Black Magic (1950-1961 Prize/Crestwood) comic books 1953 or later

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Cover by Jack Kirby. Art by John Prentice, Alden McWilliams, Manny Stallman, George Roussos, Bob McCarty, Bill Draut, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 20 on cover; listed as Vol. 3, issue #2 in indicia. A circus strongman is haunted to madness by the sound of his victim's footsteps. A man faces grim torture, but his torturer gets his comeuppance. Pilots who fly too fast find themselves growing younger. Birth After Death; Hatchet Man; Pied Piper of Flame; Ruby Riddle; The Patter of Little Feet!; Oddities in Miniature - The Strangest Stories Ever Told!; The Malay Boot!; Paid in Full; Crash Report. 44 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Jack Kirby. Art by John Prentice, Alden McWilliams, Manny Stallman, George Roussos, Bob McCarty, Bill Draut, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 21 on cover; listed as Vol. 3, issue #3 in indicia. A feathered snake god appears to a tourist at an ancient ruin. A scientist sends a volunteer 500 years into the past. A visitor to Germany's Black Forest encounters a Brigadoon-like enchanted village, but only for one night. The Feathered Serpent; Warning Voice!; The Practical Joker; Vigil; Valley of Phantoms!; The Mind Reader; The Magic Million; A Ghost Story! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Jack Kirby. Art by John Prentice, Alden McWilliams, Al Eadeh, Bill Walton, Harry Lazarus, Bill Draut, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 22 on cover; listed as Vol. 3, issue #4 in indicia. A man tells the tale of his abduction by saucer aliens. A strange table in a restaurant captures the spirits of people who sit there. Mutant Herman has terrifying mental powers...but he also has an equal. The Monsters on the Lake!; Death by Magic; Fletcher's Talent!; Stanwick's Theory!; Ready to Retire; Horrible Herman!; Barbados Burial Vault; The Only Job; The Soul Catcher! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Jack Kirby. Art by George Roussos, Mort Meskin, Al Eadeh, Harry Lazarus, Bill Draut, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 23 on cover; listed as Vol. 3, issue #5 in indicia. An artist's latest painting foretells a woman's death. A woman whose boyfriend died has horrifying dreams, which her psychiatrist is happy to explain. A woman strangles men with her living hair, similar to the powers of the later Marvel character Medusa. Those Who Are About to Die!; The Faces of Death!; Race with Death!; Land of the Dead; The Guiding Light; Peg ONeils Ghost; Evil Spirit! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Jack Kirby. Art by George Roussos, Mort Meskin, Al Eadeh, Harry Lazarus, Bill Draut, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 24 on cover; listed as Vol. 3, issue #6 in indicia. A farmer trades his infant for a changeling, which grows into a monstrous being. A man is haunted by a female ghost. The Changeling; His Own Business; After I'm Gone; Strange Predictions; The Lady Is a Ghost; Stars of Fate; The Shadow; Bring Back the Dream!; As Real As Life! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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# 25 on cover. Vol 4 No 1 inside. Cover art by Jack Kirby. Strange Old Bird!, art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby; Did Miss Stewart find a Phoenix bird that allowed her to start her life over? The Human Cork, art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. The Light text story. The Romantic Souls!, art by Al Eadeh. The Crash text story. Human Bloodhound!, art by Harry Lazarus. A Beast Is in the Streets!, pencils by Jack Kirby. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Jack Kirby. Art by George Roussos, Mort Meskin, Al Eadeh, Harry Lazarus, Bill Draut, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 26 on cover; listed as Vol. 4, issue #2 in indicia. A strange little man gives petty hood Archie everything he dreams of. An eerie astrologer warns a woman to beware of Scorpio. A wind summoned by natives threatens to destroy colonial island settlements. Fools Paradise; The Beast in You!; The Wish; The Sting of Scorpio; The Strange Antics of the Mystic Mirror; The Voice; Demon Wind! