FANTASTIC FEARS #8 * 5.0 * Guillotine Scene * Killer Cactus

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Title: FANTASTIC FEARS No. 8
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Publisher:Ajax-Farrell [Indicia: Four Star Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: July-August, 1954
Description: VG/Fine (5.0). Tiny chips to spine ends, a few shallow edge chips, a few stress lines to spine, slight cover misfold with top edge of pages peeking out, sun shadows to back cover. Clean, flat and bright. Cream to tan pages.

Credits: Cover: Bob Webb? Art: Bob Webb, Ken Battefield, uncredited others.

GPAnalysis: A 5.0 sold for $156 in 6/21; a 4.0 sold for $222 in 1/21; a 3.5 sold for $232 in 6/23.Decap Recap: Jungle lord Kaza, typical toxic tuff, razzes a beta-boy granny-chaser for his sexual proclivities ("HO! This one has a twisted mind! He wants the old woman! How can such a thing be!"). Plus: a dutiful executioner is obliged to lop off his beloved wife's noggin on the Worst Workday Ever, then goes home to find his creepy kid decapitating toy soldiers for kicks, and loses his marbles in an epic fit of the heebie jeebies; married couple mauled by serial-killing succulent in the case of the killer cactus.______________________________________________________________

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