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Title: THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED No. 10
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Publisher:Fawcett [Indicia: Fawcett Publications Inc.]
Date Published: April, 1953
Description: CGC certified: Fine+ (6.5). Cream to off-white pages. Grader notes: Spine stress lines breaks color; large crease right bottom of front cover breaks color; light wear to cover.

CGC Census: 50 graded copies (48 Universal, 2 Restored).

GPAnalysis: A 6.5 sold for $1020 in 11/22.

Credits: Cover: Sheldon Moldoff. Scripts: Bill Woolfolk. Art: Sheldon Moldoff, Bob McCarthy, Ed Waldman?, Leonard Frank. Overstreet: "Severed head cover."Off-the-Hook Horror: The catch of the day is a grody severed head on Shelly Moldoff's crazy cover to This Magazine Is Haunted #10. Who says EC had a headlock on tasteless decapitation covers?

"Issue #10 is notorious for an extreme decapitation cover.... Once again, we have to remark upon how William Gaines received perhaps undeserved flak when asked by a Senate subcommittee where he would draw the line in depicting decapitated heads on a comic book cover. Gaines drew the line of 'bad taste' at any display of the neck trailing bloody flesh and veins. While the head here may be dripping only water, at first glance it appears that Fawcett has gone well beyond any reasonable standard of bad taste." – George Suarez, Tales Too Terrible To Tell #10. NEC: 1993, p. 17.______________________________________________________________

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