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Title: WEIRD TERROR No. 3
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Publisher:Comic Media [Indicia: Allen Hardy Associates, Inc.]
Date Published: January, 1953
Description:

G/VG (3.0). Spine stress, 1" split at top spine, short split at mid-spine, staples pulled, some cover creases, nicks to top edge of front cover, small chip to bottom edge of front cover (2mm x 3mm), short creased tear to right edge of front cover. Cream pages, light tan edges. Cover: Don Heck. Art: Pete Morisi, Don Perlin, Rudy Palais? Overstreet: "Extreme violence, whipping, torture; article on sin-eating, dowsing." GPAnalysis: A 3.0 sold for $504 in November 2021.

Pre-Code publisher Comic Media's ownership details are cloaked in a murky fog of deliberate obfuscation. Indicia hounds will note that the company's corporate alter-egos included "Artful Publications," "Harwell Associates," "Allen Hardy Associates," and the rightly-named "Mystery Publishing Company, Inc." In one of his defining acts of scholarship, pre-Code wiz George Suarez traced a link between Comic Media and Ajax-Farrell (corporate statements show that an entity called "Dearfield Publishing Co., Inc." had ownership stakes in both companies).

Consignments welcome for PBA's Fall 2022 Comic Book sale. Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age and Silver Age comics, original art, vintage comic-related photos and ephemera sought. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com.