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STRANGE WORLDS No. 5 Publisher: Avon [Indicia: Avon Periodicals, Inc.] Date Published: September, 1951 Description: CGC certified: VG/Fine (5.0). Off-white to white pages. Cover: Wally Wood. Art: Wally Wood (2 stories, one with assistance from Joe Orlando), Rafael Astarita, Charles Sultan, George Tuska. GPAnalysis: A 5.0 sold for $780 in 11/19. More recently, a 4.5 sold for $1200 in 10/22 and a 5.5 sold for $1140 in 3/21. An alien threatens a perfect Wally Wood brunette, its four grabby hands and giant, leering eyeballs an objective correlative for uncouth horny readers. Sexy comic book girls have been onanistic aids for generations of readers, ask any nerd. As Dr. Wertham warned in a 1955 issue of the Saturday Review of Literature, smutty comic books stimulated young readers "without leaving any other outlet except deviate daydreaming, masturbation, or delinquency." Enjoying the Sale? Order a fully-illustrated softcover catalogue for 30 bucks. Only about 100 copies were printed and they're going fast. To reserve a copy, contact PBA's Director of Comics: ivan@pbagalleries.com. Consign to PBA Galleries. Our comic sales average a 98% sell-through rate, our prices realized are top-of-the-market, and our research-intensive catalogues are the best in the business. Seeking Silver Age Marvel, Golden Age superheroes, and pre-Code horror. Contact ivan@pbagalleries.com. Item#: 347917 Headline: STRANGE WORLDS #5 * 5.0 * Wally WOOD * Joe ORLANDO * Doing the NASA-ty