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24/04/2005: "Star Collections Update (American) - More Pre-Code Horror!"

Originally posted by Rob on 28 March 2005 @ 01:38 p.m. GMT

As previously posted, we are acquiring over the coming months two enormous collections of wonderful British & American comics and annuals from 1940s-early 1960s, which will comprise one of the most significant releases of vintage comics on to the market anywhere in the world at any time. These 'Star Collections' updates will feature on this page most weeks over the next few months as we grade, value and release parts of these collections.

This week in our Horror 1940-1959 section, we continue of exhumation of Pre-Code Horror, with a gaggle of ghastly goodies from various publishers: Youthful, Ace, Avon, ACG, St. John, Fiction House, Atlas & Star. Highlights include Startling Terror Tales #10 (the premiere issue with Wally Wood art), the first issue of Fiction House's Ghost Comics (with hallucinogenic cover by Maurice Whitman), Marvel Tales #104 (highly souight-after Wolverton story, plus superlative Everett work and Heath cover), and St. John's rare 100 page Strange Terrors #7, with a notorious Kubert cover and lead. Also: Adventures Into The Unknown, Beware, Beyond, Eerie, Fantastic, Ghost Rider (with fabuolus Frazetta cover), Hand Of Fate and Web Of Mystery -- all life (well, death) is here!

Posted by Jules | 11:50 a.m. GMT

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