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CGC certified: VG- (3.5). Off-white pages. Cover: Graham Ingels Plots/scripts: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein Art: Graham Ingels George Evans Jack Kamen Jack Davis GPAnalysis: A 3.5 sold for $1000 in July 2021, and another sold for $1320 in June 2021. Graham Ingels' ghastliest cover teases his masterpiece of swamp terror, "Horror We? How's Bayou?," in which a backwoods degenerate cannibalizes his victims in a nightmare shack of death. The swamp soon disgorges the fetid remains of the victims, who enact a gruesome revenge that must have left some young readers shaken with revulsion. "The crime and horror comics were gruesome, and they did contain images no sane parent would want a young child to see. But they also became stand-ins for larger fears. No matter what anxieties one brought to the world — juvenile delinquents, atomic war, sexual license, sexual repression, the Reds, the Klan — they could find a match in comic books. In a society frightened of forces running out of control, the sheer unsupervised, uncontrolled information in the comic books was alarming in itself." — G. Jones, Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book. Basic: 2004, p. 240. A limited edition of 150 softcover and 15 hardcover catalogues is available. 400 lots, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcover $30, deluxe hardcover with dust jacket and limitation plate $200. Ten of the 15 hardcovers are pre-ordered and the rest will go quickly, so reserve yours now. To order, contact [email protected] . Consignments welcome for PBA's December 2021 Comic Book sale. Top prices for Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age, Silver Age, original art and ephemera. Send inquiries to [email protected] .