supplying artwork for them from 1967 to 1969 when he retired from comics. It was 1951 when Harvey first ventured into horror with Witches Tales #1 (January 1951) soon to be followed by Chamber of Chills #21 (June 1951), Black Cat Mystery #30 (August 1951) and finally Tomb of Terror #1 (June 1952). Other notables for Harvey were Bob Powell, Warren Kremer, Lee Elias, Sid Check and Rocke Mastroserio. If we are to disregard their later reprints, Harvey produced a total of eighty-eight different issues with Palais contributing to thirty-eight of them, his page count ranging from between one and fourteen pages per issue. Whilst working for Harvey, he produced one story for Atlas’s burgeoning horror line with Suspense #10 (September 1951). Suspense was the only horror title to be “based on the gripping CBS radio - television series” and as such is probably also the first TV comic with its first issue being December 1949; pre-dating Howdy-Doody’s premier. Palais’ art matched the
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stilted and contrived story, yet remained typically atmospheric. A story in the same issue drawn by Russ Heath along with Joe Maneely’s cover, tip the balance. The year 1952 saw a new company Comic Media formed by Alan Hardy Associates off the back of their fledgling Artful Publications. Instead of using Iger Shop art as with Artful, they moved towards in-house art featuring Don Heck, Pete Morisi, Marty Elkin, Al Tewks, Bill Discount and Rudy Palais. Weird Terror #1 (September 1952) became their first title, a worthy addition to the already booming horror market. Horrific was switched from Artful with its third issue (January 1953). For the uninitiated, this featured the notorious Don Heck “Bullet in the Head” cover, which is actually a part image of the earlier War Fury #1 (September 1952), inverted and redrawn. These two issues are now cult collectors items. Both Harvey and Comic Media horror titles come highly recommended (with or without Palais) although Comic Media’s output is much smaller with only twenty seven issues to their credit, with