*Miscellaneous 1940-1959: Avon’s Strange Worlds is a keenly sought series, and one of the more hotly pursued issues is #5, with its winning combination of voluptuous, diaphanously clad lady in chains, slavering four-armed monster, and – oh, yes, the hero’s somewhere there in the background too! While the cover scene does not, of course, appear inside, the lead story is just as promising, pitting ‘Kenton of the Star Patrol’ against Lura, Queen of the Space Sirens, aided by plucky gal reporter Maeve Malloy, who composes her headlines while taking long, lingering showers. As you do. This Wally Wood drawn story is a bit of a cult item, and backed up by ‘The End of His Service!’, ‘Shining Sands of Death!’, and ‘The Abduction of Earth!’, for a clutch of retrofuturistic visions of yesterday’s tomorrows. This is a GD copy; light to moderate edge & spine wear, off lower staple, but sound and clean with no infringement on the glorious cover, probably our favourite of all the Atomic Sci-Fi covers.
PICTURED: STRANGE WORLDS #5 GD £175 SOLD