Horror comic books issue 5

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "August 1952-Jan/Feb 1953 and September 1950!" Collects Strange World of Your Dreams (1952) #1-4 and Challenge of the Unknown (1950) #6. Cover art by Jack Kirby. Featuring Stories by Jack Kirby, Mort Meskin, Bill Draut, Bob McCarthy, Warren Kremer, Frank Giusto, Kenneth Rice, and Lin Streeter. As a spin off to the successful Black Magic comics that started a couple of years earlier came this offering-Strange World of Your Dreams, certainly one of the oddest comic anthology series ever created-its focus on the dream theme gave it a special flavor. The idea of a dream comic came from Mort Meskin. Order your copy and don't miss out on this little gem, otherwise your dreams may just turn into nightmares! Hardcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $52.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "Haunt of Fame!"

Art and cover by Alan Robert.

Ghouliana and pals pay homage to pop culture greats with a twisted and terrifying Haunt of Fame in the newest edition of the bestselling coloring book series!

Icons from across the entertainment arts are resurrected when Ghouliana and her undead friends show tribute to their favorite celebrities. Join her merrily macabre squad of walking horrors as they spend their 15 minutes with the most famous forces to ever brighten our cultural landscape. While coloring the 80 pages of detailed, hand drawn designs, be sure to help Ghouliana find all the ghastly memorabilia and easter eggs hidden throughout. The Beauty of Horror 5: Haunt of Fame features the original size (9.9" x 10") and double-sided format that fans love!

Softcover, 10-in. x 10-in., 88 pages, B&W.

Cover price $16.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. Collects Vault of Horror (1950-1955 EC Comics) #36-40.

Dark Horse Comics brings even more macabrely majestic stories from the Vault! This terrifying tome has been digitally recolored-using Marie Severin's original palette as a guide-and features stories drawn by all-star comic artists Johnny Craig, Graham Ingels, Joe Orlando, Jack Davis, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, and George Evans!

Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 168 pages, full color.

Cover price $49.95.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "Dead Man's Jest!" By Matt Groening. Master of mirthful mayhem, Matt Groening, meets the Monsters of Rock (Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons, and Rob Zombie) in a heavy metal, Halloween-inspired rock 'n' roll odyssey of head-banging, tongue- wagging, dead-raising frights and frivolity. Even "Mr. Nice Guy" Pat Boone gets in a "metal mood" with a twisted tale of dastardly demons and righteous redemption. From donut batter to ghoulish splatter, you'll be tricked and treated to a chaotic comic collection chock-full of thunder-clapping hell spawn, chainsaw-toting monkeys, televisions run amuck, bible camp ghost stories, lime-flavored Squishee monsters, toilets of the damned, vampire tombs, the Evil Eye, and a very special tribute to EC Comics, the forebears of witty horror and suspense comic storytelling. It's the Halloween Jam of the Century that'll blow your mind and rock your soul! Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 128 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Volume 5 - 2nd and later printings. "Dead Man's Jest!" By Matt Groening. Master of mirthful mayhem, Matt Groening, meets the Monsters of Rock (Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons, and Rob Zombie) in a heavy metal, Halloween-inspired rock 'n' roll odyssey of head-banging, tongue- wagging, dead-raising frights and frivolity. Even "Mr. Nice Guy" Pat Boone gets in a "metal mood" with a twisted tale of dastardly demons and righteous redemption. From donut batter to ghoulish splatter, you'll be tricked and treated to a chaotic comic collection chock-full of thunder-clapping hell spawn, chainsaw-toting monkeys, televisions run amuck, bible camp ghost stories, lime-flavored Squishee monsters, toilets of the damned, vampire tombs, the Evil Eye, and a very special tribute to EC Comics, the forebears of witty horror and suspense comic storytelling. It's the Halloween Jam of the Century that'll blow your mind and rock your soul! Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 128 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

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Frankenstein Unbound - Roger Corman's back - the Toxic interview; Eating Human Flesh - Toxic's tribute to cannibal pix; the Wild, Wild World of Linnea Quigley; plus: Scanners II, Ilsa, Killer Soundtrax. Cover price $3.95.

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World of Horror (1972 Dallruth Publishing) #005, The Planet of the Apes, Peter Cushing, Tales from the Crypt, More blood curdling tales

Frankenstein Created Woman, Christopher Lee, Susan Denberg, The Creeping Flesh, and more. 8.25-in. x 11.25-in.; part color, part black and white; 48 pages. Cover price $5.25.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "The Screaming Skulls!"

Cover by Bernard Baily.

You'll scream with terror when you experience these terrifying Pre-Code stories sure to rot your brain! Never collected together in book form, you'll thrill when you read under your dark covers: "Terror of the Nightmares," "Headless Horror," "Death Ala Carte," "The Devil from the Deep," and macabre more! The Ghastly Award-winning Haunted Horror series presents-in large-format bloody-color-carefully restored walking zombies, screaming skulls, and ravenous cannibal monsters!

