Pre-Code Classics: Worlds of Fear #2

This handsome PS Artbooks hardcover collects Worlds of Fear issues 6–10 (September 1952–June 1953), gathering some of the most deliriously unsettling "Stories of Weird Adventure" from the pre-Code era into a single volume. The featured cover — rendered entirely by Norman Saunders — captures the era's gleeful excess perfectly: a terrified man recoils, mouth agape, his eyes wide with horror as dozens of disembodied eyeballs press in around him from every direction. It's a vivid reminder of just how imaginatively unrestrained pre-Code horror comics could be, and this 2017 collection makes that wild creativity easy to revisit.