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CGC certified: VG/Fine (5.0). Off-white to white pages. Cover: Jack Katz. Art: George Roussos, Vince Colletta?, Jerry Grandenetti, Morris Marcus?, Charles Sultan. Overstreet: "Shrunken heads cover." GPAnalysis: A 4.0 sold for $990 in July 2019; a 5.5 sold for $2450 in August 2020. PBA sold a CGC-slabbed 4.5 for $2125 in February 2022. A ghoul simmers a shrunken head in his putrid pot. Jack Katz, the artist behind this "pot head" scenario, was one of the few pre-Code artists to successfully make the transition to the Underground comix scene years later. After abandoning comics in 1955, Katz discovered the Underground scene when he moved to California in the early 1970s. Intrigued by the possibility of creating his own comics without editorial interference, he began work on The First Kingdom, a 24-issue, 768-page graphic novel that took him 12 years to complete. "One of my Top Ten Pre-Code Horror covers — maybe even Top Five." — George Suarez, Tales Too Terrible To Tell #10. NEC: 1993, p. 30. Consignments welcome for PBA's Fall 2022 Comic Book sale. Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age and Silver Age comics, original art, vintage comic-related photos and ephemera sought. Send inquiries to [email protected] . A limited edition of 100 softcover and 6 hardcover catalogues are available. 140 pages, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcovers $40, dust-jacketed hardcover with limitation plate $200. To order, contact [email protected] .