Speaking of horror covers...look at what is the main cover on their calendar this year. And if you don't buy any calendars from these guys, you should. They are cool and very high quality and can detach if you want to hang or frame them.
2025 Vintage Horror Comics Calendar - Asgard Press

Oh wow, thanks, I think I need to buy this calendar. And nice to see that the best cover is in December, my birthday month.

I forgot that Topps published comics.

They had great talent, and the card gimmick was good timing, but I honestly can’t remember much about the books.

The only thing I remember about Topps comics was their X-Files series.

I remember that Dracula comic mainly because Mignola did the interior and not just the covers. IIRC it was polybagged with a card (I mean it's Topps, right?). I also seem to remember them doing Kirby comics, not sure if that was public domain stuff or if they actually licensed it.

Yeah, Topps started publishing comics during the glut of the early 1990s.

They didn't really have much of anything notable... mostly licensed stuff like X-Files, Jurassic Park, and some other properties... Xena, Friday the Thirteenth, maybe, I can't really recall. X-Files and the Mignola Dracula adaption are probably the most notable things they published.

And they also had some Jack Kirby scraps from the 1970s... Secret City Saga and Satan's Six... that got a lot of hype but little interest. Everyone was already spending all of their money on Image and Valiant, and Kirby's name had no marquee value for anyone under thirty at that time. And outside of some horribly dated character concepts and designs, Kirby had nothing to do with those titles.

I did buy X-Files for a while (which featured nice early artwork from Charlie Adlard, who would later go on to become the artist for The Walking Dead and trippy McKean-ish covers from Miram Kim), the Mignola and Morato Dracula series, the Neil Gaiman Elric: One Life Furnished in Early Moorcock one-shot, and the handful of Ray Bradbury anthology books they published.

You’ve refreshed my memory there Josh, and it sounds spot on. I tried those Kirby books, but didn’t like them at all. Bought almost all their X-Files and quite enjoyed it.

Yeah, I forgot about a lot of that stuff through the fog of the 90s comic book glut. I don't recall the Gaiman Elric one-shot but it sounds interesting.

I too missed the Gaiman one-shot. It was drawn by P. Craig Russell; I'll have to track it down.

The other somewhat notable comic from Topps was Zorro, which ran for 12 issues. That spun off Lady Rawhide, Topps' addition to the Bad-Girl era. My favorite Topps series was The Lone Ranger and Tonto; a 4 issue mini written by Joe R. Lansdale and drawn by Tim Truman.



Another interesting title was Jackie Chan's Spartan X. As a big Jackie Chan fan, this was right up my alley. And made all the better by artwork by none other than Michael Golden. I'm not saying that it was good, just that I loved it.



They were also known for their Mars Attacks comics, which had a bit of a resurgence after Tim Burton's movie came out in the 90s, but I didn't buy any of those.

^That's a shame. That girl was stacked! No wonder he can see her. She has natural floatation devices!

I'm a sucker for those 70s gothic romance/horror comics, DC did some too:

^Very Dark Shadows looking!

Iirc, I got lucky several years and got a complete set on ebay super cheap. Used to have a quest to someday own every DC horror book, but think I’ve given that up.

It's pretty good... a sort of (semi-?) autobiographical short story about the author discovering Elric and other Michael Moorcock books as a young man. It was originally a short story in White Wolf Publishing's Tales of the White Wolf anthology from the early 1990s when the publisher was attempting to publish all of Moorcock's Eternal Champion books in omnibus collections and the majority of Harlan Ellison's body of writing in a similar format called Edgeworks. (Pretty sure they managed to put out all of the planned Moorcock books, but only managed to get out four of Ellison's before folding.)

That was an interesting title, it started as a humor comic in the 40s but switched to a horror comic in the early 50s when the horror comic fad was in full swing.

This is a creepy-ass cover. I love that the boy is covering the dog's mouth. Nice touch.

Weird Mystery is a title pretty sure I never saw on the newsstand. I bought pretty much every DC horror title I saw, but my local convenience and drug stores seemed to just get House of Mystery, House of Secrets, Unexpected, and Witching Hour.

That Weird Mystery cover really is fantastic and eerie as heck. Also, that Haunted Love cover is phenomenal. I immediately said to myself when viewing the cover that the ghostly form of the woman is gorgeous, just some really great artwork.

These old horror/mystery comics reminded me of this Fantagraphics / Marvel collaboration that will reprint comics like these under a “Lost Marvels” banner, starting with the nine issues of TOWER OF SHADOWS (which then became CREATURES ON THE LOOSE). I’m not sure how many old series like these have been collected by either DC or Marvel, but it seems like a lot of them have been MIA forever.

I might have to check that out, I never read the comic but am a big fan of a lot of the artists involved (Smith, Adams, Steranko, Wrightson, Wood, Craig, etc.).