ASTONISHING #s 13, 14 & 19 * Lot of 3 Atlas Comics

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Title: ASTONISHING Nos. 13, 14, 19 * Lot of Three Comics
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Publisher:Atlas [Indicia: 20th Century Comic Corp.]
Date Published: 1952
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#13: Fair/Good (1.5). Spine roll, cover loose at top staple, bottom staple pulled, light staple rust, center crease, dogeared tear at top spine, small edge chips and tears, soiling to back cover. Cream to off-white pages.

#14: G/VG (3.0). Spine roll, stress creases to spine, dogeared crease to bottom right corner of front cover, edgewear, abrasions and wrinkling to back cover, touch of rust to bottom staple. Cream to off-white pages. Clean and press to 3.5-4.0?

#19: Good+ (2.5). Spine roll, transverse tears to spine affecting covers and pages, staple rust, cover detached at bottom staple with matching tear to spine of cover. Off-white pages.

Covers and art by Bill Everett, Mike Sekowsky, Bernie Krigstein, Cal Massey, Vic Carrabotta, Ogden Whitney, Sol Brodsky?, Dick Ayres, Tony DiPreta, others.

Suicide panel (man busts cap in own dome); necromancy; walking corpse kills Stalin; evil cats destroy mankind; man dissolved alive in acid; Charles Atlas turns scarecrows into studs; two nice Krigstein stories, not quite on par with his EC stuff but still mighty fine.

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