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Avon’s Eerie #2 is an interesting Pre-Code comedian e-book from a historic writer that options cowl and art work by the legendary Wally Wood.
The Pre-Code Horror interval of Fifties comics is full of bizarre and underappreciated gems. While we have just lately mentioned how the ACG sequence Adventures into the Unknown is taken into account the primary ongoing horror title, the primary subject of that sequence isn’t thought-about the primary horror comedian e-book. That distinction belongs to Eerie #1 from writer Avon in 1947. Like many Avon titles of the interval, Eerie (to not be confused with the Eerie of Warren Publishing journal fame) didn’t initially make it previous subject #1, however Avon resurrected the title in 1952 with the comedian e-book horror market booming. Eerie #2 has a stand-out cowl and content material from the legendary Wally Wood, and there is an Eerie #2 (Avon, 1951) CGC GD+ 2.5 Off-white pages up for public sale in the 2023 July 13 – 14 Pre-Code Horror & Crime Comics Showcase Auction #40227 at Heritage Auctions.
Eerie’s writer Avon has a wierd historical past of its personal. The writer started life in 1878 as J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, a writer of dime novel materials in numerous codecs together with paperback-like Thick Books. Distributor American News Co. purchased the writer, by then partly owned by Joseph Meyers and Edna Meyers Williams, and renamed it Avon Publications. Avon revealed over 100 comedian titles (in comedian e-book format) from 1945 to 1956, most extraordinarily short-lived. Avon Books additionally sporadically revealed paperback format collections of newspaper comics and comparable materials all through that interval and continued to take action via the mid-Nineteen Nineties. The firm was acquired by Hearst in 1959 and is at the moment a romance imprint of HarperCollins, the place it has been lively via at the very least 2019.
The 1952 relaunch of Eerie lasted for 17 points, and Eerie #2 is one of one of the best of the bunch. The lead story The Thing from the Sea! by Wood, Joe Orlando, and Sid Check, has subsequently appeared in a quantity of Pre-Code Horror comedian collections. As for Wood’s cowl, the “story behind the cover” textual content story in this subject explains that the lady proven right here is the soul of an executed assassin being ushered all the way down to Hell for everlasting damnation. A Pre-Code Horror traditional with a canopy by the legendary Wally Wood, there’s an Eerie #2 (Avon, 1951) CGC GD+ 2.5 Off-white pages up for public sale in the 2023 July 13 – 14 Pre-Code Horror & Crime Comics Showcase Auction #40227 at Heritage Auctions.
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