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Title: SUSPENSE DETECTIVE Nos. 1 and 5 * Lot of Two Comic Books
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Publisher:Fawcett [Indicia: Fawcett Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: 1952-1953
Description:

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  #1: VG+ (4.5). A few spine ticks, nick to mid-spine, a few small nicks and crease marks to top edge of front cover, vertical center crease, tiny short tear to back cover. Cream to off-white pages. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 4.0 sold for $200 in 6/22.


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  #5: VG/Fine (5.0). Spine stress, small edge nicks, light rubs, cover bound a bit askew with diagonal strip of white to bottom edge. Cream to off-white pages. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 3.5 sold for $350 in 3/22; a 5.5 sold for $435 in 2/21.

Covers: Bernard Baily, Mike Sekowsky. Art: Bernard Baily, George Evans, Mike Sekowsky.

In Bernard Baily's "3 Small Men" (ish #1), a trio of diminutive jailbirds try to escape by crawling thru a fetid prison sewer pipe, pre-Shawshank ("The odor tore at their sensitive respiratory tissues! They coughed, felt nausea!"). Predictably, it doesn't go well, and the convicts end up trapped in a leaky, fecal, corpse-infested hell.

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