*Horror 1940-1959: Like Journey Into Mystery, Strange Tales is one of the Marvel titles that had its roots in the Atlas Pre-Code Horror days and survived via the Big Panty Monsters into the super-heroic Silver Age. It’s the Pre-Code Horror that concerns us here, with four early issues from the Bute Collection in decent shape. The usual high standards of Atlas horror are preserved in these excellent items.
PICTURED: STRANGE TALES
#24 VG- £175 Pre-code. Great Bill Everett cover; Sinnott and others interiors. Glossy with rich colour. Tight firm staples. Minimal wear and off-white to cream pages. Soft long vertical sub. crease does not break colour. Handling creases at base of spine also do not break colour. 6.5 cm horizontal tear on back cover neatly taped. 
#26 VG- £175 Pre-code  Art by Colan, Katz, Infantino etc. Cover flat, colourful and glossy with tiny creases at bottom right edge. Some corner blunting and 4 cm upper spine split. Staples tight and firm, pages a nice off-white. Minor spine and edge wear; a handwritten word ‘Read’ in the ‘R’ of the logo. 
#30 VG £195 Pre-code. Art by Benulis, Drucker, Ayers etc. Glossy cover with rich colour. Tight, firm staples, nice off-white pages, Very minor edge wear except for a between-staple tear of about fingernail-tip size, with no loss.
#31 VG+ £215 Pre-code. Art by Greene, Benulis, Tartaglione etc. Flat, glossy and colourful, with firm, tight staples and nice off-white pages. One or two very soft cover creases which do not break colour and tiny nicks at upper and lower spine. SOLD