BEWARE TERROR TALES #8 * 4.0 * Witches Cook Corpse *

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Title: BEWARE! TERROR TALES No. 8
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Publisher:Fawcett [Indicia: Fawcett Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: July, 1953
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VG (4.0). Moderate spine stress, top spine nicked, small nicks to top edge of front cover, shallow chip to bottom edge of front cover (1cm x 1mm). Cream to off-white pages. Conservatively graded; potential to slab at 4.5. Cover: Uncredited. Art: Bob Powell, Shelly Moldoff?, Bill Discount. Overstreet: "Tothish art; people being cooked cover." GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 4.5 sold for $702 in August 2020.

Ghoulish ghoulash: A pair of old crones simmer a skeleton in their yonic hot-pot of horror (see the entry for Suspense #25 in this sale for musings on the hidden connection between witches' cauldrons and sexual terror). "Issue #8's cover offers a grotesque scene of witches tending a giant pot in which floats the skeletal remains of a corpse." — George Suarez, Tales To Terrible To Tell #10. NEC: 1993, p. 19.

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