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Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series comic books 1950-1959

  • Vol. 42 #2
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 42 #2


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    Auction opens July 6
    • 1" Cumulative spine split. Water damage.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Staple rust: Slight.
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Tape on interior cover.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • Punctures through cover and first few pages.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Jan 1950. Cover by Matt Fox. Horror and supernatural stories by Arthur J. Burks "Black Harvest of Moraine", August Derleth "The Ormulu Clock", Manly Wade Wellman, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Ewen Whyte, Stanton A. Coblentz, Fredric Brown "The Last Train", Mal Bissell, Carroll John Daly "Outside of Time", Margaret St. Clair, Mildred Johnson, and Seabury Quinn. Illustrations by Vincent Napoli, Matt Fox, Lee Brown Coye, Fred Humiston, Boris Dolgov, and John Guinta. 6 3/4" x 10"; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 42 #3
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 42 #3


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Extensive.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight.

    Volume 42, Issue 3 - March, 1950. Cover by Lee Brown Coye. Novellettes include Home to Mother by Manly Wade Wellman, and the Short Stories The Corn Dance by Margaret St. Clair, Dead Man's Shoes by Day Keene, The Hungry Ghost by Emil Petaja, The Shadow of Saturn by E. Hoffmann Price, Stay with Me by Shelby Steger, Take the Z-Train by Allison V. Harding, The Tree's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Two Face by Frank Belknap Long. Also features the poem Do You Forget, Enchantress? by Clark Ashton Smith. Softcover, 100 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations) Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 42 #4
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 42 #4


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%.
    • Tape on interior of cover.
    • 2" cumulative spine split.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Table of contents page detached, but still present.

    May, 1950. Cover by Boris Dolgov. Horror and supernatural stories by Robert Bloch, Harold Lawlor, Stanton A. Coblentz, Seabury Quinn, William F. Temple, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Margaret St. Clair, Evangeline Walton, Stephen Grendon, and Malcolm M. Ferguson . 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 100 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 42 #5
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 42 #5


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    Auction opens July 6
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • 1" spine split from top of comic. Only one staple (manufacturing).
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    July 1950. Cover by Matt Fox. Horror and supernatural stories by Arthur J. Burks "Shallajai", Robert Bloch "The Weird Tailor", Eric Frank Russell, Seabury Quinn, H. Russell Wakefield, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, August Derleth "The Closing Door", Margaret St. Clair, and Cleve Cartmill. Illustrations by Charles A. Kennedy, Vincent Napoli, Matt Fox, Fred Humiston, and John N. Anderson. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 42 #6
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 42 #6


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Extensive.

    Sept 1950. Cover by Bill Wayne. Horror and supernatural stories by Isaac Asimov & James MacCreagh "Legal Rites", Manly Wade Wellman, Robert Bloch "The Shadow from the Steeple", Mildred Johnson, Harold Lawlor, August Derleth "Pott's Triumph", Carl Jacobi, Frank Owen, and Emil Petaja. Illustrations by Fred Humiston, Vincent Napoli, Charles A. Kennedy, and Boris Dolgov. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 43 #1
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 43 #1


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Paper: Cream
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    Nov 1950. Cover by Frank Kelly Freas. Horror and supernatural stories by Fritz Lieber "The Dead Man", H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, Harold Lawlor, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Margaret St. Clair, Murray Sanford, and H. S. W. Chibbet. Illustrations by Charles A. Kennedy, Lee Brown Coye, Vincent Napoli, Matt Fox, and Joseph R. Eberle. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 100 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 43 #2
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 43 #2


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Jan 1951. Cover by Charles A. Kennedy. Horror and supernatural stories by Gordon MacCreagh "The Hand of Saint Ury", David Eynon, Allen Masterson, August Derleth "Something From Out There", Margaret St. Clair, Frank Owen, Elizabeth Counselman, and Allison V. Harding. Illustrations by Charles A. Kennedy, Joseph Eberle, Vincent Napoli, John N. Anderson, Hannes Bok, and Fred Humiston. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 43 #3
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 43 #3


