{"product_id":"classic-horror-comics-volume-9","title":"CLASSIC HORROR COMICS Volume 9","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVariant cover.\u003c\/strong\u003e Unearthing more little horrors beginning with \u003ci\u003eHaunted Thrills\u003c\/i\u003e #12, 1953 where practical joker Biff inherits a haunted house in \"Death Laughs Last.\" And from issue #13, \"Death Do Us Part,\" a baboon kills a man's wife! Then it's woe to those receiving the deadly invitation... all it said was \"Be My Ghost!\" in \u003ci\u003eFantastic Fears\u003c\/i\u003e #8 and from issue #9, 1954, \"If a Body Kill a Body,\" two Scottish highlanders from warring families come back as ghosts to get their revenge! And a decapitation story. In \u003ci\u003eMan in Black\u003c\/i\u003e #2, 1957, our faceless occult avenger tells strange stories, sometimes intervening in person, other times merely letting fate unfold.\n\nInteresting mix of titles; \u003cem\u003eHaunted Thrills \u003c\/em\u003eis a Farrell\/Ajax title, with Iger shop creators and \"Kamenish art in most issues.\" \u003cstrong\u003eBob Webb \u003c\/strong\u003efrom Fiction House fame has work in #12. The title lasted until #18 in 1954.\n\n\u003cem\u003eFantastic Fears \u003c\/em\u003eis actually the second #8 issue (the first was the 2nd issue). #9 is the final issue of the title. It has a story intended for Fox's \u003cem\u003eJo Jo \u003c\/em\u003eComics, which was one of their sexy jungle titles by the same creative team as \u003cem\u003eRulah, Zegra, Zago, Zoot\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAll Top\u003c\/em\u003e. These were all Fox Publisher's titles, so this lone story was probably an inventory item that went to Farrell\/Ajax when Fox went under and Farrell inherited some unpublished stories. They changed Jo Jo's name to Kaza.\n\n\u003cem\u003eMan in Black \u003c\/em\u003eis a Harvey Horror title which ran four issues in 1957-58. He came back in Harvey's strange \u003cem\u003eThrill-o-Rama \u003c\/em\u003etitle in 1966-67, and was resurrected again by Harvey in 1990 for two more issues. This issue features some super-fine \u003cstrong\u003eBob Powell\u003c\/strong\u003e art on both the cover and all the inside stories. \u003cem\u003eMan in Black\u003c\/em\u003e was a top drawer title and unless I'm mistaken, I think the stories were also reprinted -- well, no, I am wrong. Just one of the stories here was collected in AC's reprint title \u003cem\u003eMen of Mystery\u003c\/em\u003e in 2017. Interesting, all these four issues are worthy of being recollected -- issue #1 has been widely reprinted, but not this #2 issue, nor #3 and #4!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PS Artbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59643053736222,"sku":"CLHOR09","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/clhor09-classic-horror-comics-vol-9-book.jpg?v=1784513249","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/classic-horror-comics-volume-9","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}