Standard Comics was the comic book imprint of Pines Publications, formed by Ned Pines in 1939. Standard was the parent company of two other Pines comics imprints, Better Publications and Nedor Publications.
The comic seen here today, THE UNSEEN, is listed in the indicia as being published by yet another company, Visual Editions, Inc.
Here's a full issue of fearsome frolics featuring such delightful tales as a boy raised by wolves who can't keep his bloodlust under control when he is adopted into normal life, an exterminator who has other ideas about rats besides killing them and a painting that foreshadows a man's doom. Plus, plenty of mayhem, shrunken heads. the Mexican spirit-woman La Llorna and more.
NOTE: Third-party ads have been removed from this scan.
THE UNSEEN
Vol. 1, No. 9
March 1953
Standard Comics (Pines)
Editor: ?
Cover: Art Saaf
Cover price: 10 cents
CONTENTS
"Your Grave is Ready"
Script: ?
Art: Ross Andru
"The Rat Man"
Script: ?
Art: Jack Katz
"The Wailing Woman" (one-page story about Mexico's La Llorona spirit)
Script: ?
Art: George Roussos
"The Painted Prophecy" (text story)
Script: Mickey Marks
Art: Jack Katz
"Til Death Do Us Part"
Script: ?
Art: Ralph Mayo
"The Bleeding Platter"
Script: ?
Art: Ross Andru; Mike Espositio (signed as "MikeRoss")
"The Phantom Hitch Hiker" (one-page story)
Script: ?
Art: Art Saaf
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