Pulp-Inspired Pre-Code Horror of Strange Mysteries #8, up for Auction

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Strange Mysteries was an obscure Pre-Code Horror title for the American market from Toronto writer Superior Comics, lasting 1951-1955.

Pre-Code horror won’t ever exit of type, as followers of gruesomeness and gore will at all times need what many thought of too sinister sooner or later. Case in level is Strange Mysteries #8, revealed by Superior Comics in 1952. This ebook options every kind of gnarly stuff, together with a person burned alive and a severed head, issues that in all probability would have despatched your mother and father in a tizzy in the event that they noticed you studying it again then. Not to say the duvet is itself a swipe of a satan cowl to pulp journal 15 Mystery Stories. Heritage Auctions has a Strange Mysteries #8 (Superior Comics, 1952) CGC FN- 5.5 Off-white pages up for public sale within the 2023 July 13 – 14 Pre-Code Horror & Crime Comics Showcase Auction #40227.

Superior Publishing was a Toronto-based comedian ebook writer that primarily operated from 1945-1956.  The firm largely reprinted American comedian materials for the Canadian market as a consequence of Canada’s post-WWII Foreign Exchange Control Act 1947-1951, which banned the import of American comedian books however not like the earlier War Exchange Conservation Act, allowed them to be reprinted by Canadian publishers.  Superior started publishing unique materials for the American market after the tip of the Foreign Exchange Control Act, together with a quantity of noteworthy horror titles comparable to Journey into Fear, Mysteries Weird and Strange, Strange Mysteries, and Tales of Horror.  In 1956, the writer ceased operations because the Fifties comedian ebook ethical panic resulted within the Comics Code.

Pre-Code Horror That Would Make Your Parents Scream

“Strange Mysteries #8 (Superior Comics, 1952) CGC FN- 5.5 Off-white pages. Devil cover swiped from the June 1950 issue of the pulp magazine 15 Mystery Stories. Contains a man-burned-alive panel and a severed head panel. Overstreet 2022 FN 6.0 value = $135. CGC census 6/23: 4 in 5.5, 12 higher. Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. “Flaming Horror”; A fat man’s face is horribly scarred when he accidentally sets fire to his hotel room; He inherits a house and meets a lonely ghost. A man tries to kick him out of his house so he kills him. “Mask of the Devil”; The wife of an evil ruler gives birth to a demon because of a curse; The demon is raised in secrecy and vows revenge on his father. “Brain of Belial” text story by David Palmer. “Through Wicked Eyes”; A witch leaves a pair of glasses for a man; These glasses allow the man to see how people will die; He looks at a picture of his wife and sees that she will be killed by a taxi. “Return of the Corpse”; A policeman and doctor scheme to catch a grave robber; The policeman pretends to die and is buried in a coffin; The doctor is the grave robber and blocks the air hole. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.”

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