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Posted in: Comics, Heritage Sponsored, Vintage Paper | Tagged: Atomic Age, Avon Periodicals, Kelly Freas, pre-code horrorBest known as a science fiction artist of covers for pulps & paperbacks, Kelly Freas did a fantastic Pre-Code Horror cover for Witchcraft #5Published Wed, 05 Jul 2023 16:25:11 -0500 by Mark Seifert | Last updated Wed, 05 Jul 2023 16:30:20 -0500 | Kelly Freas (1922 – 2005) is best known as a science fiction and fantasy artist on pulp covers for titles like Astounding Science Fiction, Planet Stories,…

| Frank Frazetta is perhaps the most famous and acclaimed fantasy artist of the past century, and the number of iconic and very well-known covers he produced during his lifetime is seemingly endless.  Even casual fans are familiar with pieces like Egyptian Queen and the Vampirella #1 cover.  If there's such a thing as an obscure comic book cover that Frazetta had a hand in, the cover of Beware #10 might just be it.  Frazetta inked this one over Sid Check's pencils, but Frazetta's hand is still unmistakable here.  That's…

| Farrell Publications published some 321 issues of 62 titles from 1951-1958, which is to say that most Farrell series were short lived.  The company put out a wide range of genres from romance to war comics, but might be best remembered for their Pre-Code Horror line and their underappreciated mid-1950s superhero line which included former Fox Feature Syndicate titles like The Flame, Samson and Phantom Lady.  Robert Farrell had gotten his start working for Victor Fox, and like Fox, often worked with Iger Studio. …

We are all familiar with the limits of the Golden Age Hollywood happy ending: lovers united in marriage, criminals punished, women returned to home and hearth. Once upon a time, the dream factory used to have a much racier imagination. A celebration of pre-Hays Code cinema, subtitled Rules Are Made to Be Broken, launches this month at the Cinema Rediscovered festival in Bristol, recalling the days before conservative censorship held sway over the biggest mass entertainment medium of the 20th century. It was a far more…