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Title: WANTED COMICS No. 50
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Publisher:Orbit [Indicia: Orbit Publications Inc.]
Date Published: October, 1952
Description: CGC certified: Fine+ (6.5). White pages. Grader notes: Foxing front cover; ink bleed interior cover; creasing to cover; multiple spine stress lines breaks color.

GPAnalysis: A 6.5 sold for $840 in 7/23.

Credits: Cover: John Buscema. Scripts: Bill Woolfolk. Art: John Buscema, Mort Leav?, Harry Anderson.Dead Man Balking: In John Buscema's "Make Way for Murder," a man whose skin is ravaged by quicklime bemoans his fate: "Good Lord! ...NO! The doctors can patch me up a little, maybe! But I'm ruined, disfigured for life!" Buscema drew the guy as a standard-issue pre-Code walking corpse, complete with exposed skull and ribcage, but due to Wanted's "true crime" pretense, he's written as a normal guy dealing with a really bad skin condition. ______________________________________________________________

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