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Title: The THING! No. 10
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Publisher:Charlton [Indicia: Capitol Stories, Inc.]
Date Published: September, 1953
Description:

Good (2.0). Spine roll, spine stress, cover detached at bottom staple and barely hanging on for dear life at top staple, 1.5" split at bottom spine with a few small ancillary splits, small chip (3mm x 5mm) and a few small edge nicks to front cover, top right corner of front cover creased, small soil spot to front cover above "N" in "THING!," damp spot to back cover at top spine, toning and foxing to back cover at spine, about half of pages lightly bent near open edge. Cream to off-white pages. Cover: Bob Forgione. Art: Bob Forgione, Stan Asch, John Belfi?, uncredited others. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 3.5 sold for $285 in October 2018; a 3.0 sold for an anomalously low $38 in 2016. PBA sold a raw 2.5 for $192 in October 2021.

Man flees from giant man-eating ants into the hungry mouth of a giant Venus fly trap; man bashes his boss's brains in with a skull he just happened to have lying around; man roasted alive in furnace; flying spiders terrorize the city ("T-they're over my face -- in my eyes and nose! And they BITE! ARGHH!"); gory severed head panels. "A violent and bloody horror comic." — Mike Benton, Horror Comics: The Illustrated History. Taylor: 1991, p. 126.

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