Crime Mysteries 1 CGC 4.5 Bondage! Chilling Tales Transvestite Story 1952 Ribage
LOT OF 1 VINTAGE COMIC BOOK: CRIME MYSTERIES #1 CGC 4.5 With Exceptional Off-White To White Pages, From Early 1952 By Ribage Publishing Corp/Trojan Comics. This Scarce Horror/Crime/Shock Title Commenced With A Gripping Good Girl Art Cover That Appears To Show A Killer Clown Grunting Maniacally At His Shapely Bound Young Blonde Victim. Crime Mysteries Was One Of The Earliest Titles That Fused The Most Lurid Genres, To Attract Readers Looking For Crime OR Horror Comics; A Technique Which Eventually Became Common In Other Titles Such As Crime SuspenStories, Fight Against Crime, Shock Suspense, And Shocking Mystery Cases. This Issue Is Listed Out In The Overstreet Guide For The Controversial Transvestitism Story It Contains And It Further States "Crime And Terror Stories Begin", So It's Not Just Hyperbole That The Cover Blurb At Bottom Promises "Chilling Tales Of Terror"!
This Obscure First Issue PRE-DATES Many Of The Famous Horror Titles Yet It Continues To Remain A Sleeper, As Few Fans Have Learned About It, And Most Dealers Have Not Yet Handled A Copy. Whether Or Not It Qualifies As A Psycho Clown Cover Or Not Will Forever Be Debated, But That Frilly Circus-Like Piece Around His Neck Coupled With His Profile Looking Much Like A Homicidal Demented Killer-Clown Certainly Does Not Take Away From The Awesome Bondage And Headlights Depiction.
Inside It Features Exciting Salacious Tales Including "Death Is The Victor" Which Is Probably Drawn By The Underrated Moe Marcus, Followed By "Murder Backfires" By The Masterful Ken Battefield. It Also Includes "The Hidden Clue" By Pierre Charpentier, And "Death Directs" Starring Queenie Starr, Which Is Likely Drawn By Saul Rosen. While Others May Offer Repro Copies And Photocopy Editions, This Is A Bona Fide Unrestored First Print From 1952. Don't Take This Chance To Score A Well-Preserved Copy Lightly, Or You May End Up Settling For A Humiliating Replica Facsimile Instead. THIS ANTIQUE COMIC-BOOK HAD AN ORIGINAL PRICE OF TEN CENTS.
The Crime, Shock, Occult, And Mystery Themes Never Go Out Of Style! This hails from a dark, dry, pet-free, climate-controlled environment. Although it's more than seventy years old, it retains an impressive amount of luster along with bold colors, and bone-white pages inside of it. MATERIAL LIKE THIS SPOTLIGHTING ICONIC THEMES OF CINEMA, TELEVISION, POP CULTURE AND LITERATURE NEVER LOSES APPEAL.
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