The Working Man’s Horror 1 1

[Callaway29]

So with PCH going bananas it costs a fella big bucks to collect vintage gruesome books. This thread’s purpose is to highlight awesomely disgusting books that are overlooked, and still affordable. I’ll start, with a healthy dash of personal preference...Crime Suspenstories #11.

I’ve always loved this cover and it’s still cheap (relatively speaking). It has awesome perspective, and even though it only shows the feet, my mind’s imagination automatically fills in the remainder of the scene. Sometimes less is more... Appalling content too, an anatomy professor murdered his wife, and is taking her corpse to his lab so his students can dissect her later...

Edited July 1, 2019 by Callaway29

[Robot Man]

No offense Callaway, but aren’t you just “shooting yourself in the foot” by putting up a thread like this? Prices are through the roof on stuff like this already. Why make it worse?   

Great choice by the way.   

[FineCollector]

4 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

No offense Callaway, but aren’t you just “shooting yourself in the foot” by putting up a thread like this?

Seems like good fun to me, and unless they're missing from the Photo Journals, people have seen 'em before. 

[comicjack]

The working man gets chewed up nowadays 

[aardvark88]

1 hour ago, Robot Man said:

 but aren’t you just “shooting yourself in the foot” by putting up a thread like this? Prices are through the roof on stuff like this already. Why make it worse?   

  

'Choke ....'

[telerites]

A bonus would be if it had this ad on the BC

Edited July 1, 2019 by telerites

[Callaway29]

14 minutes ago, telerites said:

A bonus would be if it had this ad on the BC

I love the old ads too. We’re so dang sissified these days that you’d never see anyone calling fat “ugly”.

I also wonder if this device was targeting an alternative market (any Mad Men fans in the house?)...

Edited July 1, 2019 by Callaway29

[aardvark88]

On 7/1/2019 at 8:07 AM, Robot Man said:

Prices are through the roof on stuff like this already. Why make it worse?     

Yes, CA dealer on eBay has "Anarcho, Dictator of Death" (Fawcett) asking $100,000. 1970s had great horror covers also at low retail prices. e.g. Weird horror, witch burning, vampire rats , voodoo all on 1 Boris painted cover:

[Marty Mann]

[Robot Man]

If you want grusome horror cheap, and you have a foot fetish, maybe try hunting down some of comic book's poor step children..

[Cat-Man_America]

Working Man's horror: playing in front of a middle school before your first album hits BIG...   

 

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

4 hours ago, Cat-Man_America said:

Working Man's horror: playing in front of a middle school before your first album hits BIG...   

 

Hilarious, in hindsight