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Title: SHOCKING MYSTERY CASES No. 57
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Publisher:Star [Indicia: Star Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: February, 1954
Description: VG+ (4.5). Spine ticks, spine ends rubbed, subscription crease, a few very small and shallow chips to back cover. Off-white pages.

Credits: Cover: L.B. Cole. Art: George Peltz, uncredited others.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade, few reported sales in any grade. Most recent result is a 6.5 that sold for $280 in 5/21.Cole's Rising Star: L.B. Cole's cover depicts a violent jailbreak, with cops shooting crazed convicts like fish in a barrel. Shocking Mystery Cases was part of Cole's expanded line of Star brand comic mags, designed to capitalize on the burgeoning crime and horror comics trend: "In 1952 Cole added two more horror titles. Startling Terror Tales began with a May cover date, and Shocking Mystery Cases made the scene four months later." – Bill Schelly, Black Light: The World of L.B. Cole. Fantagraphics: 2015, p. 29.______________________________________________________________

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