WEIRD MYSTERIES No. 6 Publisher: Stanley Morse [Indicia: Gillmor Magazines, Inc.] Date Published: August-September, 1953 Description: CGC certified: VG- (3.5). Off-white pages. Grader notes: "Wear spine breaks color [sic], bends to cover, multiple crease cover breaks color, pieces out to cover." Cover: Bernard Baily. Art: Tony Mortellaro? Overstreet: "Decapitation cover." GPAnalysis: A 3.5 sold for $905 in 8/19. Top Hat of Terror: "The cover of this issue depicts a shrunken head being removed by a magician's gloved hands from a top hat.... This neck, jagged and bloody, trails severed veins and arteries.... This may well be the most graphic decapitated head cover ever to appear on a Pre-Code Horror comic. Remember, upon questioning, EC's Bill Gaines defended a similar scene on a Crime SuspenStories cover by stating that 'bad taste' would be having the murderer hold the head a bit higher so that the severed neck would show. Apparently, the issue of 'taste' did not trouble Gillmor at this point in the company's existence." — George Suarez, Tales Too Terrible To Tell #9. NEC: 1993, p. 20. Enjoying the Sale? Order a fully-illustrated softcover catalogue for 30 bucks. Only about 100 copies were printed and they're going fast. To reserve a copy, contact PBA's Director of Comics: ivan@pbagalleries.com. Consign to PBA Galleries. Our comic sales average a 98% sell-through rate, our prices realized are top-of-the-market, and our research-intensive catalogues are the best in the business. Seeking Silver Age Marvel, Golden Age superheroes, and pre-Code horror. Contact ivan@pbagalleries.com. Item#: 351066 Headline: WEIRD MYSTERIES #6 * CGC 3.5 * Top Hat of TERROR * Tawdry Morse Mag
WEIRD MYSTERIES No. 6 Publisher: Stanley Morse [Indicia: Gillmor Magazines, Inc.] Date Published: August-September, 1953 Description: CGC certified: VG- (3.5). Off-white pages. Grader notes: "Wear spine breaks color [sic], bends to cover, multiple crease cover breaks color, pieces out to cover." Cover: Bernard Baily. Art: Tony Mortellaro? Overstreet: "Decapitation cover." GPAnalysis: A 3.5 sold for $905 in 8/19. Top Hat of Terror: "The cover of this issue depicts a shrunken head being removed by a magician's gloved hands from a top hat.... This neck, jagged and bloody, trails severed veins and arteries.... This may well be the most graphic decapitated head cover ever to appear on a Pre-Code Horror comic. Remember, upon questioning, EC's Bill Gaines defended a similar scene on a Crime SuspenStories cover by stating that 'bad taste' would be having the murderer hold the head a bit higher so that the severed neck would show. Apparently, the issue of 'taste' did not trouble Gillmor at this point in the company's existence." — George Suarez, Tales Too Terrible To Tell #9. NEC: 1993, p. 20. Enjoying the Sale? Order a fully-illustrated softcover catalogue for 30 bucks. Only about 100 copies were printed and they're going fast. To reserve a copy, contact PBA's Director of Comics: ivan@pbagalleries.com. Consign to PBA Galleries. Our comic sales average a 98% sell-through rate, our prices realized are top-of-the-market, and our research-intensive catalogues are the best in the business. Seeking Silver Age Marvel, Golden Age superheroes, and pre-Code horror. Contact ivan@pbagalleries.com. Item#: 351066 Headline: WEIRD MYSTERIES #6 * CGC 3.5 * Top Hat of TERROR * Tawdry Morse Mag
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