HORRIFIC #8 * 4.0 * Toupee of TERROR

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Title: HORRIFIC No. 8
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Publisher:Comic Media [Indicia: Harwell Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: November, 1953
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VG+ (4.5). Tiny nick at top spine, rubs to spine near logo, rubbing to "IF" in "HORRIFIC," faint crease to top right corner of front cover, staples pulled. Off-white pages. Cover: Don Heck. Art: Don Heck (two stories and two single page pieces), Rudy Palais, Pete Morisi. GPAnalysis: No sales in this grade in several years. A 4.0 sold for $300 in August 2020; a 3.5 sold for $360 in December 2019.

Featuring Don Heck's nutty "Herschel's Hair," in which a bald barber gets rebuffed by a gal due to his gleaming pate, and decides to scalp a corpse to make himself a wig. Unfortunately, the corpse he scalped was a vampire, and soon the barber and his toupee of terror are prowling the streets hungry for blood. Probably swiped from Standard's "The Fatal Strand" (Adventures into Darkness #8, Feb. 1953), although it predates another hair-based Standard horror story, "The Wig" (Out of the Shadows #11, Jan. 1954).

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