Comic books 1954, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 1.8 $299.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4144022005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Ad for Panic. "Surprise Party!", script and art by Johnny Craig; Jerry Adams arrived in a small town on a rainy night; He hits a detour and turns off on a dirt road until he spots a house; He sees that a party is in progress. "Sharp" text story. "Take Care," pencils by Al Williamson, inks by Angelo Torres; The former butler to Avery Ballusk waited on the owner hand and foot, but seemed only interested in inheriting his money after Ballusk's death, which soon came, at the end of a rope. "Oh! Henry!", art by Graham Ingels (as Ghastly); Lionel Hart, plainclothes detective, thought back to when he had just started on the force. He made many arrests, not listening to phony stories from the guilty... but one day he caught an old lady for shoplifting, and she pleaded for him to understand that the food she took was for her sick, paralyzed husband, Henry. Letter to the editor from E. Nelson Bridwell. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $1,100.00 Restored: C1 Paper: Off white to white Restoration Includes: Small Amount of Color Touch on Cover. Label #3764489008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($33.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Ad for Panic. "Deadly Beloved!", script by Carl Wessler, art by Johnny Craig; Edward's car overheats and is forced to stop and seek out help; He spots a stately mansion is the bayous, and enters, finding it burnt out inside. "Top Billing," script by Carl Wessler, art by Reed Crandall; Three actors find themselves at the stage entrance of mysterious Woltam Theatre; A rehearsal of Hamlet stops when a vital prop turns up missing. "Show Stopper!" text story. "The Purge," script by Carl Wessler, art by Bernard Krigstein; King Horace is called to the cell of a lovely lady and he asks her why she wants to see him; Alicia tells him that she was controlled by the devil and wanted to be purged of him. "All for Gnawt," script by Carl Wessler, art by Graham Ingels; Millie is drinking herself into a stupor, lamenting that her previous four husbands had not left her the funds she craved, but to find another husband would be difficult considering her looks and weight. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $400.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4341760008

Cover by Reed Crandall. "The Witch of Death," pencils by Charles Nicholas; Newspaperman Dick Groom arrives in New England's Misty Moors community to cover "Witchery Week"; The local Duncan family is decimated one by one - haunted by the curse of the once alive moor witch. "The Monster Genie"; Bank teller Arthur Cook is offered the services of a mighty genie; After the brute has disposed of two of Cook's enemies, Cook murders the genie's master. "Lighthouse of the Dead"; Old Pearly Marston, operator of the Searock lighthouse, keeps away the dead from the sea by shining his beacon. "The Man Who Dug His Own Grave" text story. "The Sealed Corpse"; The butler Jeffers murders his employer, Sir Wendell Eaton. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.8 $145.00 Paper: Off white Label #4363466022

"Return of the Dead," pencils by Charles Nicholas; Serge Lamont builds a machine to communicate with the dead; He uses it to learn all the magic secrets of the recently deceased magician Zendali. "The Fiend Who Lived Forever," art by Louis Ravielli; A scientist is able to make himself immortal through experimentation on human victims; He robs banks to gather enough wealth to marry his sweetheart. "Terror in Chinatown," pencils by Charles Nicholas; The collector August Lamont searches frantically for a Chinese "book of the dead" holding great secrets; Lamont murders two book dealers to get his hands on the tome. "Death's Challenge" text story. "The Avenging Ghosts," pencils by Charles Nicholas; Gangsters Pete and Joey escape from their prison island in a motorboat and land on the "island of honesty" where no crime ever happens. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.5 $224.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #3905705017 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.72) will be charged at checkout.

"Death's Album"; Alec Marston, freelance photographer, witnesses an accident at an atomic laboratory; His camera lens is somehow altered and reveals three emissaries of death behind the catastrophe. "The Man Who Lived Forever"; An age-old sage lives on a plateau in the Canadian wilderness; One day three prospectors parachute in as visitors looking for uranium. "Spectre of the Andes," art by Louis Ravielli; A tourist couple arrives in the Peruvian village of Vortezo where a Spanish conquistador of the same name reigned with brutal terror. "Dark Sorcery" text story. "One Night of Terror," pencils by Charles Nicholas; A meteor comes down in the desert near Ghost City valley; Some prospectors go searching for it, but discover an alien spaceship. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $235.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4308108021 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.05) will be charged at checkout.

"The Man Who Died Tomorrow," "Lair of the Silken Doom" (art by Lou Cameron), "MIne Own Executioner," and "Keeper of the Flames." Cover by Jim McLaughlin. Stories by Ken Rice, Sy Grudko, Lou Cameron, Jim McLaughlin. Suspense-filled horror tales that weave a Web of Mystery for the reader! 36 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $519.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1969435009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($15.57) will be charged at checkout.

