GALLOPING GHOSTS! WEREWOLVES!

Trojan Magazines' BEWARE began life as a three-issue run from Youthful Publications who changed the name from FANTASTIC with issue #10. Trojan took over the title with issue #13 after Youthful changed the title to CHILLING TALES for five more issues. It ran until issue #16, then re-started their own numbering with issue #5. The CCA did it in with issue #14 (March 1955). Merit published one more issue (#15) in May 1955 with the CCA's approval stamp on the cover. Did you get all that?

BEWARE

Vol. 1 No. 5

September 1953

Trojan Magazines

Editor: Adolphe Barreaux 

Cover: ?

Pages: 36

Cover price: 10 cents

CONTENTS

"When Werewolves Die"

Script: ?

Art: Ed Goldfarb?

"Galloping Ghosts"

Script: ?

Art: Al Tyler; John Belfi

"Slithering Terror"

Script: ?

Art: Henry Kierfer

"Music of the Demons"

Script: ?

Art: Gerald Altman

HORROR COMICS CALENDAR 2025

If you're looking for something special in a calendar for next year, look no further. Asgard Press has published a great-looking 16-month "Vintage Horror Comics" calendar for 2025. The images are taken from both classic and less-seen covers from the Pre-Code era. Check the details below.

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From the publisher:

2025 Vintage Horror Comics Calendar

$24.95

16-month hanging calendar of frame-ready Pre-Code horror comic book covers + commentary

Peek with fearful fascination at this calendar collection of Pre-Code horror comic book covers from the Golden Age of comic publishing. Pre-Code horror comic books, prevalent during the 1940s and early 1950s, delivered macabre and chilling tales filled with supernatural elements, monsters, and psychological suspense, capturing the imaginations of readers before the introduction of stricter censorship regulations. These comics embraced the macabre and pushed the boundaries of graphic storytelling, featuring chilling tales of supernatural beings, monsters, and gruesome scenarios that captivated readers with their suspense and shock value. With their vivid illustrations and twisted narratives, pre-code horror comics left an indelible mark on the genre, setting the stage for future horror comics and influencing popular culture’s fascination with the supernatural and the terrifying. The Asgard Press 2025 Vintage Horror Comics Calendar showcases a different Pre-Code horror comic book cover each month, accompanied by in-depth commentary detailing the artists, publishers, and writers behind each comic. Bonus images of interior comic book panels also appear on each grid page. With its large vertical format of 11×15 inches, our wire-bound wall calendar opens to an impressive 11×30 inches. The perforated design allows for easy removal of each month’s image, making them a perfect fit for standard 11×14 inch frames. Generously sized grid spaces leave plenty of room to keep track of all your appointments, reminders, and events. Organize your dates while bringing a touch of macabre elegance to your home or office space with this calendar of horror comic art suitable for framing.

2025 16-month wall calendar – Jan 2025-April 2026 – Use this calendar into the next year with mini-grid page of the first 4 months of 2026

• Features full color Pre-Code horror comic book cover art accompanied by extended commentary each month detailing the artists, publishers, and writers behind each issue
• Large format opens to 11″x30″ with spacious grid pages for at-a-glance organization of appointments and events, and includes major US holidays and moon phases
• Includes 13 easy-to-remove prints that fit standard 11″x14″ frames for sustainable reuse
• Decorate affordably with trendy vintage artwork and photos
• Plenty of room to write in the grid spaces
• Heavy, archival paper vibrantly showcases each month’s image and prevents bleed-through of pen or marker ink on grid pages
• Perfect for hanging in home, office or classroom

Sample Commentary

Tomb of Terror #1; Cover Art: Warren Kremer; Harvey Comics, June 1952.

Many of the artistic and editorial cast of characters from Harvey Comics’  Witches Tales return to bring us Tomb of Terror #1, another Harvey horror offering that was the start of a 16-issue run from 1952 to 1954. Howard Nostrand once again contributed his writing and inking skills, and Warren Kremer created the colorful and expressive cover art. Kremer spent most of his career with Harvey Comics, having been brought on board in 1948 to bring a more life-like quality to their comic panels, and he remained at Harvey until they ceased publication in 1982. His improvements, including better-defined figures and increased depth of field, raised the bar for artists at other publications and gave comics like Tomb of Terror a sophistication that was often at odds with the shocking content within. Pete Morisi of Weird Terror fame also contributed a one-page “Weird Facts” story to Tomb of Terror #1, which presented a series of unbelievable happenings as actual events. Common horror story concepts such as retribution from beyond the grave and the misunderstood monster are liberally employed in this inaugural issue. In “The Dead Awaken,” a drowned woman returns from her watery resting place to retrieve the fiancé who left her there, and in “The Wax Museum,” a man who encases his museum visitors in wax meets the same fate himself when his victims arise from the dead craving justice. “The Thing from the Center of the Earth!” depicts a group of reckless scientists summoning a monstrous being from underground, only to finally kill it when they can’t discern its motives. Pure horror gold!