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Title: TALES FROM THE CRYPT * WEIRD * HORROR TALES * TERROR TALES * TALES OF VOODOO * Lot of Seven Eerie Publications Magazines
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Publisher:Eerie Publications
Date Published: 1968-1969
Description:

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  Tales from the Crypt #10 (1sh ish): VG+ (4.5). Light spine roll, moderate spine stress, small corner chips. Cream pages, light tan edges. Cover: Carl Burgos.


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  Weird vol. 3, #3: VG (4.0). Spine stress, edgewear, corners curled. Cream to light tan pages. Bill Alexander "acid-bath" cover.


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  Weird vol. 3, #4: VG- (3.5). 1" split to bottom spine, spine roll, spine stress. Cream pages, light tan edges. Bill Alexander "meathook-thru-gal's-jaw and stake-thru-her-sternum" cover.


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  Horror Tales #7: VG (4.0). Mild spine roll and spine stress, 1/4" split to bottom spine, corner crease, short creased tear and rubs to back cover. Cream pages. Bill Alexander "Satan n' severed heads" cover.


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  Terror Tales #9: VG/Fine (5.0). Mild spine roll, light spine stress, corners creased, spotting to logo. Cream to light tan pages. Bill Alexander "honeys-hang-by-hair-as-ghoul-handles-own-heart" cover.


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  Tales of Voodoo vol. 2, #3: Fine- (5.5). Mild spine roll, shallow edge chip to back cover. Cream pages. Bill Alexander "homeboy-hurls-head-at-hag" cover.


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  Tales of Voodoo vol. 2, #4: VG- (3.5). Moderate spine roll, 1" creased split at bottom spine, top right corner creased, 1½" curved tear to back cover. Cream pages. Bill Alexander "aliens-hack-her-head-off" cover.

Fistful of gloriously tasteless Myron Fass reprint rags, with redrawn and retouched Ajax-Farrell terror tales presented under barf-inducing new covers. These over-the-top gore-fests hint at the tawdry turn pre-Code horror comics might have taken if not for the Comics Code clampdown.

"By mid-1968, when Weird's sales had been good enough to warrant a sister title (Tales from the Crypt, which became Tales of Voodoo after one issue, for obvious reasons), the blood-gates really opened and Eerie Publications hit their stride. Beheadings, acid baths, dismemberment and white bones poking through tender pink flesh: these were the comics that launched a million nightmares and just as many lunches." – Mike Howlett, "The Good, The Bad, And The Eerie!," The Worst of Eerie Publications. Yoe Books: 2014, p. 10.

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