Horror Comics comic books issue 1

1st printing. Howard Nostrand's brilliant horror-comics art was done during the height of the criticism against comics that resulted in government investigations and the Comics Code. Nostrand's style was an incredibly skilled, perfect mash-up of the EC artists Wally Wood and Jack Davis. Nostrand could be as innovative as Will Eisner, another influence on the artist. Five stories will be painstakingly reproduced from the rare original art! WARNING: Not for the squeamish-as you can see from the cover Nostrand's gore could be over the top-we can't show you the insides here to protect the Diamond Previews family-friendly content. Hardcover, 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. By Jack Cole. Jack Cole is widely acclaimed for his brilliant work on his creation, the superhero Plastic Man. But he didn't just stretch people's imaginations, he also frightened them out of their wits! Cole's comics in this genre were some of the most grisly, horrifyingly gut-wrenching art and stories in the history of comics! In Jack Cole's Deadly Horror you'll read comic stories from the 1950s with titles like "Orgy of Death," "Hangman's Horror," "The Corpse That Wouldn't Die," "A Pact With The Devil," and many more spine-tingling tales. Introduced by Eisner Award winning comics historian Craig Yoe with rare art and background material. This large format full color book is part of the acclaimed Chilling Archives of Horror Comics, which includes Dick Briefer's Frankenstein, Bob Powell's Terror, and Zombies! Hardcover, 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Featuring over 60 classics of the 1950's that caused a furor in the United States and sparked legislation to crack down on explicit horror, this volume also includes modern contributors. Plus, 64 pages of full-color illustrations! Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 544 pages, B&W. Cover price $17.95.

2nd and later printings. Featuring over 60 classics of the 1950's that caused a furor in the United States and sparked legislation to crack down on explicit horror, this volume also includes modern contributors. Plus, 64 pages of full-color illustrations! Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 544 pages, B&W. Cover price $17.95.

1st printing. Written by Nicola Cuti. Art and cover by Tom Sutton. Get ready for a mind-bending walk on the weird side with the very best of Tom Sutton's 1970s horror tales for Charlton Comics! Sutton was at his most expressionistic and experimental with the scores of stories he drew for Charlton's "ghost" line, whose titles said it all: Creepy Things, Ghostly Tales, The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves, and more. A full sixteen stories, unpublished art, and more than a dozen of his creepy-crawly covers are faithfully reproduced from rare original artwork! Edited by Michael Ambrose, editor of the insightful Charlton Spotlight magazine, who provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes introduction profusely illustrated with rare art and photos. Dementedly designed by Donnie "Lum and Abner" Pitchford. Hardcover, 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.00

Add to cart Near Mint $9.00

1st printing. Written by Emily Lerner, Nelson Blake II, Clay McLeod Chapman. Art by Annapaola Martello, Lalit Kumar Sharma, Beni R. Lobel, and Carlos Olivares. Cover by Steve Chanks. Live for one fright only! When one of Alter Bridge's roadies goes missing, they find a ghoulish replacement! And what better way to pass the time between gigs than with four terrifying tales that are sure to keep you up all night! Hardcover, 120 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $34.99.

1st printing. Collects Blossoms 666 (2018 Archie) #1-5.

Written by Cullen Bunn. Art and cover by Laura Braga.

Cheryl and Jason Blossom are a pair of seemingly normal kids in Riverdale. They're wealthy, popular and likeable-but they also harbor a deep, dark secret-one of the Blossom Twins is the Anti-Christ. Both want the title, and no one in Riverdale is safe.

Softcover, 144 pages, full color.

Cover price $17.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $15.00

Add to cart Near Mint $15.00

1st printing. Collects Bristlemouth: A Cove Horror (2024 SQ) #1-4. Story and art by Hayden Fryer. Introduction by Holly Interlandi. A haunting yet ferocious body horror story in a rural setting, with a cast unlike others. Amelia is a young woman hosting deep trauma but what hides in The Cove will dwarf those nightmares! Executed in beautiful, grey-toned artwork, Hayden Fryer's introspective horror series is at last collected! Introduction by comics editor and writer Holly Interlandi. Softcover, 164 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Cover by Iger. Good Girl Art, and old-skool horror art by the master Matt Baker and his associates from the infamous art group The Iger Shop! Filled with lurid pulp-fiction comics like "Zombie Bride," "The Weird Dead," and "The Crawling Horror." This large format, full-color book of terrors, is the first of three volumes and has a fear-filled and fascinating introduction by Mike "The Worst of Eerie Publications" Howlett! Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 208 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

Jill Valentine Nude cover by Sidney Augusto - Limited to 75 copies. 16 pages, full color.

