Here's a short and bittersweet tale of money, greed and murder; one of the trifectas of pre-Code horror comics. "Mad Money!" is from Stanley Morse's WEIRD MYSTERIES #5 (June 1953), illustrated by Ed Smalle.
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Monday, June 8, 2026
DEATH KISS
Prof. Casper Skeezer invents a beautiful robot woman with the murderous desire to kiss everyone to death! She goes on a kiss/kill spree until Skeezer knocks her over the head. He soon finds that it takes something more than that to kill a killer.
"Death Kiss" appeared in HORRIFIC #5 (Comic Media, May 1953). The GCD lists the art as by the Iger Shop, but it sure looked like something by Rudy Palais to me. Palais, whose work is sometimes compared to EC's Graham "Ghastly" Ingles, did work for Jerry Iger, but it was for only about 9 months in 1941 and he wouldn't have been drawing stories like this back then. By chance, I came across this hidden on the splash page.
So, there you have it-- drawn by Rudy Palais. GCD is an excellent research tool, but nobody's perfect, as this proves.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
HEN-PECKED!
This story from Stanley Morse's MISTER MYSTERY #17 (Aragon Magazines, June 1954) is short and sick. The cartoonish art is by Eugene Hughes. Caution, ladies! If you constantly hen-peck your husband or Dad you may want to think twice after reading this!
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