Quantity 2580: The author is out of tips at Out of the Night

American Comics Community editor, Richard E. Hughes, became as soon as inserted into reports just a few instances over the years in ACG’s supernatural comics, as they had been referred to in home. This pre-Code account, “Saunter into Witchcraft,” has some panels of Hughes paying consideration to a author’s field of now not being ready to write a true account. The ACG scheme in a account with a author and an editor became as soon as having the author contrivance upon the make of grief for real to give his fiction some credibility. To the fictitious depiction of Hughes, that is.

Harry Lazarus became as soon as an artist who labored for ACG, both pre-Comics Code and put up-Comics Code. He became as soon as a stable expert artist, which to me showed he could perchance maybe additionally repeat a account. He labored for numerous replacement publishers, additionally.

The account is from Out of the Night, a comedian e-book ACG added to its list of supernaturals. ACG titles had been it sounds as if doing nicely in those days. I cherish the panels with Hughes at his desk with his door marketing now not handiest Out of the Night, nevertheless Adventures Into the Unknown and Forbidden Worlds. Out of the Night resulted in leisurely 1954 after 17 complications.

From Out of the Night #5 (1952):