BEWARE #13 * 3.5 * Rudy PALAIS * Crammed with Mystery

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Title: BEWARE No. 13
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Publisher:Trojan [Indicia: Trojan Magazines, Inc.]
Date Published: January, 1955
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VG- (3.5). Spine stress, staples pulled, creasing, edgewear, a few short tears, tiny chip to bottom spine. Cream to off-white pages. Professionally cleaned and pressed by Comics In A Flash. Cover: Uncredited. Art: Art Gates, Ed Moritz, Rudy Palais, Henry Kiefer. GPAnalysis: No recorded sales in this grade. A 4.0 sold for $85 in 2014, and a 4.5 sold for $265 in February 2021.

Connivers, cuckolds, bog beasts, suicide, man morphs into an old hag, etc. So-so stuff from hack-house Trojan, who took over the Beware title and numbering after the original series, published by Youthful, petered out. "Trojan comics came out with Beware in 1953, continuing it after Youthful publishers dropped the series... The comic had some incredibly crude art." — William Schoell, The Horror Comics: Fiends, Freaks and Fantastic Creatures, 1940s-1980s. McFarland and Co.: 2014, pp. 132-133.

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