*Miscellaneous 1940-1959:  L B Cole was one of the most famous of Golden/Atomic Age cover artists. He drew in a variety of genres, and was artistic director at Star, illustrating 95% of the company’s covers; his lurid, feverish style, almost hallucinogenic, graced horror, science-fiction, jungle and romance alike. Terrifying Tales was a sort of hybrid jungle and horror title; the content on #14 (1953) was pure reprint Rulah, Jungle Goddess from #20 of her own Fox series 1948. (NB As Fox featured the splash page of the first story on the inside front cover, this is not included in this reprint). The Rulah stories are noted for their extreme violence and horror overtones, but of course it’s the wonderful L B Cole cover for which this issue is prized, with a jungle queen bondage foreground, black panthers, a voodoo priestess and glittering idols. This is a decent copy, with great cover colour which truly sets off the design, firm staples and nice just off-white pages. There are small amounts of edge wear with a couple of small chips and minor creases at right corners, including one 6.5 cm colour-breaking crease across bottom right edge. Short 1.5 cm tear at centre right with no loss. Cover slightly off-centre so that staples are just on reverse and corresponding narrow white edge at right (see scan), but overall an attractive and appealing copy from our new Arch Collection.
PICTURED: TERRIFYING TALES #14 VG £200 SOLD