1st printing. Beware puny mortals, the gates of Hell have opened wide, as The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics serves up another diabolical dish of Golden Age horror hits-and this time direct from the burning bowels of Hades itself! Edited by Steve Banes, aka Mr. Karswell, Devil Tales stars Satan himself (and in one story, herself!) in over two dozen scorching stories of demonic power, and features artwork from top fan favorites like Don Heck, Gene Colan, Dick Ayers, Lou Cameron, Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, and more! An infernal introduction, plus a cursed cover gallery guaranteed to swallow your soul. The hottest book of 2015 already has you under it's Satanic spell! Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Collected comic strips from the pages of Doctor Who Magazine, featuring the Doctor and Clara as played by Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. The Highgate Horror collects together all the most recent stories by leading Doctor Who writers and artists, from the highly acclaimed comic strip in DWM and includes a wealth of exclusive, brand-new material revealing how the strips were created, featuring contributions and commentary from the writers and artists. The collection contains six comic adventures: "Space Invaders!, "Spirits of the Jungle," "The Highgate Horror," "Dragon Lord," "Theatre of the Mind," "Witch Hunt," and "The Stockbridge Showdown." "The Stockbridge Showdown" is a special celebratory adventure, which first appeared in the 500th issue of Doctor Who Magazine, and includes guest artists and characters from the comic strip's past! Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 180 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.

1st printing.

Beware horror fan, for the blood(-red marker) is on your hands in this brand-new coloring book for adults! Featuring Pre-Code comic book cover frights from Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, L.B. Cole, Dick Briefer, Don Heck, Lee Elias, Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand and many more! This do-it-yourself deluge of dark delights is sure to send goosebumps of tittilation and stand hairs straight on end for fans of the gruesome, gross, and macabre! Nearly 60 full page scare-filled classic horror covers for you to color from the creepiest, most sordid publishers of the time!

Softcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.99.

2nd and later printings.

Beware horror fan, for the blood(-red marker) is on your hands in this brand-new coloring book for adults! Featuring Pre-Code comic book cover frights from Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, L.B. Cole, Dick Briefer, Don Heck, Lee Elias, Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand and many more! This do-it-yourself deluge of dark delights is sure to send goosebumps of tittilation and stand hairs straight on end for fans of the gruesome, gross, and macabre! Nearly 60 full page scare-filled classic horror covers for you to color from the creepiest, most sordid publishers of the time!

Softcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.99.

1st printing. Cover by Bernard Bailey. Haunted Love is the unholy spawn of Haunted Horror and Weird Love, the critically acclaimed series by Yoe Books! Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 144 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Don Heck. Don Heck was the co-creator of Marvel's Iron Man and the long time Avengers artist. In the 1950s Heck did a score of artistically brilliant and extremely beyond-the-pale, extremely gruesome, Pre-Code Horror comic book covers and comics. The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics now gives it's loving attention to this unsung horror master! This beautiful hardcover book sports the usual Yoe Books detailed history, rare images reproduced from original art and more mind-blowing ephemera to give a fascinating look at the dark side of Dapper Don Heck. Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 152 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Horror comics have been a part of the fabric of the industry since the Golden Age of the 1940s. William Schoell examines the evolution of the genre from the Golden Age, through the Silver Age in the 1960, up until the end of the Bronze Age in the early 1980s. Included are the earliest series, like American Comics Group's Adventures into the Unknown and Prize Comics' Frankenstein, and the controversial and gory comics of the '50s, such as EC's infamous and influential Tales from the Crypt. The explosion of horror titles following the relaxation of the comics code in the '70s is fully documented with chapters on Marvel's prodigious output, DC's anthologies and titles such as Swamp Thing, as well as the notable contributions of firms like Gold Key and Atlas. This book examines how horror comics exploited everyday terrors, and often reflected societal attitudes toward women and people who were different. Softcover, 288 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations and photos).

1st printing. Edited by Richard J. Arndt. Foreword by Stephen J. Bissette. In 1954, the comic book industry instituted the Comics Code, a set of self-regulatory guidelines that effectively banned genuine horror coimcs. Because the Code applied only to color comics, many artists and writers turned to black and white to circumvent the Code's confines. With the 1964 publication of Creepy #1 by Warren Publishing, black-and-white horror comics experienced a revival that continued into the early 21st century. This work offers a comprehensive history and retrospective of the black-and-white horror coimcs that flourished on the newsstands from 1964 to 2004. Softcover, 7-in. x 10-in., 164 pages, Text (with B&W Illustrations and Photos). Cover price $55.00.

1st printing. By Stephen R. Bissette and Richard J. Arndt. In 1954, the comic book industry instituted the Comics Code, a set of self-regulatory guidelines that effectively banned genuine horror coimcs. Because the Code applied only to color comics, many artists and writers turned to black and white to circumvent the Code's confines. With the 1964 publication of Creepy #1 by Warren Publishing, black-and-white horror comics experienced a revival that continued into the early 21st century. This work offers a comprehensive history and retrospective of the black-and-white horror coimcs that flourished on the newsstands from 1964 to 2004. Softcover, 164 pages, B&W. Cover price $55.00.

