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Title: SPOOK No. 24
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Publisher:Star [Indicia: Star Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: May, 1953
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CGC certified: F/VF (7.0). Off-white pages. Cover: L.B. Cole. Art: Wally Wood (10 pages), uncredited others. Used in SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade since 2013. A 4.5 sold for $709 in April 2021, and a 5.0 sold for $600 in March 2020.

A tomb-raider finds himself face to face with a vengeful mummy on L.B. Cole's cover. Angry mummies were among the most prevalent pre-Code motifs — perhaps mummies resonated with Cold War readers due to their unassimilable foreign-ness. According to an online theorist, the "mummy's revenge" trope hinges upon Western discomfort with the consequences of imperialism: "In tale after tale, the mummy—and, more broadly, the antique Egyptian—has indeed come to stand for a mysterious but also menacing Orient, which threatens to wreak a terrible vengeance upon those guilty of imperial transgression." — Nolwenn Corriou, "The Return of the Victorian Mummy: Alex Kurtzman's The Mummy (2017), A Modern Orientalist Tale." Journals.openedition.org.

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.