EERIE ADVENTURES "Perfect Hideout!"

 It's a sci-fi tale...
...a horror story...
...a parable about how crime never pays!

...it's all these things...and more!

Illustrated by Gerald McCann, this tale from Ziff-Davis' one-shot Eerie Adventures (1951) shares a title with several other 1940s-50s tales from other publishers.

But none of the others were sci-fi, just standard "crime does not pay"-style tales...

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Halloween Horrors AMAZING DETECTIVE CASES "It's Time to Go, Higgins!"

Justice takes many forms...

...not all of them visible...to the innocent!

But the guilty, well that's another story...

Written by Carl Wessler and illustrated by Bill (not the basketball player) Walton, this never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Amazing Detective Cases #11 (1952) combines crime and (mild) horror!

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Weird Detective

The Stars are Wrong

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It's Christmas Crime! JOURNEY INTO UNKNOWN WORLDS "Lady Who Believed"

Here's a Yuletide tale with a slightly-different take on Kris Kringle...

....as a Christmas crime-fighter and defender of the innocent!

This never-reprinted tale is from Atlas' Journey into Unknown Worlds #34 (1955), the first issue published under the restrictive auspices of the Comics Code Authority.

I wonder if it was originally-meant to be as gruesome as EC's legendary "...and All Through the House..."?

We'll never know the answer...but we will return in 2021 with more proof that...

Crime Does NOT Pay!
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Happy New Year!

CoronaVirus Crime Comics ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN "Eternal Fires"

A "clever" criminal making a deal with the Devil!

What could possibly go wrong?

(If you asked that question, you've obviously never watched The Twilight Zone...)

Written by editor Richard E Hughes, penciled by Dick Beck, and inked by Art Gates, this tale from ACG's Adventures into the Unknown #49 (1953) was relatively-mild for the 1950s "Seduction of the Innocent" era of horror and crime comics!

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Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s