Satyr Collection
Crime SuspenStories 11
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Crime SuspenStories 11 Universal
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Grade:
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8.5
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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0919910003
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Owner:
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Satyr
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
CVA Exceptional.
This example for the 11th issue in EC Comics' classic Pre-Code Crime series, Crime SuspenStories, is a very nice one that's certified at the CGC 8.5 Very Fine+ tier. Adding to its desirability, this 8.5 also has near newsstand-fresh Off-White to White Pages.
Crime comics of the 1940s and '50s stood out for their wild action and brutal violence, but rarely for artistic merit. EC's Crime and Shock comics were certainly an exception with the groundbreaking stories and top flight artists for which the publisher is legendary. The violence was there as well, however, and the covers of Shock SuspenStories and Crime SuspenStories are some of the most outlandishly gruesome of the 50s. The strangulations, decapitations, and electrocutions seem all that more horrid portrayed with the style and realism of some of the greatest artists of the era. The stories inside are equally hardboiled. EC's writers often presented grim, updated versions of classic yarns rooted in the detective pulps and gangster films of the '30s and '40s, but generally not with the happy endings. Certainly not for the faint of heart, some of these books would push boundaries even by today's jaded standards.
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