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Title: TALES FROM THE CRYPT No. 34
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Publisher:EC [Indicia: I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.]
Date Published: February-March, 1953
Description: CGC certified: Fine- (5.5). Off-white to white pages. Grader notes: Light soiling on cover; light spine stress lines to cover; moderate creasing to cover; very small chip out top of front cover.

CGC Census: 132 graded copies (126 Universal, 1 Qualified, 1 Signature, 4 Restored).

GPAnalysis: A 5.5 sold for $520 in 2/24; a 6.0 sold for $720 in 3/24.

Credits: Cover: Jack Davis. Scripts: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, and Ray Bradbury. Art: Jack Davis, George Evans, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels.Monster in the Mirror: By updating Lovecraft's "The Outsider" with a modern setting and adding a second-person narrative, Feldstein and Davis invite readers to gaze in the mirror for a peek at the real monsters. Getting readers to identify with marginalized outsiders may have been EC's greatest transgression in the regimented Cold War era.

"Told in the second person, 'Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall!'... puts the reader in the monster's heavily scuffed shoes with the reader seeing everything in ths tragic tale from the monster's point of view. Davis excels with his nuanced drawings that, while carefully planned and well thought out, never lose their freshness or feeling of spontaneity." – William Stout, "Jack Be Nimble," 'Tain't the Meat... It's the Humanity! And Other Stories Illustrated by Jack Davis. Fantagraphics: 2013, p. ix.______________________________________________________________

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