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Title: WEIRD MYSTERIES No. 9
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Publisher:Stanley Morse [Indicia: Gillmor Magazines, Inc.]
Date Published: March, 1954
Description: CGC certified: Fine- (5.5). Off-white pages. Grader notes: light cover tanning; light spine stress lines to cover; moderate creasing to cover.

CGC Census: 28 graded copies (26 Universal, 2 Restored).

GPAnalysis: A 5.5 sold for $660 in 8/21; a 6.5 sold for $888 in 8/23.

Credits: Cover: Bernard Baily. Art: Petrizza, Gerald Altman, Sal Trapani. Overstreet: "Excessive violence, gore & torture." Rubicon of Wretchedness: If moral decay is your bag, you'll really get a kick out of this seedy mag. Gerald Altman's "The Garcon" serves up a tasteless cannibalism tale, made even more nauseating by infantile artwork and a barely literate script that seems geared towards toddlers. Sal Trapani's "Epitaph!" is a tour-de-force of dimestore cynicism, in which a cuckolding cutie's corpse rises from the grave to confess her sins to her clueless hubby. It's bottom of the barrel stuff, dizzying in its degeneracy, and like so many sordid diversions, it's way more fun than it has any right to be.

"As WEIRD MYSTERIES approaches the end of its relatively brief run, the stories do become more and more graphic and the artwork progressively cruder... WM #9 contains a horror classic by Gerald Altman called 'The Garcon.' This innocent title disguises a rather gruesome story about cannibalism in a restaurant... The gruesome climax is heavily diluted by the cartoony art style and the tongue-in-cheek writing... Nonetheless, Gillmor has crossed the Rubicon in terms of story content with this tale." – George Suarez, Tales Too Terrible to Tell #9. NEC: 1993, pp. 20-21.______________________________________________________________

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