"Terror On TV," art by Eugene Hughes; Vampiric monsters take over a television studio and begin attacking the cast and crew of the production; However, the audience watching the program live on their TV sets at home think it's part of the show. "Clumsy," art by Eugene Hughes; A wife convinces her clumsy scientist husband to freeze her body thus putting her in suspended animation for 7 years; After she's declared legally dead, he will thaw her out and they can cash in on her insurance; Unfortunately, his clumsiness causes her frozen body to shatter to pieces when he knocks into her; When he thaws her out, he has to piece her body back together making her into a horrid jigsaw-like monstrosity. "Voice of Doom," art by Eugene Hughes; A parrot convinces his abusive owner that his beautiful pregnant wife is having an affair causing the unstable man to kill her and himself in a murder suicide. "Fateful Ferry" text story; On a foggy night, a ferry is overrun by skeletal pirates that are centuries old. "The Bogey Man," art by Eugene Hughes; A young orphan is left in the care of his shady aunt and uncle; When the boy is convinced he sees a "bogeyman" in the coal bin in the basement, the couple convince the boy that it's real so he will go insane with fright and have to be institutionalized, thus allowing them to cash in on his inheritance with him being incapacitated. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $949.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #0309082005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($28.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Tony Mortellaro, S. Finocchiaro, Sal Trapani and Eugene Hughes. Pre-Code tales of horror from Stanley Morse Publications. A man has a nightmare that an earthquake releases demons from Hell. A witch gives an unhappily married man some variety by transforming him into different creatures. A man with a bad heart finds a miracle cure, but there's a terrible catch. I Killed Mary; Premonition; The Witches Curse; Bum Ticker; The One That Got Away, Come and Get Me! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $600.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #1239662004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($18.00) will be charged at checkout.

First issue of the series (continues from Weird Fantasy and Weird Science). Cover art by Wallace Wood. "The Children," script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Wallace Wood; Colonists on a new world have their children taken from them by the government. "Fish Story," script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Al Williamson (signed) and Roy Krenkel (underwater world panels); The fish life forms on a distant strange blue planet are faced with their fading sun soon going nova and exploding, only to leave their planet without life-sustaining oxygen; Then they see an alien vessel approaching and fill it with water and drown the crew inside. "Ninth Wonder" text story. "The Flying Machine," script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by Bernie Krigstein; When Emperor Yuan discovers that a villager has learned how to create a flying machine he has him killed so the secret won't fall into the wrong hands. "Fair Trade, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; After a nuclear holocaust, a tribe sells Manhattan Island to aliens. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $400.00 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Significant side/edge cracks 1" or more Label #4022353011

First issue of the series (continues from Weird Fantasy and Weird Science). Cover art by Wallace Wood. "The Children," script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Wallace Wood; Colonists on a new world have their children taken from them by the government. "Fish Story," script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Al Williamson (signed) and Roy Krenkel (underwater world panels); The fish life forms on a distant strange blue planet are faced with their fading sun soon going nova and exploding, only to leave their planet without life-sustaining oxygen; Then they see an alien vessel approaching and fill it with water and drown the crew inside. "Ninth Wonder" text story. "The Flying Machine," script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by Bernie Krigstein; When Emperor Yuan discovers that a villager has learned how to create a flying machine he has him killed so the secret won't fall into the wrong hands. "Fair Trade, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; After a nuclear holocaust, a tribe sells Manhattan Island to aliens. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $300.00 Paper: Off white Label #4340754024 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.00) will be charged at checkout.

First issue of the series (continues from Weird Fantasy and Weird Science). Cover art by Wallace Wood. "The Children," script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Wallace Wood; Colonists on a new world have their children taken from them by the government. "Fish Story," script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Al Williamson (signed) and Roy Krenkel (underwater world panels); The fish life forms on a distant strange blue planet are faced with their fading sun soon going nova and exploding, only to leave their planet without life-sustaining oxygen; Then they see an alien vessel approaching and fill it with water and drown the crew inside. "Ninth Wonder" text story. "The Flying Machine," script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by Bernie Krigstein; When Emperor Yuan discovers that a villager has learned how to create a flying machine he has him killed so the secret won't fall into the wrong hands. "Fair Trade, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; After a nuclear holocaust, a tribe sells Manhattan Island to aliens. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $420.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #2001431002

Cover by Don Heck. Stories and art by Ken Fitch, Bill Discount, Pete Morisi, Rudy Palais and Don Heck. Pre-Code horror comics by the talents at the Iger Shop. A daughter's death by a mysterious ailment coincides with the arrival of a handsome stranger. Tough cop Corrigan is murdered by crooks, but even that won't stop him from protecting his partner. Glass figurines in a Munich shop resemble missing women a little too exactly. Also featuring a cover by future Marvel legend Don Heck. The Black Heart; Thieves; King Whitey; The Man Who Died Twice; Corrigan; China Doll. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $710.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4388388015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($21.30) will be charged at checkout.

