Black Cat Comics #29

From Harvey Comics' "Strangest Tales of Fear and Terror" banner comes this 1951 entry in the Black Cat Mystery Comics run, promising readers the story behind the cover: "Black Cat Battles the Salem Witch!" Lee Elias's cover art puts the masked, blue-costumed Black Cat front and center in a eerie dungeon setting, where a gnarled, torch-wielding witch looms to one side amid skulls, flames, and ghostly stone faces embedded in the walls, while a shadowy caped figure charges in from behind. It's a genuinely atmospheric piece of early-'50s horror-adventure that showcases why this series made such a confident pivot into macabre territory.