Haunted Thrills

Hi, did you ever sell this?

Here is the quote from Iger artist Jay Disbrow taken from his Iger Comics Kingdom book - "All penciling was done by freelancers, and Iger's 7 member staff consisted of 5 inkers, a letterer, and editor Ruth Roche." "Sometimes more than one inker worked on a page. When the stories were completed, somehow the style of the penciler showed through the finished product..." If there were multiple pencilers for a page, Disbrow would have certainly mentioned it.

That's where I got my statement from. They clearly say that a few artists would INK a page, but nowhere is it mentioned that multiple artists would pencil a page.

While I have read that a few Iger Shop artists would INK a page, I have never read where multiple artists penciled a page. Do you have a source for your statement?

Absolutely, it is a great story.

It's pretty easy to surmise one's specific pencils if you can cross reference material. It's not like Webb did a little pencil work on a page and passed it off to someone else to finish the pencils.

Accessing records is probably impossible, but with enough cross referencing of styles I might be able to find the specific artist but it might take a good while. For example, CC had this OA listed as "artist unknown," (Iger shop) however I'm pretty sure the penciler is Robert Webb from Iger based upon this HA listing and other pieces and the fact that they are both from Journey into Fear comics - https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/robert-webb-and-iger-studio-journey-into-fear-2-story-page-3-original-art-superior-publ-1951-/a/121811-13136.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515#

I have a few coverless PCH comics, and this issue of Mysteries Weird and Strange #6 from Superior. Anyone know who penciled this story "Howling Horror?" Once again, It is Iger Shop, but I'm looking for the specific artist.

Love the Ditko covers on these. Seems like there's a million #16's around, did someone discover a warehouse full of them

Another great Haunted Thrills cover. I'd love to know who from Iger Shop penciled these covers.

I've always loved that "woman with the skeleton hands" cover!

Spellbound 16. Kind of rough, around a 2.5, maybe 3.0, but it is signed by Joltin' Joe Sinnott and Vic Carrabotta on the interior, so that helps! Love the Heath cover too.

Zombie in the graveyard is one of the most iconic covers in pre-code history, and needless to say one of the most sought after.

Maneely, Everett, Colan, and Heath did some great covers for Atlas!

I'm not much of a collector per se, I'm really more into the art/artists. I have about 50 pre-code horror comics, mostly in the mid to lower range, and I have some 2.0's because they made an offer I couldn't refuse;) Such as the case with this one, the only copy of Strange Mysteries I have, but what a great cover. Iger shop did some knockout work for Superior!

As it turns out the artwork was affixed randomly to the Out of the Night header and then it was initially offered as a pre-code art piece. But the seller changed the listing so it no longer says "pre-code art." Who knows who or when the person originally mated the two pieces, could have been years ago. And yes, it totally looks like late 60's/early 70's House of Mystery!

And sometimes they take a boat!

Yep, lots of skeletons drivin' cars.

One of my favorite Witch Tales covers. The driving skeleton motif seemed to be popular in PCH!

This is the only Strange Suspense Stories I have. I bought it primarily because of the Bernard Baily cover.

That's better. Well done, sir!

Glad to see they will be changing the description. Comic Connect is quite good and I've always had good luck with them.

You're absolutely right, who knows how it happened. As I originally stated, I contacted them a week or so ago on the matter and they never responded. Thanks for the input, this has been very enlightening.

While he may have done it for ACG, it was done in the 60's and is not "a piece of pre-code horror art" as stated in the description.

Interesting. The description reads " This wonderful piece of pre-code horror art was created for ACG, who were known for their horror titles.."