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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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0145: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #17 * 2.5 * Fright Wedding * Trash Rehash * Crass FassEst. US$200-US$300
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0146: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #18 * 3.5 * Used by SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE; EC SwipefestEst. US$200-US$300
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0147: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #19 * CGC 6.0 * Carload of CORPSES * Bones for Big BenjisEst. US$1,500-US$2,500
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0148: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #20 * 3.0 * Wertham's Upset Stomach * Horror d'oeuvresEst. US$200-US$300
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0150: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #21 * 3.0 * Beheadings, Disembowelment, RosariesEst. US$200-US$300
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0151: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #22 * 5.0 * Psychosexual ShenanigansEst. US$200-US$300
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0152: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #23 * 4.0 * Boneyard Belle Bests BeauEst. US$150-US$250
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0154: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #25 * 4.0 * Last Ish * No Slabbed CopiesEst. US$200-US$300
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0156: MYSTERIOUS STORIES #3 * 3.0 * Judgment Day for Czar MurphyEst. US$100-US$150
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0158: MYSTERIOUS STORIES #5 * 3.5 * Poor Man's Thor * Fear Fans Sore * Post-Code BoreEst. US$100-US$150Lot Passed
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0162: OUT OF THE SHADOWS #13 * 2.5 * Cannibal Killer * Puppet Master of PerilEst. US$100-US$150
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0163: OUT OF THE SHADOWS #14 * 3.0 * Decapitation Panel * Last IshEst. US$100-US$150
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0164: The PERFECT CRIME #23 * CGC 6.0 * Wallpapered Room of DOOM * Eyck Swipe?Est. US$3,000-US$5,000
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0166: Lot of 3 EC Pre-Trend PICTURE STORIES Mags * Bible * History * Science * GENESIS of ECEst. US$100-US$150Lot Passed
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0167: POLICE AGAINST CRIME #'s 1-5 * Average 3.5 * Crime and RascalityEst. US$200-US$300
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0168: POLICE AGAINST CRIME #'s 7-9 * Average 3.5 * Code-Approved CrimeEst. US$100-US$150
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