BEWARE TERROR TALES #2 * 4.5 * Bernard BAILY Cover *

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Title: BEWARE! TERROR TALES No. 2
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Publisher:Fawcett [Indicia: Fawcett Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: July, 1952
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VG+ (4.5). Moderate spine stress, light edge wear, cover slightly miscut. White to off-white pages. Cover: Bernard Baily. Scripts: Otto Binder (as Eando Binder), uncredited others. Art: Bob Powell, Mike Sekowsky, Ross Andru. GPAnalysis: A 4.5 sold for $114 in May 2021.

A writer's arms are broken by someone "trying to prevent [him] from writing the last chapter [of his novel]," a plot with similarities to Stephen King's 1987 novel "Misery." King is known to have read horror comics as a kid; perhaps this was one of them?

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