CoronaVirus Comics SUSPENSE "Terror in the Tropics"

Here's a never-reprinted goodie from Atlas' Suspense #27 (1953)...

...which demonstrates, quite graphically, how insects carry disease!

Illustrated by Sam Citron, the tale's not as ghoulishly-graphic as some of the others of the Horror Comics era, but it does get the point across in a way that kept it from being reprinted (even with modifications) when Marvel published several horror anthology titles in the 1970s (after the Comics Code loosened up) that reprinted a lot of Atlas Comics material!

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Four-Color Fear

Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s

CoronaVirus Comics TOMB OF TERROR "Death Sentence"

What if a disease (germ/bacteria/virus) was sentient?

This tale from Harvey's Tomb of Terror #14 (1954) gives you a scary solution!

Sid Check, who worked with Wally Wood, and mimicked his style, penciled and inked this long-unseen story.

The scripter's identity is unknown.

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The Horror! The Horror!

Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!

CoronaVirus Comics THING "Red Death"

A pandemic rips though an ancient kingdom...

...in one of the most obvious rip-offs of Edgar Allan Poe's "Masque of the Red Death" I've ever seen!

This never-reprinted tale from Charlton's The Thing #2 (1952) was illustrated by Bob Forgione, but the Poe-stealing writer is unknown!

Note: This is part of an on-going series throughout the entire RetroBlog line featuring disease/epidemic/pandemic tales!
Check out the other RetroBlogs on the left of this page for more such stories!

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Manga Classics

Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

(including "Masque of the Red Death")