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HAUNT OF FEAR No. 17 Description: CGC certified: Fine- (5.5). Off-white to white pages. Grader notes: "Bend right top of whole book, moderate spine stress lines to cover, small tear right center of front cover, small heavy bend right bottom of whole book." Cover: Graham Ingels. Plots and scripts: Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art: Graham Ingels, George Evans, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis. GPAnalysis: A 5.5 sold for $1630 in 1/21. 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. 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#: 351208 Headline: HAUNT OF FEAR #17 * CGC 5.5 * Horror We, How's Bayou?