The BEYOND #18 * 4.0 * Gene COLAN * Phoenix of FEAR

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Title: The BEYOND No. 18
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Publisher:Ace [Indicia: Unity Publishing Corp.]
Date Published: January, 1953
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VG (4.0). Spine stress, bottom staple rusty and slightly pulled, tiny chip to bottom right corner of front cover, a few small soil spots to back cover, soil spots to several pages, 4" strip torn from right margin of one page, barely affecting panels. Cream pages, light tan edges. Professionally leaned and pressed by Comics In A Flash. Cover: Gene Colan. Art: Lin Streeter, Sy Grudko, Jim McLaughlin, uncredited others. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 5.0 sold for $149 in January 2020.

Fiery phoenix gives murderess "the bird"; ghostwriter takes job writing newspaper features for Death himself; severed hand gouges out a guy's eyeballs ("My eyes! It's gouged out my eyes!"); gaggle of horny corpses tries to mate with terrified woman; etc.

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