POP TEEN-AGERS #5 * CGC 6.5 * L.B. COLE * Sexed-Up

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Title: POPULAR TEEN-AGERS No. 5
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Publisher:Star [Indicia: Star Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: September, 1950
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CGC certified: Fine+ (6.5). Off-white to white pages. Cover: L.B. Cole. Art: Ray Gill, Manny Stallman, unknown others. GPAnalysis: Three sales in the past 12 years in any grade. Most recent result: $192 for 3.0 copy, March 2021.

Flesh for fantasy: Teen beach bums bypass flesh and blood beauties to ogle billboard babes. L.B. Cole's cover offers a funhouse version of Dr. Wertham's concerns about the Pied Piper effect of mass media, suggesting that even something as fundamental as human sexual response can be short-circuited by media manipulation.

"Comic books stimulate children sexually... In comic books over and over again, in pictures and text and in the advertisements as well, attention is drawn to sexual characteristics and to sexual actions.... That is a sexual arousal which amounts to seduction." — Dr. Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent. Rinehart: 1954, p. 175.

A limited edition of 150 softcover and 15 hardcover catalogues is available. 400 lots, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcover $30, deluxe hardcover with dust jacket and limitation plate $200. Ten of the 15 hardcovers are pre-ordered and the rest will go quickly, so reserve yours now. To order, contact ivan@pbagalleries.com.

Consignments welcome for PBA's December 2021 Comic Book sale. Top prices for Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age, Silver Age, original art and ephemera. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com.
Condition Report: **UPDATE*The "Accepted Publications" bullet in the top left corner of the cover indicates that this is a 1958 reprint edition**