Lot 229
Weird Trips Magazine #1 & #2 Recalled Ed Gein Cover by William Stout (Kitchen Sink, 1974-1978)
Northern Collection: From The Vault | CB26004
Auction: 6 November, 12:00 GMT
Description
Weird Trips Magazine #1 & #2 Recalled Ed Gein Cover by William Stout (Kitchen Sink, 1974-1978).
This lot features Weird Trips Magazine #1 and retitled, Weird Trips #2. Issue #2 numbering continues from issue #1. Weird Trips Magazine #1 features a front cover by Denis Kitchen and a surrealist back cover by R. D. Rosen and an unnamed collaborator. And now for another of this cataloguers key item… Weird Trip #2. The controversial, banned and then recalled Ed Gein cover by William Stout. Stout delivers a eery and realised depiction of infamous cannibal and serial murder Ed Gein, who has inspired some of the most renowned horror film villains; as stated on the cover, Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and later Silence of the Lambs.
Prints: Both are 1st prints.
Grades: #1: circular mark on cover where previous price label was, dent across top of cover and spine lines that break colour, some colour fade and dinks with brown to tanned pages. FN/VF, 7.0. #2: spot of colour fade near top staple, dent to bottom left corner (through comic), damage to three corners, stains to back cover and off-white to white pages. VF+, 8.5.
