THE CREEPING DEATH

I've always enjoyed plant horror stories and there were plenty of them during the pre-Code era. In this second issue of ADVENTURES INTO TERROR (Atlas, February 1951) with art possibly by Allen Bellman, a botanist receives a strange plant from a colleague in South America. As expected in a story like this, it soon grows out of control until . . .

GRAVEYARD GHOULS

You've heard of bats in the belfry? Well, now there's ghouls in the graveyard, and that's the name of this Stan Lee-edited "Crypt of Shadows" story from ADVENTURES INTO TERROR #12 (Atlas, October 1952) with art by Bernie Krigstein.

NOTE: The "Comics Code Authority" page has been updated to include the Revised 1989 version. It was to be the last one before the Code started petering out.