ASTONISHING #14 * CGC 6.0 * Krigstein Caper * Fatal Family Feud * Dissolved Dad

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Title: ASTONISHING No. 14
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Publisher:Atlas [Indicia: 20th Century Comic Corp.]
Date Published: June, 1952
Description: CGC certified: Fine (6.0). Off-white to white pages. Grader notes: Light creasing to cover; moderate spine stress lines to cover; very light cover tanning. Note: Scuffs and marks to slab.

GPAnalysis: A 6.0 sold for $500 in 3/23; a 6.5 sold for $312 in 1/24.

Credits: Cover: Sol Brodsky? Christopher Rule? Scripts: Carl Wessler and Don Rico. Art: Bernie Krigstein, Cal Massey, Ed Smalle, Dick Ayers, Tony DiPreta.Fatal Family Feud: Busty blonde babe (by Brodsky?) bugs-out bigtime as an unlucky goon tumbles to his doom; Krigstein caper features a peck of peevish hillbillies who provoke each other 'til tempers explode in an orgy of blood; body-swapping perv borrows another bloke's bod in order to bang his bombshell wife; orphan dissolves her abusive foster dad in a tub of acid.______________________________________________________________

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