fifties

Thx and your suggestion is noted, but it's really a moot point, since when I buy a slabbed book, I generally will keep it.

NO LIST PPL, PAYMENT BY PAYPAL OR MAILED CHECK, SHIPPING $6 U.S., Canada add $5 more. Returns for any reason within one week of receiving. Offers considered. Eerie 6, G, lateral tear across FC, small vertical tear at left top, O/W flat, supple, some cover gloss, OW pages, $85.00. True Life Secrets 17, G+ to G/VG range, flat, glossy, supple, off white pages, all attached, bright inks, small chips out at bottom of FC, larger pieces out of BC. $85.00. Adventures Into The Unknown 116, G+ to G/VG range, flat, supple, good cover gloss, off white pages, and an Al Williamson illustrated story. wear at top of spine and PO on BC. $30.00. Adventures Into The Unknown 31, repro cover over original pages. $20.00. Uncanny Tales 33, G- due to wear at left FC spine area, and bottom. $25.00. Forbidden Worlds 109, VG, & Adventures Into The Unknown 98 Fa, split cover, both for $20.00.

CGC is not infallible, as you can see by looking at some of the other posts here, ESP Marty Mann's. I wouldn't offer the CGC opinion unless I saw proof of it. If I did, I would include a scan of their label.

I'm not at all surprised. I've bought numerous purple label slabbed "slight color touch" graded books, and I always de-slab them. I have yet to find the alleged color touch, but more power to them. It makes the books more affordable to me. And IF I were to sell it raw, with no mention of CT (not a lie, as I can't see any), could get perhaps a better price than what I paid.

Not Golden Age, but in the spirit.

No, the panic started apart from anything Wertham did, and well before the 1954 publication of SOTI and the Senate committee hearing he was involved in. There was a furor in '48, and then again about '52-'53.

Some good points, but I must dispute several. Actually Dr. Wertham DID do some good things for society, but this wasn't one of them, AFA those of us who enjoyed, and still do, the pre-code fare. In regards to, "They made no attempt to put warnings and suggestions on some titles" isn't entirely true; please see the the restriction on the enclosed. That said, there were few of these, and frankly as a kid it would have only served to encourage buying the "forbidden". "No movie in the 1950s, no matter what the target age, contained the level of gore and violence that was available in comics" Are you serious? Take a look at damn near any Tom and Jerry cartoon, where they're slamming each other over the head with bats, or Western movies where guys get beat up or shot to death regularly. AFA segregating comic books in the '50's, it's too bad that they couldn't have done what the Motion Picture Industry did with feature films about 15 years later, with the G, PG, R, & X labels.

TBH, when I would go to the local news stand, some of the covers would scare the sh*t out of me, LOL. Mainly the ones showing supernatural creatures (skeletons) overpowering PPL. As I got older and wanted to read them, I was forbidden to. The ones I managed to sneak past the wardeness really ignited my passion for them.

Actually the hullabaloo about comic books can be traced back to 1948, when some of the publishers got together and developed the bar and star logo reading, " Authorized ACMP, conforms to the comics code". Fox Comics especially was putting out some pretty racy stuff in their crime fare.

SOTI Collector, IDK if you were around in the early '50's, but there was a sense of hysteria, ESP with the PTA's, over crime and horror comics. I remember in 1954, they put up a large board in front of a classroom at the elementary school I attended, and on it attached individual panels from horror comics, in an effort to display their disdain for them. The one example I remember was from one of the Harvey comics, showing a woman saying, "I take your heart and lips gently", holding the guys cut out heart and lips as he falls down in the background.

Here's my other C.O.T.

Came in today. I just need #17 (#1) in order to complete the short run.

Just in.

Here's my copy of the Astonishing 6. Also Mystic 1, Canadian, front and back covers. The inside of the covers are blank, and they have a thick stock.

Welcome to the club.

Or a very dumb subject.

Got this one in yesterday. Love the cover illustration, and the first story is EC like.

I'm in the club.

There were two #10's in this run. I posted the other some time ago.

Hmm, do we have a swipe somewhere?

The only "restoration" I've removed is old Scotch Tape along the outside spine, using Lighter Fluid. Works well most, but not all of the time, and leaves no staining. Also replaced new staples with period correct ones.

That PLOD label shoulda saved you some coin.

If you are OK with a facsimile cover, Send an email to Sebastian at collectionconnectionstore@gmail.com, preferably attaching a scan. It also doesn't hurt to provide exact height and width dimensions. I use an overlap of about 1/8" over the interior pages. He'll charge you the outrageous price of $6 + postage. He DOES however take awhile to send it.

I'm not so sure about that.