BEWARE TERROR TALES #5 * 4.5 * Bernard BAILY Cover *

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Title: BEWARE! TERROR TALES No. 5
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Publisher:Fawcett [Indicia: Fawcett Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: January, 1953
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VG (4.0). Light spine stress, crease to top right corner of front cover, small chip to top edge of front cover, top spine slightly bumped, cover slightly miscut. Cream to off-white pages. If not for small chip, easily 4.5-5.0. Cover: Bernard Baily. Art: Shelly Moldoff, Maurice Gutwirth, "Jokerface," Bob McCarty. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 3.5 sold for $152 in March 2020; a 4.5 sold for $228 in March 2021.

Sleepwalker awakens to find himself munching on his uncle's corpse; degenerate fiends drink human blood like soda pop; etc. The final story presents its female protagonist's fate as the most awful ending of all -- she grows old and haggy without a husband.

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