THE MAN WHO LOVED A PLANT

TALES OF HORROR

Vol. 1, No. 2

September 1952

Minoan Publishing Corp./Toby

Editor: Elliot Caplin

Cover: Myron Fass

Pages: 36

Price: 10 cents

A couple of weirdies in this, the second issue of Toby's TALES OF HORROR. Myron Fass provides the cover art, depicting the tale, "The Thing in the Pool", which he also illustrated. Another oddity is "Love From a Plant", an early plant horror comic story in which a man creates a beautiful woman with the dual purpose of loving him and doing away with his -- who else? -- wife. In true EC-fashion, the experiment fails on both counts. Other stories are illustrated by A.C. Hollingsworth and Lawrence Dresser. No script credits in this issue.

MEET THE UGLIEST MAN IN THE WORLD!

TALES OF HORROR

Vol. 1, No. 1

June 1952

Minoan Publishing Corp./Toby

Editor: ?

Cover: Myron Fass

Pages: 36

Price: 10 cents

This here's the first issue of Toby's TALES OF HORROR, cataloged as the "1952 series". It's a pre-code smorgasbord of titillating terror with a classic Myron Fass touch of eerie elegance. No editor or script writers are credited in the issue, but art is by Fass, Pete Morisi, Bill Moino and Ed Smalle. Leading off the issue is the screwy, "The Ugliest Man in the World!".