raw 1951-52 Frazetta x3 plus 2 other B-Bar-B including classic horror

[Leon/Swirl Comics]

$350 USPS domestic shipping included. Non-USPS/domestic negotiable.

 

5 books, 3 Frazetta covers, 1 classic horror cover, 1 Ghost Rider "horror" cover

 

Ayers art in 13, 14, 15. Powell art in all.

 

Pages are off-white to tan, some inside cover shading, some acidic odor, some interior light printing/fading (who knows which?) well within GD/VG to VG+ on first four books, which all have subscription crease; fifth book is FN/VF with signifcant lower-left corner wear--otherwise an excellent book. Cover colors are vibrant other than subscription crease wear areas on first four books. See front and back cover scans below.

 

#9 VG- Frazetta cover with no Frazetta mark, documented in Greg Theakston's "Frank Frazetta Comic Art Bibliography".

 

#11 GD/VG Frazetta cover with classic Frazetta mark, significant cover tear across black artwork on mid-lower left front

 

#13 VG+ Frazetta Ghost Rider cover with classic Frazetta mark, subscription crease does not affect Ghost Rider art.

 

#14 VG classic horror cover--bondage/torture/decapitated heads/hunchback, "The Head-Hunter of Pirates Peak" story--multiple decapitated body panels, decapitated heads, drag-behind-horse torture (child and woman, Bobby Benson and Betsy Hayes), dungeon/laboratory bondage (Betsy Hayes)

 

#15 FN/VF Ghost Rider "horror" cover, "The Freaks of Fear" story from cover--outlaw gang of medicine show "freaks" presumed not supernatural, racist Roma/Gypsy undertone thinly veiled by "medicine show" wagon and sideshow freak theme, although the beautiful blonde ring leader's name Zyra is oddly of Hebrew/Slavic origin meaning "brightness"--go figure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers!

 

Leon