PS Artbooks Softee: Classic Horror Comics TPB (2023 PS Artbooks) comic books
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Published Sep 2022 by PS Artbooks.$20.00
$20.00
Haunted Thrills #7 Cover
Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects Haunted Thrills (1952) #3 and 7, Terrifying Tales (1953) #12, Weird Chills (1954) #1 and 3.
We've unearthed some more little horrors for our second volume of Classic Horror Comics!
Starting with Haunted Thrills #3 (October 1952) and Haunted Thrills #7 (March 1953) where scientist George Norton saves the brain of an executed wife killer, making contact with it to develop it's evil ways? Then Terrifying Tales #12 (April 1953) complete with a classic L.B.Cole cover, where not even Jo-Jo realized what horrors lurked beneath the surface of a crystal clear lake! Finishing our grim journey with Weird Chills #1 (July 1954) where the doctor oversees a blood transfusion between a woman and a zombie! And in Weird Chills #3 (November 1954) we discover the "Terror on TV"-vampiric monsters take over the studio, attacking the cast and crew, while the audience just think it's all part of the show? Momma always said TV was bad for you, so you better stick to reading the comics!
Featuring the work of Carl Burgos, L.B.Cole, Iger Shop, Jay Disbrow, Bernard Baily, Eugene E. Hughes, Sal Trapani, and Basil Wolverton.
Softcover, 184 pages, full color.
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Published Jan 2024 by PS Artbooks.$18.00
$18.00
Volume 6 - 1st printing. "Nov/Dec 1954/1963-1964!" Collects Fantastic Comics (1954 Ajax) #10 and Eerie Tales (1963 Super) #10-12 and 15. We've unearthed some more little horrors for Volume 6 of Classic Horror Comics! Starting with Fantastic Comics #10 from 1954-a hush falls over the audience as the lights dim... steady now... for when the curtain rises "Fate Laughs at Clowns!" Eerie Tales #10 you better not miss the secret of "Dr. Hill's Lab!" In issue #11 The Purple Claw encounters a creepy old man that turns into a huge "Death Flower" at night that lives in the Florida swamps and feasts on human flesh. Issue #12 tempts us with another terrible secret this time of "The Pit." And finally #15 asks where did if come from - what was it that caused the strange happenings-what was "The Unknown Presence?" All brought to you by those masters of 1950's comics Bob Webb, Iger Shop, Ross Andru, L.B. Cole, Ben Brown, Moe Marcus, Fred Kida, Jay Disbrow and Basil Wolverton. Softcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $32.99.
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Published Sep 2024 by PS Artbooks.$30.00
Volume 8 - 1st printing. "1945, May-September 1955, and September 1957!" Collects Front Page Comic Book (1945), Prize Mystery (1955) #1-3, and Man in Black (1957 Harvey) #1. Featuring Stories by Ben Brown, David, Gantz, Ed Smalle, Iger Shop, and Steve Ditko. More horror and suspense for Classic Horror Comics Volume 8! Starting with this little gem-Front Page Comic Book is a Pre-Code anthology from Harvey that contains the origin and first appearance of the Man in Black. This was the only issue of the series. Prize Mystery added a cash incentive for the lucky 1950s reader if they could solve a two-page mystery involving murder. Ironically, solutions to the prize mysteries were to be announced in the issue #4... but, alas it never happened. Man in Black, the faceless occult avenger, tells strange stories, sometimes intervening in person, other times merely letting ironic fate unfold. Reproduced completely from cover to cover as they should be, just like the original comic! Softcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $32.99.
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Published Feb 2025 by PS Artbooks.$32.99
$32.99
Volume 9 - 1st printing. Collects Haunted Thrills (1952-1954) #12-13, Fantastic Fears (1953) #8-9, and Man in Black (1957 Harvey) #2. Featuring Stories by Iger Shop, Robert Webb, Ken Battefield, and Bob Powell. We've unearthed some more little horrors! Beginning with Haunted Thrills #12 (November 1953) where practical joker Biff inherits a haunted house in "Death Laughs Last." And from #13 (January 1954) "Death Do Us Part," the baboon kills his wife! Quickly followed by woe be to those receiving the deadly invitation... all it said was "Be my Ghost!" in Fantastic Fears #8 (July 1954) and from #9 (September 1954) "If a Body Kill a Body," two Scottish highlanders from warring families come back as ghosts to get their revenge! And finally, even more horror and suspense from the Man in Black, a faceless occult avenger tells strange stories, sometimes intervening in person, other times merely letting ironic fate unfold. Reprints Man in Black #2 (1957) and other cited issues. Softcover, 184 pages, full color.
