Ghostly Weird Stories #124 * CGC 4.0 * L.B. COLE Cover * Terrors of the Jungle
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Title: GHOSTLY WEIRD TALES No. 124
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Publisher:Star [Indicia: Star Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: September, 1954
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CGC certified: VG (4.0). Cream to off-white pages. Cover: L.B. Cole. Stories and art: Jay Disbrow, Jack Kamen, Rudy Palais. The Kamen and Palais stories are reruns from Captain Flight #11 and Jungle Jo (no #). GPAnalysis: A 4.0 sold for $810 in December 2020 (an anomalously strong result, perhaps, as a 4.5 sold for a limp $396 in July 2020, and a 5.5 sold for $528 in November 2021).
L.B. Cole's cover depicts a witch doctor, a terrified couple, and the glowering eyes of a primate looming overhead like a demonic deity. Images like this hint at the atavistic terrors that nag at the margins of civilized consciousness — we've left the jungle, but has the jungle left us?
"The comics industry employed scores of writers and artists to access the subconscious, more or less lucidly, for a standard per-page rate. Storylines that were at times repetitive, senseless, even contradictory, and that were conceived in haste, still created a public, communal dream (or nightmare)." Jim Trombetta, The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You To Read! Abrams: 2010, pp. 43-44.
Consignments welcome for PBA's Fall 2022 Comic Book sale. Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age and Silver Age comics, original art, vintage comic-related photos and ephemera sought. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com.
A limited edition of 100 softcover and 6 hardcover catalogues are available. 140 pages, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcovers $40, dust-jacketed hardcover with limitation plate $200. To order, contact ivan@pbagalleries.com.
Consignments welcome for PBA's Fall 2022 Comic Book sale. Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age and Silver Age comics, original art, vintage comic-related photos and ephemera sought. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com.
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