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bminor:
So I sent a message to the seller of RSG asking if the center spread was a reproduction or not.
His response follows:

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New message from: justcomical (1,819Red Star)

If you read the “Condition Notes” you will find

READER/FILLER NOT GOOD Incomplete (Missing CF) SEE NUMEROUS PICTURES”

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To me this is not really clear that center spread is a reproduction.
What do you guys think?
B

Yoc:
Thanks for looking into this B.
Yeah, he could be more clear about things.
At that price it's way out of my range for sure.

-Yoc

bminor:
I contacted him on ebay and asked if he would consider scanning it for us here.

No soap.

B.

hufflepuffle:
It's interesting in the tragedy behind and involved with that whole comic book. I've been researching the history this comic book and the pulp fiction book that it was based on.

Some random tidbits before Avon Realistic Comics ran with the issue and Wertham critiqued it.


1. The cover is Canadian figure skating star Martha (Marti) Collins-Chalfen. Yes that Chalfen. The wife of the founder of the LA Lakers, Morris Chalfen (and sister of co-founder of Stars On Ice Tommy Collins). Sadly Martha and their 3 kids died tragically in a plane crash in 1958.

2. The original title of the pulp book was called House of Fury by Felice Swados and Double-Day Press. Felice Swados was a correspondent for Time magazine in the 1940's. She died young of cancer before the end of WWII in 1945. House of Fury was her first and only novel she got to publish before she died at the age of 29.

3. In the late 1940's Diversy press bought modeling pictures of Marti Collins and republished Felice Swados' story under a new name called Reform School Girl.

4. Diversy Press specifically used the name of Martha/Marti Colllins with their book cover and the Collins family sued Diversy (Avon?) and won in court.

5. Some time after that Avon Books bought/aquired/merged with Diversy Press. Avon comics used the Marti Collins photo for their new 'Realistic Comics' line.

6. After Dr. Wertham's book SOTI and congress hearings their comics publishing came to an end.

And now you know some of the rest of the story... https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/Smileys/yarex2/huh.gif

Yoc:
Nicely done HP!
A very informative read here.  Thanks so much!
:D

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