Contains an interview with CREEPY, EERIE, and SKYWALD writer Kevin Pagan and an index of his work. There's a tribute to the late Johnny Craig of EC fame, and a look at writer Bruce (Hulk) Jones' work at Pacific on Twisted Tales. Also, back issue market reports, product reviews, and opinion poll. 22 pages, B&W. Cover price $5.00.

1st printing.

By Mike Benton.

From the author of The Comic Book in America comes a comprehensive look at the history of horror comics. Complete with a checklist, more than 200 full color photos, and behind-the-scenes stories!

Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 146 pages, full color.

Cover price $21.95.

1st printing. Rising from the depths of history comes an all-new examination of the 20th Century's best horror comics, written by Peter Normanton (editor of From The Tomb, the UK's preeminent magazine on the genre). From the pulps and seminal horror comics of the 1940s, through ones they tried to ban in the 1950s, this tome explores how the genre survived the introduction of the Comics Code, before making its terrifying return during the 1960s and 1970s. Come face-to-face with the early days of ACG's alarming line, every horror comic from June 1953, hypodermic horrors, DC's Gothic romance comics, Marvel's Giant-Size terrors, Skywald and Warren's chillers, and Atlas Seaboard's shocking magazines. The full-color opus exhumes Bernie Wrightson's darkest constructs, plus artwork by Frank Frazetta, Neal Adams, Mike Kaluta, Steve Ditko, Matt Fox, Warren Kremer, Lee Elias, Bill Everett, Russ Heath, The Gurch, and many more! Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 192 pages, full color. Cover price $31.95.

1st printing. Art and Cover by Jay Disbrow. One of the most bizarre, unique stylists from Pre-Code horror comics is cult-favorite Jay Disbrow. If there's anyone close to this unknown genius, it's Basil Wolverton. Working with friend, editor, and colorist L.B. Cole, Disbrow wrote and drew many fear-inducing tales specializing in terrifying demons, scary apparitions, and a horde of hairy monsters. This full color, large format book culls the best of Disbrow's work from moldy comics like Dark Mysteries, Ghostly Weird Stories, Spook, and Startling Terror Tales. A revealing and lengthy interview with the creator serves a dark, ghostly-weird, startling, and profusely illustrated introduction! Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing.

Story and art by Lou Cameron.

Lou Cameron was a groundbreaking art master of the 1950s Pre-Code comics era. With his innovative experimental layouts and frequent use of surrealism, his horror comics have been described as "Jim Steranko meets Graham Ingels." Zombies, vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts, and devils from terror-filled stories like "Faceless Horror," "Lure of the Zombie Diamonds," "Graveyard of Ghost Ships," "Kill My Minions of Death," and "The Unsleeping Dead" will make you scream with delight!

Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 144 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing.

Cover by Tony Mortellaro.

Movie mummies will soon be terrorizing theater goers! Now, from the boils and ghoul who bring you Haunted Horror, scream with delight over these stories unleashed from Pre-Code horror comics. SEE! The brutal attack of "The Living Mummies!" SENSE! The strangest "Case of the Beckoning Mummy!" FEEL! As "The Unburied Mummy" intensifies its powerful grip upon your puny throat! And there's a tomb-full more! PLUS! A crumbling gallery of classic mummy comic book covers, and spine-tingling guest appearances by Frankenstein's Monster and Charlie Chan! You'll be screaming for your mommy as MUMMIES! shamble into your trembling hands!

Softcover, 128 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $14.99

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Written by ACTUS. Art and cover by Kisaragipana. Damien nearly ended the world. Now, his mistake might be the only thing that can save it. Good things come to those who wait. Damien Vale didn't, and he ended up bound to an Eldritch creature from beyond the reaches of space. It has lived since the dawn of time, seen the world born and destroyed countless times, and wants to be called Henry. My Best Friend is an Eldritch Horror is a slice-of-life mixed with LitRPG in a magic school setting. A slow build power fantasy from Actus, the bestselling author of Morcster Chef. Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 256 pages, Text (B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $14.99.

