Beschreibung:

CGC certified: VG- (3.5). Cream to off-white pages. Cover: Jack Davis Plots and scripts: Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein Art: Jack Davis Joe Orlando, Jack Kamen Graham Ingels GPAnalysis: A 3.5 sold for $290 in January 2020. In Jack Davis's "By the Fright of the Silvery Moon," a Hungarian werewolf, displaced by WWII, brings Old World terror to smalltown America. In Joe Orlando's "Midnight Mess," newfangled vampires feast on foul fare in a "blooditarian restaurant." Both stories use shifts in midcentury American life — the influx of wartime refugees and the concommitant rise in ethnic eateries — as springboards for tales of homeland horror. "These two 1953 tales — from EC's Tales from the Crypt — were among thousands of similar ones that comic book companies put out in the early 1950s. In such tales, the alien and unclean arose within marriage, family and community, turning the normal, even sacred institutions of middle-class life into charnel houses of disembodied limbs and bloodless bodies. Carrying the punch of pint-sized pornography, they were inevitably framed by the mocking laughter of a Crypt-keeper or a Vault-keeper." — Tom Englehardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation. Basic: 1995, p. 97. A deluxe limited edition of 12 hardcover catalogues is available, in addition to a small number of softcovers. 400 lots, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcover $40, deluxe hardcover with dust jacket and limitation plate $200. Eight of the 12 hardcovers are pre-ordered and the rest will go quickly, so reserve yours now. To order, contact [email protected] . Consignments welcome for PBA's Spring 2022 Comic Book sale. Top prices for Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age, Silver Age, original art and ephemera. Find out why PBA is the new fan-fave of comics auctioneers. "This is some of the best commentary I've yet seen on the quality of the content of comic books... Priceless." — R. Crumb. Send inquiries to [email protected] .