NIGHTMARE Volume 1

A classic title from St. John, packed with the best names in comics at the time: Everett Raymond Kinstler, John Prentice, Alex Toth, Murphy Anderson, Colan, Krigstein, Matt Baker and Bob Powell. How is that for a lineup of talent? Wild pre-code horror. Includes an adaptation of Poe's "The Black Cat," bondage, painted covers, cannibalism, a Matt Baker cover... St. John was a mid-sized comics publisher with a varied list of titles, and in June 1952 they joined the horror binge with two titles, Strange Terrors and Weird Horrors. Strange Terrors ended after seven issues, to be replaced by Nightmare #3, picking up from the Ziff-Davis series. However, they then combined the title Nightmare with the numbering from Weird Horrors, so that Weird Horrors #9 and Nightmare #3 were followed by Nightmare #10. And after Nightmare #13 the title was changed to Amazing Ghost Stories for its final three issues.