Poor (.5). Spine tattered and split halfway, cover detached at bottom staple, losses to right edge of front cover, pencil marks to logo which have been partially erased, 4x6" section of cover has been cut loose and taped back into place, with significant darkening from acids in tape; ¼x3" chip to margin of first page. Pages: cream. Cover: Al Feldstein Plots and scripts: Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein Art: Al Feldstein Harry Harrison (Wally Wood inks), Jack Kamen Harvey Kurtzman 1st ish, with numbering carried over from A Moon, A Girl... Romance #12. A doctor puts a brain to sleep with his endless bloviation. In the background, a kindly old doc tinkers with the nude body of a mechanical man, a pencil box tastefully blocking its robo-genitals. Some '50s kid, perhaps inspired by the oddball scenario, has performed strange experiments of his own with scissors and tape. EC sci-fi sales hovered at around 70% for the first year of publication, a sensational sell-through by modern standards, but mediocre at best in the early '50s. Sales soon got even worse, diving down to about 60%. Gaines and Feldstein kept Weird Science and Weird Fantasy going for as long as possible, but in a depressing indictment of the readership’s taste, the better the comics got, the lower the sales plunged. "Maybe we [got] too good for the market. I never really thought about that; there's no question that as the quality went up, the sales slid down.... We just kept them on because we liked them." — Bill Gaines, interviewed by Rich Hauser in Spa Fon #5, 1969. A limited edition of 150 softcover and 15 hardcover catalogues is available. 400 lots, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcover $30, deluxe hardcover with dust jacket and limitation plate $200. Ten of the 15 hardcovers are pre-ordered and the rest will go quickly, so reserve yours now. To order, contact [email protected] . Consignments welcome for PBA's December 2021 Comic Book sale. Top prices for Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age, Silver Age, original art and ephemera. Send inquiries to [email protected] .
Poor (.5). Spine tattered and split halfway, cover detached at bottom staple, losses to right edge of front cover, pencil marks to logo which have been partially erased, 4x6" section of cover has been cut loose and taped back into place, with significant darkening from acids in tape; ¼x3" chip to margin of first page. Pages: cream. Cover: Al Feldstein Plots and scripts: Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein Art: Al Feldstein Harry Harrison (Wally Wood inks), Jack Kamen Harvey Kurtzman 1st ish, with numbering carried over from A Moon, A Girl... Romance #12. A doctor puts a brain to sleep with his endless bloviation. In the background, a kindly old doc tinkers with the nude body of a mechanical man, a pencil box tastefully blocking its robo-genitals. Some '50s kid, perhaps inspired by the oddball scenario, has performed strange experiments of his own with scissors and tape. EC sci-fi sales hovered at around 70% for the first year of publication, a sensational sell-through by modern standards, but mediocre at best in the early '50s. Sales soon got even worse, diving down to about 60%. Gaines and Feldstein kept Weird Science and Weird Fantasy going for as long as possible, but in a depressing indictment of the readership’s taste, the better the comics got, the lower the sales plunged. "Maybe we [got] too good for the market. I never really thought about that; there's no question that as the quality went up, the sales slid down.... We just kept them on because we liked them." — Bill Gaines, interviewed by Rich Hauser in Spa Fon #5, 1969. A limited edition of 150 softcover and 15 hardcover catalogues is available. 400 lots, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcover $30, deluxe hardcover with dust jacket and limitation plate $200. Ten of the 15 hardcovers are pre-ordered and the rest will go quickly, so reserve yours now. To order, contact [email protected] . Consignments welcome for PBA's December 2021 Comic Book sale. Top prices for Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age, Silver Age, original art and ephemera. Send inquiries to [email protected] .
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