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Title: WEIRD TERROR No. 1
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Publisher:Comic Media [Indicia: Allen Hardy Associates, Inc.]
Date Published: September, 1952
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VG+ (4.5). Cover slightly miscut with diagonal strip of excess white at top edge, right edge of covers and pages slightly curved, a few small nicks and a tiny corner chip to right edge of front cover, a few nicks and small chips to open edge of back cover, top and open edges of back cover toned, impression to bottom edge of back cover as from heavy object being stacked on top. Cream pages, tan edges, nice cover gloss. Clean and press to 5.0-5.5? Cover: Don Heck. Art: Don Heck, C.A. Winter, Burr Dett, Rudy Palais, Don Perlin. Overstreet: "'Portrait of Death' adapted from H.P. Lovecraft's 'Pickman's Model'; lingerie panels; Hitler story." GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade in 9 years. A 4.0 sold for $295 in June 2020.

"In WEIRD TERROR #1, Hitler returns from the dead to plague a disloyal Nazi colonel in 'Hitler's Head!' The story ends with a four-line poetry quote from the Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyam. And who says comics ain't educational — eh?!" — George Suarez, Tales To Terrible To Tell #4. NEC: 1992, p. 34.

Any comic mag featuring Hitler in Hell is a cinch to be quality goods, but the debut ish of Weird Terror doesn't stop there, no sir. There's also a crazy yarn about a haggy ghoul-gal who wears a sexy skin-suit to make herself look glamorous. In her guise as a vixen she lures horny sinners to a miserable life of servitude. Plus, Don Perlin's "The Invisible Curse" is packed with hot lingerie pix, with a minimum of plot so as not to distract from the pulchritude parade.

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