I'm having trouble finding time to get the Science Fiction Sunday post done so I thought I'd mention another bunch of comics that I picked up at the Digital Comic Museum. It's a public domain free download comic site. Lots of old comics from the 30's and 40's and into the 50's. Baffling Mysteries had some great covers. DCM has over a dozen issues of the early 1950's comic. The stories are typical comic horror stories, not too scarey but occasionally weird. Lots of demons, ghosts, and various other monsters, stories of revenge, very typical of the horror short story that you'd have found in fiction magazines of the time. The covers are about as racy as they get.
I like the lady in red and that man eating plant in the last pic on the right. Sadly there's no story inside to go along with the cover. By the covers alone you knew exactly who they are selling that comic to and it would be me. Kids and adults read comics in the 50's. I'd have bought these when they were new. The art inside ranges from fair to good. Occasionally something slightly different is tried with various degrees of success. Worth a look for the horror comic fan.
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