Mask Comics (1945) comic books

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Rudy Palais, Maurice Gutwirth, Don Rico, and L.B. Cole. Mystery-adventure anthology from the publisher variously known as Rural Home and Croydon. A suicidal man takes out a murder contract on himself, but his wife mysteriously returns on the night the murder is to take place. Comics biographies of two of the greatest showmen, P.T. Barnum and Harry Houdini. Jerry and Tod share an old jalopy which everyone in town considers a death trap. Tim Dolan: Name Your Price for Slaughter; Bonnie: Adventure of the Exploding Spaghetti; I Dont Want To Die!; Count Boris Strikes Back; Game of Death: Murder on Park Avenue; Theres One Born Every Minute; Harry Houdini: The Touch That Failed; Heroes of Legend: Damon and Pythias; The Legend of The Gordian Knot: Drift Wood: Escape into Darkness; …Death of You. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

April-May 1945 edition. Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Tony DiPreta, Leo Morey, and Maurice Del Bourgo. Mystery-adventure anthology from the publisher variously known as Rural Home and Croydon. This edition contains the same contents and cover as the variant; only the indicia date is different. Wounded during D-Day and discharged, Gordon and Red return home and decide to fight crime as the Black Raider. In a story similar to the Spectre's origin, a police officer is allowed to continue fighting for justice after death, as The Collector of souls. When gangsters stage a deadly robbery during his act, Merlin the Boy Magician decides to use his talents to track down the killers. Wicked cover by L. B. Cole. Black Raider; Chin Chop; Avalanche; Treachery, Inc.; Shroud: The Collector; Merlin the Boy Magician. Final issue of the series. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Fall 1945 edition. Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Tony DiPreta, Leo Morey, and Maurice Del Bourgo. Mystery-adventure anthology from the publisher variously known as Rural Home and Croydon. This edition contains the same contents and cover as the variant; only the indicia date is different. Wounded during D-Day and discharged, Gordon and Red return home and decide to fight crime as the Black Raider. In a story similar to the Spectre's origin, a police officer is allowed to continue fighting for justice after death, as The Collector of souls. When gangsters stage a deadly robbery during his act, Merlin the Boy Magician decides to use his talents to track down the killers. Wicked cover by L. B. Cole. Black Raider; Chin Chop; Avalanche; Treachery, Inc.; Shroud: The Collector; Merlin the Boy Magician. Final issue of the series. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.