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Berkeley, CA, United States
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Comic Books: Pre-Code Horror & Other Comics
Greetings, gang, and welcome to PBA?s fifth comic book sale. Fright fans will be pleased to see that once again our focus is on the seedy underbelly of the comics world: the ?terrifying, shocking, sensational, appalling, forbidden? but simply wonderful? pre-Code horror comic books of the 1950s. As usual, we?ve tried to delve beneath the surface of this fascinating category with our signature blend of research and commentary. Despite the surge in interest in pre-Code horror, we feel that these books have yet to receive their proper due ? they?ve become very attractive as investment collectibles, to be sure, but we think they?re even more valuable for the insights that they yield to careful observers. In his influential anti-comics opus Seduction of the Innocent, Dr. Fredric Wertham claimed to detect hidden content embedded in these lurid pamphlets: ?In ordinary comic books, there are pictures within pictures for children who know how to look.? Granted that Wertham was a bit of a plonker, but we?re not unsympathetic to this particular claim of his ? indeed, we believe that a hidden psychosexual portrait of midcentury America is buried in the pulpy pages of old horror comics, and we?ve made it our business to try and bring this shadowy portrait to light, one pre-Code mag at a time. We hope that you?ll find our efforts diverting.
Sale highlights include a complete run of Stanley Morse?s WEIRD MYSTERIES, including another copy of #5, a gruesome classic that?s become PBA?s pre-Code calling card (we?ve offered copies in three of our four previous outings); a near-complete run of MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES and its sister title FIGHT AGAINST CRIME, including a 6.5 copy of FAC #20 (infamous severed head cover); Avon?s EERIE #1, the first true horror comic; a rare and possibly unique misprint copy of DARK MYSTERIES #19, with the inside covers not only printed upside-down, but with another company?s name in the indicia; a Yankee version of CHAMBER OF CHILLS #23, featuring one of th
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0217: UNITED STATES MARINES #3 * Octo-Tojo Fricaseed * FLAMETHROWER CoverEst. US$200-US$300
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0221: The UNSEEN #11 * 3.5 * Bear Trap of TERROR * African REVENGEEst. US$150-US$250
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0222: The UNSEEN #12 * 2.5 * Mole Man Seeks BLOOD * Poorly-Paid Pencil PushersEst. US$100-US$150
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0224: The UNSEEN #14 * 5.0 * Highballs of HORROR * Pervy Panel ParadeEst. US$300-US$500
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0225: VAULT OF HORROR #28 * CGC 7.0 * Drunken Ingels Self-CaricatureEst. US$600-US$900
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0226: VOODOO #19 * 1.5 * 3 Matt BAKER Stories * "Rarest in the Run" RequestEst. US$80-US$120
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0227: WANTED #24 * 5.0 * Krigstein 7-Pager * Mr. CRIME Swipe * From Here to EterniumEst. US$80-US$120
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0228: WANTED COMICS #30 * 3.5 * Hecklers Harass Honeys * Douchebags of DOOMEst. US$80-US$120
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0229: WANTED COMICS 33 * 4.5 * Cool SPIDER-WEB Cover * Sex Toys & SavageryEst. US$100-US$150
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0231: WANTED COMICS #49 * 4.0 (PGX sez 6.5) * Zitty in PINK * Crook's Goose CookedEst. US$100-US$150
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0232: WANTED COMICS #50 * 6.0 * Surrealistic Buscema Cover * Dead Man BalkingEst. US$200-US$300
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0233: WANTED COMICS #51 * 2.0 * Dope Fiend Story * HOLIDAY of HORROREst. US$100-US$150
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0234: WANTED COMICS #52 * CGC 4.0 * "Cult of Killers" OPIUM Story * John BUSCEMA CoverEst. US$600-US$900
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0235: WAR FURY #1 * CGC 5.0 * Don Heck BULLET HOLE Cover * Horrific #3 PrecursorEst. US$800-US$1,200
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0237: WARTIME ROMANCES #16 * 4.5 * Matt BAKER Cover & Story * Archer & the OWIEst. US$200-US$300
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0238: WARTIME ROMANCES #17 * 4.0 * Matt BAKER Cover * Blonde Babe Rolls RubesEst. US$200-US$300
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0239: WARTIME ROMANCES #18 * 2.5 * Matt BAKER Cover and Story * Memory of SINEst. US$100-US$150
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0240: WEB OF EVIL #8 * 3.5 * COLE on a Roll * Radioactive REVENGEEst. US$100-US$150
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