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GRIMM'S GHOST STORIES

"GRIMM"

From Wikipedia:
Gold Key Comics was created in 1962, when its parent company Western Publishing switched to in-house publishing rather than packaging content for branding and distribution by its business partner, Dell Comics. Hoping to make their comics more like traditional children's books, they initially eliminated panel line-borders, using just the panel, with its ink and artwork evenly edged, but not bordered by a "container" line. Within a year, they had reverted to using inked panel borders and oval balloons. They experimented with new formats, including Whitman Comic Book, a black-and-white, 136-page, hardcover series consisting of reprints, and Golden Picture Story Book, a tabloid-sized, 52-page, hardcover containing new material. In 1967, Gold Key reprinted a number of selected issues of their comics under the title Top Comics. They were packaged in plastic bags containing five comics each and were sold at gas stations and various eateries. Like Dell, Gold Key was one of the few major American comic book publishers never to display the Comics Code Authority seal on its covers.

On May 1972, issue one of "Grimm's Ghost Stories" was released, with Grimm, who introduced stories within each issue. The series was produced by Gold Key from issue 1 until issue 56 (1 May 1972 - 1 October 1980), and then produced by Whitman Publishing from issue 57 until issue 1960 (1 December 1981 - 1 June 1982).