Brad Tabar

This is a cool cover! Very atmospheric. And the girl looks great!

It's too bad so many artists in that era were anonymous. Thanks for checking though!

Wow! Great painting on that Murderous Gangsters cover. I wonder who did it?

 

 

According to GCB it may have been Carl Burgos:

Pencils:Carl Burgos ?

Inks:Carl Burgos ?

Colors:Stan Goldberg

Seventies horror comics rule! I with I'd thought so as a kid but mostly I picked up superhero comics back then. This was the only comic we had from that era actually purchased off the rack (in a drug store). I don't even know if there were comic shops around in the mid-seventies. If there were, I never heard of them.

This issue of Unexpected belonged to my brother, who was really too young to be reading stuff like this in the mid-seventies. (The title story is pretty horrific). I really hated what those squirrels did to the dog. We had it around the house for years before he finally let me have it.

 

The cover has always fascinated me even if it has little to do with the actual story.

 

 

What a well loved copy! Great story too. Thanks for sharing. I have recently really gotten into these as well. So much more affordable than Precode horror ( but I enjoy that stuff too).

 

 

 

Hands down, that is a great cover!

Hi Vaulty!

I'll raise a hand to that!

 

Not to interrupt the frivolity! But I always found it instructive, since the days when Tales to Terrible to Tell were published -- this particular issue eluded George Suarez in any kind of decent condition, whereas he had beautiful copies of all manner of other PCH keys. He surmised that for him, it was really a tough book, but since the publication of that series, I've seen it in decent to higher grade many times on eBay and elsewhere. You never know what books are going to elude you in decent shape.

Wow! Awesome. The Black Marvel is pretty cool-looking. I don't remember seeing him before.

thanks for showing those great books!

 

And thank you, too!

 

I missed out on your flurry of fine noir header books due to distractions and the late hour, but I'm Back In Black (insert appropriate AC/DC music & crank up the volume) ...

 

 

 

 

 

There, I feel so much better now!

This issue of Unexpected belonged to my brother, who was really too young to be reading stuff like this in the mid-seventies. (The title story is pretty horrific). I really hated what those squirrels did to the dog. We had it around the house for years before he finally let me have it.

The cover has always fascinated me even if it has little to do with the actual story.

I bought these two Amazing Spider-Man comics in the eighties from Dave's Comics and Collectibles in Royal Oak, MI back when his store was still called J and D's (Jim and Dave's). Although not in the best of shape, I remember that they were pretty expensive at the time (sometime around 1982 or '83).

They are my oldest Spideys, and I think I probably chose these two primarily because MJ and Gwendy were on the covers.

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This is a splash page from one of my favorite Golden Age books, Classics Illustrated number 12. I used to read this comic once a year, I liked it so much. Loved Disney's cartoon too, which came out not long after this comic.

Wow! Great painting on that Murderous Gangsters cover. I wonder who did it?

Bagged a few on The Bay recently; reader copies.

Amazing Detective has a crime title, with horror stories inside. Murderous Gangsters displays stories with a lot of gruesome murdering, eh eh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice! Murderous Gangsters - what to say - its Avon!!!

 

Amazing Detective Cases was a favorite precode horror title. Only 4 issues were true horror: #11 (3/52) thru #14 (9/52), so you got the first!

These are all awesome but especially that Destroyer splash page!

Mystic 10....... GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've never heard of this before either.

this were purchase last year, they belong to Jerry Iger at one point. Getting my second copy back from CGC later this week. Which came back as Restored CGC 7.5 with small amount of glue on cover.

this are rare with a great Flamingo cover by Matt Baker.

 

 

Very cool. Haven't seen that before.

 

Ken

Daring number 11 is another terrific old Marvel cover. Toro and the Torch are clearly distinct from one another, and Subby looks awesomely menacing even though he is playing the good guy here.

On a lighter note, it must be a weird life for Toro. Imagine being a teenage sidekick to machine.

Two awesome covers! I love Solomon Grundy. Those are both in pretty good shape. It's hard to believe they were rated as they were.

Hey thanks for the information! I'll try to find some of this stuff. I've only recently gotten into this fifties stuff. These boards are great!

I share your love of the stories. Which other comics had multiple good stories in them? Thanks to my friend Christian, I have a few, but not many of these fifties horror comics.

 

Fortunately Brad, there are a number of great reprints of PCH stories out there now, in a variety of formats. From BW reprints of the 90s available on eBay (Tales to Terrible to Tell) -- which also give great historical context -- to newer reprints of collected works, Bob Powell, Jack Cole, etc. As well as title reprints (Chamber of Chills, Black Cat Mystery, etc.)

 

You can get a pretty tremendous amount of material in reprint form, without having to spend a lot, and then for particular issues/stories that really grab you, it's fun to seek out an original copy.

 

These are a lot of fun on various levels -- getting PCH books in lower grade is more affordable, and allows easy appreciation of the art and stories; trying to find originals in anything approaching high grade (some books are easier than others) adds another dimension of collecting challenge -- but it can get pricey!

 

WTTB and have fun looking for precodes!

Great Action issue! I have a bunch of golden age comics missing covers too. Such a shame, but still the stories are usually worth having.

Great set! Hard to believe they are graded so low

Awesome!

Wow! Great covers on those ones! I love EC science fiction.

Two of my favorite golden age Timely heroes.

That's hilarious!

This is a great thread! Here's one of my favorite covers from this era my friend Darth Corgi found for me. Nick Cardy did some great stuff back then!

Great cover! But I still like the John Byrne version of the Wendigo the best.

I'm making my way up to the clone saga. I can't wait to check it out. I've finally reached the Todd McFarlane era in my quest to read Spider-Man from the very beginning to the bitter end.

Great splash page on that Serpent Queen!

Great stuff! Who did those covers? That doesn't look like C.C. Beck.