Comic books in 'Chilling Archives of Horror'

The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics: Book 1 - 1st printing.

The first volume in Yoe Book's thrilling new series, "The Masters of Horror Comic Book Library," fittingly features the first and foremost maniacal monster of all time... Frankenstein! Dick Briefer is one of the seminal artists who worked with Will Eisner on some of the very first comic books. If you like the comic-book weirdness of cartoonists Fletcher Hanks, Basil Wolverton, and Boody Rogers, you're sure to thrill over Dick Briefer's creation of Frankenstein. The large-format book lovingly reproduces a monstrous number of stories from the original 1940s and '50s comic books. The stories are fascinatingly supplemented by an insightful introduction with rare photos of the artist, original art, letters from Dick Briefer, drawings by Alex Toth inspired by Briefer's Frankenstein-and much more!

Hardcover, 112 pages, full color. Cover price $21.99.

The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics: Book 1 - 2nd or later printings.

The first volume in Yoe Book's thrilling new series, "The Masters of Horror Comic Book Library," fittingly features the first and foremost maniacal monster of all time... Frankenstein! Dick Briefer is one of the seminal artists who worked with Will Eisner on some of the very first comic books. If you like the comic-book weirdness of cartoonists Fletcher Hanks, Basil Wolverton, and Boody Rogers, you're sure to thrill over Dick Briefer's creation of Frankenstein. The large-format book lovingly reproduces a monstrous number of stories from the original 1940s and '50s comic books. The stories are fascinatingly supplemented by an insightful introduction with rare photos of the artist, original art, letters from Dick Briefer, drawings by Alex Toth inspired by Briefer's Frankenstein-and much more!

Hardcover, 112 pages, full color. Cover price $21.99.

1st printing. Written by Craig Yoe and Bob Powell. Art and cover by Bob Powell. Cult favorite Bob Powell was a master 1950s horror cartoonist delineating some of the most imaginative and incredibly drawn comics in the genre. His terrifying ghouls were as gruesome as his tantalizing girls were gorgeous! The introduction is by Eisner winner Craig Yoe and details Powell's comics career with extensive and revealing quotes from a recently discovered manuscript about his work penned by Powell himself. The front matter is profusely illustrated with rare ephemera and flawless reproductions of Powell's original art. Bob Powell's Terror prints a generous amount of horror comic stories carefully scanned and reproduced from vintage horror-era comics, many of them quite rare and expensive-if you could even find them! This beautifully designed 148-page library-quality full-color hardback book is volume two in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics series. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Edited by Craig Yoe. Introduction by Steve Karswell Banes. From the banned 1950s horror comics that Dr. Fredric Wertham, The U.S. Senate, and mothers didn't want innocent children to devour comes a terrifying and timely anthology of comics of the undead..."Zombies". These gruesome mini-masterpieces are hauntingly delineated by some of the Golden Age's greatest artists at their very best. The nightmarish scripts of the unstoppable living dead will make your spine freeze over in terror! Hardcover, 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. By Jack Cole. Jack Cole is widely acclaimed for his brilliant work on his creation, the superhero Plastic Man. But he didn't just stretch people's imaginations, he also frightened them out of their wits! Cole's comics in this genre were some of the most grisly, horrifyingly gut-wrenching art and stories in the history of comics! In Jack Cole's Deadly Horror you'll read comic stories from the 1950s with titles like "Orgy of Death," "Hangman's Horror," "The Corpse That Wouldn't Die," "A Pact With The Devil," and many more spine-tingling tales. Introduced by Eisner Award winning comics historian Craig Yoe with rare art and background material. This large format full color book is part of the acclaimed Chilling Archives of Horror Comics, which includes Dick Briefer's Frankenstein, Bob Powell's Terror, and Zombies! Hardcover, 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Banned Comics from the 1950s!"

Cover by Lee Elias.

Back from the opened grave are more masterpieces of the macabre from the horror comics of the 1950s. Genius horror artists of the known and unknown variety poured their tortured souls into these comics. The best and least seen stories have been chosen with the help of top horror comic collectors and all lovingly restored and presented in full-creepy color. You will be thrilled, chilled and maybe even a little sickened by the over-the-top ghouls and gore in this latest addition to the Chilling Archives of Horror!

