SECRET MYSTERIES / TENSE SUSPENSE Volume 1 Hardcover

Collects Secret Mysteries #17-19, (aka #1-3) 1954-55 and Tense Suspense #1-2, 1958-59.

Pre-code horror from tiny publisher Ribage. Notorious titles Crime Mysteries and Crime Smashers morphed into three issues of horror, and here are all three. Featuring the talents of Rudy Palais, Myron Fass, Marty Elkin, Edvard Moritz, Bill Allison, and Tony Tallarico. Tense Suspense is a post-code 1958 title almost entirely by Dick Ayers, just before he moved on to start inking Jack Kirby at Marvel, first on the monster books, then on the Fantastic Four, The Hulk etc.