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back Cover Detached. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 43, Issue 3 - March 1951. Cover by Bill Wayne. This issue features A Black Solitude by H. Russell Wakefield, Dearest by H. Beam Piper, Each Man Kills by Victoria Glad, The Invaders by Benjamin Ferris, The Mississippi Saucer by Frank Belknap Long, Old Mr. Wiley by Greye La Spina, The White Feather Hex by Don Peterson, and the poems Revenant by Leah Bodine Drake, and Weirditties of Science by Hannes Bok. Softcover, 96 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations) Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 43 #4
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 43 #4


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    May 1951. Cover by Lee Brown Coye. Horror and supernatural stories by Robert Bloch "Notebook Found in a Deserted House", Manly Wade Wellman, Edmonton Hamilton, August Derleth "The Keeper of the Key", David Eynon, and Roger M. Thomas. Illustrations by Matt Fox, Vincent Napoli, M. J. Baylor, Fred Humiston, Joseph Eberle, and Jon Arfstrom. 6 3/4" x 10"; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 43 #5
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 43 #5


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • 1 1/4" Cumulative spine split.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Extensive.

    Volume 43, Issue 5 - July 1951. Cover by Charles A. Kennedy. Featuring the novella The Skull of Barnaby Shattuck by Merle Constiner, Short Stories including Flame Birds of Angala by E. Everett Evans, Chinook by Mary Elizabeth Counselman, A Knocking in the Wall by August Derleth, The Little Red Owl by Margaret St. Clairy, Date in the City Room by Talbot Johns, The Priceless Polescu by David Eynon, and Amok! by Harold Lawlor. Also features the poetry of Clarence Edwin Flynn and Dorothy Quick. Softcover, 100 pages, Text only (with B&W illustrations) Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 43 #6
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 43 #6


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Sept 1951. Cover by Lee Brown Coye. Horror and supernatural stories by H. Bedford-Jones "Gimlet Eye Gunn", Clark Ashton Smith, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Seabury Quinn, Garnett Radcliffe, Arthur J. Burks, and Anthony M. Rud. Illustrations by Fred Humiston, Herbert Freeman, Vincent Napoli, Lee Brown Coye, and Barnett. 6 3/4" x 10"; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 44 #1
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 44 #1


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Nov 1951. Cover by Frank Kelly Freas. Horror and supernatural stories by Everill Worrel "Hideaway", Robert E. Howard "Pigeons From Hell", C. J. Barr, H. P. Lovecraft "Dagon", Margaret St. Clair, Michael West, Robert Bloch "The Night they Crashed the Party", Seabury Quinn, H. C. McNeile, and L. Sprague De Camp & Fletcher Pratt "When the Night Wind Howls". Illustrations by Joseph Eberle, E. E. Cleland, Jon Arfstrom, Virgil Finlay, Lee Brown Coye, and Fred Humiston. 6 3/4" x 10"; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 44 #2
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 44 #2


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    Jan 1952. Cover by Jon Arfstrom. Horror and supernatural stories by August Derleth "The Black Island", Anthony M. Rud, Robert Bloch "Lucy Comes to Stay", E. Everett Evans, Paul Suter, Harold Lawlor, E. W. Tomlinson, and David Eynon. Illustrations by Fred Humiston, Joseph Eberle, Carl Kidwell, Boris Dolgov, and Vincent Napoli. 6 3/4" x 10"; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 44 #3
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 44 #3


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 44, Issue 3 - March, 1952. Cover by Joseph Eberle. Horror and supernatural stories by Alice Drayton Farnham "Morne Perdu", H. P. Lovecraft "The Horror at Red Hook", Garnett Radcliffe, Curtis W. Casewit, Seabury Quinn, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, August Derleth "The Place of Desolation", and William P. Barron. Illustrations by Jon Arfstrom, Joseph Eberle, Hannes Bok, Boris Dolgov, and Vincent Napoli. 6 3/4" x 10"; black and white; 100 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 44 #4
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 44 #4


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    May 1952. Cover by Virgil Finlay. Horror and supernatural stories by Thorp McClusky "The Lamia in the Penthouse", Arthur J. Burks, Susanne Pickett, G. G. Pendarves, Frederick Sanders, Garnett Radcliffe, Cyril Mand, C. F. Birdsall, August Derleth "The Night Road", Douglas Leach, and Alvin Taylor & Len J. Moffatt. Illustrations by Virgil Finlay, Jon Arfstrom, Joseph Eberle, E. E. Cleland, Fred Humiston, and Vincent Napoli. 6 3/4" x 10"; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

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  • Vol. 44 #5
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 44 #5


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    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 20%. Water damage: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Moderate.

