Where Monsters Dwell (1970) comic books graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $89.99 Paper: White Label #4034498020 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.70) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. I Brought the Mighty Cyclops Back to Life! A young couple thaw out a cyclops in an iceberg, and must lure it into an icy pit to keep it from hurting anyone. Gorgolla! The Living Gargoyle!!; An explorer discovers Gorgolla in the Himalayan Mountains; Gorgolla awakes and captures him, then summons his Stonian brethren to begin their attack on Earth. I Alone Know the Dread Secret of Gor-Kill, The Living Demon! All pencils by Jack Kirby, all inks by Dick Ayers. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $89.00 Paper: Off white to white Slab: See item notes Cracking to bottom left corner edge with piece of plastic missing. Label #3921323005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.67) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. I Brought the Mighty Cyclops Back to Life! A young couple thaw out a cyclops in an iceberg, and must lure it into an icy pit to keep it from hurting anyone. Gorgolla! The Living Gargoyle!!; An explorer discovers Gorgolla in the Himalayan Mountains; Gorgolla awakes and captures him, then summons his Stonian brethren to begin their attack on Earth. I Alone Know the Dread Secret of Gor-Kill, The Living Demon! All pencils by Jack Kirby, all inks by Dick Ayers. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Where Monsters Dwell (1970) 2 CGC 7.0

Paper: White

Label #4416321011

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. I Created...Sporr! The Thing That Could Not Die!; A scientist moves into Dr. Frankenstein's castle to set up his experimental growth ray; He is arrested by the villagers, leaving his experiment to grow out of control. I Am Dragoom! The Flaming Invader!; Dragoom, a flaming monster from the planet Vulcan, arrives on Earth and terrorizes the planet; The military are helpless before him, but a monster movie director fools him into fleeing by using special effects to fake the arrival of police from Vulcan in pursuit of Dragoom. Taboo! The Thing From the Murky Swamp! All pencils by Jack Kirby, all inks by Dick Ayers. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $75.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4015686019 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.25) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Marie Severin [as 7], inks by Bill Everett [as EV]. Grottu, King of the Insects!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Bill Everett; The radiation from atomic bomb tests mutates a common ant, increasing his size and strength a thousand fold, and grants him human-level intellect; Calling himself Grottu, he declares himself king of all insects, and sets about on a plan to conquer the world, starting with Kenya. I Fought the Colossus!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; An advanced supercomputer turns Earth into a utopia, but suspicion remains, only to be inflamed when it is found to be building a giant robot. The Gargoyle!, art by Paul Reinman; An ugly man rejected by society applies for a job in a freak show. A Martian Walks Among Us!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Where Monsters Dwell (1970) 3 CGC 9.0

Paper: White

Label #4416321012

Cover pencils by Marie Severin [as 7], inks by Bill Everett [as EV]. Grottu, King of the Insects!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Bill Everett; The radiation from atomic bomb tests mutates a common ant, increasing his size and strength a thousand fold, and grants him human-level intellect; Calling himself Grottu, he declares himself king of all insects, and sets about on a plan to conquer the world, starting with Kenya. I Fought the Colossus!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; An advanced supercomputer turns Earth into a utopia, but suspicion remains, only to be inflamed when it is found to be building a giant robot. The Gargoyle!, art by Paul Reinman; An ugly man rejected by society applies for a job in a freak show. A Martian Walks Among Us!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Where Monsters Dwell (1970) 4 CGC 8.0

Paper: White

Label #4416321013

Cover pencils by Marie Severin, inks by Tom Palmer. Behind My Door Waits... Medusa!, art by Steve Ditko; A curio shop owner tells customers that a strange statue is a burglar turned to stone by Medusa; No one believes him, but none dare open the door which he says leads to Medusa. I Met the Thing on Midnight Island!, art by Don Heck; A sailor finds a note from a castaway, but on the island named he finds only a strange creature; When an alien ship arrives to pick up the creature, he realizes that it was a castaway. I Was Trapped in Nightmare Valley, art by Paul Reinman; An explorer encounters sentient, extraterrestrial trees in Asian mountains; They plan to spread their pollen all over the Earth, but they are fortuitously destroyed by a volcano. The Monster in My Cellar!, art by Reed Crandall. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $369.00 Paper: White Label #1974052015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.07) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. I Challenged...Groot! The Monster from Planet X!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; The monarch of Planet X arrives on Earth in order to capture a town for experimental purposes back on his home world. I Dared to Look Into the Beyond!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; A scientist builds a time machine to travel into the future. He believes that he has travelled to the past, demonstrating that the future does not yet exist, but in fact he saw a future in which Earth was abandoned. My Friend Is...Not Quite Human!, art by Steve Ditko; A misogynist wood-carver falls in love with his sculpture and has himself transformed into wood, but his refusal to pay a gypsy mystic leads to her making the wooden figure human out of spite. When the Saucer Strikes!, art by Paul Reinman. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Where Monsters Dwell (1970) 10 CGC 9.0

Paper: White

Label #4416321005

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby and Marie Severin (re-touches and additions), inks by Steve Ditko and Marie Severin (re-touches and additions). Gigantus! The Monster That...Walked Like a Man!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; An advertising man tricks an advance agent of a proposed invasion from Atlantis into returning to Atlantis by building a mannequin even larger than Goliath and threatening to wage war with his people for the surface of Earth. The Frog-Man!, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; An evil king is turned into a frog by a sorcerer. He hibernates for centuries hoping that the future will hold a cure, but Halloween costumes make him think that humans are now giant frogs and he goes to sleep forever. Barker's Body Shop!, script by Stan Lee (plot) and Larry Lieber (script), art by Sol Brodsky. Dinner Time on Deimos!, script by Stan Lee (plot) and Larry Lieber (script), art by Larry Lieber. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Where Monsters Dwell (1970) 14 CGC 9.0

