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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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0122: MISTER MYSTERY #8 * CGC 3.5 * Bizarre PORTHOLE Cover * Man Eaten by RATEst. US$250-US$350
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0124: MISTER MYSTERY #10 * 3.0 * Wife Looks Nice as a Drawstring Lamp * Comic Swap ShopEst. US$200-US$300
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0125: MISTER MYSTERY #12 * CGC 3.0 * Classic INJURY TO EYE CoverEst. US$2,500-US$3,500
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0126: MISTER MYSTERY #13 * CGC 4.0 * Gossip Fest of FEAR * Morse Mocked, Maybe?Est. US$800-US$1,200
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0128: MUTINY #'s 1 & 2 * 4.0 & 5.5 * Stanley MORSE vs. Alan MOORE * Rum, Thuggery & the LashEst. US$100-US$150
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0130: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #2 * 3.5 * Story Swipes from DC, pre-EC Swipery?Est. US$100-US$150
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0133: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #6 * 3.0 * Shrunken Heads & Satanic SpectaclesEst. US$200-US$300
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0135: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #7 * Shivved Eyeball * Human Body Chop ShopEst. US$100-US$150
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0136: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #8 * 4.5 * Man Bitten by Eyeball SnakeEst. US$150-US$250
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0137: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #7 * 5.0 * Violent AF * Lion Munches ManEst. US$300-US$500
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0138: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #10 * 3.5 * "Fatal Scalpel" Swipe * Same Old STORYEst. US$150-US$250
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0139: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #11 * 3.5 * Seduction of the INNOCENT * Crippen CopyEst. US$200-US$300
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0140: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #12 * CGC 5.0 * Dissection Room of DOOM * Horror HoleEst. US$1,000-US$1,500
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0141: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #13 * CGC 4.5 * Classic SKULL CoverEst. US$1,500-US$2,500
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0142: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #14 * 2.5 * Johnny CRAIG Swipe CoverEst. US$100-US$150
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0143: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #15 * CGC 4.5 * Dinos Bowl with HUMAN HEADSEst. US$800-US$1,200
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0144: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #16 * 3.0 * Doctors of DOOM * Ed Gein Meets SorayamaEst. US$200-US$300
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