1st printing. Cover by Frank Frazetta. The Chillling Archives of Horror Comics first gave the world the book Zombies! Now, by popular dead-mand we present more never-before-assembled terrifying tales of the walking dead! Dug from graves these are grisly, gory, gruesome Pre-Code comic book stories that rotted kids' minds in the '50s and were condemned by the Senate! The most deft and depraved artists of the time serve up these spine-chilling horrors! Read "An Army of Walking Dead," "The Zombie Disciple," "The Fleshless Ones," and "Dial C for Corpse,"! If you dare devour, "The Corpse That Prowled by Night," "The Dead are Never Lonely," "Born in the Grave," "Zombie Vengence," and much morbid more. Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Cover by Ben Brown and Dave Gantz. Slithering Scares...Dangerous Snake-Women...Cold-Blooded Killings...Snake Tales scours the snake-pit of Pre-Code horror to bring you the weirdest stories of serpentine thrills, guaranteed to raise your blood-pressure (and maybe an eyebrow)! Hissing horror from the likes of Rudy Palais, Lou Cameron, and Marty Elkin and other masters of comic book fear. Crawling your way in full color. Bullet points: "These misunderstood serpents in Snake Tales will envenomate you with an unhealthy dose of 1940s and 1950s pre-code comic book horror!" - Dr. Frank T. Burbrink, Curator of Reptiles and mphibians at the American Museum of Natural History. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing.

Edited by Steve Banes and Craig Yoe. Art by Basil Wolverton, Lin Streeter, Jim McLaughlin, Harry Harrison, Charles Nicholas, King Ward, Jack Katz, Lou Cameron, Art Gates, Myron Fass and Ken Landau. Introduction by Stephen R. Bissette.

Something's out there in the mad, murky depths of the fear-filled, sinister swamp... some... swamp... THING is coming for you! And it's out for mud! The terror team that brought you Zombies, Return of the Zombies, and the petrifyingly popular hit series, Haunted Horror, takes you on an excursion of evil into the dankest, lagooniest corners of your nightmares, and dredge up over 240 pages of icky, drippy, slimy, grimy beasts from the grungy bottom of the Pre-Code comics' bog. Swamp Monsters includes a fascinating introduction by comics legend, acclaimed artist of Swamp Thing, "Swampy" Stephen Bissette!

Hardcover, 144 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Dracula reprint magazine published in Australia, 1975. John Severin color cover. Story by Gerry Conway, art by Gene Colan. 7.5" x 10.75", 42 pages, B&W.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. By Junji Ito. Meet Tomie, a girl who simply will not die. She incurs the homicidal wrath of a lust-driven schoolteacher and his student. In "Photograph," she returns as a member of the oppressive Public Morality Committee and entraps an aspiring young photographer, Tsukiko. "Kiss" continues Tomie's pursuit of Tsukiko and her favorite schoolteacher. In "Maison," Tomie and one of her minions take control of an old man, his house, and his only daughter, with grotesque results. "Revenge" finds the demonic girl as the object of jealousy, rivalry between the two bone weary mountaineers. The last chapter in this collection, "The Basin of the Waterfall," involves a seedy salesman who comes to a town peddling a strange product: seeds which, when watered, grow into beautiful, hungry young girls... Softcover, 5-in x 7-in., 252 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing.

Written by Massimo Rosi. Art and cover by Vito Coppola.

In Vietnam, a unit of American soldiers is running an underground reconnaissance using men known as the "Tunnel Rats", Colton Jones being one of these men. Strange movements and unusual songs had been coming from a nearby mountain causing the men to be sent into the tunnels to search for members of the opposing force in hiding. However, inside of the mountain they'll find something they could have never prepared for.

Softcover, 110 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $14.99.

1st printing. Collected for the first time in a deluxe edition are the comics that deserve it the least: the infamous Eerie Publications' horror comics! Incredibly gory and crazy, the Eerie Pubs pushed the boundaries of good taste with blood-drenched, spine-cracking tales ripped (and redrawn) from the pages of Pre-Code horror comics. Illustrated terror by Dick Ayers, Chic Stone, Domingo Mandrafina, the Iger Shop, and many other unsung masters of the morbid, presented in glorious, carefully re-mastered black and white. And who can forget those nausea-inducing covers? A dirty dozen of deadly, full-color covers are reproduced for your discomfort and revulsion. Gratuitous gore! Multi-Monster Madness! Bound Beauties! Hardcover, 148 pages, full color. Cover price $27.99.

1st printing. Edited by Craig Yoe. Introduction by Steve Karswell Banes. From the banned 1950s horror comics that Dr. Fredric Wertham, The U.S. Senate, and mothers didn't want innocent children to devour comes a terrifying and timely anthology of comics of the undead..."Zombies". These gruesome mini-masterpieces are hauntingly delineated by some of the Golden Age's greatest artists at their very best. The nightmarish scripts of the unstoppable living dead will make your spine freeze over in terror! Hardcover, 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

2nd and later printings. Edited by Craig Yoe. Introduction by Steve Karswell Banes. From the banned 1950s horror comics that Dr. Fredric Wertham, The U.S. Senate, and mothers didn't want innocent children to devour comes a terrifying and timely anthology of comics of the undead..."Zombies". These gruesome mini-masterpieces are hauntingly delineated by some of the Golden Age's greatest artists at their very best. The nightmarish scripts of the unstoppable living dead will make your spine freeze over in terror! Hardcover, 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.