Eerie Mysteries (1938-1939 Magazine Publishers) Pulp comic books 1955 or before

Volume 1, Issue 1 - August, 1938. Cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Ralph Powers, Ronald Flagg, Harris Clivesey, Cliff Howe, Charles Evans, Robert Gustin, Eric Lennox, Leon Dupont, Rexton Archer and Dennis Storm. Classic pulp fiction featuring horror and mystery of the type called Weird Menace. There's no improving on the magazine's original blurbs: "In the shadows of petrified corpses Special Agent Butler makes his last stand against grisly doom.... Ghoulish figures of the half-dead force Nick and Rhoda toward the citadel of sinister disaster.... A blade of ominous past demands a fresh banquet - of blood!" Good-girl art cover by Norman Saunders. City of Stone Corpses; Tomb Treachery; Brotherhood of the Damned; Immortal Murder; Scourge of the Death Master; Satan's Trio; The Garden of Fate; Curse of a Thousand Cats; Thirsty Steel; Midnight's Sinister Snare. 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Ralph Powers, Ronald Flagg, Vance Leighton, Cliff Howe, Lorne Balsley, Clint Douglas, Eric Lennox, Norman Daniels, Rexton Archer and Dennis Storm. Classic pulp fiction featuring horror and mystery of the type called Weird Menace. There's no improving on the magazine's original blurbs: "A sinister being - more horrible than the werewolf, more terrifying than the Minotaur - the Carnivorous Bubble!... Manhattan is chilled by the ghastly spectacle of a man without a brain... Her rare beauty destines her to a doomful pose!" Action-girl art cover by Norman Saunders. When It Rained Corpses; Satan's Ante-Chamber; The Carnivorous Bubble; Executioner's Playday; The Three from Nowhere; Song of the Spectre; Homicide House; The Robot's Revenge; Modeled in Death; Skull and Double-Cross Bones. 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover by Norman Saunders (or possibly Rafael DeSoto). Stories and art by Ralph Powers, Arden Antony, Stephen McBarron, Cliff Howe, Frank Airth, John Clemons, Edgar Allan Martin, Eric Thane, Chester Brant, Jeffry Strictland and Robert C. Blackmon. Classic pulp fiction featuring horror and mystery of the type called Weird Menace. There's no improving on the magazine's original blurbs: "To trap that scourge, Mark Crandall must shake hands with the clutching fingers of doom.... A tortured corpse walks out of its burial crypt.... Time stands still when Martians invade the earth!" Painted cover has been credited to Norman Saunders or Rafael DeSoto. Horrors Handshake; Mr. Justice Sits In; Abyss of the Wailing Dead; Time Takes a Holiday; Street of Ghouls; Unwilling Corpse; The Hounds of Purgatory; The Cobra Strikes; Realm of Liquid Death; Fangs of the Soul. 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Ralph Powers, Arden Antony, Stephen McBarron, Cliff Howe, Frank Airth, John Clemons, Laurence D. Smith, Eric Lennox, and David Bernard. Classic pulp fiction featuring horror and mystery of the type called Weird Menace. Stalwart heroes; beautiful women threatened with grim fates; otherworldly creatures; stripped-down narratives with nary an excess word; and terrific painted cover art by Norman Saunders. The Corpse Symphony; Tomb of Torment; Spiders' Realm; Havoc for Sale; Call of the Claw; The Fear Fetish; Time for Death; Song of the Damned; Wedding Hells; Invitation to Murder. 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.