ADVENTURES INTO DARKNESS #12* 4.0 * Satan Cover * Panty

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Title: ADVENTURES INTO DARKNESS No. 12
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Publisher:Standard [Indicia: Visual Editions, Inc.]
Date Published: December, 1953
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VG (4.0). 1½" split at bottom spine, bottom staple slightly pulled, faint inconspicuous vertical creases to cover, bottom right corner of front cover slightly rounded. Good-looking mag. Off-white pages. Cover: Mike Sekowsky? Art: John Celardo, Jack Katz?, Gene Fawcette, George Roussos. Overstreet: "Lingerie panel." Overstreet claims that Alex Toth appears in this ish, but there's no Toth art. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 3.5 sold for $525 in January 2020; a 4.0 sold for $528 in November 2021.

A babe in bra and panties suffocates her hubby to appease a snake god. Also: man with hatchet embedded in head; corpse forces woman to dance to death; pretty gal's face fricasseed by fire; etc.

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