Horrific 1 1952 Comic Media Pre-Code Horror Vintage CGC 5.5 OW-W Pages🔥🔑💎 for Sale

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Horrific 1 1952 Comic Media Pre-Code Horror Vintage CGC 5.5 OW-W Pages🔥🔑💎 For Sale

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Horrific 1 1952 Comic Media Pre-Code Horror Vintage CGC 5.5 OW-W Pages🔥🔑💎:
$3899.95

Horrific 1 Comic Media 1952 Vintage Pre-Code Horror Extremely Nice 6.0! Shipped with USPS Priority or Registered Mail insured with signature verification.

This is a copy Of Horrific 1 by Comic Media 1952 one of the most sought after pre-code horror books there is. This copy has been graded 5.5 by cgc with off-white-white pages. This particular copy is in extremely nice condition. For the better part of both covers there are almost no flaws on any edges or corners. The majority of any detractions on this book lie along the spine area where it has been opened enough times that it has caused them stress along the spine in visible areas. The rear cover and the front cover are both extremely vibrant and colorful. Both the internal pages and the rear cover are more white than off-white. Please see photos for further details.

Comic Media was founded by former Harvey Comics circulation manager Allen Hardy, whose primary artists Don Heck and Pete Morosi had also come from the Harvey Comics production department. While a number of Comic Media\'s most noteworthy horror covers were done by Heck, the artist of the cover of Horrific #1 is unknown. It is presumed to have originated from the Iger Shop, and the two interior stories upon which it is based are also presumed to have come from that same comic production studio. The story \"Iron Doom\" contains ghoulish figures who are very similar to the conductor and musicians on this cover.

But Horrific #1\'s cover image is primarily based on the interior story \"The Dancer of Death\". This story is a creepy twist on the Danse Macabre or Dance of Death concept, in which people are escorted dancing to their graves by a personification of death (typically depicted as a skeletal figure). In the case of this comic book story, the dancer of death is a ballerina who kills her dance partner and lover during a dance. Art director Feldman may have been intrigued by this concept, as when the Horrific\'s title was changed to Terrific for what was to be its final release in issue #14, the concept was revisited again with a ballet theme in \"Dance of Death\" by Rudy Palais. Horrific #1\'s \"The Dancer of Death\" story has some very general similarities to the Gore Vidal crime thriller Death in the Fifth Position, which would have hit bookstores in 1952 around the time that the comic book story was being created.

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