Comic books 1953, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $325.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4346141020 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.75) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Final issue of the series (becomes Weird Science-Fantasy). "A New Beginning" (art by Al Williamson, with assistance from Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, and Bernard Krigstein), "The Headhunters" (art by George Evans), "My World" (the classic story by Wally Wood), and "Outcast of the Stars" (adapted from the story by Ray Bradbury; art by Joe Orlando). Wood cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $3,600.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4281405010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($108.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by thegeneral

Cover by Basil Wolverton. Stories and art by Tony Mortellaro, Eugene Hughes, Hy Fleishman and Basil Wolverton. Pre-Code tales of science fiction and horror from Stanley Morse Publications. After being abducted by aliens, a man returns to Earth to find civilization destroyed. During a mountain-climbing trip, a man plots revenge against the friend who's sleeping with his wife. A woman decides to free herself from her domineering sister once and for all. Plus an adventure of whimsical spacefaring hero Jumpin' Jupiter. Stories and a classic alien cover by comics legend Basil Wolverton. The Man from the Moon; The Worm Turns; Else Youll Be Dead; Jumpin' Jupiter; Worst Enemy; Under Her Thumb; Torture! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $1,370.00 Paper: Light tan to off white Label #4120889023

Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Tony Mortellaro, Eugene Hughes, and Hy Fleishman. Pre-Code tales of science fiction and horror from Stanley Morse Publications. Humans in the near-perfect society of 2053 set out to eliminate disease. A scientist who manages to shrink down in size is accidentally swallowed by a colleague. Plus an adventure of whimsical spacefaring hero Jumpin' Jupiter. Classic alien-abduction cover by Bernard Baily. Time and Tide; Plaything; The Purple Mists; Death Rides the Galaxy; Jonah; The Beginning or the End! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Weird Tales of the Future (1952) 6 CGC 3.5

Paper: Off white

Label #4257046005

Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Tony Mortellaro, Eugene Hughes, and Hy Fleishman. Pre-Code tales of science fiction and horror from Stanley Morse Publications. Humans in the near-perfect society of 2053 set out to eliminate disease. A scientist who manages to shrink down in size is accidentally swallowed by a colleague. Plus an adventure of whimsical spacefaring hero Jumpin' Jupiter. Classic alien-abduction cover by Bernard Baily. Time and Tide; Plaything; The Purple Mists; Death Rides the Galaxy; Jonah; The Beginning or the End! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 0.5 $399.95 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white 1/3 Piece Missing From Front Cover. Label #4293170002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($12.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Tony Mortellaro, Eugene Hughes, and Hy Fleishman. Pre-Code tales of science fiction and horror from Stanley Morse Publications. Humans in the near-perfect society of 2053 set out to eliminate disease. A scientist who manages to shrink down in size is accidentally swallowed by a colleague. Plus an adventure of whimsical spacefaring hero Jumpin' Jupiter. Classic alien-abduction cover by Bernard Baily. Time and Tide; Plaything; The Purple Mists; Death Rides the Galaxy; Jonah; The Beginning or the End! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Weird Terror (1952) 3 CGC 3.0

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #4405340001

Don Heck cover. Includes the particularly gruesome "Den of Horror," in which an evil playboy transforms his lavish drawing room into a...well, you know. Plus text pieces on sin eating and dowsing. Edited by Allen Hardy. Stories by Pete Morisi, Don Perlin, Abe Simon, and Rudy Palais. Horror, suspense, and Weird Terror tales patterned after the classic EC comics. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $270.00 Restored: C1 Paper: Off white Restoration includes: small amount of color touch on cover. Label #4325200002

Cover by Don Heck. Stories and art by Alberta Tewks, Alvah Null, Edwin Green, Kenneth Landau and Rudy Palais. Pre-Code horror comics by the talents at the Iger Shop. Louella is accused of murdering her fiance and sent to an asylum, in a story with some weird, hallucinatory art by Rudy Palais. A man reveals how he tried to poison a romantic rival. A man murders his wife because of her obsession with quiz shows, and winds up on a hellish game show of his own. Also featuring a cover by future Marvel legend Don Heck promising "shrunken skulls, decapitations, cemeteries, murders." Die; Cemetery; The Wizard; Waterfront; A Devil of a Racket; Decapitation. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $1,150.00 or Best Offer Paper: Light tan to off white Label #2053165002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($34.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by A. C. Hollingsworth. "Monster of Sarno Gulch," pencils by Norman Nodel, inks by Vincent Alascia; While visiting a Caribbean island, a man witnesses voodoo rituals that change humans into monsters; Stealing some of the elixir he returns home to Sarno Gulch and uses the elixir on himself and his new bride. "African Horror," art by Harry Lazarus. "The Grave" text story. "Mystery of the Moaning Statue," art by A. C. Hollingsworth. "Hero of the Venus Flyer," art by Gene Fawcette. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $585.00 Paper: Cream to off white Small amount of dried glue on spine. Label #4224156017

