

I think ACG is going to rule this thread, with a little competition from Ace. 

[retrocomics]

20 minutes ago, rjpb said:

I think ACG is going to rule this thread, with a little competition from Ace. 

I would have to agree. ACG=Annoying Comic Garbage. For the most part.

[szav]

Am I the only one feeling the urge to collect these now?

[retrocomics]

Ok, let's give Ace a go. Here's one that is just goofy for me. A ghost Knight with the menacing name of Sir Reginald. A treasure chest that's barely unearthed but seems just as big as the damn castle. Just goofy.

[TheFifthHorseman]

This cover literally has nothing weird spooky or supernatural going for it. A black cat? Yeah okay.

At least have some blood running down the stairs