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Title: WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE No. 8
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Publisher:Stanley Morse [Indicia: S.P.M. Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: July, 1953
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CGC certified: G/VG (3.0). Cream to off-white pages. Bernard Baily cover. Art by Hy Fleishman, Walter Palais, others. Interior reprinted from Weird Mysteries #1. Overstreet: "Gory cover showing heart ripped out." GPAnalysis: A 3.0 sold for $1075 in February 2020. PBA sold a 3.0 for $1500 in February 2022.

We've seen the severed heads, the melting flesh, the cracked-open craniums, the gaping wounds, the injured eyes, the torn-out hearts. At some point, even the most avid horror hound starts to wonder — was this stuff really so great for kids? Was Dr. Wertham really the dour scold he's made out to be? Or were these mags evidence that, as DC do-gooder Green Arrow remarked years later in a different context, "Something is wrong! ...Some hideous moral cancer is rotting our very souls!"

"Within a decade of its birth... the comic book had become a site for the display of atrocities. Something had crept inside the most recent and childish of American story forms, making it almost unrecognizable. Opened to any page, the comic book now displayed scenes that might have come from Hiroshima or Auschwitz." — Tom Englehardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation. Basic: 1995, p. 97.

Consignments welcome for PBA's Fall 2022 Comic Book sale. Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age and Silver Age comics, original art, vintage comic-related photos and ephemera sought. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com.