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Title: WEIRD TERROR No. 3
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Publisher:Comic Media
Date Published: January, 1953
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CGC certified: Fair (1.0). Cream to off-white pages. Tape on cover and interior cover. Don Heck cover. Art by Pete Morisi, Don Perlin, Abe Simon, and Rudy Palais.

Comic Media was a pre-Code publisher whose ownership details are lost in a murky fog of deliberate obfuscation, possibly in an attempt to stay a few steps ahead of the tax man, possibly for legitimate reasons. Comic Media's corporate alter-egos included "Artful Publications," "Harwell Associates," "Allen Hardy Associates" and the rightly-named "Mystery Publishing Company, Inc." Terrology traces a link between Comic Media and Ajax-Farrell (corporate statements indicate that "Dearfield Publishing Co., Inc." had ownership interests in both companies). Whatever the case, none of these entities survived the comics implosion that followed the Comics Code.

Don Heck cover: undead cabbie seeks vengeance over lousy tip (or something); rich creep assaults maid, gets flogged to death in own dungeon ("...And dies dismally as the blood drips steadily from his torn body"). The front cover abrasion lends a rather rakish and jaunty air of "going to the devil" to this tawdry mag, like a seedy gentleman's dueling scar.

CGC census: No other copies in this grade. Lowest-graded copy ("If you can't accept me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best" -This copy). Comparable CGC sales: Closest result: 1.8 copy sold for $496 (Dec. 2017). Only two other recorded sales, both being 3.0. Hard mag to find in decent grade.

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