Pre-Code Classics: Journey into Fear #3

Three skull-faced and hooded monstrosities loom over a helpless, fallen figure on the cover reproduced here — a genuinely unsettling piece of early-'50s horror art that captures exactly why pre-Code comics kept parents up at night. This PS Artbooks hardcover collects Journey into Fear issues 15–21 (September 1953–September 1954), bringing together Superior Comics' brazenly titled stories like "Corpse in Make-Up," "Revenge So Evil," "Her Lips Dripped Blood," and "Return of the Ghoul" in one handsome 2016 volume. If you have a taste for the unfiltered macabre that flourished before the Comics Code put a lid on things, Volume Three of this Pre-Code Classics series delivers it in style.