American Update: Web of Horror – 1st Berni Wrightson art – and other vintage horror & adventure mags
*Vintage Magazine-Sized Comics: From the Fear-Fraught Fifties to the shuddersome Seventies, these magazine-sized comics did their best to circumvent the Comics Code Authority and bring tales of terror to the populace! New this week, Chilling Tales of Horror from Stanley, a cheerfully trashy reworking of trashy old Pre-Code horror stories behind new trashy covers; 1959’s first (and possibly only?) issue of Monsters and Things, from Magnum Publications, a Famous Monsters of Filmland rip-off with a small amount of comics content; two mags from the short-lived Atlas/Seaboard line of the 1970s, Thrilling Adventure Stories and Weird Tales of the Macabre: and 1970’s Web of Horror from Major, a Creepy-wannabe with the distinction of Berni Wrightson’s first professionally-published artwork. Illustrated is Web of Horror #1 (Dec 1969, FN/VF p £27), with the others, as always, detailed in our online listings. SORRY, PICTURED ITEM NOW SOLD