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LITHERING SCARES… DANGEROUS SNAKE WOMEN… COLD-BLOODED KILLINGS… Snake Tales scours the snake pit of Pre-Code horror to bring you the weirdest stories of serpentine thrills, guaranteed to raise your blood pressure (and maybe an eyebrow). Hissing horror from the likes of Rudy Palais, Lou Cameron, Bernard Krigstein, and other masters of comic book fear. “These misunderstood serpents in Snake Tales will envenomate you with an unhealthy dose of 1940s and 1950s Pre-Code comic book horror!’ — Dr. Frank T. Burbrink Snake Tales introduction writer and Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Dedicated to LILAH BARTER. May she grow to love snakes as much as her Bampie does.
The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics™ by Yoe Books™ Collect them all! Book #1: Dick Briefer’s Frankenstein. Book #2: Bob Powell’s Terror. Book #3: Zombies. Book #4: Jack Cole’s Deadly Horror. Book #5: Haunted Horror: Banned Comics From the 1950s (Vol. 1). Book #6: The Worst of Eerie Publications. Book #7: Howard Nostrand’s Nightmares. Book #8: Tom Sutton’s Creepy Things. Book #9: Haunted Horror: Comics Your Mother Warned You About (Vol. 2). Book #10: Haunted Horror: Pre-Code Comics So Good, They’re Scary (Vol. 3). Book #11: Ghosts and Girls of Fiction House. Book #12: The Complete Voodoo (Vol. 1). Book #13: Horror by Heck. Book #14: Devil Tales. Special Edition: Haunted Horror Pre-Code Cover Coloring Book. For more Pre-Code horrors visit Steve “Mr. Karswell” Banes’ blog at http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com “Snake Tales” title art by Bryan Baugh, CryptLogic.net. If you like this book, please blog; post on Facebook, Tumblr, Amazon, and Goodreads; podcast; and tweet about it! Join the Facebook group, Horror Comics: 1950s and Beyond! Become a fan of YOE Books on Facebook! Friend Craig Yoe on Facebook! Mike Howlett thanks Andrea Howlett; Tillman Courth; Dr. Frank Burbrink; Clizia Gussoni, who always does an amazing production job; and of course the indispensable Steve Banes; and our fearless leader, Craig Yoe. Yoe Books thanks Giovanna Anzaldi; Steve Banes; Dr. Frank Burbrink; Tillmann Courth; Mike Howlett; Chris Johnson; Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.; Lisa and Ted VanLiew from superworldcomics.com; and Sam Votsis. ISBN: 978-1-63140-631-7 19 18 17 16 1 2 3 4 YoeBooks.com Craig Yoe & Clizia Gussoni, Chief Executive Officers and Creative Directors • Jeff Trexler, Attorney • Mark Lerer, Peter Sanderson, and Steven Thompson, Proofreaders and Fact-checkers • Steven Thompson, Publicist. IDW Publishing Ted Adams, CEO & Publisher • Greg Goldstein, President & COO • Robbie Robbins, EVP/Sr. Graphic Artist • Chris Ryall, Chief Creative Officer/Editor-inChief • Matthew Ruzicka, CPA, Chief Financial Officer • Jeff Webber, VP of Licensing, Digital and Subsidiary Rights • Jerry Bennington, VP of New Project Development • Dirk Wood, VP of Marketing • Lorelei Bunjes, VP of Digital Services. August 2016. First printing. Snake Tales is © 2016 Gussoni-Yoe Studio, Inc. All Rights Reserved, including the digital remastering of the material not held by copyright owners. Yoe Books is a trademark of Gussoni-Yoe Studio, Inc. Yoe is a registered trademark of Gussoni-Yoe Studio, Inc. IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Editorial offices: 2765 Truxtun Road, San Diego, CA 92106. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental. With the exception of artwork used for review purposes, none of the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Printed in Korea. IDW Publishing does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories, or artwork.
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