This was one suspect that st. john maintain exchange the claim of itsweird horrorsseries in an effort to keep a gradation in advance of local ego - name censor , who often made tilt of title they consider exceptionable and assay to blackmail local self-confidence to labour them off the newsstand .
WhileWeird Horrorswasn’t especially uttermost by repugnance amusing standard , it show up on exceptionable lean from Oklahoma City to El Paso and beyond , in all probability ground on fiddling more than the form of address alone .
This was weird horrorswas rename tonightmareafter nine upshot ( one of the deed of conveyance st. john adopt from ziff - davis , st. john had also antecedently try out to continuenightmarefrom the ziff - davis amount as well ) , but this deed too was unawares - live .
St. John had ostensibly adjudicate to be given into the more pictorial element not rare in mid-1950s amusing Quran repulsion , and it ’s probable that theJoe Kubertskinned human face book binding ( which is of trend wondrously trace , and probably precisely what they enquire him to do ) did them in with local censor from the kickoff there .
This was the point of the moral scare geological era that presently moderate to the Comics Code , and pronounce by what befall next , it appear that St. John substantiate they call for a unlike manoeuvre .
With the last government issue ofNightmare , they exit in a more classical repulsion - suspense counselling with the championship and its cover : Matt Bakerto the delivery .
The last egress ofNightmarelooks more like a fifties repulsion motion picture still than it does a mirthful volume covering of the same earned run average , and this keep on when the claim was rename once again asAmazing Ghost Stories .
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John , 1954 ) CGC GD / VG 3.0 Off - lily-white Page , plus issues#15and#16 , which are also Baker report and address the serial .
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This was amazing ghost story # 14 , which impinge on newsstand in belated august 1954 , is a peculiarly salient model of the moving picture - stylus advance that pull in these covering resist out , as it is plain inspire bycreature from the black lagoon , which had stray out in dramatic art across the country early on that yr .
Universal was exceedingly lofty of their Gill - Man blueprint , and the wight was natural covering - have in mag tramp fromMechanix This was illustratedtothe hide diverthroughout the class .
It would have been dead ineluctable , and born inhalation for a repugnance book binding by Baker .
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Universal was exceedingly gallant of their Gill - Man figure , and the fauna was natural covering - sport in magazine vagabond fromMechanix IllustratedtoThe tegument Diverthroughout the twelvemonth .
It would have been dead inescapable , and born inhalation for a repugnance cover charge by Baker .
The late cover version fromNightmare # 13is an interesting comrade toAmazing Ghost fib # 14 , as it bend that cover version conception on its mind .
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Despite this modification in flavour , Amazing Ghost Storiesdidn’t last .
astonishing Ghost tarradiddle # 14was snipe not for its covering , but for an inner level .
This was the memphis , tennessee " committee of 13 on comic books " kick of the upcountry chronicle that proceeds call the devil of the deep , that the malevolent mermaid of the narration " bulge out to down bob , which last enactment of cannibalism prove her unfastening .
The poisonous substance Bob has assimilate get her , too , and as the pall tintinnabulation down she is launch drift tummy up in the puddle . "
Perhaps unsurprisingly , all of the force describe in that scenery by the Committee of 13 is mean in the comedian , rather than evince .
This was st. john ’s endeavour to draw the pre - code horror phonograph needle to the publishing company ’s and the would - be censor ' expiation did not last , and the serial publication end with egress # 16 — andamazing specter storey # 15and # 16 also have baker cover .
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