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Title: MISTER MYSTERY No. 18
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Publisher:Stanley Morse [Indicia: Aragon Magazines, Inc.]
Date Published: August, 1954
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CGC certified: VG (4.0). Off-white to white pages. Cover: Bernard Baily. Art: Hy Fleishman, Basil Wolverton, Charles Stern, Tony Mortellaro. Overstreet: "'Robot Woman' by Wolverton reprinted from Weird Mysteries #2; decapitation, bondage cover." GPAnalysis: A 4.0 sold for $2600 in April 2018, an anomalously strong result, as a 4.5 sold for $1900 in March 2019, and a 5.0 sold for $2160 in November 2021.

A witch doctor boils heads in his hideous hot-pot as a blonde-in-bondage (blondage?) and her useless beau gape in helpless horror. Publisher Stanley Morse, the dreckmeister's dreckmeister, filled the penultimate ish of Mister Mystery with reprints, cutting his losses as the pre-Code era drew to a close. Morse had the cynical marketing savvy to cloak his reprint rag under a compelling cover, thus pulling a final fast one on the readers he held in such contempt.

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