PS Artbooks Softee: Classic Horror Comics TPB (2023 PS Artbooks) comic books
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Published May 2022 by PS Artbooks.$29.99
The Tormented #1 Cover by Mike Roy
Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Terrifying Tales (1953) #11, The Tormented (1954) #1-2, Climax! (1955) #1-2.
Cover by Mike Roy.
Introducing our first volume of Classic Horror Comics, where we've unearthed some right little horrors! Starting with Terrifying Tales #11 (January 1953) Black Magic! Voodoo! Jungle Mystery! And cover artwork by L.B. Cole. And there's more with shocking and eerie tales including cannibalism in the pages of The Tormented #1 and #2 (July & September 1954). Climax! #1 (July 1955) from publisher Stanley Morse features the aptly titled "Fate!" where no matter which road Rocky Webster chooses he meets justice! And it would be an injustice, if you miss the chance to buy this beauty! Climax! #2 (September 1955) gives us "The Witness" where Tony Paris commits murder but picks the wrong girl to be his alibi!
Featuring Work by Alvin C. Hollingsworth, L. B. Cole, Mike Sekowsky, Mike Roy, Bill Ely, Eugene E. Hughes, Sal Trapani, and Fred Bell.
Softcover, 184 pages, full color.
NOTE: Wide Spine Version - This edition has been printed with a thicker, matte finish paper stock, resulting in a wider publication spine.
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Published Jan 2024 by PS Artbooks.$21.95
Volume 6 - 1st printing. "Nov/Dec 1954/1963-1964!" Collects Fantastic Comics (1954 Ajax) #10 and Eerie Tales (1963 Super) #10-12 and 15. We've unearthed some more little horrors for Volume 6 of Classic Horror Comics! Starting with Fantastic Comics #10 from 1954-a hush falls over the audience as the lights dim... steady now... for when the curtain rises "Fate Laughs at Clowns!" Eerie Tales #10 you better not miss the secret of "Dr. Hill's Lab!" In issue #11 The Purple Claw encounters a creepy old man that turns into a huge "Death Flower" at night that lives in the Florida swamps and feasts on human flesh. Issue #12 tempts us with another terrible secret this time of "The Pit." And finally #15 asks where did if come from - what was it that caused the strange happenings-what was "The Unknown Presence?" All brought to you by those masters of 1950's comics Bob Webb, Iger Shop, Ross Andru, L.B. Cole, Ben Brown, Moe Marcus, Fred Kida, Jay Disbrow and Basil Wolverton. Softcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $32.99.
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Published Sep 2024 by PS Artbooks.$32.99
Volume 8 - 1st printing. "1945, May-September 1955, and September 1957!" Collects Front Page Comic Book (1945), Prize Mystery (1955) #1-3, and Man in Black (1957 Harvey) #1. Featuring Stories by Ben Brown, David, Gantz, Ed Smalle, Iger Shop, and Steve Ditko. More horror and suspense for Classic Horror Comics Volume 8! Starting with this little gem-Front Page Comic Book is a Pre-Code anthology from Harvey that contains the origin and first appearance of the Man in Black. This was the only issue of the series. Prize Mystery added a cash incentive for the lucky 1950s reader if they could solve a two-page mystery involving murder. Ironically, solutions to the prize mysteries were to be announced in the issue #4... but, alas it never happened. Man in Black, the faceless occult avenger, tells strange stories, sometimes intervening in person, other times merely letting ironic fate unfold. Reproduced completely from cover to cover as they should be, just like the original comic! Softcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $32.99.
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Published Feb 2025 by PS Artbooks.$27.00
Volume 9 - 1st printing. Collects Haunted Thrills (1952-1954) #12-13, Fantastic Fears (1953) #8-9, and Man in Black (1957 Harvey) #2. Featuring Stories by Iger Shop, Robert Webb, Ken Battefield, and Bob Powell. We've unearthed some more little horrors! Beginning with Haunted Thrills #12 (November 1953) where practical joker Biff inherits a haunted house in "Death Laughs Last." And from #13 (January 1954) "Death Do Us Part," the baboon kills his wife! Quickly followed by woe be to those receiving the deadly invitation... all it said was "Be my Ghost!" in Fantastic Fears #8 (July 1954) and from #9 (September 1954) "If a Body Kill a Body," two Scottish highlanders from warring families come back as ghosts to get their revenge! And finally, even more horror and suspense from the Man in Black, a faceless occult avenger tells strange stories, sometimes intervening in person, other times merely letting ironic fate unfold. Reprints Man in Black #2 (1957) and other cited issues. Softcover, 184 pages, full color.
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Issue #10-1ST
Published Jul 2025 by PS Artbooks.$32.99
Volume 10 - 1st printing. "Mar/Apr 1954-Nov 1954!" Collects Haunted Thrills (1952-1954) #14-18. We've unearthed some more little horrors for Volume 10, Beginning with Tales of Horror and Terror! Wanda marries Hubert for his money and betrays him with the chauffeur. When Hubert finds out, he locks her in an ice-cold vault and lets her freeze to death. Just like all the other women who had only married him for his money in "Frigid Fear!" All the way to the end of the run for Haunted Thrills with issue #18-"No Place to Go" where Wilbur Cummings, a mild-mannered and harmless man, dies after falling down the stair. Niether heaven nor hell want to admit him, because he didn't do anything, be it good or evil! So Cumming gets a second chance and is sent back to life! Softcover, 184 pages, full color.
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Published Sep 2025 by PS Artbooks.$22.99
Volume 11 - 1st printing. "August 1953-November 1954/January 1955!" Collects Startling Terror Tales (1953-1954 2nd Series) #6, 8-9, and 11 and Fantastic Comics (1954 Ajax) #11. Cover by L. B. Cole. We've unearthed some more little horrors for Volume 11 of Classic Horror Comics! Beginning with Startling Terror Tales, complete with classic L.B. Cole covers and tales such as "Footprint of Death," "The Case of the Strange Murder," "The Curse of the Phantom Brigade," "The Forbidden Tomb," and "The Horrible Entity"! Plus, Amazing Adventures in Fantastic Comics with "Bewitched Battalion," a re-telling of legendary angelic archers assisting World War I British soldiers at the Battle of Mons as told by Arthur Machen-a totally made up story-but that didn't stop the rumors of the events being real! Reproduced completely from cover to cover as they should be, just like the original comics! Collects Startling Tales #6 (August 1953), #8 (February 1954), #9 (May 1954), and #11 (November 1954), plus Fantastic Comics #11 (January 1955). Featuring Stories by L.B. Cole, Max Elkan, Rudy Palais, and Iger Shop. Softcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $32.99.
