As a kind of footnote, I was interested last night to see that Joe Certa worked on a title called
Tomb of Terror for Harvey Comics in the early 1950s:
http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=21050The above site is an incredible repository of comics from all eras. I've visited it intermittently to catch up with the horror comics of the early 1950s. My favorite thus far is a groovy little book called
Chamber of Chills. I'd never heard of any of these.
After reading a couple of issues of
Tomb of Terror, I looked at still another title,
(True Stories of) Black Magic (you search it under the short title,
Black Magic). That one features some really early work by the legendary Jack Kirby.
My very fleeting impression from
Tomb of Terror is that Joe Certa did work of fairly decent quality back then. I do not know what had happened to him by the time he worked on the Gold Key DS stuff. His work for that was at such a crude, ugly level. I'm sure there are websites and no doubt, a Wikipedia entry which might explain what was going on.
It may be that neither he nor his editor cared so he just churned out the lowest grade of work for these. As Gerard said, we still bought the books though I gave up on it after issue 15 or thereabouts, I think. I honestly can't recall why I stopped reading. One reason I do remember was that it got really difficult to find the book. I was surprised to learn years ago that so many issues had been published. I think I just stopped seeing it at the local newsstand at some point.
G.
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