*Horror 1940-1959: Two excellent Pre-Code examples from the Bute Collection this week. Charlton’s This Magazine Is Haunted #21 from 1954 has a classic Ditko cover, with interior stories by George Evans, Chic Stone and others. Tormented #1 (of 2) from Sterling (also 1954) has a classy cover with two skeletons dragging a woman into a grave in a cemetery at night. The cover is by Mike Roy, who with Mike Sekowsky shares most of the interiors.
PICTURED: BOTH SOLD
THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED #21 FN- £200 Pre-Code. A superior copy with minor edge and corner wear. A faint white vertical line running the lower third of the cover looks like a printing issue rather than a crease or wear. Good staples and supple white to off-white pages. 
TORMENTED #1 PR/FA £240 Pre-Code. A very low grade copy of this prized issue. The cover colour is good and the image intact apart from a long, jagged narrow strip off the bottom and lower right edge (see scan). There are also small chips out at top and bottom spine and several chips out top edge, with a further outage centre right edge. There are also chips out of the back cover. The cover is still attached at the staples (as is the centrefold), but the spine is split almost all the way above, between and below the staples. The pages however are nicely intact and off-white.