The Best/Worst Horror or Crime pre-code story

[bye-migration]

Ive not read every pre-code horror or crime book but Ive seen my share. What do you guys consider the most graphic or horrible story out there ? It doesnt have to be a good story mind you . Here is mine from Dark Mysteries #13 (I think)

 

Horror of Mixed Torsos ! Dark Mysteries #13

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[bye-migration]

Im pretty sure this is from Mister Mystery but I dont know what issue.

 

The Gossips - Mister Mystery #?

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[PovertyRow]

Mister Mystery #13. My favorite. (soon to be for sale - I know - take it to the Marketplace)

[rjpb]

Ive not read every pre-code horror or crime book but Ive seen my share. What do you guys consider the most graphic or horrible story out there ? It doesnt have to be a good story mind you . Here is mine from Dark Mysteries #13 (I think)

 

Horror of Mixed Torsos ! Dark Mysteries #13

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DM #13 is well worth picking up - great dismembered foot cover and the classic

"Horror of Mixed Torsos !" story which is even more demented in color. Not a particularly pricey pre-code book in my experience.

[vacliff]

Ahh,the best......It was from the short lived title "Exposed." I don't recall the issue number. There's a panel where a woman with an axe is splitting the head of a two year old toddler. This one is truly gruesome!!

[originalisbest]

I agree, DM #13 is well worth it - tho it wasn't really cheap for me - all relative I suppose, it won't soak you like a Fight Against Crime #20 or a This Mag is Haunted #3 will.

[mike h]

Ahh,the best......It was from the short lived title "Exposed." I don't recall the issue number. There's a panel where a woman with an axe is splitting the head of a two year old toddler. This one is truly gruesome!!

 

WOW!! I NEED that!!!!!

[rjpb]

Ahh,the best......It was from the short lived title "Exposed." I don't recall the issue number. There's a panel where a woman with an axe is splitting the head of a two year old toddler. This one is truly gruesome!!

 

WOW!! I NEED that!!!!!

 

It was not in Exposed, but in D.S. publications Underworld True Crime Stories#3.

I used to have a scan of the panel, but it was on a computer that died. If I have time I'll scan it again this weekend.

[originalisbest]

Sounds pretty harsh - for any era! Wonder what the heck they thought that story would get 'em...

 

well - "any publicity's good publicity." Since it was a "true crime" book they could probably sell the salacious stuff under the guise of "revealing the horrible, unglamourous, unvarnished (and very profitable for the comic publisher thankyaverymuch) 'face of crime.'"

 

[mike h]

It was not in Exposed, but in D.S. publications Underworld True Crime Stories#3.

I used to have a scan of the panel, but it was on a computer that died. If I have time I'll scan it again this weekend.

 

Thanks! That just went to the top of my list!

 

Needless to say, I love the over-the-top stuff!

[Point Five]

Needless to say, I love the over-the-top stuff!

 

 

 

Here's a page from Mysterious Adventures #20, 1954...another one of those really wild pre-code horror titles that was trying to out-EC EC. A tormented wife takes her revenge on her husband, who is a famous chef...

 

[Jayman]

Yow! Great stuff there!

[mike h]

Thanks Point 5! That's a great page! I love the later Story books... brilliant! I have a tattered copy of MA #20... I love it!

[*paull*]

Wow... that's some nasty and cool stuff.

[Point Five]

Thanks, guys! ...and since we're in the neighborhood, here's the cover to this book. The Mysterious Adventures title seemed to have a particular fondness for these grinning-skeleton covers. Great stuff!

 

 

[originalisbest]

I remember MA #20 was one of my earliest wants, and how psyched I was when I landed a copy.

 

However now, my personal fave MA is my #21, the River City NM- copy.