child is really a midget. Mary kills the psychiatrist to prevent him from talking and then burns his body.
The last scene shaws te child being tueked into her eril by the kindly matrons who run the orphanage. They call her 4 sweet child and tell her she'll be adopted by some nice family soon.
The same magazine bas o story called, One Very Wide Coffin, about a thin hushand and a fat wife. The husband has an argument with his wife and says, “You're just o fat, lazy pig. All you dois eat, eat, ent.”
He learyes lis wife, goes to 4 mountain cabin and broods, “How can 1 kill her aud stay ont of the electric chair?’ he says, “here must be a way, if Im clever enough.”
Then follows a detailed drawing showing exactly how a shotgun is rigged to fire when a door is opened. [it’s as good as a blueprint showing how to set a death trap to spring on a victim while the murderer is far away with a perfect alibi. Fate takes a hand, and the couple wake up. The husband takes her to the cabin for a second Loneymoon, forgetting he has set a death trap, When he opens the door to earry her over the threshold, both are killed,
DEFILE CLASSICS
Tiny Tot Publications publishes a conric book which is billed as a humorong conic magazine. The eover shows a flreplace decorated for Christmas with stock- ings hung from the mantle to receive gifts froin Santa Claus.
Tr shows Santa’s fool dangling in the fireplace ag inch above a lethal bear steel trap while a soung bey leers in anticipation of tearing Santa’s leg off.
The first story is a puredy on Mickey Spillane that is so suggestive, it would pul some adult pulp magazines te shame. Another story in this ‘Tiny Tot Publi- cation tells the story of Little Red Riding Hood with a switch, The twist is that J.ttle Red Riding lleed, in this story, is really a vampire.
The final story in this magazine is a reprint of the lovely Christmas poem, The Night Before Christmas, illustrated by gross aod obscene drawings that defy deseriytion.
Atlas Publications presents a comic book that wallows in death and madness. The opening story is called Midnight in the Morgue, and ts teld in the second person, singular. It starts with a shooting and holdup-murder aud by the time it ends, eight dead bodies are displayed in various positions,
The emneial scenes in this story are the ones in whieh the murderer becomes. locked in the morgue by niistake and begins shvoting at the dead bodies in the belief that the dead people huve come buck to life. There is ane picture with text so disgusting it would spoil your breakfast if repeated. It ends with the killer embracing the corpse on slab and babbling like an idiot,
HORROR TALES
The next story opens with a bunch of yomgsters ganging up on a small boy and giying him a vicions beating, By the time the Jast page is reached, 14 persons uie vielent denths.
A company called Supecioy Comic publishes one which has bleod pouring fram every page. It has one story about adultery and the murder of a husband for profit, Another about mass murder, bootlegging, lust, and revenge, anid another about a judge who sentenced a murderer to die and is killed hy the slayer‘s curse,
T. C. Publishing Co. has the slogan, “An [entertaining Comic.” The first story ip it is called Food for Thought, which shaws a ghoul feasting on a rotted carpse and saying:
- Tteh, heh, I see you're hungry for herrer again. Well, rest assured, Your
appetite will be salisfied, In fact, when you're through with this putrid pert- odical, you will have lost your appetite entirely. So don’t just stand there drooling. Cole in.”
The stary is about adultery and murder. The second story is about a man who drowns his best friend in order to steal his best friend's girl. The third features a homicidal maniac and bis sister who are boiled to death in hot water. The final story in [his ane opens with a sadist tortuting animals to death, then turns to murder with a butcher knife and an ax and ends with the killer being: burned ta death in a flaming car.
The record for the number of violent deaths in one issne probably goes to one published by Male Dublishing Corp. Twenty persons meet yiolent deaths in: one story alone while the other tales are well -sprinkled with badies ang pungent. language.
