A complete issue · 36 pages · 1952
Beware Terror Tales #3
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1952 — all 36 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 36 pages · 1952
This issue contains horror and science fiction stories. "Voice in the Brain" by John C. Alder follows mathematics professor Tom Andrews at Parnell College who claims to hear transmissions from scientists on the planet Omar, orbiting star Omega Appolyon. The alien scientists claim to need his mind for an unsolvable problem and announce a rescue ship arriving that evening. When psychiatrist Dr. Enesco and Dean Belmont follow Andrews to a field to observe him signaling with a flashlight, they witness his disappearance accompanied by a voice thanking them for his retrieval. Additional stories include tales involving safecrackers, car chases, and supernatural encounters in warehouses. The magazine employs suspenseful narratives with violent action sequences and mysterious phenomena. One referenced story involves "The Mummy" narrating macabre supernatural events. The OCR quality degrades significantly in latter pages, obscuring plot details of remaining stories, though themes of pursuit, danger, and psychological terror remain evident throughout the issue.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.