DARK MYSTERIES #7 * CGC 3.5 * Horticultural Horror

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Title: DARK MYSTERIES No. 7
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Publisher:Story [Indicia: Master Comics Inc.]
Date Published: June-July, 1952
Description: CGC certified: VG- (3.5). Cream to off-white pages. Grader notes: moderate cover tanning; moderate creasing to cover; moderate foxing to cover; moderate staple tears; moderate tears to cover. Note: Light scuffs and marks to slab.

GPAnalysis: A 3.5 sold for $474 in 1/21; a 3.0 sold for $264 in 10/23.

Credits: Cover: Uncredited in Grand Comics Database, but it's Bill Fraccio. A. C. Hollingsworth, Jon D'Agostino, and Harry Harrison. Overstreet: "Dismemberment, hypo blood drainage stories."Hollingsworth's Horticultural Horror: "Dark Mysteries #7 contains 'The Terror of the Killer Plant,' a fine story by A.C. Hollingsworth, whose work appears in most subsequent issues. You can't go too far wrong picking up any horror comic with good ol' A.C.H.!" – George Suarez, Tales Too Terrible To Tell #5. NEC: 1992, pp. 32-33.______________________________________________________________

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