Black Maria

Charles Addams, the celebrated New Yorker cartoonist, launched this singular comic series for Simon and Schuster in 1960, featuring his signature ghoulishly witty creations. The single issue, Black Maria, collects a gallery of his macabre, single-panel cartoons, showcasing the darkly humorous world that would later inspire The Addams Family. It remains a concise, essential snapshot of Addams's unique blend of morbidity and mirth.