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Harvey Comics (also known as Harvey World Famous Comics, Harvey Publications, Harvey Comics Entertainment, Harvey Hits, Harvey Illustrated Humor, and Harvey Picture Magazines) was an American comic book publisher, founded in New York City by Alfred Harvey in 1941, after buying out the small publisher Brookwood Publications. His brothers Robert B. Harvey and Leon Harvey joined soon after...

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HARVEY COMICS' Dark Secret

It was in January 1951 that Harvey Publications published their first horror comic book, Witches Tales #1. In June 1951, Harvey launched another horror title, Chamber of Chills...

Of the four titles, it would be Chamber of Chills that would become the most notorious. The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide entry on Chamber of Chills notes that, "About half the issues contain bondage, torture, perversion, sadism, gore, eyes ripped out, acid in the face, etc."

While Chamber of Chills has often been singled out for its high degree of depravity, it must be pointed that out that all of Harvey's horror titles had more than their share of gratuitous violence. In fact, one issue of Black Cat Mystery may have more gore and brutality than any six issues of Tales From the Crypt combined...

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CHAMBER OF CHILLS was a 10-cent horror anthology published bimonthly by Harvey Publications that ran 26 issues (June 1951 - Dec. 1954).

This series began with #5, since four "Chamber of Chills" issues had previously been published as #21-24 of another series (Chamber of Chills). It then continued for twenty-two issues until it became Chamber of Clues.

Artists included Bob Powell, Lee Elias, Rudy Palais, Howard Nostrand, and Kremer.

Issue 7 is mentioned in Dr. Fredric Wertham's scathing 1954 indictment of comic books Seduction of the Innocent (p. 389).

Chamber ceased publication following the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings of 1954.

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Chamber of Chills - Harvey - Vol. 4 #24 [Dec'51]-36p

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HARVEY HORRORS COLLECTED WORKS:

CHAMBER OF CHILLS VOLUME ONE (signed limited)

 

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Harvey Horrors Collected Works - Chamber of Chills -

Volume 1, a full color collection of June-December 1951 issues 21-24 and February-April 1952 Issues 5-7.

 

Slipcase edition features:

 

• Individually signed by Joe Hill

 

• Original picture of Joe Hill by Glen Chadbourne included as a limited edition print.

 

• When collection is complete the spines will show harvey horror image.

 

Limited To Just 300 Numbered Copies

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WITCHES TALES - Harvey - # 13 August 1952

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