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Pre-code database/list?

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Wrightson fan

Wrightson fan

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My scanner is not hooked up or I would scan in the list from the Tales Too Terrible To Tell Terrorology section. If you have access to this series which was printed by New England Comics, it would be most helpful. Indiviual issues are for sale on ebay, or you can buy the entire series direct from New England. Here is a link.

 

http://www.newenglandcomics.com/cgi-bin/shop/search.cgi?0=NSP03340&database=tick.csv&template=details.htm

 

 

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Scrooge

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In 2004 / 2005, Povertyrow posted his list of what he considers Pre-Code Horror books. The link he listed on the boards is no longer working but here's the info. If you PM me your email, I can send you the file.

 

Povertyrow's Precode Horror Checklist

Publisher Title Issue Began Ended Notes

EC 3-D Tales From the Crypt of Terror 2 Spr 1954 1 issue only

Standard Adventures Into Darkness 5_14 Aug_1952 Jun_1954

Atlas Adventures Into Terror 43_44, 3_31 Nov_1950 May_1954

ACG Adventures into the Unknown 1_61 Fall 1948 Nov_1954

Atlas Adventures Into Weird Worlds 1_30 Jan_1952 Jun_1954

St John All Picture Adventures 1 Nov_1952 1 issue only Rebound 25 cent Giant

Ziff-Davis Amazing Adventures 1_5 1950 Nov_1951

Atlas Amazing Detective cases 11_14 Mar_1952 Sep_1952

St John Amazing Ghost Stories 14_16 Oct_1954 Feb_1955

Atlas Amazing Mysteries 32_33 May_1949 Jul_1949

Atlas Astonishing 3_37 Apr_1951 Feb_1955

Ace Baffling Mysteries 5_24 Nov_1951 Jan_1955

Youthful Beware 10_12 Jun_1952 Oct_1952

Trojan Beware 13_16, 5_14 Jan_1953 Mar_1955

Fawcett Beware Terror Tales 1_8 May_1952 Jul_1953

Ace Beyond, The 1_30 Nov_1950 Jan_1955

Harvey Black Cat Mystery 30_53 Aug_1951 Dec_1954

Prize Black Magic 1_33 Oct_1950 Dec_1954

Star Blue Bolt Weird Tales 111_119 Nov_1951 Jun_1953

Atlas Captain America's Weird Tales 74_75 Oct_1949 Feb_1950

Ace Challenge Of The Unknown 6 Sep_1950 1 issue only

Harvey Chamber Of Chills 21_24, 5_26 Jun_1951 Dec_1954

Youthful Chilling Tales 13_17 Dec_1952 Oct_1953

Avon City Of The Living Dead 1_shot 1952 1 issue only

ACG Clutching Hand 1 Jul_1954 1 issue only

EC Crypt Of terror 17_19 Apr_1950 Sep_1950

Story Dark Mysteries 1_22 Jun_1951 Mar_1955 Story was AKA Master, Merit, Ribage

Avon Diary Of Horror 1_shot Dec_1952 1 issue only

Avon Eerie 1_17 May_1951 Sep_1954

Avon Eerie 1 Jun_191947 1 issue only

Ziff-Davis Eerie Adventures 1 Wint 1953 1 issue only

Youthful Fantastic 8_9 Feb_1952 May_1952

Ajax-Farrell Fantastic Comics 10_11 Nov_1954 Feb_1955

Ajax-Farrell Fantastic fears 7_8, 3_9 May_1953 Oct_1954

Standard Fantastic Worlds 5_7 Sep_1952 Jun_1953

Fox Feature Presentation 5 Apr_1950 1 issue only Full Length Black Tarantula. Reprinted in Startling Terror 11

Story Fight Against Crime 1_21 May_1951 Sep_1954

ACG Forbidden Worlds 1_34 Jul_1951 Nov_1954

Prize Frankenstein 18_33 Mar_1952 Sep_1954

Fiction House Ghost Comics 1_11 1951 1954

Star Ghostly Weird Stories 120_124 Sep_1953 Sep_1954

Ace Hand Of Fate 8_25, 25_26 Dec_1951 Mar_1955 #25:11/54&12/54. Gerber=25/25a. 26 may not exist

