*Horror 1940/1959: From the prestigious Bute Collection this week, the third issue of Atlas’s Journey Into Mystery from 1952. Like Strange Tales, Journey Into Mystery is one of those titles that started out in the 1950s horror boom, converted to Big Panty Monsters in the post-code phase and lasted into the Marvel Age Of Comics in the super-hero Silver Age. But it’s the title’s inaugural outings that concern us here. #3 features Ben Benulis, Joe Maneely, Mike Sewowsky, Carmine Infantino and others. More corpses, dismemberment, ghosts etc.
PICTURED: JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY
#3 VG/FN £475 The Bute Collection. Pre-Code. A superior copy with great cover colour and some gloss. Only faint spine and edge wear; tiny nick at base of spine. A couple of shallow creases across bottom right cover just break colour. Staples are tight and firm, mostly sharp corners; excellent pages are off-white to white.