Hardcover, 160 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Titled: The Hammer Journal #1. Little Shoppe of Horrors is a movie fanzine. Issue #5 (also called The Hammer Journal #1) was a temporary change in format to The Hammer Journal, a newsletter. It includes Hammer news, coverage of the first HammerCon in London, photos of the convention guests, and an interview with producer Anthony Hinds. Only 400 copies were produced. Aug, 1980. Cover price $3.00.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. Collects Vault of Horror (1950-1955 E.C. Comics) #21-25. Cover by Johnny Craig. Softcover, 182 pages, full color. Cover price $13.50.

Edited by Ed Konick (credited as Sanzar Quasatood). Charlton's contribution to the monster craze of the '50s and '60s. The famously low-grade paper makes good-quality copies of these mags somewhat hard to find. This issue features female monsters and a biography of horror icon Peter Lorre. Poe's Tales of Terror; Through the Upper Intestine; Shock Theater; Peter Lorre; The Head; Will the Real Frankie Please Stand Up; Female Fiends; Burn Witch Burn; They Died Laughing; Pin-up Monsters. 8-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. The classic horror comics of the 1950's, those published before the implementation of the Comics Code Authority; have become synonymous with an unequaled level skin-crawling revulsion, and a large volume of very interesting work in the genre was done during this period. The Crypt of Horror reprints series collection of 1950's horror masterpieces! Thrill to gruesome goodies with titles like "Let The Past Lie Buried," "The Death Ship," "She Monster," "The Evil Eye," and "Anything Can Happen." With art by Jay Disbrow, Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers, Sheldon Moldoff, and others on more than a dozen creepy classics! Softcover (Saddle-Stitched/Stapled), 120 pages, B&W. NOTE: Stapled, Not Square-Bound. Cover price $24.95.

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Story and art by Rich Tommaso. What's a girl to do when confronted by hoards of zombies in suburban Florida? Hit them with a weed whacker, of course! Once again Fran finds herself in the hospital after another furious fight with the creepy neighbors, but this time she escapes the paralyzing horrors of Naples for the comforting environs of New York City. Away from the terror of alligator country, will Fran finally be free? 24 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Volume 1, Issue 5 - June, 1971. Stories and art by Obadiah Kemph, Henry Lawes, Joseph Glanyil, Michael Praetorius, George Venner, Nicholas Flamel, Gabriel Varney, and Whittier Fowles. A lurid horror magazine from Stanley Morse Publications featuring posed photographs as illustrations (some of which must be seen to be truly appreciated). The Death Dance of the Fishermans Devil is a strange thing to see, but its power is unmistakable. A demon claims a young woman, but he's not finished. A man becomes involved with a woman who wants to sell his soul to the devil. Feast of Blood in the House of Vampires; The Howling Ghost of the Spiral Staircase; Lamp of the Laughing Witch; Long Night in the Hellfire Mansion; The Death Dance of the Fishermans Devil; She Tried to Sell My Soul to Satan; The Shrieking Curse of the Voodoo God; Adventures in Witchcraft. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.60.

No. 5 - September , 1964. 5.25" x 7.25", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

British magazine focusing on Horror movies, Television, games, and other media. This issue includes the continuation of our look at the Evolution of Leatherface, an Exclusive interview with actor Doug Bradley, and his life after Pinhead, a discussion with Horror Author Sam Stone, and From Basket Case to Frankenhooker, we examine the career of Frank Henenlotter! 68 pages, full color. Cover price $8.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "The Art of Roberto Molino!" Text by Nicola D'Agostino. Art and cover by Roberto Molino. The bestselling series SEX & HORROR celebrates the publishing phenomenon known as "fumetti sexy," Italian adult comics with a unique take on such genres as horror, crime, fantasy, history, and fairy tales. Wilder and weirder than you can imagine, they were some of the most outrageous and shocking comics ever produced. One of the most notorious of the cover artists was Roberto Molino, whose artworks often parodied the popular TV shows and films of the day, including KOJAK (Kondor), THE BIONIC WOMAN (Bionika), and RAMBO (Raimbo). This book brings together some of the sexiest and most provocative examples of his work, which is highly coveted by collectors today. Hardcover, 9-in. x 10-in., 160 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $36.95.

Stories and art by George Wilhelms, Frank Simienski, Richard Case, Jon Blummer, Harry Lazarus, Sam Cooper and Edvard Moritz. A lurid horror magazine from Stanley Morse Publications featuring tales of ghouls, vampires and the undead. Honeymooners passing through Salem, Massachusetts are stalked by the creatures summoned by a witch's ghost. A man gets lost in Brooklyn and winds up catching a cursed subway train run by the dead. Kids playing ghost accidentally awaken the real things. The Winged Creature; A Hex on My Brother!; Ghost Tiger; Death at the Carnival!; The Mark of the Monster; The Spectral Sister; The Witch's Curse. Final issue of the series. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "The Atomic Age!"

