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Title: STRANGE TALES No. 15
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Publisher:Atlas [Indicia: Chipiden Publishing Corp.]
Date Published: 19391
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CGC certified: VF- (7.5). Cream to off-white pages. Cover: Bill Everett. Art: Bernie Krigstein, Larry Woromay, George Roussos, Sam Kweskin, Victor Dowling. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 6.5 sold for $400 in 3/23. The only higher-graded sale is an 8.5 (Northford Pedigree) that sold for $6000 in 4/22.

In Bernie Krigstein's story "Mary and the Witch!", a woman is falsely accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake in Salem, Massachusetts, in the year 1953. Could this be a covert commentary on the anti-comics witch-hunt that was currently gathering steam? Curiously enough, the story makes it clear that, witch or not, the victim had it coming due to her greed and lack of ethics. Again we ask: could this be a covert commentary on the pre-Code comics biz?

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