BRENDA STARR #4 * 2.0 * SEDUCTION of the INNOCENT * Under the KNIFE
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Title: BRENDA STARR No. 4
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Publisher:Superior [Indicia: Superior Comics Limited]
Date Published: September, 1948
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Good (2.0). 1" split at bottom spine, spine a bit stressed and rolled, top corners of covers and pages creased, a few small edge nicks, cover loose at bottom staple, residue of some sort to top of front cover, 1/2" marginal tears to several pages, pencil marks to the "B" and "A" in "BRENDA," penciled reseller's price to back cover ("2.00"). Light tan pages. Cover: Uncredited by Grand Comics Database, but it's clearly by Jack Kamen, as Overstreet confirms. Art: Al Feldstein?, uncredited others. Used in SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. Lowest result is a 3.5 that sold for $463 in March 2022.
Doc Wertham ragged on this mag for teasing readers with a cover scene promising surgical sadism but failing to deliver the goods. "The cover shows a scene that does not occur at all in the strip... A young woman with prominent breasts and nude legs is lying on a cot. Her lips are rouged, her hair falls loosely in masses over her bare shoulders and her face has a coquettish expression. This is supposed to be the scene of a surgical operation! There are two white-gowned and white-capped men beside her, one about to put a chloroform mask over her face, the other holding scissors in his right hand and in his left a knife... The whole scene has nothing to do with medicine and is unmistakably sadistic." — Fredric Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent. Rinehart & Co.: 1954, p. 21.
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Consignments welcome for PBA's Fall 2022 Comic Book sale. Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age and Silver Age comics, original art, vintage comic-related photos and ephemera sought. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com.
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