    July 1952. Cover by Jon Arfstrom. Horror and supernatural stories by Duncan H. Munroe, Harold Lawlor, David Eynon, Harry Botsford, Suzanne Pickett, Joseph Brennan, Paul Ernst, Abrach, Emil Petaja, and Donald F. Vieweg. Illustrations by Jon Arfstrom, Andrew Brosnatch, Joseph Eberle, Vincent Napoli, Lee Brown Coye, Joseph Howard Krucher, and Virgil Finlay. 6 1/2-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 44 #7
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 44 #7


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    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Nov 1952. Cover by Anthony Di Giannurio. Horror and supernatural fiction by Alice Farnham "Black as the Night", Frank Owen, Arthur J. Burks, Dorothy Quick, Francis J. O'Neil, Curtis W. Casewit, Seabury Quinn, Hamilton Craigie. Illustrations by Andrew Brosnatch, Virgil Finlay, Joseph Eberle, Vinent Napoli, Frank Kelly Freas, Anthony Di Giannurio, Joseph Howard Krucher, Boris Dolgov, and Jon Arfstrom. 6 3/4" x 10"; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 45 #2
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 45 #2


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • 1" Cumulative spine split. Glue on spine.
    • Front cover detached 40%. Back cover detached 50%.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Coupon clipped from last page of book (does not include story). Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    May 1953. Cover by Joseph Eberle. Horror and supernatural fiction by Leah Bodine Drake "Whisper Water", Justin Dowling, David Eynon, Donald Wandrei, Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth "A Corner for Lucia", Felix Marti Ibanez, Garnett Radcliffe, Adam Hull Shirk, and Paul Ernst. Illustrations by Joseph Eberle, W. H. Silvey, Virgil Finlay, Jon Arfstrom, Charles A. Kennedy, and Anthony Di Giannurio. 6 3/4" x 10"; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 45 #3
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 45 #3


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Back cover detached 30%. Front Cover Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    July 1953. Last pulp format issue. Cover by W. H. Silvey. Horror and supernatural fiction by David Eynon, August Derleth "The House in the Valley", Richard Matheson "Slaughter Huse", Glen Malin, Lyn Venable, Joseph Payne Brennan, Paul Ernst, and Nictzin Dyalis. Illustrations by Joseph Eberle, Virgil Finlay, Vincent Napoli, Anthony Di Gianurrio, and Jon Arfstrom. 6 3/4" x 10"; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 45 #4
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 45 #4


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    • Water damage: Moderate.
    • 3/4" Cumulative spine split.

    Volume 45, Issue 4 - September 1953. First Paperback Format Issue. Cover by Jon Arfstrom. Horror and supernatural fiction by Everil Worrell, Kirk Shaw, Manly Wade Wellman, and Clark Ashton Smith. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2";128 pages, Text (with B&W spot illustrations) Cover price $0.35.

  • Vol. 45 #5
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 45 #5


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    Volume 45, Issue 5 - November 1953. Edited by Dorothy McIlwraith. Horror and Fantasy stories in the pulp style. 6.75-in. x 10-in.; 128 newsprint pages, text (with B&W illustrations). Cover price $0.35.

  • Vol. 45 #6
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 45 #6


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    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 45, Issue 5 - January 1954. Cover by W.H. Silvey. Horror and supernatural fiction by Leah Bodine Drake, Suzanne Pickett, Farfal Delano, and W.J. Suprenant. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2";128 pages, Text (with B&W spot illustrations) Cover price $0.35.

  • Vol. 46 #3
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 46 #3


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    • Water damage.
    • Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 46, Issue 3 - July 1954. Edited by Dorothy McIlwraith. Horror and Fantasy stories in the pulp style. 6.75-in. x 10-in.; 128 newsprint pages, text (with B&W illustrations). Cover price $0.35.

  • Vol. 46 #4
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 46 #4


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    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Back cover detached 10%. Staple rust: Slight.

    "The Dark Man" a novelette by Robert E. Howard.

    Volume 46, Issue 4 - September, 1954. Horror and supernatural fiction by Kirk Shaw, Suzanne Pickett, Virgil Finlay, and Robert E. Howard. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2";128 pages, Text (with B&W spot illustrations) Cover price $0.35.