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Title: WEIRD CHILLS No. 2
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Publisher:Stanley Morse [Indicia: Key Publications]
Date Published: September, 1954
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VG (4.0). Spine stress, staples pulled, light handling creases to front cover, 1/8" tear and a few tiny nicks to back cover, tiny corner chip (1mm x 2mm) to back cover, abrasion to back cover. Cream pages, light tan edges. If not for pulled staples, would grade 4.5. Cover: Bernard Baily. Art: Uncredited. Overstreet: "Extremely violent injury to eye cover; Hitler story." GPAnalysis: A 4.0 sold for $600 in December 2020.

In "Violence!," Hitler busts a cap in his own dome after his plans for world domination crap out in a sordid Berlin bunker. The story, by an anonymous artist, mixes fact and fiction in a curious manner (the story opens with young Hitler murdering a guy in an alley). There's a violent sequence in which Hitler beats a sexy blonde into sexual submission ("Don't! Please don't! I'll do anything... anything you ask..."). The obvious reader inference would be that the unnamed blonde is Hitler's wife-to-be Eva Braun, but George Suarez claims that it's Hitler's niece, Geli Raubal. Curiously enough, a 1943 psychological portrait of Hitler created by the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) claimed that Hitler's bizarre sexual fixation with Raubal drove her to suicide. According to the report, which was released to the public in 1972, Hitler was a feces fancier who traumatized his niece by forcing her to defecate on his ugly kisser as he grovelled with glee. If the OSS report is accurate, it seems that Hitler was a literal shithead.

"'Violence!' concludes with the violent suicide of Adolf Hitler. What's particularly interesting about this Hitler story is that it includes a somewhat cloudy reference to Hitler's niece Geli Raubal, who is described in most history books as having committed suicide in despair over Hitler's obsessive romantic interest in her. Some historians believe Hitler shot her in a rage... Most such brief biographies of Hitler do not devote any space to Geli Raubal." — George Suarez, Tales To Terrible To Tell #9. NEC: 1993, p. 21.

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