Terrors of the Jungle includes the common "jungle" setting popular in adventure/horror comics. This setting had been popular since Jungle Jim was published in 1934. The jungle setting allowed comic writers to create fantastical characters; today, critics bring to light the sexist and racist portrayal of women and foreign (usually African) peoples in such comics.

Spook is an excellent example of the horror-occult genre that was extremely popular during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Comic books pushed the limits of acceptable graphic representation of violence and gore to the point where society blamed comics for widespread juvenile delinquency. The U.S. Senate formed a sub-committee to investigate the influence of horror genre comics, which resulted in the creation of the Comics Code, a form of censorship....

Novelty Press sold the character and rights of Blue Bolt to L. B. Cole, who was the cover artist for the character. Cole and Kramer began Star Publications with the known Blue Bolt character, even continuing the issue numbering where Novelty Press ended, with issue number 102. With increasing demand for horror and occult genres, Star Publications made a shift in Blue Bolt, renaming it Blue Bolt Weird Tales, and later Ghostly Weird Stories. Star Publications...

Planet Comics is one of the longest-running Golden Age science fiction comic series. It is considered to be the best of the Fiction House publications and is highly collected and valued. One of the reasons it is so interesting to collectors is the excellent quality of 'good girl art,' a term that refers to beautiful women, often scantily clad, found within the pages of comic books. ↵↵These women often needed saving from a repulsive-looking alien,...

Story Comics, a publisher during the Golden Age of comic↵books, was known for its four popular series, Dark Mysteries, Fight Against Crime, Mysterious Adventures and Romantic Hearts. By this time, comic↵books had become relatively mainstream and the illustrations were becoming a↵respected art form. This time period helped to codify the aesthetic and↵vocabulary that remains popular in comic books to this day. ↵↵Story Comics'↵series Dark...

Yuji Itadori is resolved to save the world from cursed demons, but he soon learns that the best way to do it is to slowly lose his humanity and become one himself! In a world where demons feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryoma Sukuna were lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school...

Editing and charting Conan's course in the influential Savage Sword of Conan magazine, Roy Thomas led a phenomenal assemblage of talented illustrators boldly through the end of the seventies and into the eighties, unfettered by page counts and the limiting thumb of the Comics Code. Thomas scripted the continuing adventures of Conan, drawing from Robert E. Howard's original tales - along with other Conan adventures - and working with such esteemed...

Matt Wagner's masterpiece celebrates its 30th anniversary with the first ever comprehensive collection of the complete Grendel saga! The first of four volumes presenting the entire series and following the chronology of the stories, this edition introduces millionaire Hunter Rose and his alter ego, the criminal mastermind Grendel! Volume One reprints Grendel: Devil by the Deed; the short story collections Grendel: Black, White and Red and Grendel:...

Ghostly Weird Stories is excellent example of the horror genre that was extremely popular during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Comic books pushed the limits of acceptable graphic representation of violence and gore to the point where society blamed comics for widespread juvenile delinquency. The U.S. Senate formed a sub-committee to investigate the influence of horror comics, which resulted in the creation of the Comics Code, a form of censorship....

This is the 44th issue of the Real Love series from Ace Comics that debuted in 1949.