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Like a couple of different Golden Age publishers, Fox Characteristic Syndicate titles generally verged into horror nicely earlier than the late-Forties period which is mostly thought-about to mark the start of the Pre-Code Horror period. Such points, significantly ones with good horror covers, can have crossover attraction amongst each Pre-Code Horror and superhero collectors. Thriller Males Comics #30 with its spectacular Blue Beetle horror cowl by the underappreciated Roland Patenaude is one such Fox Characteristic Syndicate comedian that has been on the rise amongst collectors in latest occasions — when you can handle to seek out one. However there is a Thriller Males Comics #30 (Fox, 1942) CGC VG+ 4.5 Off-white to white pages among the many full run of 31 problems with the Thriller Males Comics title up for public sale within the 2022 December 1 Fox Comics Showcase Public sale #40214 at Heritage Auctions.
Patenaude’s cowl for this challenge is for the characteristic story, “The Vacation of Demise”, which begins with a skeletal personification of Demise and his acolytes (as depicted on the quilt) rising up from the underworld to terrify the residents of a selected block within the metropolis. After loads of motion which incorporates Blue Beetle and the personification of Demise participating in a fistfight, Blue Beetle descends into this underworld himself to resolve this seemingly supernatural thriller. A cautious have a look at Patenaude’s cowl reveals a clue as to what’s actually occurring on this story.
A backup story that includes the short-lived Fox character the Wraith has much more horrific overtones than that Blue Beetle story. Clearly impressed by DC Comics’ the Spectre, the Wraith was the spirit of a useless policeman who appeared solely in Thriller Males Comics #27-31. On this challenge, criminals rob the grave the place the Wraith’s physique was buried to make use of it in a scheme to frighten their supposed goal utilizing a mechanical methodology of reanimating his corpse. The Wraith briefly repossesses his personal useless physique to place a cease to this horrible plan.
Like many Fox Characteristic Syndicate comedian books of this era, CGC census numbers for Thriller Males Comics #30 are tiny, with solely 5 unrestored listings within the census as of this writing. What’s extra, it seems that no copies have traded palms at public public sale previously 5 years, and the CGC 9.4 Edgar Church / Mile Excessive copy may be the one higher-graded copy to commerce palms at public public sale previously 20 years. That helps clarify the curiosity on this Thriller Males Comics #30 (Fox, 1942) CGC VG+ 4.5 Off-white to white pages copy among the many full run of 31 problems with the Thriller Males Comics title up for public sale within the 2022 December 1 Fox Comics Showcase Public sale #40214 at Heritage Auctions. In case you’ve by no means bid at Heritage Auctions earlier than, you will get additional data, you possibly can try their FAQ on the bidding course of and associated issues.
Thriller Males Comics #30 (Fox, 1942) CGC VG+ 4.5 Off-white to white pages. One in every of 5 unrestored copies licensed by CGC up to now. One in every of solely three unrestored copies we have encountered, and the primary we have seen in nearly 5 years. Overstreet 2022 VG 4.0 worth = $322. CGC census 11/22: 2 in 4.5, 1 larger.
CGC Grader Notes:
stain left prime of again cowl
two items of tape inside cowl
foxing to cowl
gentle tears to cowl
average creasing to cowl
average scuff inside entrance cowl
small backbone break up backside of backboneView the certification for CGC Certification ID 2709418001.
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