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Title: HAUNT OF FEAR No. 18
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Publisher:EC [Indicia: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.]
Date Published: March-April, 1953
Description: CGC certified: Fine (6.0). Off-white to white pages. Grader notes: Light spine stress lines to cover; moderate creasing to cover; very light soiling on cover.

CGC Census: 124 graded copies (120 Universal, 1 Signature, 3 Restored).

GPAnalysis: A 6.0 sold for $899 in 1/23; a 6.5 sold for $1260 in 6/23.

Credits: Cover: Graham Ingels. Scripts: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, and Ray Bradbury. Art: Graham Ingels, George Evans, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis. Overstreet: "Old Witch cover."Season of the Witch: Graham Ingels's grotesqueries were embraced by young Fan-Addicts with a fervor difficult to imagine today. Before rock 'n' roll gave rebellious teens a sound to rally around, EC's transgressive vibe was a beacon and a lifeline to disaffected kids. As David Hadju observed in The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, "Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry added the soundtrack to a scene created in comic books."

"Other than early rock and roll, comics were the only cultural form of the period largely created by the young for those only slightly younger. In them, uncensored, can be detected the dismantling voice of a generation that had seen in the world war horrors beyond measure." – Tom Englehardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation. BasicBooks: 1995, p. 138.______________________________________________________________

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