Black Cat Comics #49

This 1954 Harvey anthology delivers exactly the kind of creepy promise its tagline "Strangest Tales of Fear and Superstition!" advertises. Lee Elias's cover is genuinely unsettling — rats crawl over a prone, seemingly lifeless figure while a hypnotic, glowing pocket watch swings overhead, and the caption taunts "They found him as Clean as a Whistle!" The atmosphere is pure mid-50s horror comics at its moody best, with John Giunta contributing interior art to round out what looks like a thoroughly chilling read.