#pre-code comics

[thepopculturearchivist]

MARVEL TALES 122, April 1954. Writer unidentified; art by Al Gordon and Joe Kubert. Editor Stan Lee runs some rabid anti-commie stuff in his 1950s comics, but also things like this that anticipate the more obviously liberal Stan of the Marvel Age.

[comicartarchive]

Shock SuspenStories 6 Cover by Wally Wood

[kryptonbabe]

Teen-Age Dope Slaves!

From Harvey Comics Library #1 (1952)

[rptv1]

The Monster (issue No. 1)

cover art by Maurice Whitman, 1953

[thehappyastronaut]

Here, have a garbage quality MS Paint comic

If any of y'all have done RW modding where you have to put your own hooks into the code, you'll know what I'm talking about lol. Like, who tf names their variables "num1, num2, etc." and "flag"???? And why is the whole EstablishRelationships() thing just a wall of code instead of a for loop?

[weirdlookindog]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Booze, Bullets and Blood - art by Ken Battefield and Jim Wilcox (1948)

[kekwcomics]

STRANGE MYSTERIES #2 (Superior Publishers, 1951)

Art: uncredited, though Matt Baker, Jack Kamen and others from Iger Studios worked on this title.

[anonymouspuzzler]

one Warmup Gone Wrong later i finally have a full ref for the man, the myth, the legend, the minor annoyance, the thorn in the side of petty criminals and more successful heroes the world over, the one and only GOLDEN BOY (civilian name TBD. it's gotta be something super boring like, Jim or Something)

[mariocki]

Doctor X (1932)

"If you ask me, I think Dr. Xavier is using very unethical methods."

"Necessity has no ethics, sir."

[wewantnothing2]

[mudwerks]

(via Shock Suspenstories #12 - Wally Wood art - Pencil Ink)

cover by Al Feldstein

[comicartarchive]

Black Cat Mystery 37 Cover by Warren Kremer

[jeanharlowshair]

The New Movie Magazine, March 1931.

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton and Viola Dana

[tomoleary]

Johnny Craig Crime SuspenStories #15 original cover art (EC, Feb.-March 1953) Source