Hardcover, 148 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Collected for the first time in a deluxe edition are the comics that deserve it the least: the infamous Eerie Publications' horror comics! Incredibly gory and crazy, the Eerie Pubs pushed the boundaries of good taste with blood-drenched, spine-cracking tales ripped (and redrawn) from the pages of Pre-Code horror comics. Illustrated terror by Dick Ayers, Chic Stone, Domingo Mandrafina, the Iger Shop, and many other unsung masters of the morbid, presented in glorious, carefully re-mastered black and white. And who can forget those nausea-inducing covers? A dirty dozen of deadly, full-color covers are reproduced for your discomfort and revulsion. Gratuitous gore! Multi-Monster Madness! Bound Beauties! Hardcover, 148 pages, full color. Cover price $27.99.

1st printing. Howard Nostrand's brilliant horror-comics art was done during the height of the criticism against comics that resulted in government investigations and the Comics Code. Nostrand's style was an incredibly skilled, perfect mash-up of the EC artists Wally Wood and Jack Davis. Nostrand could be as innovative as Will Eisner, another influence on the artist. Five stories will be painstakingly reproduced from the rare original art! WARNING: Not for the squeamish-as you can see from the cover Nostrand's gore could be over the top-we can't show you the insides here to protect the Diamond Previews family-friendly content. Hardcover, 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Written by Nicola Cuti. Art and cover by Tom Sutton. Get ready for a mind-bending walk on the weird side with the very best of Tom Sutton's 1970s horror tales for Charlton Comics! Sutton was at his most expressionistic and experimental with the scores of stories he drew for Charlton's "ghost" line, whose titles said it all: Creepy Things, Ghostly Tales, The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves, and more. A full sixteen stories, unpublished art, and more than a dozen of his creepy-crawly covers are faithfully reproduced from rare original artwork! Edited by Michael Ambrose, editor of the insightful Charlton Spotlight magazine, who provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes introduction profusely illustrated with rare art and photos. Dementedly designed by Donnie "Lum and Abner" Pitchford. Hardcover, 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Comics Your Mother Warned You About!"

Cover by Bernard Baily.

Back from the opened grave are more masterpieces of the macabre from the horror comics of the 1950s. Genius horror artists of the known and unknown variety poured their tortured souls into these comics. The best, and rarest, stories have been chosen with the help of top horror comic collectors and lovingly restored and presented in full-creepy color.

Hardcover, 160 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Pre-Code Comics So Good They're Scary!"

Cover by Lee Elias.

Volume 3 is the monstrously great curated collection of the goriest, craziest, rarest comics that the U.S. Government didn't want you to see! David Colton in USA Today screams, "The comic book industry's most obscure and outrageous stories of the 1950s!" Decapitated Dan screeches, "Some of the greatest horror comic material ever to be reprinted!" Under the infamous melting face cover you'll witness under-appreciated artists Frank Giacoia, Nick Cardy, Shelly Moldoff, Bob Powell, Jack Sparling, Joe Certa, and Lin Streeter, masters of the horror comics genre!

