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Title: WEIRD MYSTERIES No. 2
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Publisher:Stanley Morse [Indicia: Gillmor Magazines Inc.]
Date Published: December, 1952
Description: CGC certified: VG+ (4.5). Off-white pages. Grader notes: Heavy cover tanning, multiple crease cover breaks color.

CGC Census: 74 graded copies (67 Universal, 7 Restored).

GPAnalysis: A 4.5 sold for $1725 in 8/23.

Credits: Cover: Bernard Baily. Art: Hy Fleishman, Basil Wolverton, Charles Stern, Tony Mortellaro. Overstreet: "'Robot Woman' by Wolverton; acid in face panel." Automaton of Terror: Hy Fleishman and Tony Mortellaro both turn in excellent horror stories, but the prize goes to Basil Wolverton's bizarre "Robot Woman," in which a deformed scientist creates a mechanical woman to be his love slave ("Here is a woman who will never grow old, who will never fail to obey and who will never love anyone but me! She is the PERFECT woman!"). When an accident renders the robot hideous, melting her synthetic skin but leaving her libido intact, the scientist lives to regret his creation (but not for long). ______________________________________________________________

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