well have sex as a science fabrication artist of covers for pulp & paperbacks , Kelly Freas did a grand Pre - Code Horror cover for Witchcraft # 5
Freas painted thisWitchcraft # 5cover in 1952 and followed up with a masking for Fiction House’sThe First Christmasa few month later . His subsequent work forMad Magazinewas the only nontextual matter he did for comics for nearly 15 years ( again , per GCD datum ) until his covers for Marvel Comics magazine , Warren Publishing magazine publisher , andNational Lampoonbeginning in the 1970s . TheWitchcraft # 5cover may be loosely based on the feature level for this issue , which is about a witch kidnapping a young girl and gift her over to the devil . age later , she devolve to the world as an grownup and finds making love — but ca n’t quite escape her haunted past .
For all of those screening over an realised and prolific career , theWitchcraft # 5cover stands out as unique among his comics work , and there ’s a copy ofWitchcraft # 5(Avon , 1953 ) CGC FN- 5.5 Off - white pagesup for vendue in the2023 July 13 – 14 Pre - Code Horror & Crime Comics Showcase Auction # 40227at Heritage Auctions .
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