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Title: CUMBRES DE TORTURA No. 27 * Mexican VOODOO No. 8
Place Published: Mexico
Publisher:La Prensa
Date Published: April, 1957
Description:

CGC certified: Fair/Good (1.5). Cover detached. Tape on cover. Cream to off-white pages. Mexican version of Voodoo #4 (Ajax-Farrell, 1952) under the cover to Voodoo #8 (Ajax-Farrell, 1953). Color interior. Stories translated into Spanish. Cover and art by uncredited Iger Studio talent. CGC Census: This is the only graded copy.

A skull-faced Egyptian priestess with pointy metal breastplates uses her deathly sex appeal to both enchant and repel readers, a redux of the cover to Voodoo #8, April 1953. By the time this mag hit Mexican newsstands in early 1957, pre-Code horror had been dead and buried for two years in the United States. Until the dawning Silver Age matured with the Marvel revolution, American readers were stuck with watered-down kidstuff like Archie, Casper and Porky Pig, but in Mexico, horror comics were a hot commodity. Thus, in a curious twist to the pre-Code horror saga, the ghosts of defunct Yankee horror mags haunted Mexico in a strange and wonderful sort of afterlife.

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