Beschreibung:

VG+ (4.5). Mild spine stress, a few small nicks to top edge of front and back covers, no chips, no tears or creases, some foxing to back cover along spine, a few fox marks to margin of 1st page, rubberstamped distributor's mark to billowing curtain on right of front cover ("MAY 21 EN"). Off-white to white pages. A clean, attractive copy with potential to slab at 5.0. Cover: Grand Comics Database credits Ken Bald, although a case could be made for Ogden Whitney's involvement. Art: Paul Gustavson, Harry Lazarus, John Rosenberger, Sheldon Moldoff Ed Good, Ken Landau. GPAnalysis: A 4.0 sold for $312 in January 2021 and a 4.5 sold for $434 in January 2022. Ken Bald's cover, featuring a creepy peeping Tom, illustrates Ken Landau's "Yawning Graves." Yawning readers were a bigger concern for ACG: the company's tepid horror stories couldn't keep up as EC, Gillmor, Harvey and others pushed the boundaries of shock and gore. The Clutching Hand #1 was the company's "stab" at hardcore horror — unfortunately, sales-wise, it was dead on arrival. "This one-shot title was ACG's attempt to test the waters for more extreme horror comics. ACG's titles were quite successful but very tame. This experimental issue does not bear the ACG logo and, believe you me, it went in for horror overkill in a big way! I guess the experiment was a dud: a second issue never appeared." — George Suarez, Tales Too Terrible To Tell #2. NEC: 1991, p. 23. 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] .