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Title: FANTASTIC FEARS No. 7 (1st Issue)
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Publisher:Ajax-Farrell
Date Published: May, 1953
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CGC certified: Fine (6.0). Off-white to white pages. Iger Shop art.

First issue of Ajax-Farrell's shortest-lived horror title (with numbering carried over from the mag's previous incarnation as Captain Jet). In a nicely literary touch, the cover features a "Dance of Death" motif, complete with a demonic puppet-master hustling his luckless victims towards their inevitable demise.

Ajax-Farrell and Superior were distinct and separate publishing entities; however, both companies sourced their content from the Iger Shop, and thus their mags share the same bizarre, grotesque visuals and nihilistic worldview. As George Suarez writes in his pre-Code reprint rag Tales Too Terrible To Tell (later, Terrology): "While evil often gets its just reward in the end, these tales can hardly be justified as comic book morality plays: even when the bad guy does pay the penalty, lots of 'good guys' have suffered horrendously along the way!" (TTTTT #4, 1991-92).

CGC census: Three copies in this grade. Comparable CGC sales: 6.0 sold for $516 (Oct. 2018).

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