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Jack Kirby. Art by Steve Ditko, Harry Lazarus, Bob McCarty, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 27 on cover; listed as Vol. 4, issue #3 in indicia. A man encounters transforming Cat People, similar to but less subtle than the earlier film of that title. A visiting American hears ghostly bagpipes and sees spectral dancers in an old Scottish castle. A strange skull sends three people into the distant past, in one of the first published stories by comics legend Steve Ditko (and completed by fellow legend Jack Kirby). The Cat People; A Hole in His Head; The Nightmare; The Merry Ghosts of Campbell Castle; Ghost Pictures; Murder?; Don't Call on the Dead! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Jack Kirby. Art by Steve Ditko, Harry Lazarus, Al Eadeh, Bill Benulis, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 28 on cover; listed as Vol. 4, issue #4 in indicia. A zombie needs eyes. A carnival owner uses his pet ape Bobo to keep his daughter from dating the wrong man. A man reveals his fear of being buried alive, in one of the first published stories by comics legend Steve Ditko. Plus an extra-creepy cover by Kirby. An Eye for an Eye!; Thought Transfer!; Screaming Doll; The Light Beyond; Alive After Five Thousand Years; Great Injustice; The True Story of Miss Fancher's Living Death!; The Crystal Ball; Buried Alive! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

# 29 on cover. Vol 4 No 5 inside. Cover art by Jack Kirby. The Monsters of St. Laurant, art by Bob McCarty. The Greatest Horror of Them All, art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby; Johnny lives in Sanctuary where other deformed people live free from the prying eyes of the public; He falls in love with Elena, the lovely secretary, until he learns her secret. No Cure text story. Madame Cyanide and Master Tricks!, art by Steve Ditko. Message from a Murder Victim!, art by Al Eadeh. The Flying Dutchman, art by Al Eadeh. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

# 30 on cover. Vol 4 No 6 inside. Cover art by Jack Kirby. The Head of the Family!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Bruno Premiani; When Francie Bleeker falls in love with Hugan Fesker she decides she must discover the secret of the Fesker family. Mental Murder text story. Ghost in the House, pencils by Al Eadeh. The Devil, You Say?, art by Ernie Schroeder. Lover, Come Back to Me. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Jack Kirby. Art by Ernie Schroeder, Mort Meskin, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 31 on cover; listed as Vol. 5, issue #1 in indicia. A deformed man is the object of cruel attention. Alien insects conquer Earth and find humans particularly delicious. A man is discovered running with a wolf pack. Gargoyle; A Dish of Jello; Slaughter-House!; The Half-Men!; Three Million Bucks; Hungry as a Wolf! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Jack Kirby. Maniac!, art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby; Tom Mason wanted nothing more than to protect his poor handicapped brother Harry. Facts on Witchcraft, art by Harry Lazarus. The Monsters, art by Bill Draut. It text story. The Little People, art by John Belfi. Welcome Home text story. The Devil Doll, pencils by Mort Meskin, inks by George Roussos. 36 pgs. $0.10. #32 on cover 32, Vol. 5 #2 inside. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Jack Kirby. Art by Bernard Baily, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 33 on cover; listed as Vol. 5, issue #3 in indicia. Nuclear tests create a mutant shark as smart as a human, as divers are horrified to discover. An undead she-creature stalks fugitives from justice on a remote island. Vampires awaken, and they're hungry. Lone Shark!; The Strangest Facts; Apprentice; This Time You'll Die!; Wake up the Dead!; The Ring; Mister Tree. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Joe Orlando. Art by Marvin Stein, Ted Galindo and Joe Orlando. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 34 on cover; listed as Vol. 6, issue #1 in indicia. Civil War soldiers are horrified to discover that their dead sergeant is immortal. Visitors to France learn the terrifying secret of the Carnac standing stones. Anne's dance partner at a masquerade party has a suspiciously realistic devil costume. First issue to feature the Comics Code seal on the cover. The Immortal Sergeant; Trick or Treat; The Legend of Karnak; The Hidden Doors; X-Ray Eye; The Masquerade! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Joe Orlando. Art by Marvin Stein, Ted Galindo and Joe Orlando. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 35 on cover; listed as Vol. 6, issue #2 in indicia. A killer is stranded in the jungle after a plane crash, and only an old man can guide him to safety. A treasure hunter finds the secret to immortality deep in the Florida Everglades. An aging space explorer is forced into retirement. Man Alone; Mirage; The Immortal; The Old Man; Valley of the Giants; Ghost Pilot. