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Qualifies as a bondage cover! Wonder Womans around this time did that at least twice that I can think of, if not more. Those DC guys were kinky!

Looks you have the same idea I have, I never saw Schomburg drawing the submariner this way, but Everett does especialy on the face details.

 

Well another nice cover

 

I want a Nazis Submerging Fortress of my own!

You just GOTTA love that cover!

I've seen that cover in Gerber, but never read the dialog before. Cap's line is priceless, especially if you imagine him doing it in an Edward G. Robinson voice. One of these days I'll have to find me a copy.

That is too funny! Good one!

I've seen that cover in Gerber, but never read the dialog before. Cap's line is priceless, especially if you imagine him doing it in an Edward G. Robinson voice. One of these days I'll have to find me a copy.

 

Now why wasn't Batman smart enough to do that?

 

Because he was gay?

Bruce Wayne is going to hire Matt Murdock and own your surf board when this is all over!

Just got this Wednesday at the Con. It's a restored,...but what the heck, it is what it is!

Daring Mystery Comics # 2.

I'm talking most injury-to-eye, severed heads, bondage, brutality, etc. Not just SOTI stuff either. Any obscure gems that featured a plethora of gore. Please post scans!

 

Also, I'm interested in any suggestions for quality non-EC horror titles with great stories and art. I've read all the EC reprints and hunger for other stuff published at the time that would be worth checking out!

 

Some publishers and titles were pretty nasty, but usually mixed with tamer stuff. Often a specific story in a book gives great fame to that book (the tongue cut tale in Lawbreaker's Suspense Stories #11) or chef Francois and his cooked innards in Mysterious Adventures 20) - BTW Mysterious Adventures IS a pretty grisly title.

 

But here is what you should do - and Fellow Freaky Forumites, reFrain From Furrowed Foreheads at my repeat suggestion to all new who ask about a pre-code overview...anyway, wdb, here is what you do.

 

Go to the New England Comics web site:

 

Tales Too Terrible To Tell

 

SET OF TALES TOO TERRIBLE TO TELL W/#1 (2ND ED) EBAY SPECIAL! - ignore the ebay special part. Just order it from the web site. And they take Paypal as well.

 

What you will recieve, for $20, is an incredible set of eleven, comic book sized books. Each issue focuses on one or two publishers and goes into detail on the books they printed. They also have b&w reprints of many stories - but for me the best part was always the many pages of publisher/title detail. Unfortuantely they stopped publishing it at issue 11 - it was supposed to cover every pre-code horror publisher and title. And more treats as well.

 

But even though incomplete - for the price of one average, low grade pre-code book you will find a wealth of information, scenes, stories, cover galleries (back cover has nice 4-color galleries. Inside has many B7W covers) covering the world of precode horror.

 

I really do always recommend this to anyone who is newly expressing info on pre-code horror and I absolutely guaranty you will be blown away by these books. They will give you a fine grounding in precode and they DO highlight some of the more gruesome tales and titles. But rather than just giving you a bland list of this or that book - spend the twenty and get what is probably the finest overview of precode horror around. I like them even beter than Mike Benton's Horror Comics book, which I also consider a must-have.

Two thumbs way up! Great suggestion!

How about Fiction House? Some very attrative covers and notable interior art!

for cover art MLJ can vie with even Timely's For interiors Quality had an excellent stable of artists I collect Fox for their covers but most of the interior art seems cheesy even for the era. Judginhg from the handful of Centaurs I own they seem to pushed to the side since they are by the same artists who started Timely

Good point! I myself am surprised EC Comics were not mentioned yet. Frazetta/Williamson, art light-years ahead of it's time! Those fantastic Feldstein covers, Johnny Craig, Wally Wood,...!!! What are your feelings on Tem Publishing, Holyoke or Continental? L.B. Cole, Schomburg art on Catman and Suspense Comics, the elusive Suspense #3?

For me, Star Publishing.

 

Nothing compares to classic L.B. Cole covers!!!!!

And if L.B. Cole had not worked for star would you still be in favor of Star as the most under-rated? Not a challenge, just trying to get some additional feedback as to why you chose Star. You'll not hear me mock L.B.Cole here or on any other boards!!!! He rules!

Fox Publishing. Artists: Lou Fine, Bob Kane, Wally Wood, Joe Simon, Tuska, Kirby, etc.

 

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Fox,...and I'm going to speak with my voice hushed because, judging by the scans you attached, they are going to bed now, was one of my personal favorite publishers! You can't beat those early pulp/comic covers! The characters are now so underrated: Blue Beetle, The Flame & the first Superman clone/competitor! makes me wonder how DC connected captain Marvel to Superman,..one is from Krypton & the other is a lame boy who gets his power from a hermit in a subway,..go figure? DC knew to protect their copyright early, you have to give them that! You have some very impressive books there, my friend!!!

Well, the other GA publisher I collect is Quality, so I'm biased in that direction. Quality produced at least one bona-fide icon in Plastic Man. Arguably the Blackhawks and Kid Eternity fell into this category as well. I don't really count Eisner's The Spirit as a point in their favor, because they simply reprinted the Sunday Spirit sections to make up that book. But I do give Quality credit for publishing the work of Lou Fine, Jack Cole and Reed Crandall and strips such as The Ray, Black Condor & Uncle Sam.

Good choice! Quality had some great product, Kid Eternity's origin in Hit Comics was one of the better origins told (Everett's Hydroman and The Fin just seemed to somehow have these powers, AND THEY EVEN SAID SO!). Early Blackhawks are also very collectible as are the Plastic Mans. Eisner's Spirits are some of the best Cinema/comic art out there, so don't under-sell those, even if they are newspaper reprints. The later ones featured Wally Wood art & I'd be very happy to land those! Lou Fine!!! What a talented artist! Great Choice!!!

Anyone else have a publisher & why? Please post scans if you have them.

I would be interested to see who you feel is the most under-rated Golden Age Publisher. Please list "Who" and "why". Please exclude D.C., Timely or Fawcett, as they were in the top's in publishing numbers. Who else?

If this is an old question please forgive me.