EC Haunt Of Fear 15_17, 4_28 May_1950 Dec_1954

Ajax-Farrell Haunted Thrills 1_18 Jun_1952 Feb_1955

Comic Media Horrific 1_13 Sep_1952 Sep_1954

Premier Horror From The Tomb 1 Sep_1954 1 issue only

DC House Of Mystery 1_35 Dec_1951 Feb_1955

St John House of Terror 3-D 1 Oct_1953 1 issue only

Quality Intrigue 1 Jan_1955 1 issue only

Superior Journey Into Fear 1_21 May_1951 Sep_1954

Atlas Journey Into Mystery 1_22 Jun_1952 Feb_1955

Atlas Journey Into Unknown Worlds 36_38, 4_33 Sep_1950 Feb_1955

Standard Lost Worlds 5_6 Oct_1952 Dec_1952

Atlas Marvel Tales 93_131 Aug_1949 Feb_1955

Atlas Menace 1_11 Mar_1953 May_1954

Atlas Men's Adventures 21_26 May_1952 Mar_1954

Gilmore Mister Mystery 1_19 Sep_1951 Oct_1954 Gilmore:AKA Aragon, Key, Stanmor, Media

Superior Mysteries Weird and Strange 1_11 May_1953 Jan_1955

Story Mysterious Adventures 1_23 Mar_1951 Dec_1954

Premier Mysterious Stories 2 Dec_1954 1 issue only

Atlas Mystery Tales 1_26 Mar_1952 Feb_1955

Atlas Mystic 1_36 Mar_1951 Mar_1955

Avon Night Of Mystery 1_shot 1953 1 issue only

St John Nightmare 10_13 Dec_1953 Aug_1954

St John Nightmare 3 Oct_1953 1 issue only 1 issue - contd from Ziff Davis' Nightmare

Ziff-Davis Nightmare 1_2 Sum 1952 Fall 1952

ACG Out Of The Night 1_17 Feb_1952 Aug_1953

Standard Out Of The Shadows 5_14 Jul_72 Aug_1953

Avon Phantom Witch Doctor 1_shot 1952 1 issue only

Toby Purple Claw 1_3 Jan_1953 May_1953 Toby was AKA Minoan

DC Sensation Comics 107_109 Dec_1951 Jun_1952 Horror begins

DC Sensation Mystery 110_116 Jul_1952 Aug_1953 cont'd from Sensation 109

ACG Skeleton Hand 1_6 Oct_1952 Jul_1953

Atlas Spellbound 1_23 Mar_1952 Jun_1954

Star Spook 22_29 Jan_1953 Jul_1954

Star Startling Terror Tales 10_14, 4_11 May_1952 Sep_1954

Ajax-Farrell Strange Fantasy 2, 2_15 Aug_1952 Nov_1954 first iss #2, then 2nd #2 immediately followed. #6 has both horror interior and non-horror interior.

Superior Strange Mysteries 1_21 Sep_1951 Jan_1955

Fawcett Strange Stories From Another World 2_5 Aug_1952 Feb_1953 Continues Unknown World #1

Charlton Strange Suspense Stories 16_22 Jan_1954 Nov_1954 Charlton AKA Capitol

Fawcett Strange Suspense Stories 1_5 Jun_1952 Feb_1953

Atlas Strange Tales 1_34 Jun_1951 Feb_1955

St John Strange Terrors 1_7 Jun_1952 Mar_1953

Atlas Suspense 1_29 Dec_1949 Apr_1953

EC Tales From The Crypt 20_46 Oct_1950 Mar_1955 Continues Crypt Of terror

Toby Tales Of Horror 1_13 Jun_1952 Oct_1954

Toby Tales Of Terror 1 1952 1 issue only violated EC's copyright on Tales Of Terror Annual

EC Tales of terror Annual 1_3 1951 1953

Comic Media Terrific 14 Dec_1954 1 issue only classic head cvr

Avon The Dead Who Walk 1_shot 1952 1 issue only

Fiction House The Monster 1_2 1953 1953

Charlton Thing! 1_17 Feb_1952 Nov_1954

Charlton This Is Suspense 23 Feb_1955 1 issue only

Fawcett This Magazine Is Haunted 1_14 Oct_1951 Dec_1953 Continues as Charlton's TMIH 15-21

Charlton This Magazine Is Haunted 15_21 Mar_1954 Nov_1954 Title revived from Fawcett #1-14

Harvey Thrills Of Tomorrow 17_18 Oct_1954 Dec_1954

Harvey Tomb of Terror 1_16 Jun_1951 Jul_1954

Sterling Tormented, The 1_2 Jul_1954 Sep_1954

Atlas Uncanny Tales 1_28 Jun_1952 Jan_1955

Fawcett Unknown World 1 Jun_1952 1 issue only Continues into Strange Stories From Another World

