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.