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Title: OUT OF THE SHADOWS No. 14
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Publisher:Standard [Indicia: Visual Editions, Inc.]
Date Published: August, 1954
Description:

G/VG (3.0). Some color rubs and mild stress to spine, fine creases and small nicks to top and bottom edges of covers, bottom edge of back cover soiled and crinkled with shallow chipping, some rubs and creasing to back cover, scattered foxing. Light tan pages. Cover: Mort Meskin? Art: Mort Meskin (George Roussos inks), Rocco Mastroserio, Mike Roy, Gene Fawcette. Final issue. GPAnalysis: A 3.0 sold for an anomalously low $43 in October 2020; a 4.5 sold for $228 in June 2020.

Multiple decapitation panel by Rocco Mastroserio (six severed heads tumble out of a trunk of terror); some nice werewolf art by Mort Meskin; woman impaled from behind by spurned suitor in a panel with rape-like imagery; ghost strangles gal.

"Out of the Shadows #14 is the last issue and perhaps this is why Standard pulls out all the stops with a very short (3 pages) tale, 'Junk Man's Treasure,' in which yet another taboo is broken: decapitated heads... It's strangely appropriate that the most graphic and extreme panel ever published by Standard appeared in the company's very last pre-Code horror comic book!" — George Suarez, Tales To Terrible To Tell #7. NEC: 1992-93, p. 38.

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.