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Lee Elias, and Jack Sparling. A showcase for Harvey's distinctive brand of pre-Code horror. An aged scientist sells his soul to the devil in exchange for a year and a day of youth. A glutton and his mother disparage his wife's cooking abilities - until she makes him a meal he'll never forget. A murderous rubber prospector makes a deal with the local natives to help him kill his way to a fortune, but they haven't forgotten how he abused them. The Pact; The Tiger; Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes; Jungle; Honeymoon; Repayment; Strange Superstitions; A Matter of Taste. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $270.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4073590018

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Manny Stallman, and Jack Sparling. A showcase for Harvey's distinctive brand of pre-Code horror. A businessman is haunted by the partner he had killed 15 years before. A man seeks revenge after his wife identifies her rapist. A couple gets a dark prediction in a Chinese restaurant. The Invasion; Blind Alley; Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes; Revenge; The Chase; Dead End. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $765.00 Paper: Off white Label #4338240015

Cover by Warren Kremer and Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Pete Riss, and Jack Sparling. A showcase for Harvey's distinctive brand of pre-Code horror. A town is beset by suspicion when one resident may be a vampire. In a parody of Dick Tracy, detective Hector Protector discovers the man he's pursuing is actually a robot. A gun is followed on its path around the city, as it is used in one murder after another. Classic subway-of-the-dead cover by Warren Kremer and Lee Elias. Day of Panic; The Baby; Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes; Chain Reaction; The Hunter; Debut!; Double Crossed. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $380.00 Paper: Off white Label #4317343007

Cover pencils by Irwin Hasen, inks by Bernard Sachs. "The Man Who Shook the Earth," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman vs. Mole Men. Wonder Women of History: three-page Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska bio by Julius Schwartz. Superboy stars in a one-page public service announcement, "Superboy Discovers a New Kind of Junior Sport!" Superman is on Television! ad. "Her Crowning Glory" text article. 44 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $1,490.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #2083366008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($44.70) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Irwin Hasen, inks by Bernard Sachs. "Wonder Woman's Triple Identity!", script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; A criminal advertises he has Wonder Woman's sandals, and three women show up to claim them. Harvest Moon text article. "Lamp of the Leprechauns," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman has to relight the leprechaun's magic lamp with fire from Halley's Comet. The Amazing Leaning Tower text article. "The Secret of the Amazon Earrings!", script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Origin of Diana's Earings; She makes them out of part of her tiara; They contain oxygen. NOTE: There is a Pizza Hut Collector's Edition reprint of this comic from 1977. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $469.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Slab: Scuffing to inner well of case Label #1482247013 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($14.07) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Winslow Mortimer. Metropolis--Crime Center starring Superman, art by Al Plastino; A dying millionaire takes revenge on Metropolis by staging a gangster treasure hunt. Tomahawk's Battle Song, art by Fred Ray. A Livestock Lallapalooza starring Dover and Clover, art by Henry Boltinoff. Eight Crimes of the Octopus Gang starring Green Arrow, art by George Papp. Fugitive from Berlin, script by Dave Wood. Bombardment by Butterflies text story by Jack E. Miller. Little Pete humor page by Henry Boltinoff. The Millionaire Detective starring Batman and The Zero, script by Bill Finger, pencils by Dick Sprang, inks by Charles Paris. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $430.00 Paper: Off white to white Slab: Significant side/edge cracks 1" or more Label #4140513014

Cover by Sheldon Moldoff. Stories and art by Sheldon Moldoff, Bob McCarty and John Martin. Pre-Code tales of horror from Fawcett, a publisher not normally noted for grue. Paul returns from the jungle safari he barely survived, but he won't discuss how he survived the deadly plane crash. Rival puppeteers share a dark secret. Crooks rob an old pirate captain, and are cursed for their efforts. ?; The Phantom Gloves; The Rivals; The Curse of Manu. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $1,059.00 Paper: Off white Label #4333784010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($31.77) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Carl Burgos. Written by Hank Chapman, Don Rico and unknown. Art by Russ Heath, Carl Burgos, John Romita, Sr., Mort Lawrence and Bill Everett. In this issue: The Human Torch (Jim Hammond) and Toro (Thomas Raymond) in "The Return of...the Human Torch" by Hank Chapman, Russ Heath and Carl Burgos (art for Torch figure on splash page); Captain America, Bucky and the Red Skull in "Back From the Dead!" by Don Rico, John Romita, Sr. and Mort Lawrence (art for first panel of splash page); the Sub-Mariner returns in a story with art by Bill Everett; and "A Traitor Among Us" text story. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.