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Title: The THING! No. 8
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Publisher:Charlton [Indicia: Capitol Stories, Inc.]
Date Published: May, 1953
Description:

VG (4.0). Spine roll, spine stress, light handling creases to covers, tiny nick to bottom spine, bottom right corner of front cover creased and rounded, two small abrasions to front cover, a few short tears to back cover, tiny chip to bottom corner of back cover (about 2mm), sun shadow to back cover, a few pages have 1/2" tears at spine. Cream to off-white pages. Cover: Bob Forgione. Art: Bob Forgione, John Belfi. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 3.5 sold for $228 in October 2021.

Sardonic vampire insults his victims as he rhapsodizes about their blood ("Just relax and let me drink my fill! A magnificent potion to flow through the veins of such a mediocrity as YOU"). The vampire invades a hospital and uses a hypodermic to extract the blood of ailing patients ("A ruby red feast fit for an emperor! See how it sparkles... so much more enchanting in this bottle than clogging the veins of a dying wretch!"). Despite his acid wit, the vampire proves to be a moron, downing a beaker of contaminated blood that kills him as definitively as a wooden stake.

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