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Variant Issue
Ghoul's Eye Variant · Philadelphia, PA Market
FM #4 Ghoul's Eye Variant
Philadelphia, PA Market · Aug-59A Philadelphia-market exclusive featuring a promotional "Ride the Ghoul's Eye" sticker on the cover, tied to local horror-hosting promotions in the City of Brotherly Love. This sticker-on-cover variant is the second-rarest early FM issue in collector circles, with high-grade examples fetching significant premiums. It captures Warren's grassroots marketing perfectly — leveraging regional TV personalities and theater tie-ins to boost newsstand sales in key East Coast markets before national distribution fully kicked in. The interior content is unchanged, but that sticker transforms an otherwise common issue into a holy grail for completists.
Cover Spotlight
A vivid painting of the Martian invader from George Pal's WAR OF THE WORLDS — tentacled, malevolent, the kind of alien that kept monster kids sleeping with the lights on. The Ghoul's Eye variant surfaced in vanishingly small numbers, making it among the rarest covers in the entire FM run.
☠ Collector's Notes
Letter & photo from Ray Bradbury
