FANTASTIC FEARS #4 * CGC 3.0 * Fright Wedding * Marriage is Murder

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Title: FANTASTIC FEARS No. 4
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Publisher:Ajax-Farrell [Indicia: Four Star Publications Inc.]
Date Published: November, 1953
Description: CGC certified: G/VG (3.0). Off-white to white pages. Grader notes: Light creasing to cover; moderate staining to cover; small, multiple tear cover; staple detached bottom of front cover; staple detached top of cover; wear spine breaks color. Note: Some scuffs to cover/ image area of slab.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 1.8 sold for $300 in 8/23. PBA sold a 6.0 for $3300 in 2/22.

Credits: Uncredied Iger Shop talent.Nice Day for a Fright Wedding: A petrified bride learns that in the fallen world of pre-Code horror, marriage is murder.

"[Horror comics] swelled with portrayals of marriage and family life as sources of unbearable torment. Married people, especially wives, were invariably duplicitous, conniving, abusive, and often murderous.... The true graveyard was the living room of the American home." – David Hadju, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. FSG: 2008, p. 179.______________________________________________________________

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