Avon. 1952. CGC certified: VG (4.0). Cream to off-white pages. Everett Raymond Kinstler cover and art. Only issue.

A murdered African witch doctor's daughter returns as a ghost. In a curious racial role reversal, her pallid ghost is indistinguishable from that of a white woman. Kinstler's artwork elevates an otherwise fairly pedestrian horror mag. After leaving comics, Kinstler had a successful career as a portraitist – his official portraits of presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan hang in the White House, and his work has been compared to that of John Singer Sargent.

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Consignments welcome for PBA's Spring 2021 Comic Book sale. Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age and Silver Age comics, original art and ephemera sought. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com or call 415-989-2665