BEWARE #6 * CGC 2.5 * SOTI * JACK DAVIS SWIPE Cover

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Title: BEWARE No. 6
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Publisher:Trojan [Indicia: Trojan Magazines, Inc.]
Date Published: November, 1953
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CGC certified: Good+ (2.5). Off-white to white pages. Cover: Myron Fass? Art: Myron Fass, Vince Napoli?, John Belfi, Henry Kiefer. Used in SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT. GPAnalysis: A 2.5 copy sold for $375 in June 2020.

"Children are first shocked and then desensitized by all this brutality." — Dr. Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent.

The source of Dr. Wertham's umbrage is a panel depicting murder and mutilation, although EC fans are likelier to be outraged by the blatant cover swipe from Jack Davis's splash page for Vault of Horror #26. The cover, possibly by Myron Fass, actually features two swipes for the price of one: the corpse is pure Davis, but the screaming gal is cribbed from Ross Andru's cover to Adventures into Darkness #10. Fass would go on to become one of the sleaziest magazine publishers of the 1970s, peddling a plethora of drecky mags in the worst possible taste, before sinking into paranoia and self-imposed isolation.

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