Gwandanaland Comics #2176

This Gwandanaland Comics giant collection brings together the complete run of Mysteries Weird and Strange issues #1–11 in one substantial volume — a wonderful way to experience early Superior Comics horror anthology storytelling in a single sitting. The reproduced cover art sets the mood perfectly: a terrified blonde woman in red clutches her face in horror while a skeletal, robed figure looms behind her, and disembodied eyes peer in from the shadowy edges. Story titles listed on that vintage cover — "Ghost on the Gallows," "Isle of Mad Revenge," "Eerie Bargain," and "Circle of Death" — promise the kind of delightfully lurid pre-Code chills that made this era of comics so memorable.