The Beyond #30

Ace Comics was the banner under which pulp magazine publisher Aaron A. Wyn and his wife Rose Wyn produced comic books between 1940 and the end of 1956. The Wyns had been publishing pulp fiction under the Periodical House and Magazine Publishers names since 1928. Like many comic book publishers of the day, Ace Comics earlier series included costumed superheroes, although as trends in the comic book market changed by the 1950s the focus shifted more to other genres, such as crime, horror, romance, and later, Westerns.

The Beyond started out as Challenge of the Unknown #6 which was to be Ace Comics first horror comic, and it would be fair to treat this like a The Beyond #0. Challenge of the Unknown #7 was renamed to The Beyond #1.

"Weird, Spooky, Supernatural Stories"...So warned by every cover page of The Beyond...One of the horror comics that gained notoriety in the Golden Age of comics.

BEYOND #30
January 1955
Cover: (High priest appears out of smoke in mummy’s tomb) (0) – ???
“Code Of The Shadowmaster” (Lou Cameron, signed)
“The Reluctant Ghost” (Ken Rice) – reprint from BEYOND #1
“Slaves Of The Undead Brain” (Louis Zansky)
“The Spell Of The Hypnotic Chord” (Louis Zansky) – reprint from BEYOND #4

Last issue of Ace’s horror flagship title, and it’s a good one. Out with a bang, not with a whimper