Hardcover, 160 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Cover by Maurice Whitman. The publisher Fiction House was infamous for what anti-comics crusader Dr. Fredric Wertham called "headlight comics," i.e. comics featuring the ample female bosom. The Pre-Code publisher used their buxom heroines to star in jungle comics, science fiction tales, and scary GHOST STORIES! The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics series curates the sexiest and scariest of these poltergeist-infused Good Girl Art comics in a pulse-pounding tome! Your hair will stand on end and at the same time your toes will curl! Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 152 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Cover by Iger. Good Girl Art, and old-skool horror art by the master Matt Baker and his associates from the infamous art group The Iger Shop! Filled with lurid pulp-fiction comics like "Zombie Bride," "The Weird Dead," and "The Crawling Horror." This large format, full-color book of terrors, is the first of three volumes and has a fear-filled and fascinating introduction by Mike "The Worst of Eerie Publications" Howlett! Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 208 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Don Heck. Don Heck was the co-creator of Marvel's Iron Man and the long time Avengers artist. In the 1950s Heck did a score of artistically brilliant and extremely beyond-the-pale, extremely gruesome, Pre-Code Horror comic book covers and comics. The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics now gives it's loving attention to this unsung horror master! This beautiful hardcover book sports the usual Yoe Books detailed history, rare images reproduced from original art and more mind-blowing ephemera to give a fascinating look at the dark side of Dapper Don Heck. Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 152 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Beware puny mortals, the gates of Hell have opened wide, as The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics serves up another diabolical dish of Golden Age horror hits-and this time direct from the burning bowels of Hades itself! Edited by Steve Banes, aka Mr. Karswell, Devil Tales stars Satan himself (and in one story, herself!) in over two dozen scorching stories of demonic power, and features artwork from top fan favorites like Don Heck, Gene Colan, Dick Ayers, Lou Cameron, Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, and more! An infernal introduction, plus a cursed cover gallery guaranteed to swallow your soul. The hottest book of 2015 already has you under it's Satanic spell! Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Cover by Ben Brown and Dave Gantz. Slithering Scares...Dangerous Snake-Women...Cold-Blooded Killings...Snake Tales scours the snake-pit of Pre-Code horror to bring you the weirdest stories of serpentine thrills, guaranteed to raise your blood-pressure (and maybe an eyebrow)! Hissing horror from the likes of Rudy Palais, Lou Cameron, and Marty Elkin and other masters of comic book fear. Crawling your way in full color. Bullet points: "These misunderstood serpents in Snake Tales will envenomate you with an unhealthy dose of 1940s and 1950s pre-code comic book horror!" - Dr. Frank T. Burbrink, Curator of Reptiles and mphibians at the American Museum of Natural History. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. "Candles for the Undead!"

Cover by L. B. Cole.

In this bizarre, lawless, ghoulish, gruesome, terrifying frightfest of a book you'll read: "Candles for the Undead," "The Monster's Ghost," "Pray for the Vampire Horde," "The Witches Come at Midnight," "Your Head for Mine" and many more mind-rotting comics!

Hardcover, 144 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Cover by Matt Baker. Volume 2 includes Pre-Code classics like "They Couldn't Die!," "Torture Travelogue," "Vanishing Cadavers," "Voodoo Canvas," "Good Bye World!," "Satan's Plaything," "Blood Revenge," and "Skulls of Doom!" Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 184 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

1st printing. Cover by Frank Frazetta. The Chillling Archives of Horror Comics first gave the world the book Zombies! Now, by popular dead-mand we present more never-before-assembled terrifying tales of the walking dead! Dug from graves these are grisly, gory, gruesome Pre-Code comic book stories that rotted kids' minds in the '50s and were condemned by the Senate! The most deft and depraved artists of the time serve up these spine-chilling horrors! Read "An Army of Walking Dead," "The Zombie Disciple," "The Fleshless Ones," and "Dial C for Corpse,"! If you dare devour, "The Corpse That Prowled by Night," "The Dead are Never Lonely," "Born in the Grave," "Zombie Vengence," and much morbid more. Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Art and Cover by Jay Disbrow. One of the most bizarre, unique stylists from Pre-Code horror comics is cult-favorite Jay Disbrow. If there's anyone close to this unknown genius, it's Basil Wolverton. Working with friend, editor, and colorist L.B. Cole, Disbrow wrote and drew many fear-inducing tales specializing in terrifying demons, scary apparitions, and a horde of hairy monsters. This full color, large format book culls the best of Disbrow's work from moldy comics like Dark Mysteries, Ghostly Weird Stories, Spook, and Startling Terror Tales. A revealing and lengthy interview with the creator serves a dark, ghostly-weird, startling, and profusely illustrated introduction! Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 148 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Cover by Bernard Bailey. Haunted Love is the unholy spawn of Haunted Horror and Weird Love, the critically acclaimed series by Yoe Books! Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 144 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "The Screaming Skulls!"

Cover by Bernard Baily.

You'll scream with terror when you experience these terrifying Pre-Code stories sure to rot your brain! Never collected together in book form, you'll thrill when you read under your dark covers: "Terror of the Nightmares," "Headless Horror," "Death Ala Carte," "The Devil from the Deep," and macabre more! The Ghastly Award-winning Haunted Horror series presents-in large-format bloody-color-carefully restored walking zombies, screaming skulls, and ravenous cannibal monsters!

Hardcover, 160 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Cover by Iger Shop. One of the weirdest, coolest, cheesiest, most bizarre, goriest pre-code comic books printed in its entirety. Voodoo features beyond good taste, sexy Good Girl art, and old school horror art by the master Matt Baker and his associates from the infamous group, the Iger Shop! Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 184 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

1st printing.

