CHAMBER OF CHILLS #9 * 3.0 * Heads on Pikes * Tepid

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Title: CHAMBER OF CHILLS No. 9
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Publisher:Harvey [Indicia: Witches Tales, Inc.]
Date Published: June, 1952
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Good/VG (3.0). Cover detached at top staple, spine stress, ½" split at bottom spine, 1½" tear to right edge of front cover, light edgewear, a few spots of soiling and discoloration to back cover. If not for top staple, would grade at 4.5. Professionally cleaned and pressed by Comics In A Flash. Cover: Al Avison. Art: Vic Donahue, Bob Powell, Tom Hickey, Rudy Palais, Al Avison, Manny Stallman. GPAnalysis: A 3.0 sold for $125 in October 2019.

Aside from a grisly vignette of severed heads on pikes that illustrates the centerfold text, there's not much of note in this ish, except for some endearingly goofy Al Avison and Manny Stallman art. Pre-Code savant George Suarez calls this mag a bit of a letdown after the previous two issues, both of which are packed to the rafters with excessive violence and weirdness (including a man who turns into a giant crab and eats his wife's corpse): "This level of horror could not be maintained, however, the next four issues are not remarkable for being particularly gruesome or particularly interesting." — Tales To Terrible To Tell #8. NEC: 1993, p. 29.

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