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Joe Orlando. Art by Marvin Stein, Ted Galindo, George Klein and George Tuska. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 36 on cover; listed as Vol. 6, issue #3 in indicia. Invaders from space attack the Earth, but they aren't prepared for its secret weapon: a non-nonsense farm wife. A mysterious voice guides a traveler stranded in a storm. A painting makes a man grow younger by the second, but he can't stop the process. Secret Weapon; Superstitions; The Man from Nowhere; Ashes of Hate!; Outer Space; The Portrait. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Joe Orlando. Art by Marvin Stein, Ted Galindo, and George Tuska. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 37 on cover; listed as Vol. 6, issue #4 in indicia. Claim jumpers steal a prospector's gold mine, but can't quite kill him. A man has a year to decide whether he was a coward for letting a woman drown after a shipwreck. Small-time hoods are out of their league when they try to shake down a mysterious visitor to a secret government outpost. The Gold Mine; Superstitions; Cancelled Debt; The Survivor!; Pilgrimage; Stranger in 313. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Joe Orlando. Art by Marvin Stein, Ted Galindo, and George Klein. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 38 on cover; listed as Vol. 6, issue #5 in indicia. A man learns to foretell the future from a mystic in India, but only uses it for evil. A retired showbiz legend won't let a little thing like death keep him from playing a scheduled gig. A scientist finds himself in the futuristic world of the year 2008, with flying cars and a strange secret. The Mystic; Superstitions; The Last Role; The Impossible; Satellite; The Test. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Joe Orlando. Art by Marvin Stein, Ted Galindo, and George Klein. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 39 on cover; listed as Vol. 6, issue #6 in indicia. A scientist pursues a mysterious figure through a mountaintop blizzard. A farmer creates the perfect food, but it comes at a terrible cost. A killer escapes the gallows, only to find that no one can see him. The Abominable Snow Man!; Superstitions; Food for Thought; The Phantom Ship; Haunted Castle; Double Trouble. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by George Klein. Art by Marvin Stein, Ted Galindo, Harry Lazarus and George Klein. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 40 on cover; listed as Vol. 7, issue #1 in indicia. Human settlers on the moon must endure attacks by hostile moonmen. A man cannot his escape his destiny to be a shipping clerk. A struggling writer finds success by working on a famed author's typewriter. The Intruders; Superstitions; Flight; The Valley of Forever!; Reversal; Writing Machine. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by George Klein. Art by Marvin Stein, Ted Galindo, Joe Orlando and George Klein. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 41 on cover; listed as Vol. 7, issue #2 in indicia. A man gets lost in a London fog and finds himself in the Renaissance. A self-obsessed star gets a visit from someone who's seen fame and its aftermath. A sailor finds a fortune in treasure on an uncharted island. The Doorway; Superstitions; The Lonely One; Show of Confidence; Out of the Past; Davey Jones' Locker. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Ted Galindo, Dick Ayers and Paul Reinman. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 42 on cover; listed as Vol. 7, issue #3 in indicia. A Sputnik-era story about the moon landing gets the dates wrong, but predicts the shape of future spacecraft and technology with some accuracy. Crooks try to use an experimental quick-freezing technique for their own devices. A sailor can't get anyone to believe his tales of seeing a mermaid. Cover features possible art by Joe Simon. Jaspers Jungle; The Counterpanes; The Man Who Cried Mermaid; Man Reaches Moon!; Those Who Vanish; Strange Obituary; The Night of August 9th. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Dick Ayers and Angelo Torres. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 43 on cover; listed as Vol. 7, issue #4 in indicia. Two con artists with a successful fortune-telling scam begin to mistrust each other. A hood uses the "Indian Rope Trick" to escape police, but ends up trapped in another dimension. A man uses an ancient crystal ball to transport himself to other worlds for adventure. Cover features possible art by Joe Simon. Please Let This Be a...Nightmare!; A Warning; The Message; All the Angles; When Your Number Is Up; Panic; The Crystal! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Ted Galindo, Dick Ayers and Angelo Torres. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 44 on cover; listed as Vol. 7, issue #5 in indicia. A cat begins acting like her dead owner. A fortune-teller has the last laugh on a skeptic. Two boys hear plans for an alien invasion through the static on their TV. Despite the cover, the issue does not feature Hitler leading an alien invasion. I Flew Over The Big Wall; Picture Of Mystery; Voice from Space; No Time Like The Present!; Where Is Murdock?; Eloise; Beyond The Darkness! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Ted Galindo, Dick Ayers and Bob Powell. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 45 on cover; listed as Vol. 7, issue #6 in indicia. A scientist in the future year 1980 uses his time-communicator to stop a giant octopus attack. A German soldier learns the horrifying connection among Albert Einstein, the Hindenberg, and the atomic bomb. A woman realizes that her novelist brother can summon characters into the real world, in a story suspiciously similar to a Twilight Zone episode that aired the year before. Man Against Time; Imaginary Friend; The Vision; The Man Who Knew; The People from Nowhere; Star Gazer; The Magic Marker. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Ted Galindo, Dick Ayers and Bob Powell. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 46 on cover; listed as Vol. 8, issue #1 in indicia. A hypnotist contacts a man's past life as a pirate and learns the location of his treasure. Crooks try to get a scientist's valuable new invention out of its mysterious, indestructible box. An aging man finds the secret to woo the young woman he loves, in a surprisingly tender tale of the macabre. The Man Who Was L'Aiglin; Magic Lamp; What's in That Box?; Only Two Will Return; Voodoo; Star Gazer; Domono! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Steve Ditko, Ted Galindo, Dick Ayers and Bob Powell. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 47 on cover; listed as Vol. 8, issue #2 in indicia. A master engineer creates a particularly clever deathtrap, and hides a valuable gem at its heart. Explorers find a massive skeleton on an alien planet, in a story "borrowed" from Joe Orlando's "The Fossil" in Weird Fantasy (1950 E.C. Comics) #22. Black Fog is a Steve Ditko horror story, presented just a year before the debut of the Amazing Spider-Man. Lathan's Folly; Ashes to Ashes; Stop Watching Me; Maid of Iron!; Black Fog; Guts; The Living Proof. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Art by Ted Galindo, Dick Ayers and Bob Powell. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 48 on cover; listed as Vol. 8, issue #3 in indicia. An Old West con man who promises a cure-all meets a Native shaman who's got the real thing. A strange creature emerges from the burning heart of an Earth fissure and takes on human form. Astronauts crash on the planet where Earth has sent its "Anti-Democracists and Totalitarianists," in a story "borrowed" from Bernie Krigstein's "Derelict Ship" in Weird Fantasy (1950 E.C. Comics) #22. Big Medicine; The Gravimonster; Strange Voices; Dancing Ghosts of Geinsche-Warnecke; The Calling; Derelict Rocket. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Bob Powell. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 49 on cover; listed as Vol. 8, issue #4 in indicia. Caged gorillas in a traveling sideshow get the chance to turn the tables on their captors. A well-intentioned frog-monster from space can't get humans to listen to him, in an amusing spoof of 1950s monster movies. An inventor trusts his burrowing machine and its robot pilots to get to the center of the Earth. Also featuring an early ad for Sick magazine, Prize's long-running answer to Mad magazine. Caged; Fear; The Monster; Companion; Late Snack; Carrier; Earth's Core. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Art by Ted Galindo, Dick Ayers and Bob Powell. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 50 on cover; listed as Vol. 5, issue #5 in indicia. A man ill-advisedly summons his exact duplicate from a book of demonology. A manual laborer on Mars dreams of traveling the stars, in a story "borrowed" from Jack Kamen's "Round Trip" in Weird Science-Fantasy (1954 E.C. Comics) #28. A scientist's son almost unleashes a T-Rex on the modern-day world. The Double Man; Dead End; Chain Letter; A Cry for Help; Way Out; Dinner at Seven; On Time; Watch on the Rhino. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.