By Michael H. Price John Wooley, and Jan Alan Henderson.

Into the postwar paranoid void with Forgotten Horrors Vol. 5: The Atomic Age!

Science Fiction takes a brief dominion in the post-WWII stretch of the acclaimed series which covers such innovative independent films as George Pal's DESTINATION MOON, Edgar G. Ulmer's THE MAN FROM PLANET X, Ivan Tor's RIDERS TO THE STARS, and...Arthur Hilton's CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON...?! (so the Moon is made of cheese after all...) Strange motion pictures for strange times, in over 300 whopping pages of Sci-Fi, all-out horror, noir galore...and...did somebody say SKIPALONG ROSENBLOOM...?!

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 328 pages, B&W.

NOTE: Starting with this volume, FORGOTTEN HORRORS is published by Cremo Studios.

Cover price $30.00.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. Collects Black Cat Mystery (1951-1963 Harvey) #50-53. Here is the fifth softcover collection of Harvey's Black Cat comic! Absolutely brilliant material from one of the illustrious horror quartet that were the only real opposition to Bill Gaines' triptych of Haunt, Vault, and Crypt. Fabulous words and pics from one of the half-dozen most underrated titles from the good old days! Softcover, 7-in. x 10-in., 180 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

Presented this month we look at Independent horror films with filmmaker Scott Feinblatt, and author Guido Henkel, Keri O'Shea takes the new America feature "The Mourning Portrai", and uses it as a springboard to exam the peculiar cultural phenomenon of memorial photography and it's use in horror cinema, Steve Head interviews Lucky McKee about his controversial film "The Woman", and Rafael Miguel Montes delivers the third and final installation of his series "Googling For Natives", his examination of the history, and future of Cuban Horror! MATURE READERS Cover price $9.99.

The Addams Family - Fester, Gomez & Lurch are back; Freddy's Dead; 976-Evil; Monsters - final season episode guide; Basket Case 3; Waxwork II; The People Under the Stairs. Cover price $4.95.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "January 1954 to December 1954!" Collects Chamber of Chills (1952 Harvey) #21-26. Art by Howard Nostrand. Each volume contains five comic books but without the support material featured in the hardbacks. Softcover, 180 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "February 1954 to December 1954!" Collects Witches Tales (1955-1958 Harvey) #23-28.

We're making available the whole run of Witches Tales in a run of sumptuous softcovers, each volume containing five or six comic books - but without the support material featured in the hardcovers.

Softcover, 7-in. x 10-in., 216 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Summer 1987; Vol. 5 # 3. Fiction by Dean Koontz (two stories), Joe R. Lansdale (two stories), G. Wayne Miller, Ardath Mayhar, David Barker, and Peter Heyrman. Spot illustrations by John Borkowski, Dick Davies, James Garrison, Roger Gerberding, Judith A. Holman, Alfred Klosterman, Allen Koszowski, J.K. Potter, Chris Pelletiere, and Denis Tiani. Cover by Tim Caldwell. 8.25-in. x 10.75-in.; black and white; 64 newsprint pages. Cover price $3.95.

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Reprints Cover and material from Horror Monsters (1961-1964 Charlton) #5. Charltons contribution to the monster craze of the 1950s and 60s. Issue #5 from 1962 features a truly grotesque cover and is edited by Ed Konick, bringing you all the fiendish features including Poes Tales of Terror – a monstrous trilogy starring those masters of the macabre, Price, Lorre and Rathbone. Will The Real Frankie Please Stand Up which Frankenstein monster is the real one? And Burn Witch Burn the most terrifying experience of your life! Plus the fantastic featurettes with the Pin-Up parade. Ghouls and Gags, Monster Mail and Frankenstein Forever. 7 1/2" X 10 1/4". 72 pages. B&W.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "August 1952-Jan/Feb 1953 and September 1950!" Collects Strange World of Your Dreams (1952) #1-4 and Challenge of the Unknown (1950) #6. Cover art by Jack Kirby. Featuring Stories by Jack Kirby, Mort Meskin, Bill Draut, Bob McCarthy, Warren Kremer, Frank Giusto, Kenneth Rice, and Lin Streeter. As a spin off to the successful Black Magic comics that started a couple of years earlier came this offering-Strange World of Your Dreams, certainly one of the oddest comic anthology series ever created-its focus on the dream theme gave it a special flavor. The idea of a dream comic came from Mort Meskin. Order your copy and don't miss out on this little gem, otherwise your dreams may just turn into nightmares! Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color. Cover price $62.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. Collects Vault of Horror (1950-1955 EC Comics) #35-40. Golden Age tales of horror hosted by the Old Witch, Vault-Keeper, and the infamous Crypt-Keeper. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 172 pages, B&W. NOTE: Originally only available in the Complete EC Library Slipcase Set.