ADVENTURES INTO TERROR #14 * CGC 3.5 * Lobster Man
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Title: ADVENTURES INTO TERROR No. 14
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Publisher:Atlas [Indicia: Current Detective Stories, Inc.]
Date Published: Winter, 1952
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CGC certified: VG- (3.5). Off-white to white pages. Cover: Sol Brodsky? Story and art: Stan Lee, Tony DiPreta, Gene Colan, George Tuska, Dick Ayres. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 2.0 sold for $125 in June 2020.
Dick Ayres' story, "They're Driving Me Crazy!," explores the same paranoid territory as the "Matrix" movies. In the story, Earth's population is enslaved by extradimensional beings that control everyone's thoughts, trapping them in a false reality.
Reports of North Korean brainwashing experiments on captive Yankee soldiers weighed heavily on midcentury Americans' minds, and this was inevitably reflected in the popular culture of the day, from comic books to movies like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." In "The Horror! The Horror! Comics the Government Didn't Want You to Read!," Jim Trombetta likens American victims of North Korean brainwashing tactics to the living dead who populated horror comics: "Korea in the fifties was the homeland of two mythic varieties of zombie: the clinically dead... and the living who are nevertheless dead inside. The latter zombie is an organism whose self has been extinguished — an empty vessel that can be filled with anything."
'50s fears of a brainwashed citizenry may have been related to the era's widespread concerns about juvenile delinquency. Both sets of fears were rooted in concerns about a weakening of the national will — "A new failure in the childhood and adolescent training of our young men — a new softness," as a U.S. Army spokesman put it. "This debate reflected confusion over the location of the real enemy. Was the enemy out there, or was it some aspect of the American self?" — Tom Englehardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation. Basic: 1995, p. 65.
A limited edition of 150 softcover and 15 hardcover catalogues is available. 400 lots, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcover $30, deluxe hardcover with dust jacket and limitation plate $200. Ten of the 15 hardcovers are pre-ordered and the rest will go quickly, so reserve yours now. To order, contact ivan@pbagalleries.com.
Consignments welcome for PBA's December 2021 Comic Book sale. Top prices for Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age, Silver Age, original art and ephemera. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com.
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Author:
Title: ADVENTURES INTO TERROR No. 14
Place Published:
Publisher:Atlas [Indicia: Current Detective Stories, Inc.]
Date Published: Winter, 1952
Description:
CGC certified: VG- (3.5). Off-white to white pages. Cover: Sol Brodsky? Story and art: Stan Lee, Tony DiPreta, Gene Colan, George Tuska, Dick Ayres. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 2.0 sold for $125 in June 2020.
Dick Ayres' story, "They're Driving Me Crazy!," explores the same paranoid territory as the "Matrix" movies. In the story, Earth's population is enslaved by extradimensional beings that control everyone's thoughts, trapping them in a false reality.
Reports of North Korean brainwashing experiments on captive Yankee soldiers weighed heavily on midcentury Americans' minds, and this was inevitably reflected in the popular culture of the day, from comic books to movies like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." In "The Horror! The Horror! Comics the Government Didn't Want You to Read!," Jim Trombetta likens American victims of North Korean brainwashing tactics to the living dead who populated horror comics: "Korea in the fifties was the homeland of two mythic varieties of zombie: the clinically dead... and the living who are nevertheless dead inside. The latter zombie is an organism whose self has been extinguished — an empty vessel that can be filled with anything."
'50s fears of a brainwashed citizenry may have been related to the era's widespread concerns about juvenile delinquency. Both sets of fears were rooted in concerns about a weakening of the national will — "A new failure in the childhood and adolescent training of our young men — a new softness," as a U.S. Army spokesman put it. "This debate reflected confusion over the location of the real enemy. Was the enemy out there, or was it some aspect of the American self?" — Tom Englehardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation. Basic: 1995, p. 65.
A limited edition of 150 softcover and 15 hardcover catalogues is available. 400 lots, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcover $30, deluxe hardcover with dust jacket and limitation plate $200. Ten of the 15 hardcovers are pre-ordered and the rest will go quickly, so reserve yours now. To order, contact ivan@pbagalleries.com.
Consignments welcome for PBA's December 2021 Comic Book sale. Top prices for Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age, Silver Age, original art and ephemera. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com.
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