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Title: HORRIFIC No. 8
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Publisher:Comic Media [Indicia: Harwell Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: November, 1953
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VG- (3.5). Spine stressed and slightly rolled, a few short tears, several small pinholes to front cover, cover creases, tiny chip to bottom right corner of front cover, TAPE REINFORCEMENT to spine of inside covers. Cream pages. Cover: Don Heck. Art: Don Heck (two stories and two single page pieces), Rudy Palais, Pete Morisi. GPAnalysis: A 3.5 sold for $360 in 12/19.

Featuring Don Heck's nutty "Herschel's Hair," in which a bald barber gets rebuffed by a gal due to his gleaming pate, then scalps a corpse to make himself a wig. Unfortunately, the corpse he scalped was a vampire, and soon the barber and his toupee of terror are prowling the streets thirsty for blood. This story may have been swiped from Standard's "The Fatal Strand" (Adventures into Darkness #8, Feb. 1953), and it may in turn have inspired another hair-based Standard horror story, "The Wig" (Out of the Shadows #11, Jan. 1954).

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