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Title: MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES No. 22
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Publisher:Story [Indicia: Story Comics, Inc.]
Date Published: October, 1954
Description: VF- (7.5). Tiny nicks to spine ends, small corner rubs, small color rubs to logo box, toning and some fingermarks to inside covers. Cream to off-white pages. Darn nice copy.

Credits: Cover: Hy Fleishman. Art: Ross Andru, Bill Savage, uncredited others.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 7.0 sold for $382 in 1/23; an 8.0 sold for $600 in 6/20.Mixed Marriage Meshugas: A bigamist marries two babes for their bread in "Two for the Money." Sadly for him, wife #1 is a vampire and wife #2 is a zombie. Considered abstractly, the denouement seems to invoke midcentury misogyny, with wife #1 depicted as a gold-digging "bloodsucker" and wife #2 depicted as an insatiable "man-eater."______________________________________________________________

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