Black Magic (1950-1961 Prize/Crestwood) comic books 1960-1969

Art by Ted Galindo, Dick Ayers and Paul Reinman. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 42 on cover; listed as Vol. 7, issue #3 in indicia. A Sputnik-era story about the moon landing gets the dates wrong, but predicts the shape of future spacecraft and technology with some accuracy. Crooks try to use an experimental quick-freezing technique for their own devices. A sailor can't get anyone to believe his tales of seeing a mermaid. Cover features possible art by Joe Simon. Jaspers Jungle; The Counterpanes; The Man Who Cried Mermaid; Man Reaches Moon!; Those Who Vanish; Strange Obituary; The Night of August 9th. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Art by Dick Ayers and Angelo Torres. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 43 on cover; listed as Vol. 7, issue #4 in indicia. Two con artists with a successful fortune-telling scam begin to mistrust each other. A hood uses the "Indian Rope Trick" to escape police, but ends up trapped in another dimension. A man uses an ancient crystal ball to transport himself to other worlds for adventure. Cover features possible art by Joe Simon. Please Let This Be a...Nightmare!; A Warning; The Message; All the Angles; When Your Number Is Up; Panic; The Crystal! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Art by Ted Galindo, Dick Ayers and Angelo Torres. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 44 on cover; listed as Vol. 7, issue #5 in indicia. A cat begins acting like her dead owner. A fortune-teller has the last laugh on a skeptic. Two boys hear plans for an alien invasion through the static on their TV. Despite the cover, the issue does not feature Hitler leading an alien invasion. I Flew Over The Big Wall; Picture Of Mystery; Voice from Space; No Time Like The Present!; Where Is Murdock?; Eloise; Beyond The Darkness! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Ted Galindo, Dick Ayers and Bob Powell. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 45 on cover; listed as Vol. 7, issue #6 in indicia. A scientist in the future year 1980 uses his time-communicator to stop a giant octopus attack. A German soldier learns the horrifying connection among Albert Einstein, the Hindenberg, and the atomic bomb. A woman realizes that her novelist brother can summon characters into the real world, in a story suspiciously similar to a Twilight Zone episode that aired the year before. Man Against Time; Imaginary Friend; The Vision; The Man Who Knew; The People from Nowhere; Star Gazer; The Magic Marker. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Ted Galindo, Dick Ayers and Bob Powell. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 46 on cover; listed as Vol. 8, issue #1 in indicia. A hypnotist contacts a man's past life as a pirate and learns the location of his treasure. Crooks try to get a scientist's valuable new invention out of its mysterious, indestructible box. An aging man finds the secret to woo the young woman he loves, in a surprisingly tender tale of the macabre. The Man Who Was L'Aiglin; Magic Lamp; What's in That Box?; Only Two Will Return; Voodoo; Star Gazer; Domono! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Steve Ditko, Ted Galindo, Dick Ayers and Bob Powell. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 47 on cover; listed as Vol. 8, issue #2 in indicia. A master engineer creates a particularly clever deathtrap, and hides a valuable gem at its heart. Explorers find a massive skeleton on an alien planet, in a story "borrowed" from Joe Orlando's "The Fossil" in Weird Fantasy (1950 E.C. Comics) #22. Black Fog is a Steve Ditko horror story, presented just a year before the debut of the Amazing Spider-Man. Lathan's Folly; Ashes to Ashes; Stop Watching Me; Maid of Iron!; Black Fog; Guts; The Living Proof. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Ted Galindo, Dick Ayers and Bob Powell. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 48 on cover; listed as Vol. 8, issue #3 in indicia. An Old West con man who promises a cure-all meets a Native shaman who's got the real thing. A strange creature emerges from the burning heart of an Earth fissure and takes on human form. Astronauts crash on the planet where Earth has sent its "Anti-Democracists and Totalitarianists," in a story "borrowed" from Bernie Krigstein's "Derelict Ship" in Weird Fantasy (1950 E.C. Comics) #22. Big Medicine; The Gravimonster; Strange Voices; Dancing Ghosts of Geinsche-Warnecke; The Calling; Derelict Rocket. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Bob Powell. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 49 on cover; listed as Vol. 8, issue #4 in indicia. Caged gorillas in a traveling sideshow get the chance to turn the tables on their captors. A well-intentioned frog-monster from space can't get humans to listen to him, in an amusing spoof of 1950s monster movies. An inventor trusts his burrowing machine and its robot pilots to get to the center of the Earth. Also featuring an early ad for Sick magazine, Prize's long-running answer to Mad magazine. Caged; Fear; The Monster; Companion; Late Snack; Carrier; Earth's Core. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Art by Ted Galindo, Dick Ayers and Bob Powell. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 50 on cover; listed as Vol. 5, issue #5 in indicia. A man ill-advisedly summons his exact duplicate from a book of demonology. A manual laborer on Mars dreams of traveling the stars, in a story "borrowed" from Jack Kamen's "Round Trip" in Weird Science-Fantasy (1954 E.C. Comics) #28. A scientist's son almost unleashes a T-Rex on the modern-day world. The Double Man; Dead End; Chain Letter; A Cry for Help; Way Out; Dinner at Seven; On Time; Watch on the Rhino. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.