Paper: White

Label #4416321010

Cover art by John Severin. The Green Thing!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A botanist invents a serum to magnify the latent intelligence of plants; He tested it on a remote island, but the plant was evil and wanted to conquer the world. The Haunted Paper!, art by Steve Ditko; A criminal skips town and sets up a newspaper as a front; The paper's typesetter writes headlines that seem to predict the future but it's a scam to convince the criminal to turn himself in. The Coming of Maaboo!, art by Don Heck; A mercenary hears of a tribe that hoards gold while waiting for the return of a legendary alien; The mercenary poses as the alien and steals the gold, but he is abducted by the real alien. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Where Monsters Dwell (1970) 17 CGC 9.0

Paper: White

Label #4416321014

Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Vince Colletta. I Opened the Door to...Nowhere!, art by Steve Ditko; A thief forces a shop owner to hide him in a back room, but finds himself opening doors without rest for years. If the Coat Fits, script by Jack Oleck, art by Russ Heath; A man leaves a coat with a pawn shop owner that transports the wearer into another dimension and replaces them with a shadow person. The World Beyond, art by Steve Ditko; A scientist creates a pill to shrink himself to subatomic size, convinced that whole other worlds exist at microscopic levels. The Hidden Vampires, art by Tony DiPreta; When a village has been sucked nearly dry of blood by undetected vampires, a vampire stalker arrives with his helpers, a black box filled with hungry mosquitoes. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Where Monsters Dwell (1970) 20 CGC 8.5

Paper: White

Label #4419733002

Cover pencils by Jim Starlin, inks by Frank Giacoia. Klagg! His Mission: Destroy Mankind!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Klagg, an alien who visits Earth, becomes so upset upon learning humanity still wages war that he declares war upon the nations of the Earth. While the Town Sleeps!, art by Kurt Schaffenberger; The statue of the Dutch boy plugs the hole in the dike with his finger. What Happened to Harry?, art by Dick Ayers; A brilliant inventor's boss tries to steal his new time machine in order to take credit for it. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $180.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #4015686020 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.40) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. Fin Fang Foom!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A young historian from Taiwan is scorned by his father for his refusal to join the army, even in the face of an imminent communist invasion; Instead of fighting directly, he crosses to the mainland to awake the dragon Fin Fang Foom. Haunted!, art by Vic Carrabotta; A ghost scares off potential buyers of a derelict house. The Clutching Hands, art by Cal Massey; A writer murders another writer to steal his work, but the dead writer's hands continue to make trouble for him. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Where Monsters Dwell (1970) 21 CGC 7.0

Paper: White

Label #4416321021

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. Fin Fang Foom!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A young historian from Taiwan is scorned by his father for his refusal to join the army, even in the face of an imminent communist invasion; Instead of fighting directly, he crosses to the mainland to awake the dragon Fin Fang Foom. Haunted!, art by Vic Carrabotta; A ghost scares off potential buyers of a derelict house. The Clutching Hands, art by Cal Massey; A writer murders another writer to steal his work, but the dead writer's hands continue to make trouble for him. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Where Monsters Dwell (1970) 22 CGC 9.6

Paper: White

Label #4416321015

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. Elektro! He Held a World in His Iron Grip!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A scientist creates a computer so sophisticated that it can out think human beings; It hypnotizes the scientist into building it a huge robot body so that it can move and conquer the world. I Found the Girl in the Blue Glass Bottle!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A curio shop owner uses an ancient magic bottle to shrink people, but one of his victims turns the magic of the bottle on him and escapes, as the shop owner shrinks to nothing. The Demon in the Dungeon!, art by Don Heck; A novelist rents a castle in Transylvania, where the locals believe a demon lives; He discovers that the creature is a lost alien child. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Where Monsters Dwell (1970) 25 CGC 9.4

Paper: White

Label #4416321018

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby. The Ruler of Earth!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; In the near future of 1990, humanity has created a computer, named R.O.E. (Ruler of Earth), to settle disputes for it; A handful of communists attempt to re-program the computer to serve their aims. They Called Her a Witch!, script by Stan Lee, art by Russ Heath; Peasants call an old woman a witch, a man gives her the benefit of the doubt, but it turns out the peasants were right. When the Earth Vanished!, art by Steve Ditko; Tiny alien invaders decide to detonate their ultimate bomb thinking that unobserved Earthlings have gone into hiding to avoid their invasion force and end up blowing up an Earth boy's ping pong ball and themselves as they are caught in the aftershocks of the blast. The Man Who Fell!, art by Paul Reinman; A town's mayor threatens to imprison a gypsy fortune-teller who spurned his advances if her prediction that he will be injured by a fall does not come true. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Where Monsters Dwell (1970) 26 CGC 9.6

Paper: White

Label #4416321019

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. The Thing Called Metallo!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An escaped convict tests a radiation-proof suit under a fake name; When he realizes the suits power, he uses it to go on a crime spree. The Man Who Followed!, art by Mannie Banks; A sportsman looking for the thrill of the hunt evolves apes into cunning opponents, but he doesn't foresee that they will become immune to his weapon. The Executioner, art by Myron Fass; A story told from the point of view of a turkey on Thanksgiving Day. All reprints. 32 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Where Monsters Dwell (1970) 27 CGC 9.6

Paper: White

Label #4416321020

Last 20-cent issue. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. From Out of the Black Pit Came...Grogg!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Atomic tests conducted by a coerced dissident scientist wake the ancient dragon Grogg; The dragon chases the soldiers into a cave in the mountains and their commander tries to appease it by sending out the scientist. Follow the Leader, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Space explorers are attacked by alien animals, and only make the situation worse by killing the largest beast, which was actually a robot holding the animals in check. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.