Tales Too Terrible to Tell

    (NEC, 1990–1993)
™ and © 1990 respective creators

According to the editor, nobody on staff at New England Comics expected to make a dime off a 76-page comic book sporting a $2.95 cover price. But money apparently wasn’t the issue. This was a labor of love—a tribute to the pre-Code horror comics of the 1950s.

EC’s contemporaries—smaller companies, who went out of business years ago and whose material has now become public domain, originally published the stories reprinted within these pages. You’ll also find a cover gallery and “terrology”—a short history of pre-Code horror comics, compliments of the editor and staff at NEC.
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Tales Too Terrible to Tell #1

January, 1990
Cover Price: $2.95
1 copy available for $21.00 		Bruce Hamilton, George Suarez, Ben EdlundGerald Altman, Eugene Hughes, Ben Edlund, Bob Polio, Sal Trapani, Ben Brown
Tales Too Terrible to Tell #2

March, 1991
Cover Price: $3.50
1 copy available for $6.00 		Reprints from Strange Mysteries #6, Weird Mysteries #11, Unseen #14, Black Cat Mystery #45, Journey into Fear #5, Ghoul Tales #3, Dark Mysteries #13, Cover reprinted splash page from Head of Horror; Spring 1991 Bob Powell, Allan Hopkins, George SuarezBob Powell, Allan Hopkins
Tales Too Terrible to Tell #3

June, 1991
Cover Price: $3.50
1 copy available for $8.00 		George SuarezSal Trapani, Rudy Palais
Tales Too Terrible to Tell #4

December, 1991
Cover Price: $3.50
1 copy available for $8.00 		George SuarezBernard Baily, Ben Brown
Tales Too Terrible to Tell #5


Cover Price: $3.50
2 copies available from $10.00 		Reprints from Weird Mysteries #8 & 11, Weird Terror #8, Haunted Thrills #18, Mysterious Adventures #15 & 18, Dark Mysteries #19 and Purple Claw #2, Cover reprinted from Mister Mystery #6; B&W George SuarezRudy Palais, Sal Trapani, Doug Wildey, Jon D’Agostino, Ben Brown
Tales Too Terrible to Tell #6


Cover Price: $3.50
2 copies available from $8.00 		Reprints from Journey into Fear #14, Chilling Tales of Horror #2, Black Cat Mystery #36, Weird Chills #1, Dark Mysteries #16, The Purple Claw #3 and Weird Horrors #9, Cover reprinted from Mister Mystery #13; B&W; ca. 1992 Allan Hopkins, Bob Powell, Bruce Hamilton, George SuarezHy Eisman, Allan Hopkins, Bob Powell, Sal Trapani, Ben Brown, Lou Cameron
Tales Too Terrible to Tell #7


Cover Price: $3.50
1 copy available for $8.00 		Reprints from Weird Mysteries #11, Out of the Shadows #9, Web of Evil #1, Strange Fantasy #8, The Unseen #9, Voodoo #16, Mister Mystery #14, The Thing #15 and Chamber of Chills #16, Cover reprinted from Strange Fantasy #2; B&W; ca. 1992 Otto Binder, George SuarezReed Crandall, Tom Feelings, Steve Ditko, Al Eadeh
Tales Too Terrible to Tell #8

May, 1993
Cover Price: $3.50
1 copy available for $8.00 		Cover reprinted from Haunted Thrills #1; Reprints from Weird Mysteries #8, Web of Evil #19, Chilling Tales of Horror #3, Voodoo #18, Tomb of Terror #3, the Thing #15 and Adventures into Darkness #9; B&W George SuarezBob Powell, Steve Ditko
Tales Too Terrible to Tell #10

September, 1993
Cover Price: $2.95
1 copy available for $8.00 		Reprints from Mister Mystery #8, The Thing #16, Strange Fantasy #10, Strange Suspense Stories #21, Cover reprinted from Strange Mysteries #1; B&W George SuarezDick Ayers