BEWARE #11 * 2.0 * FASS Track to the Loony Bin * Pre-Code MONSTER MASH

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Title: BEWARE No. 11
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Publisher:Trojan [Indicia: Trojan Magazines, Inc.]
Date Published: September, 1954
Description: Good (2.0). Spine stress, small chips to bottom spine and bottm right corner of front cover, some tears and creases, five TAPE REPAIRS up to 1.5", staples pulled, handling wear, color rubs near 2nd "E" in "BEWARE". Cream pages.

Credits: Cover: Myron Fass. Art: Art Gates, Marty Elkin?, Leo Morey, Jay Disbrow.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 3.0 sold for $325 in 10/22; PBA sold a raw 3.5 for $425 in 2/22.Fass Track to the Bughouse: Myron Fass caricatured himself on this mag's cover as a horror comics artist menaced by terrors conjured from his own imagination. Fass is said to have been a crude, exploitative and paranoid character, who eventually started carrying a gat everywhere he went, even to the office, fearful of unseen enemies. Fass's depiction of himself as a frenzied victim of his own fancies – "NO! NO! You are not real! I only drew you from my imagination. Go away!" – hints at the demons that would eventually overwhelm his psyche.

Under the covers, there's a weird yarn in which a mad scientist brews a reanimating serum from the blood of murdered hoboes: "A man uses the blood and fluids of bums to make an embalming solution that makes corpses seem alive and in the peak of health." – William Schoell, The Horror Comics: Fiends, Freaks and Fantastic Creatures, 1940s-1980s. McFarland: 2014, p. 133.______________________________________________________________

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