GHOSTLY WEIRD STORIES #1 * CGC 2.5 * U.K. Version of GHOSTLY WEIRD #122
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Title: GHOSTLY WEIRD STORIES No. 1 * British Edition * ABC Chiller
Place Published: U.K.
Publisher:Arnold Book Co.
Date Published: 1953
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CGC certified: Good+ (2.5). Off-white to white pages. U.K. reprint of Ghostly Weird Stories #122, Blue Bolt Weird Tales #111, and All-Famous Police Cases #14. Black and white interior. Cover: L.B. Cole. Art: Jay Disbrow, George Peltz. CGC Census: This is the only graded copy.
The back cover ad features a ghastly re-draw of EC's GhouLunatics promoting the Arnold Book Company's versions of Haunt of Fear, Tales from the Crypt, and Vault of Horror. The former two titles were indeed released, but the disastrous response to ABC's Haunt of Fear reprint, which led to a British comics clampdown even more severe than the establishment of the Comics Code Authority in the U.S., caused the Arnold Book Co. to abandon Vault of Horror before publication. See the entry for the Arnold Book Company's Haunt of Fear #1 in PBA's sale #745 (October 28, 2021) for details on ABC's HOF debacle.
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