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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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0289: WOMEN OUTLAWS No # * 5.5 * Cody of the Pony Express Printing OddityEst. US$80-US$120
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0290: WORLDS BEYOND #1 * 1.5 * Bernard BAILY * Bob POWELL * Age of DepravityEst. US$80-US$120
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0291: CUMBRES DE TORTURA #17 * CGC 6.0* Ekgren Cover * Sketchy SenioritaEst. US$600-US$900
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0292: CUMBRES DE TORTURA #22 * CGC 1.0 * Mexican HAUNTED THRILLS #13Est. US$100-US$150
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0293: CUMBRES DE TORTURA #27 * CGC 1.5 * Mexican VOODOO #8 * Pre-Code AfterlifeEst. US$100-US$150
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0294: EPISODIOS DE PAVOR #21 * CGC 4.0 * Mexican JOURNEY INTO FEAR #18Est. US$200-US$300
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0295: EPISODIOS DE PAVOR #34 * CGC 3.0 * Mexican MYSTERIES WEIRD & STRANGE #5Est. US$100-US$150
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0296: GHOSTLY WEIRD STORIES #1 * CGC 2.5 * U.K. Version of GHOSTLY WEIRD #122Est. US$200-US$300
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0297: HISTORIETAS #224 * CGC 3.5 * Mexican MYSTERIES WEIRD AND STRANGE #5Est. US$200-US$300
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0298: MISTERIOS DEL GATO NEGRO #43 * CGC 3.5 * Mexican HAUNTED THRILLS #1Est. US$200-US$300
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0299: MISTERIOS DEL GATO NEGRO #44 * CGC 4.5 * Mexican HAUNTED THRILLS #17Est. US$200-US$300
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0300: MISTERIOS DEL GATO NEGRO #46 CGC 1.8 * Mexican HAUNTED THRILLS #5Est. US$100-US$150
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0301: ACTION COMICS #242 * CGC 4.5 * 1st App: BRANIAC & KandorEst. US$1,500-US$2,500
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0302: ACTION COMICS: Lot of 66 1960s Comics, Generally VG * Weisinger up the WazooEst. US$200-US$300
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0303: AIR PIRATES #1 * CGC 8.5 * Mickey Mouse Goes Underground * "Hotter than SNATCH"Est. US$200-US$300
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0304: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1 * CGC 2.5 Purple Label * 1st Sinister SixEst. US$600-US$900
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0305: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #31 * CGC 5.5 * SPIDEY vs Master PlannerEst. US$400-US$600
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0308: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #299 * CGC 9.6 * 1st Brief App: VENOM in CostumeEst. US$100-US$150
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0309: BATMAN #10 * CGC .5 (Qualified) * Catwoman's Snazzy New DudsEst. US$400-US$600
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0310: CAPTAIN AMERICA #100 * 3.5 * 1st Ish * Origin Partially RetoldEst. US$100-US$150
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0311: DAREDEVIL #1 * CGC 6.0 * DD's Debut * Man Without FEAREst. US$5,000-US$8,000
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0312: DAREDEVIL #7 * 3.0 * Hooray for WALLY WOOD * Red Suit RedesignEst. US$100-US$150
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