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The Beyond #24
Ace Magazines
January 1954
Golden Age Pre-Code Horror
Classic 1950s pre-Code horror issue from Ace Magazines featuring an outstanding gargoyle/monster cover with the command:
“Go, my gargoyles! Go and smash all those who stand in our way!”
A fantastic example of the bizarre supernatural imagery that has made Ace horror comics increasingly collectible among Golden Age and pre-Code horror collectors.
Cover Artist: Jim McLaughlin, attributed
Publisher: Ace Magazines
Indicia Publisher: Current Books, Inc.
Cover Date: January 1954
Original Cover Price: 10¢
Original Page Count: 36
Era: Golden Age
Genre: Pre-Code Horror / Supernatural / Suspense
Format: Single Issue Comic Book
Original contents include:
Step Into My Empty Shroud
Art by Lou Cameron
These, My Hands of Doom
Art by Ken Rice
Lair of the Black Widow
Art by Sy Grudko
The Talking Skull
Art by Jim McLaughlin
The issue features the dark supernatural themes, monsters, death imagery and macabre artwork for which Ace’s The Beyond has become known among pre-Code horror collectors.
CONDITION:
Extremely low-grade structural condition.
Comic is completely detached and consists of loose original sheets/pages and cover housed together in a bag and board. There is no functional binding.
COMPLETENESS HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED. THIS COPY SHOULD BE ASSUMED INCOMPLETE.
Front cover remains highly displayable considering the structural condition, retaining strong black, yellow, red and green colors and excellent pre-Code monster imagery.
Visible defects include extensive spine deterioration, heavy edge and corner wear, creasing, tears, paper loss, staining/discoloration and substantial age-related wear. There is significant paper loss at the lower-left corner and along portions of the spine/left edge.
Interior sheets/pages should be expected to exhibit additional age and handling wear.
This copy is being offered primarily as an affordable original 1954 pre-Code horror survivor, reader/filler copy, restoration candidate, cover example or collection of original Golden Age comic pages.
Please examine all photographs carefully for exact contents, completeness and condition.
Sold exactly as pictured.
