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HAUNT OF FEAR No. 24 Author: Place: Publisher: Date: Description: EC (Indicia: "Fables Publishing Co."). March-April, 1954. VG- (3.5). Nice solid copy chiefly marred by spine stress and small color rubs to top edge of front cover. No chips or tears. Off-white pages, heady newsprint waft. Ownership rubberstamps to margin of inside front cover and first page, with name blacked out with Sharpie. Cover by Graham Ingels Scripts by Carl Wessler and Otto Binder. Art by Graham Ingels Jack Davis George Evans and Jack Kamen Sexy house ad by Jack Davis featuring a coed covering her ample bosom with a Panic mag ("I was uplifted from the depths of despair by this revealing experience! I laughed so hard I almost bust the binding!") Used in the 1954 Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. Graham Ingels' cover depicts a wife confronting a protoplasmic blob that was once her drunken hillbilly husband. The matching story, also by Ingels, overflows with the backwoods degeneracy that was Ingels' stock in trade. Fed up with beatings and implied spousal rape ("C'mere, gal! Aww... Don't worry! I ain't gonna beat yuh... this time..."), a hillbilly gal and her bootlegging beau drown the abusive hubby in hootch and dissolve his corpse in lye. The resulting slurry comes to life and invades the wife's bathtub, engulfing her naked body "in its burning sticky embrace." It's a nauseating yarn full of unsavory innuendos; yet, somehow, the Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency chose to ignore this story and instead grilled Bill Gaines about George Evans' comparatively tame vampire-vs-werewolf tale, "The Secret." A limited edition of 100 softcover and 15 hardcover catalogues are available. Over 200 pages, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcovers $40, dust-jacketed hardcover with limitation plate $200. To order, contact ivan@pbagalleries.com or visit: https://www.pbagalleries.com/content/comics/. R. Crumb says, "I found [PBA's catalogue] so interesting that I am saving it for the texts that accompany the comics which were put up for auction. This is some of the best commentary I’ve yet seen on the quality of the content of comic books. I especially enjoyed the reviews of the post-war horror comics. Great. Priceless." Consignments welcome for PBA's Spring 2021 Comic Book sale. Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age and Silver Age comics, original art and ephemera sought. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com. Lot Amendments Condition: Item number: 316956