Story and art by Lou Cameron.

Lou Cameron was a groundbreaking art master of the 1950s Pre-Code comics era. With his innovative experimental layouts and frequent use of surrealism, his horror comics have been described as "Jim Steranko meets Graham Ingels." Zombies, vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts, and devils from terror-filled stories like "Faceless Horror," "Lure of the Zombie Diamonds," "Graveyard of Ghost Ships," "Kill My Minions of Death," and "The Unsleeping Dead" will make you scream with delight!

Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 144 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

Volume 6 - 1st printing. "Nightmare of Doom!"

Cover by Bernard Baily.

Screaming good vintage horror comics to chill your spine. A face-melting anthology of 25 terror-filled horror comic stories from the Pre-Code 1950s. The most depraved artists of that era make the unholy dead walk, spine-tingling ghosts talk, and horrifying ghouls stalk. Read these contraband comics under your blanket at night and make sure your mom doesn't catch you or she'll cremate them in a roaring bonfire!

Hardcover, 152 pages, full color.

NOTE: "These are the things we were scared of as kids but have grown to embrace. This is what we had nightmares about that turned into a horror-enthusiast's dream." - Horror Talk

Cover price $24.99.

Volume 7 - 1st printing. "Cry From the Coffin!"

Cover by Bernard Baily.

Comics so scary and gruesome, Congress had to get involved. A face-melting anthology featuring spine-chilling stories from the Pre-Code 1950s. Horror comics that the Senate and do-gooders reviled. Lovingly restored, this striking, full-color tome showcases terrifying stories of dead walking and ghouls stalking, drawn by Alex Toth, Rudy Palais, Bernard Baily, and many more macabre masters.

Part of the acclaimed Chilling Archives of Horror Comics.

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing.

Edited by Steve Banes and Craig Yoe. Art by Basil Wolverton, Lin Streeter, Jim McLaughlin, Harry Harrison, Charles Nicholas, King Ward, Jack Katz, Lou Cameron, Art Gates, Myron Fass and Ken Landau. Introduction by Stephen R. Bissette.

Something's out there in the mad, murky depths of the fear-filled, sinister swamp... some... swamp... THING is coming for you! And it's out for mud! The terror team that brought you Zombies, Return of the Zombies, and the petrifyingly popular hit series, Haunted Horror, takes you on an excursion of evil into the dankest, lagooniest corners of your nightmares, and dredge up over 240 pages of icky, drippy, slimy, grimy beasts from the grungy bottom of the Pre-Code comics' bog. Swamp Monsters includes a fascinating introduction by comics legend, acclaimed artist of Swamp Thing, "Swampy" Stephen Bissette!

Hardcover, 144 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing.

Edited by Steve Banes. Cover by Al Avison. Introduction by John Rozum.

From the terror team that curdled your blood with Haunted Horror, Zombies, Return of the Zombies, Haunted Love, Swamp Monsters, and Mummies, Ghosts is the latest and ghastly greatest in the Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror comics collections. Over 128 pages of appalling apparitions, formidable phantoms, shuddery seances, shivery spooks 'n specters, and evil wraiths with much more than just revenge on their murdered minds!

Hardcover, 144 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing.

Beware horror fan, for the blood(-red marker) is on your hands in this brand-new coloring book for adults! Featuring Pre-Code comic book cover frights from Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, L.B. Cole, Dick Briefer, Don Heck, Lee Elias, Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand and many more! This do-it-yourself deluge of dark delights is sure to send goosebumps of tittilation and stand hairs straight on end for fans of the gruesome, gross, and macabre! Nearly 60 full page scare-filled classic horror covers for you to color from the creepiest, most sordid publishers of the time!

Softcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.99.

2nd and later printings.

Beware horror fan, for the blood(-red marker) is on your hands in this brand-new coloring book for adults! Featuring Pre-Code comic book cover frights from Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, L.B. Cole, Dick Briefer, Don Heck, Lee Elias, Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand and many more! This do-it-yourself deluge of dark delights is sure to send goosebumps of tittilation and stand hairs straight on end for fans of the gruesome, gross, and macabre! Nearly 60 full page scare-filled classic horror covers for you to color from the creepiest, most sordid publishers of the time!

Softcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.99.