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Title: ADVENTURES INTO DARKNESS No. 7
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Publisher:Standard Comics [Indicia: Visual Editions Inc.]
Date Published: December, 1952
Description: CBCS certified: Good+ (2.5). Cream to off-white pages. Grader notes: Centerfold detached at bottom staple. 1" x 2/3" piece missing top left front cover spine stress, wear & creases to cover breaks color front cover stains, foxing, tanning to cover & interior cover, writing in pen back cover. Note: Light scuffs to slab.

GPAnalysis: A CGC graded 2.0 sold for $438 in 4/23.

Credits: Cover: Jack Katz. Art: Mike Sekowsky, Mike Peppe, Nick Cardy, Jack Katz, Charles Miller, Art Saaf.Dead In Bed: In Jack Katz's "Bride of Death," a pervy mad scientist brings a dead gal back to life in order to "marry" (eg, rape) her. She struggles with the creep and he kills her again. When the creepy scientist, still jonesing to screw, tries to resurrect her a second time, her corpse squeezes him to death in rigor mortis. The editor buried this yarn in the middle of the mag, far from the parent-pleasing front-page blurb: "LOOK FOR THIS BANNER WHEN YOU BUY A COMIC MAGAZINE. IT IS YOUR GUARANTEE OF WHOLESOME READING."______________________________________________________________

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