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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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0241: WEB OF EVIL #s 15, 17, 18, 21 * Lot of 4 QUALITY Horror MagsEst. US$100-US$150
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0242: WEB OF EVIL #s 2, 7, 11, 13 * Lot of 4 QUALITY Horror Mags * Roche Rip-Off?Est. US$100-US$150
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0243: WEIRD CHILLS #1 * CGC 3.5 * Bondage Cover * Madness * Bestiality * Cuck's RevengeEst. US$800-US$1,200
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0244: WEIRD CHILLS #2 * 4.0 * Demons Skewer Man's Mug * Fecal Führer * Raubal's RevengeEst. US$300-US$500
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0245: WEIRD CHILLS No. 3 * 2.5 * Pregnant Belly BLASTED * Abortive Experiment in HORROREst. US$200-US$300
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0246: WEIRD HORRORS #7 * CGC 3.5 * Secrets of EKGREN * Psychotic PamphletsEst. US$700-US$1,000
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0247: WEIRD HORRORS #8 * 3.0 * Kubert Cover * Cuckolds, Cats, KillersEst. US$100-US$150
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0248: WEIRD HORRORS #9 * 3.5 * Kubert Cover * Map of DOOM * Superman SyndromeEst. US$100-US$150
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0249: WEIRD MYSTERIES #1 * 3.5 * Partial WOLVERTON Cover * Loffredo's Double-Dip of DOOMEst. US$400-US$600
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0250: WEIRD MYSTERIES #2 * 3.0 * Basil WOLVERTON's "Robot Woman"Est. US$300-US$500
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0251: WEIRD MYSTERIES #3 * 5.0 * Severed Head Cover by BAILY * Clothes Horse from HELLEst. US$500-US$800
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0252: WEIRD MYSTERIES #4 * CGC 4.0 Purple Label * Bizarre SKULL Cover by BAILYEst. US$600-US$900
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0253: WEIRD MYSTERIES #5 * CGC 3.5 * Purple Label * Crazy BRAIN REMOVAL CoverEst. US$1,000-US$1,500
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0255: WEIRD MYSTERIES #7 * 3.0 * Seduction of the INNOCENT * Plenty to OfferEst. US$600-US$900
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0256: WEIRD MYSTERIES #8 * 3.5 * "I Killed MARY" * Murphy's FlawEst. US$200-US$300
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0257: WEIRD MYSTERIES #9 * 4.0 * Tasteless CANNIBALISM Tale * Rubicon of WretchednessEst. US$300-US$500
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0258: WEIRD MYSTERIES #10 * 2.5 * Naked Vampire Lady * Raunchy RodentsEst. US$200-US$300
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0259: WEIRD MYSTERIES #11 * 5.0 * Dolls of DOOM * Husband Flipper Meets the RIPPEREst. US$400-US$600
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0260: WEIRD MYSTERIES #12 * 3.0 * Love and Death * Gillmor Goes to the GraveEst. US$300-US$500
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0261: WEIRD SCIENCE-FANTASY #26 * Special "Flying Saucer Report"Est. US$100-US$150
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0262: WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE #1 * 3.5 * Alien Abduction Claims Blamed on COMICSEst. US$200-US$300
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0263: WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE #3 * CGC 4.0 * Wolverton * Totem Pole of TERROREst. US$1,500-US$2,500
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0264: WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE #4 * 4.0 * Wolverton's "Jumpin' Jupiter"Est. US$200-US$300
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