WEIRD MYSTERIES #3 * 5.0 * Severed Head Cover by BAILY * Clothes Horse from HELL
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Title: WEIRD MYSTERIES No. 3
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Publisher:Stanley Morse [Indicia: Gillmor Magazines, Inc.]
Date Published: February, 1953
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VG/Fine (5.0). Light spine stress, a few small nicks and shallow chips to back cover, 1/4" dogeared tear to back cover, tiny soil spot to back cover near spine, back cover edges toned. Cream to off-white pages. Great mag to have slabbed. Cover: Bernard Baily. Art: Tony Mortellaro, Ross Andru, Charles Stern, Ed Robbins? Overstreet: "Decapitation cover." GPAnalysis: A 5.0 sold for $800 in April 2020.
A man's ghost emerges from his own bloody neck stump to brandish his freshly-severed head at the terrified killer — one of the more demented covers of the pre-Code era.
"The third issue... had a gruesome cover with a specter holding up a human head while the man who severed it stands over the headless corpse in shock. The lead EC-style story, 'While the Iron Was Hot,' features a hen-pecked tailor who finally turns and uses his wife's armless, headless body as a clothes dummy." — William Schoell, The Horror Comics: Fiends, Freaks and Fantastic Creatures, 1940s-1980s. McFarland & Co.: 2014, p. 119.
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