Gwandanaland Comics #539

Gwandanaland Comics #539 collects Witches Tales: Volume 2, spotlighting vintage pre-code supernatural horror with the bold challenge splashed across the cover: "We Dare You to Read These Eerie Tales of Supernatural Horror!" Lee Elias's cover art for the original Witches Tales #19 is on vivid display here — a terrified man recoiling amid roaring flames while an enormous, leering devil face looms over him, all fangs and menace, with the tantalizing question below: "Would You Have Entered THE PACT?" It's a genuinely arresting snapshot of the era's pulpy, go-for-broke horror aesthetic, brought back into print by Gwandanaland in 2017 for fans who appreciate the wild imagination that defined pre-code comics.