This Hot Issue Of Harvey's First Horror Series Boasts A Disturbing Cover By Lee Elias With The Deformed Gimp Assisting The Diabolical Demented Mad Scientist As They Eagerly Lower The Hungry Rat Into The "Torture Jar" Containing The Hapless Humans. Inside It Features Supernatural Stories By Lee Elias ("The Elixir Of Evil") And Moe Marcus And Manny Stallman ("Laugh, Clown, Laugh"). The Finale Is "Death Lies Ahead", Which Appears To Be The Work Of Warren Kremer. Is Crucial To Any Pre-Code Collector So Don't Take This Chance To Score An Authentic Unrestored Superior Example Lightly, Or You May End Up Settling For A Compilation Reprint Or Embarrassing Photocopy Replica Instead. The Pre-Code Horror Craze Was At Its Apex So It's Got The Ubiquitous Lurid Content Including Gore And Monsters And Extreme Brutality And/Or Good Girl Art And Other Classic Elements Of The Gritty Fifties Comics.
THIS HAD AN ORIGINAL PRICE OF TEN CENTS. The Horror And Good-Girl And Supernatural Themes Never Go Out Of Style! This hails from a dark, dry, smoke-free, climate-controlled environment. See the various pictures, although they have glare and reflections and don't do this beauty justice. This gem exhibits amazing bold colors and heavy gloss, and looks to be unopened and pulled fresh out of a factory case, making it nearly inconceivable that it actually hit newsstands seven full decades ago. With a conservative grade of NM 9.2 coupled with the Q. Exceptional designation, you know it looks like 9.4 - 9.6, which would surpass even the best seen at CGC, making this perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to obtain one that looks this minty!Crucial issue for any rodent fan or torture cover collector, or any serious Lee Elias fan, or investor/collector of classic pre-code horror comics. MATERIAL LIKE THIS SPOTLIGHTING ICONIC THEMES OF CINEMA, TELEVISION, POP CULTURE AND LITERATURE NEVER LOSES APPEAL. STUNNING COMIC FROM ONE OF THE ICONIC TITLES THAT HAS GAINED STEAM IN RECENT YEARS. Many long-term fans have dealt with us through our old ads in CBM, CBG, O.
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