Black Cat Comics #52

This October 1954 entry in Harvey's Black Cat Mystery series promises readers the "Strangest Tales of Fear and Superstition," and the cover by Lee Elias delivers on that pledge with unsettling intensity. A desperate, wild-eyed man crawls frantically through a steel-barred cage, while another figure lies collapsed in the shadows behind him — the tagline asking "What Was It… This Thing Called the Animal Instinct?" makes the scene all the more chilling. Inside, Bob Powell and Howard Nostrand bring the story "Jack of Horror" to life, making this a genuinely gripping slice of mid-fifties horror comics at their most atmospheric.