STRANGE Volume 1

From tiny company Ajax, here's an early post-code mystery and supernatural title. They offer very good covers and the artwork and stories are very much in the pre-code style. The Iger shop used the same artists that were doing Fiction House titles like Ghost, Jumbo, Wings and Sheena. There are even creepy and horror elements to the story, but without the overt blood and guts prevalent before the comics code. "Banshee Belle," " The Black Cloud," "The Phantom Archers," "Portrait of Greed," "Prisoner of the Shadows," "Strange Spirits," etc. Here's more about the Iger Shop from Lambiek's online history: The studio continued to produce material for a variety of companies throughout the 1940s and most of the 1950s. Besides Fiction House, they also packaged books for Holyoke Publications, Harvey Comics, Farrell Publications (also known as Ajax), EC Comics and Gilberton's 'Classics Illustrated' series. One of the company's most remarkable post-Eisner creations was 'Kismet, Man of Fate' (1944), a Muslim superhero fighting Nazis in wartime France. He appeared in all four issues of Bomber Comics by the Elliot Publishing Company, and was credited to "Omar Tahan", a pen name of Ruth Roche. Chuck Winter, Alex Blum and Henry Kiefer were among the artists. Iger also tried his hand at publishing. He teamed up with Fred Fiore in late 1941 and began the Great Comics line. It spawned two titles, Choice Comics and Great Comics, which both only lasted three issues.