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Title: THRILLING CRIME CASES No. 49
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Publisher:Star [Indicia: Star Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: July, 1952
Description:

Fair (1.0). Spine heavily chipped and split but still intact, corners and edges chipped and torn, creases, staples pulled but cover still attached at both staples. Cream to off-white pages. Cover: L.B. Cole. Art: George Peltz, uncredited others. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. Lowest-graded sale is a 2.5 that sold for $787 in 5/20.

Classic L.B. Cole cover featuring a toxic tart who climbs "ever higher over the bodies of those she poisoned," as the cover blurb breathlessly blurts, like "a snake in human form."

"L.B. Cole's covers consistently rank as among the weirdest, most bizarre, most eye-catching of all time. The titles alone vamp for our attention: Startling Terror – Thrilling Crime Cases – Flaming Western Romances – Ghostly Weird Tales – Jungle Thrills – Shocking Mystery Cases. And the poster-like images that fill those covers cavort like fever dreams in four-color form." – Bill Schelly, Black Light: The World of L.B. Cole. Fantagraphics: 2015, p. 7.

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