HAUNT OF FEAR No. 16 Publisher: EC [Indicia: Fables Publishing Co., Inc.] Date Published: November-December, 1952 Description: 5.0 (VG/Fine). Cover slightly miscut with excess white showing at spine, small nick at top spine, top staple slightly pulled, small corner chip and a few short tears to back cover, pencilled distributor's mark to back cover ("R 11/6"). Cream pages, tan edges. Plots and scripts: Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art: Graham Ingels, George Evans, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis. Ray Bradbury adaptation: "The Coffin." GPAnalysis: A 5.0 sold for $396 in 10/22. Royal chef, "fed up" with the king's gluttony, turns him into sausage; man forces doctor to perform unethical experiments to restore his lost vitality, a metaphor for impotence in the pre-Viagra era; undersea vampiress "wets" her appetite for human blood; self-burying coffin kills and disposes of its victim's corpse in a nightmare version of mechanized efficiency. "Outside of the pulp novels of Mickey Spillane and the films of Sam Fuller, there were few places in the arts, high or low, where sadism, unpunished murder, and the triumph of evil were so welcome." — David Hadju, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. FSG: 2008, p. 183. Enjoying the Sale? Order a fully-illustrated softcover catalogue for 30 bucks. Only about 100 copies were printed and they're going fast. To reserve a copy, contact PBA's Director of Comics: ivan@pbagalleries.com. Consign to PBA Galleries. Our comic sales average a 98% sell-through rate, our prices realized are top-of-the-market, and our research-intensive catalogues are the best in the business. Seeking Silver Age Marvel, Golden Age superheroes, and pre-Code horror. Contact ivan@pbagalleries.com. Item#: 351119 Headline: HAUNT OF FEAR #16 * 5.0 * The Triumph of EVIL
HAUNT OF FEAR No. 16 Publisher: EC [Indicia: Fables Publishing Co., Inc.] Date Published: November-December, 1952 Description: 5.0 (VG/Fine). Cover slightly miscut with excess white showing at spine, small nick at top spine, top staple slightly pulled, small corner chip and a few short tears to back cover, pencilled distributor's mark to back cover ("R 11/6"). Cream pages, tan edges. Plots and scripts: Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art: Graham Ingels, George Evans, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis. Ray Bradbury adaptation: "The Coffin." GPAnalysis: A 5.0 sold for $396 in 10/22. Royal chef, "fed up" with the king's gluttony, turns him into sausage; man forces doctor to perform unethical experiments to restore his lost vitality, a metaphor for impotence in the pre-Viagra era; undersea vampiress "wets" her appetite for human blood; self-burying coffin kills and disposes of its victim's corpse in a nightmare version of mechanized efficiency. "Outside of the pulp novels of Mickey Spillane and the films of Sam Fuller, there were few places in the arts, high or low, where sadism, unpunished murder, and the triumph of evil were so welcome." — David Hadju, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. FSG: 2008, p. 183. Enjoying the Sale? Order a fully-illustrated softcover catalogue for 30 bucks. Only about 100 copies were printed and they're going fast. To reserve a copy, contact PBA's Director of Comics: ivan@pbagalleries.com. Consign to PBA Galleries. Our comic sales average a 98% sell-through rate, our prices realized are top-of-the-market, and our research-intensive catalogues are the best in the business. Seeking Silver Age Marvel, Golden Age superheroes, and pre-Code horror. Contact ivan@pbagalleries.com. Item#: 351119 Headline: HAUNT OF FEAR #16 * 5.0 * The Triumph of EVIL
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