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HAUNT OF FEAR No. 14 Author: Place: Publisher: Entertaining Comics Date: August, 1952 Description: Good/VG (3.0). One piece of tape at either end of spine. Soft and pulpy. 1/2" creased tear to centerfold. Tan to cream pages. Graham Ingels cover. Art by Ingels, Davis, Kamen, Sid Check. Origin of the Old Witch. Man skewered, roasted, served on platter with apple in mouth. Wife upset with "ice-hearted" hubby stabs him through heart with ice pick. Lurid ish presenting nightmare versions of American family life. "To young people of the post-war years, when the mainstream culture glorified suburban domesticity as the modern American ideal – the life that made the Cold War worth fighting – nothing else in the panels of EC comics, not the giant alien cockroach that ate earthlings, not the baseball game played with human body parts, was so subversive as the idea that the exits of the Long Island Expressway emptied into the bowels of Hell." -David Hadju, The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America [FSG: 2008]. PBA Grading Guarantee: Any individual comic book lot (not group lots) graded by PBA is guaranteed to match CGC grading. If the buyer chooses to have the comic CGC certified and that certification is lower than PBA’s, the lot may be returned for a full refund of the sales price (hammer price plus buyer’s premium). See terms and conditions for details. Consignments Accepted for PBA's Next Comic Book Auction. Golden Age, Silver Age, Pre-Code, Original Art, Interesting Ephemera Sought. Contact ivan@pbagalleries.com for details. March 26th Comic Book Sale catalogues available. Supplies Limited. Softcover catalogues limited to 200 copies ($45 + $5 postage/handling). Hardcovers limited to 26 lettered copies, dust jackets, special limitation plates ($150). Contact ivan@pbagalleries.com. Lot Amendments Condition: Item number: 312507