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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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0049: DANGER: Lot of 9 Comics * Don HECK * 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 * Drug StoriesEst. US$200-US$300
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0051: DARK MYSTERIES #3 * 3.0 * Smorgasbord of HORROR * Harrison's HarrangueEst. US$100-US$150
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0052: DARK MYSTERIES #4 * 3.0 * Vault of VIBRATORS * Dildo of DOOMEst. US$150-US$250
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0053: DARK MYSTERIES #5 * 1.8 * Looks Great but Spine Taped * Dwarves of DOOMEst. US$100-US$150
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0054: DARK MYSTERIES #6 * 5.5 * Necktie Party of PERIL * Sad Sack Succumbs to SuccubusEst. US$200-US$300
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0055: DARK MYSTERIES #7 * 3.5 * Gambling GHOULS * Dead Man's HandEst. US$200-US$300
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0056: DARK MYSTERIES #8 * 3.0 * Hillbilly HORROR * Severed Heads, Naked PsychesEst. US$100-US$150
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0057: DARK MYSTERIES #9 * 3.5 * Satanic Snake Charmer * Voodoo GhoulsEst. US$100-US$150
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0058: DARK MYSTERIES #10 * CGC 6.0 * Slaves in Watery GRAVES * Swipe GripeEst. US$2,000-US$3,000
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0060: DARK MYSTERIES #11 * 3.5 * Eaten by RATS * Headless HorrorEst. US$150-US$250
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0061: DARK MYSTERIES #12 * 3.0 * Aping EC in Earnest * Better Read than DeadEst. US$100-US$150
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0062: DARK MYSTERIES #12 * 3.5 * Woman Cut in Half * Booked to DIEEst. US$100-US$150
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0063: DARK MYSTERIES #13 * 3.5 * Horror of the MIXED TORSOS * Queasy ClassicEst. US$200-US$300
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0065: DARK MYSTERIES #15 * 4.5 * Slave Master STEW * Cannibal CaperEst. US$300-US$500
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0066: DARK MYSTERIES #16 * 3.5 * A Corpse is a Corpse of Course of CourseEst. US$150-US$250
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0067: DARK MYSTERIES #17 * 4.0 * Bone Zone * Surplus of SkeletonsEst. US$150-US$250
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0069: DARK MYSTERIES #19 * CGC 4.0 * Rare PRINTING ERROR Variant * Printer Pulls a BonerEst. US$1,500-US$2,500
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0071: DARK MYSTERIES #21 * 4.0 * Satan Cover * Lascivious Leper * Cops Kill KittensEst. US$100-US$150
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0072: DARK MYSTERIES #22 * 3.0 * Felines of FEAR * Last Pre-Code IshEst. US$100-US$150
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