#StoreStamp

BonnettsBooksBonnettsBooks
2025-01-26

I spotted this "Ghostly Weird Stories" № 122 on Bluesky. It's a classic 1954 comic with a wild and our old posted by (@)GoldenAgeComics(.)bsky(.)social. If you're over there, check it out!

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A photo of an old sci-fi/horror comic book. Ghostly Weird Stories 122, cover art by L. B. cole, published by Star Comics in 1954. The title story on the cover is called "Death Ship."

L.B. Cole was known for his use of bright, bold, and garish color combinations. This cover features a dead astronaut and crew floating in space, alongside the debris of their crashed rocketship, smashed into the surface of a heavily cratered asteroid or small moon. The crewmembers suits are shredded, bubble helmets cracked open, and their bodies are dessicated as if they've been there for a very long time.
BonnettsBooksBonnettsBooks
2025-01-01

sold used comics for 5¢ in the 1940s. Other second-hand shops did the same. Like video stores, many marked their books with a . Back then, as "Ohio's Largest Dealer In Back-Issue Magazines," a lot of comics were stamped... when they were five-cent books.

A knowledgeable /#PreCodeHorror ( / ) collector shares his thoughts on our stamp at 7 mins in this sweet collecting video, minus historic context. ✌️😉

youtu.be/rhczEiaaeN4?si=yOxd_e

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