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HAUNT OF FEAR No. 16 Author: Place: Publisher: Date: Description: EC (Indicia: "Fables Publishing Co."). November-December, 1952. Good+ (2.5). Soft and pulply, with creases and soiling to back cover. Bottom corner of back cover dogeared. 1" tear to one page. Off-white pages. Graham Ingels cover. Stories by Al Feldstein and Bill Gaines (Ray Bradbury's "The Coffin" adapted by Feldstein). Art by Graham Ingels George Evans Jack Davis and Jack Kamen House ads: MAD #2 ("It's ENOUGH to drive you SANE!"), Weird Fantasy #16 (Earth smashed by Mars and Venus). Great Ingels cover with a bat's eye view of a mad scientist's operating theater of horror. Features "The Coffin," EC's first authorized Ray Bradbury adaptation. Bill Gaines describes Bradbury's response to EC's adaptations: "Bradbury just thought that Feldstein's adaptations were priceless, and the artwork... every new one he saw, he just kept raving about them. With one exception: we used exclamation points for periods. This was something that came out of comic book writing, but we did it, I think, far beyond any other comic house, and it got to the point where there was no such thing, literally, as a period in an EC comic. Periods were exclamation points. We called them 'bangs.' You know, 'The man came down the road. Bang. What did he want? Question mark. He wanted to rape six women. Bang, bang.' Bradbury couldn't stand those bangs. And somewhere along the line, you may notice that the bangs disappeared from Bradbury's stories." —The Complete Haunt of Fear. A limited edition of 100 softcover and 15 hardcover catalogues are available. Over 200 pages, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcovers $40, dust-jacketed hardcover with limitation plate $200. To order, contact ivan@pbagalleries.com or visit: https://www.pbagalleries.com/content/comics/. R. Crumb says, "I found [PBA's catalogue] so interesting that I am saving it for the texts that accompany the comics which were put up for auction. This is some of the best commentary I’ve yet seen on the quality of the content of comic books. I especially enjoyed the reviews of the post-war horror comics. Great. Priceless." Consignments welcome for PBA's Spring 2021 Comic Book sale. Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age and Silver Age comics, original art and ephemera sought. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com. Lot Amendments Condition: Item number: 316951