BILL GAINES IS 'TOPS'!

Bill Gaines seemed to pop up in print in the most unlikeliest of places. This two-pager from TOPS IN HUMAN HUMAN HIGHLIGHTS #1 (March 1954) is written by an unknown author as a human interest story and might be the only article during this period that sheds a softer light on the beleaguered publisher. The last paragraph includes an insightful observation.

The sample page accompanying the article is from SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES #11 (October-November 1953) and titled, "in gratitude...".

Script: Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils: Wallace Wood

Inks: Wallace Wood

Colors: Marie Severin

Letters: Jim Wroten

GHOST COMICS NO. 2

For the most part, Fiction House dispensed with the grisly and gory in the two horror comics they produced during the Pre-Code era, GHOST COMICS and MONSTER.

The publisher relied on the Eisner and Iger Shop to supply them with packaged comics and usually the writers and artists came through with some decent material. This issue of GHOST COMICS starts off with a super cover by Maurice Whitman and followed by interior good girl art by Alex Blum and Matt Baker.

NOTE: Third-party ads have been removed from this scan.

GHOST COMICS

Vol. 1 No. 2

1952 (No month)

Fiction House Inc.

Managing Editor: Jack Byrne

Art Director: S.M. "Jerry" Iger

Cover: Maurice Whitman

Pages: 36

Cover price: 10 cents

CONTENTS

"The Ghost Gallery" ("I Woke in Terror--")

Script: Drew Murdoch

Art: Alex Blum; Matt Baker; Iger Studios

"The Ghost Gallery" ("The Four Phantoms")

Script: Drew Murdoch

Art: Alex Blum; Matt Baker; Iger Studios

"Ghost Squadron"

Script: Derek West

Art: Rafael Astarita ?; Ruben Moreira ?

"The Ghost Gallery" ("Boy Kidnapped")

Script: Drew Murdoch

Art: Alex Blum; Iger Studios