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Title: DAGAR, DESERT HAWK No. 15
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Publisher:Fox [Indicia: Fox Feature Syndicate, Inc.]
Date Published: April, 1948
Description:

VG (4.0). Spine roll, spine stress, 1/4" split to bottom spine, staple rust, short tear and tiny chip to back cover, corner crease and scattered fox marks to back cover, last page dogeared, smudged grease pencilled distributor's mark to "D" in "DAGAR" ("N / 2 / 13"), back cover coupon for a skirt and blouse ensemble in "the gayest colors imaginable" marked in pencil by a lad who lost his nerve before clipping and mailing the coupon ("James Cadu / P.O. Box 643 / Gilroy, Calif"). No shame, James – it took Milton Berle-sized balls for a guy to wear a skirt back then. Cream to light tan pages. Cover: Edmond Good. Art: Edmond Good, Jack Kamen. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 3.0 sold for $168 in 8/20; a 4.5 sold for $250 in 1/21.

Wonderfully smutty mag full of floggings, skinny-dipping native gals, babes wearing breastplates with strategically-drawn concentric circles that mimic the appearance of nipples and aureolae, bondage, torture, sadism, you name it. Dr. Wertham panned Dagar in Seduction of the Innocent for the title's high incidence of "sadistic acts," "perverse fantasies," and "illustrations of half-nude girls," and for once the good doctor wasn't exaggerating.

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