Question about All-Pictures Adventures Magazine #2 0

[telerites]

On 12/22/2021 at 8:35 PM, Cat-Man_America said:

Interesting.  I don't believe this is a diving bell or Christmas ornament based on close examination.  As a November comic it was probably sold a month or two before the cover date, so the target demographic probably wasn't Santa's elves.  This "chamber of horrors" appears to be inside a laboratory as cradled test tubes are viewable through the globe and next to it.  The creature holding this container doesn't appear to be human.  The victims seem miniaturized and trapped inside this object with no oxygen available.  

It's certainly a compelling piece of artwork that invites more questions than it resolves.  

Ok so I read RHG's response and was down with the ornament theory now I am looking for the grassy knoll. 

[goldust40]

On 12/18/2021 at 10:19 PM, fifties said:

I have that book as well, and mine also not only has a glued spine, but two sets of staples; one set on the original and now coverless copy, and a heavier duty staple in order to bind the books all together.  I'm guessing that they simply used whatever remaindered copies, sans the 3/4 covers, they had available.

The contents of mine are; Weird Horrors 1, Strange Terrors 1, & Authentic Police Cases 18.

No doubt Mike Kaluta might've had this book in his collection when he drew this...

 

[fifties]

Here's another similarity;

[telerites]

On 12/23/2021 at 3:16 PM, fifties said:

Here's another similarity;

I actually have never seen that book before.  

[Cat-Man_America]

On 12/23/2021 at 4:51 AM, telerites said:

Ok so I read RHG's response and was down with the ornament theory now I am looking for the grassy knoll. 

The one other grizzly element I noticed is that it looks like gas is probably being pumped into this "chamber of horrors" from somewhere; my best guess is the tubing on top.  I suspect all three of them are wishing Santa would bring them a sledge hammer, ...and long before Christmas.