Dime Mystery (Book) Magazine started off as a fairly staid pulp under the name Dime Mystery Book Magazine featuring a full-length “two-dollar novel” and a few short stories. However this was not a successful formula and after only ten issues the publisher, Popular Publications, changed the title to Dime Mystery Magazine, featuring several novelettes and short stories. Even more significantly the emphasis was changed to “weird menace”, which was much more popular and allowed the magazine to continue for a further 144 issues.
n 1950 the name was changed again to 15 Mystery Stories, but it lasted for only five issues under this title before folding in late 1950.

The covers are fantastic: there are monsters, crazy scientists, women with knifes, strong men trying to run away, lots of women tied up, masked men, macabre sects, deformed men, scenes of torture, macabre experiments, skulls and mummies. All the elements you need in a thriller story. By they covers, my impression is their covers were made to also attract BDSM fetishists. (via coisas do arco da velha)

The infernal (and sculptural) character, which gave the name to the magazine imagined by Roussado Pinto, was a kind of Vampirella with Portuguese manners, and because of lack of opportunities to great adventures, as the American version, she used to punish the troublemakers in Lisbon and its neighbourhood. Each number of Zakarella included a short story by Ross Pynn (pseudonym of Roussado Pinto) with the heroin adventures. The covers and the illustrations of those short stories were created by Carlos Alberto Santos, e good part of the success of this magazine is due to his work. (28 numbers / editions of Zakarella were published over two years)

I hope this so so, and almost literal, translation helps. The covers of the 28 editions published are available at Comics BD Portugal: just keep clicking on the tabs to see all them. BTW, those links are probably NSFW. (via coisas do arco da velha)

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Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American publisher of comic books specializing in crime fiction, horror fiction, satire, military fiction and science fiction from the 1940s through the 1950s, until censorship pressures prompted it to concentrate on the seminal humor magazine Mad.

The collection is composed of four galleries: Explore the galleries of cover of Weird Fantasy, Weird Science, Incredible Science Fiction and Weird Science-Fantasy. (via SciFi Scanner)
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First covers were by Carlo Jacono and Kurt Caesar, but the «golden era» of the magazine was marked by the renowned Dutch painter Karel Thole, who introduced his unparalleled, bizarre medley of surrealism, horror, classical citations and sense of humour. Other outstanding cover artists who worked for Urania were Vicente Segrelles from Spain (1988-1991) and Oscar Chichoni from Argentina (1990s). Current cover artist is Franco Brambilla.