The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis second volume in IDW and Yoe Books' Chilling Archives series spotlights Bob Powell's horror work from the 1950s, reprinting stories originally published by Harvey Comics and others. Featuring his distinctive, moody art and twist-ending tales, the collection showcases Powell's mastery of the pre-Code horror genre.
In "The Wall of Flesh!", nurse Sheila finds herself trapped in a nightmare when the sinister Dr. Quantrell, driven by madness, hurls her into a living, pulsating wall of flesh. With time running out and the wall slowly consuming her, her fiancé Johnny must race against the clock to save her before she’s lost forever.
In "Jelly Death," a scientist’s experiment with a mysterious serum goes horribly wrong when a blob of protoplasm transforms into a humanoid monster—sparking a deadly rampage that leaves chaos in its wake. The story unfolds with tense, creeping dread as the creature’s actions blur the line between science and nightmare.
In "Pit of the Damned!", a desperate carnival owner, chasing fame and fortune, dares to summon ancient demons from a forbidden book—only to find his grand spectacle spirals beyond his control. As the creatures he unleashed begin to claim their due, he discovers too late that some doors, once opened, can never be closed.
In the shadowed heart of a traveling carnival, a ruthless owner schemes to seize control of a wax museum—only to murder its defiant keeper when the offer is refused. Now, the dead man rises, not as a vengeful spirit, but as a solemn judge in a spectral tribunal, where the true horror isn’t the crime, but the sentence: the one who kills must die, and the one who dies must face judgment.
In "Cavern of the Doomed," Countess Aurora Karine—once a ruler who traded her soul for power—faces the grim aftermath of her reign when death claims her. Surrounded by the vengeful spirits of those she betrayed, she is dragged into a haunted cavern where her past sins rise to claim her.
In "The Devil's Prize," John Dirge—framed and imprisoned in an asylum as a ruse to avoid justice—makes a desperate bargain with the devil to escape his prison of flesh. With the power to inhabit the minds of others, he begins a chilling campaign of retribution against the three accomplices who betrayed him.
In "Twice Alive!", Mitchell Ames wakes up—alive after being declared dead on the operating table—only to find himself trapped in a surreal journey through his own body, where he confronts his ancestors and faces judgment from the angel of death. When he returns to the living world, the line between life and death blurs, and nothing about his second chance feels quite right.
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↩ Reprints Shadow Comics #3 [75] (1947), Shadow Comics #4 [76] (1947), Witches Tales #4 (1951), Witches Tales #6 (1951), Worlds Beyond #1 (1951), Worlds of Fear #2 (1952), Chamber of Chills Magazine #6 (1952), Black Cat Comics #34 (1952), Chamber of Chills Magazine #7 (1952), This Magazine Is Haunted #4 (1952), Black Cat Comics #35 (1952), Witches Tales #10 (1952), Black Cat Comics #36 (1952), Tomb of Terror #3 (1952), Tomb of Terror #5 (1952), This Magazine Is Haunted #12 (1953), Chamber of Chills Magazine #19 (1953), Witches Tales #23 (1954), Black Cat Comics #51 (1954), Man in Black #4 (1958), Weird #11 (1966)
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