Standard Unseen 5_15 Jun_1952 Jul_1954

EC Vault Of Horror 12_40 Apr_1950 Jan_1955

Atlas Venus 12_19 Feb_1951 Apr_1952

Ajax-Farrell Voodoo 1_19 May_1952 Feb_1955

Ajax-Farrell Voodoo Annual 1 1952 1 issue only

Quality Web Of Evil 1_21 Nov_1952 Dec_1954

Ace Web of Mystery 1_27 Feb_1951 Nov_1954

PL Weird Adventures 1_3 May_1951 Oct_1951 XL Publishing for #1

Ziff-Davis Weird Adventures 10 Jul_1951 1 issue only

Gilmore Weird Chills 1_3 Jul_1954 Nov_1954

St John Weird Horrors 1_9 Jun_1952 Oct_1953

Gilmore Weird Mysteries 1_12 Oct_1952 Sep_1954

Gilmore Weird Tales of the Future 1_8 Mar_1952 Jul_1953

Comic Media Weird Terror 1_13 Sep_1952 Sep_1954

Ziff-Davis Weird Thrillers 1_5 Sep_1951 Nov_1952

Avon Witchcraft 1_6 Mar_1952 Jan_1953

Harvey Witches Tales 1_28 Jan_1951 Dec_1954

Fawcett Worlds Beyond 1 Nov_1951 1 issue only

Fawcett Worlds of Fear 2_10 Jan_1952 Jun_1953 Continues Worlds Beyond #1

 

 

 

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PovertyRow

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The link in my profile is still valid.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/?68u18g59kta8g5a

 

It is an excel spreadsheet broken out into the following fields:

 

Publisher, Title, Issue #s Began, Ended, Notes

 

Since it is in excel data sorts can be done on the various columns, so you can arange by Publisher, Title etc.

 

 

 

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adamstrange

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Pre-code refers to all comics produced prior to the advent of the comics code in Apr/May 1955.

 

PCH is an acronym for pre-code horror and so refers to comics that are in the horror genre. There is some reasonable debate about what issues to include or exclude. Wrightson Fan's suggestion of the Tales To Terrible to Tell series is the best introduction to pre-code horror, including discussions about whether certain issues should or should not be counted as horror books.

 

Here is the primary pre-code horror thread. There are lots of pictures and topics and it's a great location to pose further questions.

 

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=550731#Post550731

 

Pov's xls is focused on horror comics. There are other genres that contain adult-centered themes and images (e.g. Good Girl Art and crime) that were subsequently censored with the advent of the Code. The GA Forum has threads on these as well.

 

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=646590

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=413380

 

 

 

 

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PovertyRow

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Wow! Thanks guys! You guys rock! BTW, does pre-code comics comprise only of Horror or or there other genres in that set?

 

I found this board through CGC website. Glad to be here :)

 

 

To my mind, pre-code is synonymous with Atom Age: 1947 - early 1955 (just before the Code came into effect). While all Golden age books can be considered "pre-code", I think the term best is applied to the events that led up to the founding of the code: an increase in violence, graphic gore, drugs, torture, sexy women etc etc. The most popular genres of pre-code are horror, sci-fi, crime, romance and adventure. Adventure was usually combined with Good Girl Art in books like Wings, Jumbo, Dagar Desert Hawk, Jungle, Rangers etc.

 

The superhero genre declined in the late 40's due to the end of World War 2, and there was a noticeable lack of excitement and unity with the then-current superheros having to battle foes other than the Axis powers. DC was the only company to really maintain the superhero genre full force from the Golden Age. Interestingly, their horror output during the Atom Age was extremely small.

 

More publishers started dropping heros and shifting to more horror and more graphic Good Girl elements, producing either a new batch of titles or adding more horror, gore and Good Girl Art to the other genres. As the Atom Age accelerated, covers and stories became more and more graphic and lurid. During the Goloden Age there were also some similar themes, but the Atom Age took them over the top.

 

Our friend Dr. Wertham took note, panicked the country with his book Seduction of the Innocent and articles in magazines like Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest, Scouting Magazine and others about the dangers of comic books. Book banning and burnings began (for real). A Senate Subcommittee hearing on the impact of comic books on juvenile delinquency was convened. The Comics Code came out of that in 1955.

 

The bulk of the books that brought all this on were the horror/good girl/crime/sci-fi/adventure type books that had increased so much in number and "graphicness". So while all books before 1955 could be considered as not having the code, to my mind the 1947-1955 Atom Age books were the ones really responsible for the code. And pre-code, to me, is best applied to them.

 

::phew::

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PovertyRow

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The link in my profile is still valid.

 

:thumbsup: The link I was looking at was the one you posted back then. Thank you for providing the link to the newbie :)

 

(thumbs u

 

Most welcome. It's always fun to see folks getting involved in pre-code.

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