Startling Terror Tales - 1952–1953

Startling Terror Tales is one of the early-fifties horror series that prompted the US Congress to investigate comics. Published by Star Publications, it ran only a few years before the Comics Code Authority put an end to the genre in this form. The stories are short, grim, and built on a shocking final panel — exactly what the code later banned.

Contents

• Volume 1, issue 10 — Star Publications, May 1952
• Volume 1, issue 13 — Star Publications, December 1952
• Volume 2, issue 5 — Star Publications, April 1953

What you get

• One PDF containing every issue, scanned page by page
• Original colours, with scan cleanup
• Language: English
• Instant download access after payment

Why it is public domain

Public domain. The work was published in the United States and its copyright was not renewed, so it may be distributed without restriction.

A note on quality: the source is a period scan from the middle of the last century, so some pages may carry minor defects. That is a property of the original material, not a fault of this edition.