American Update: Pre-Code Horror Fest: Six Of The Best: Atlas’s Adventures Into Weird Worlds
*Horror 1940-1959: Atlas certainly provided a high standard of work in their horror fare, nowhere more so than in Adventures Into Weird Worlds, which ran for 30 issues from 1952-1954, and was rich in the depiction of the genre by many fine artists. Six issues fresh in, mostly in pretty low grade, but therefore within reach for those on a budget.
IN THIS UPDATE: ADVENTURES INTO WEIRD WORLDS
#1 GD- £100 (PICTURED) Pre-code. Cover by Joe Maneely. Art by Russ Heath, Sol Brodsky, John Tartaglione, George Tuska. Nice colours. Tiny corner bottom spine taped on. Right edge 5 cm tear taped on inside without loss. Small tears and creases bottom edge with small chips out. Back cover tears. Lower staple off front cover. Decent off-white to cream pages.
#2 FA £30 Pre-code. Cover by Sol Brodsky. Art by Joe Maneely, Werner Roth, Jim Mooney, Al Hartley. Spine heavily torn. Tape along the length on the outside, with white tape on inside cover. Small chunk out towards bottom right edge, but reconstructed. Subscription crease. Staples okay at centrefold, virtually off at cover. Reasonable pages.
#3 FA/GD £45 (PICTURED) Pre-code. Cover by Joe Maneely. Art by Werner Roth, Maneely and others. Long lower spine split, but extra staples added to keep cover in place. No original lower staple. Corner blunting. Vivid cover scene. Chips out bottom edge.
#4 PR £15 Pre-code. Cover by Carl Burgos. Art by Russ Heath, Bill Everett and others. All pages separated. Nice glossy cover but several chips out along edges and corners.
#8 FA £25 Pre-code. Cover by Bill Everett. Art by Dick Ayers, Vic Carrabotta and others. Bottom of spine taped. Stained and ragged above that around lower staple throughout comic. Otherwise not too bad.
#9 FA+ £30 Pre-code. Cover by Russ Heath. Art by Carmine Infantino, Ben Benulis, George Roussos and others. Spine worn, particularly around staples and bottom with small tear, looks glued. Nice off-white pages.


