ADVENTURES INTO DARKNESS #7 * 4.5 * Jack KATZ Craziness

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Title: ADVENTURES INTO DARKNESS No. 7
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Publisher:Standard [Indicia: Visual Editions, Inc.]
Date Published: December, 1952
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VG (4.0). Spine stress, ¼" tear to bottom edge of back cover. RESTORED: 1½" sealed tear to top right edge of front cover. Off-white pages. Cover: Jack Katz. Art: Mike Sekowsky, Nick Cardy, Art Saaf, Jack Katz, Charles Miller. GPAnalysis: No Purple Label sales. A Blue Label 4.0 sold for $630 in February 2021.

In Jack Katz's "Bride of Death," a mad scientist brings a dead lady back to life in order to sexually molest her. She struggles with the brute and he accidentally kills her again. When he tries to resurrect her a second time, her corpse strangles him to death in a steely embrace due to rigor mortis — a plot twist that Standard used again in The Unseen #15's "Date with a Corpse" (July 1954). Astute readers will observe that Standard buried this unsavory story in the middle of the mag, far from the first-page blurb intended to reassure concerned parents: "LOOK FOR THIS BANNER WHEN YOU BUY A COMIC MAGAZINE / IT IS YOUR GUARANTEE OF WHOLESOME READING."

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