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Title: SECRET MYSTERIES No. 16
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Publisher:Ribage [Indicia: Ribage Publishing Corp.]
Date Published: November, 1954
Description:

Fine- (5.5). Slight spine roll, mild spine stress, short tear to top right corner of front cover, toning to back cover, chip to bottom edge of one page. Cream to light tan pages. Clean, flat, tight copy, might grade 6.0. Cover: Myron Fass. Art: Tony Tallarico, Edvard Moritz, Rudy Palais. First ish (formerly Crime Mysteries). GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 5.0 sold for $192 in 10/22; a 6.0 sold for $264 in 10/21.

"Bloated, loathsome" fat lady topples from tower and splats like a giant tomato; bandit forces doctor at gunpoint to cut his wife's leg open and stash stolen loot inside her flayed-open gam; shrunken heads used as murder weapons. Bonus: horndog ad offers sexy stamps for lonesome philatelists to lick & stick ("MONACO NUDES – Exciting set of 3 includes the nude Salmacia shown below").

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