Black Cat Comics #43

This 1953 Harvey anthology entry promises exactly what the cover banner declares: "Strangest Tales of Fear and Superstition." Lee Elias's cover art depicts a tense, chaotic scene in which a dramatically costumed figure brandishing a staff and skull looms over a fallen woman in red, while a man and a crowd of figures press in from the background — all tied to the story's teasing challenge to "defy taboo and face the Devil Drums." Inside, Bob Powell writes and draws, with inking by Howard Nostrand, delivering the kind of unsettling pulp thrills that made early-'50s horror anthologies such compelling reads.