Escape from Devil’s Island #1 — FR 1.0
Avon (1952) • Everett Kinstler cover • Pre-Code prison / Devil’s Island one-shot
Convicts, whips, and scarred backs under a screaming yellow logo — this is Avon doing full pre-code exploitation. Everett Kinstler stages the whole thing like a pulp paperback: brutal guard in the foreground, shackled prisoners on the posts, and desperate men making a break for it in the corner.
Inside, Norman Nodel and Vince Alascia follow Pierre Gavril through a chain-gang nightmare in four linked chapters (“The Isles of the Living Dead,” “Waters of Terror,” “Road to Death,” and “Death Unchained”), plus a two-page text feature on the real Devil’s Island. It’s a tight, nasty little penal-colony epic and a great example of early-’50s adventure fare that later got swiped into IW/Super reprints.
Maj. Picto’s Grading Notes (1.0 / FR)
Low-grade but complete reading copy. Both front and back covers are fully detached from the interior. Front cover shows heavy edge wear with multiple creases, stress lines, and a clipped lower-right corner removing a small triangular piece. Spine area is splitting and small pieces out. Back cover is toned with general soiling, edge wear, and small chips. Interior pages are heavily tanned but still flexible enough to read, with minor edge tears and handling wear; staples show age but hold the interior together. Presents as a classic pre-code beater you can actually read without worrying about a higher-grade price tag.
Escape from Devil’s Island #1 — FR 1.0
Avon (1952) • Everett Kinstler cover • Pre-Code prison / Devil’s Island one-shot
Convicts, whips, and scarred backs under a screaming yellow logo — this is Avon doing full pre-code exploitation. Everett Kinstler stages the whole thing like a pulp paperback: brutal guard in the foreground, shackled prisoners on the posts, and desperate men making a break for it in the corner.
Inside, Norman Nodel and Vince Alascia follow Pierre Gavril through a chain-gang nightmare in four linked chapters (“The Isles of the Living Dead,” “Waters of Terror,” “Road to Death,” and “Death Unchained”), plus a two-page text feature on the real Devil’s Island. It’s a tight, nasty little penal-colony epic and a great example of early-’50s adventure fare that later got swiped into IW/Super reprints.
Maj. Picto’s Grading Notes (1.0 / FR)
Low-grade but complete reading copy. Both front and back covers are fully detached from the interior. Front cover shows heavy edge wear with multiple creases, stress lines, and a clipped lower-right corner removing a small triangular piece. Spine area is splitting and small pieces out. Back cover is toned with general soiling, edge wear, and small chips. Interior pages are heavily tanned but still flexible enough to read, with minor edge tears and handling wear; staples show age but hold the interior together. Presents as a classic pre-code beater you can actually read without worrying about a higher-grade price tag.