"Rodeo Schmoe," "The Big Wheels" (art by Russ Heath), "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" (art by Ed Win), "Genghis Can't," and "Florence Nightgown," plus a two-page text story, "Jackpot Jitters!" Art by Bill Everett and Joe Maneely. Carl Burgos cover. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $450.00 Paper: Off white Label #0025204009

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Nat Barnett, Howard Nostrand, and Joe Certa. A showcase for Harvey's distinctive brand of pre-Code horror. A man makes a wager that he cannot be killed. A MAD-style spoof of the classic Wuthering Heights. A vampire is dejected to learn his son doesn't want to follow in his footsteps at Vampire University. Long Shot; Withering Heights; Go Vampire; Up There. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $200.00 Paper: Off white Label #3899439009

Cover pencils by Irwin Hasen, inks by Bernard Sachs. "The Human Tank," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; No weapon can harm him and no jail can hold him; how can Wonder Woman defeat the Human Tank? Strange Glove Beliefs text article, art by Morris Waldinger. "The Secret Invasion," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman wakes up in San Francisco - or does she?; A scientist projects images with his alien-granted abilities - or does he?; It's all an elaborate ruse to frustrate Wonder Woman's defense against an alien invasion. Wedding Souvenirs; Historical roots of the bridal veil, bridesmaids, the best man, honeymoons, and the wedding cake. Lucky In Love text article. "The Imposter Queen," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; To solve the mystery of her appearance in an old picture book, Wonder Woman travels to ancient Sardonia, where she impersonates the missing queen to prevent the evil Prince Rupert from usurping the throne. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $198.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Piece Re-attached to Back Cover With Tape. Label #0316930011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.94) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Irwin Hasen, inks by Bernard Sachs. "The Stone Slayer," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman is captured by the statues from Easter Island. "The Tornado Detective," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman battles a flying saucer that creates tornadoes. Wonder Women of History bio on Florence Rena Sabin by Julius Schwartz, art by John Giunta. Your Favorite Color text article. "The Last Amazon," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman wakes to find she's been shrunken and stuck in a display case along with Steve Trevor and some others; Then she finds out Duke Deception has conquered Earth. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $150.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #1224793007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Irwin Hasen, inks by Bernard Sachs. "Confessions of a Spy," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Diana acts as a spy to infiltrate a spy ring for Steve. "Portraits of Peril" starring Wonder Woman, Steve Trevor, and Albert Easel, script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter. "Those Precious Pearls" text article. Superboy stars in a one-page public service announcement, "Don't Give Fire a Place to Start!", script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. "The Runaway Meteor," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; A strange meteor turns Wonder Woman anti-magnetic. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $2,349.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #0345450001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($70.47) will be charged at checkout.

First time Superman and Batman appeared in the same story. Previously they had only been in separate stories. Cover art by Winslow Mortimer. Batman - Double for Superman!, script by Alvin Schwartz, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Stan Kaye; Lois accidentally learns Superman's identity while he is trying to rescue Batman and Robin, so Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne exchange roles to convince Lois that Clark is not Superman. The Invisible Death! starring Green Arrow, script by Ed Herron, art by George Papp. Jerry the Jitterbug humor page by Henry Boltinoff. 3-D Daredevils text article by Jack E. Miller. Feathered Fighters for Freedom! starring Tomahawk, script by Dave Wood, art by Nick Cardy. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $1,700.00 Paper: Off white Label #3727487001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($51.00) will be charged at checkout.

First time Superman and Batman appeared in the same story. Previously they had only been in separate stories. Cover art by Winslow Mortimer. Batman - Double for Superman!, script by Alvin Schwartz, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Stan Kaye; Lois accidentally learns Superman's identity while he is trying to rescue Batman and Robin, so Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne exchange roles to convince Lois that Clark is not Superman. The Invisible Death! starring Green Arrow, script by Ed Herron, art by George Papp. Jerry the Jitterbug humor page by Henry Boltinoff. 3-D Daredevils text article by Jack E. Miller. Feathered Fighters for Freedom! starring Tomahawk, script by Dave Wood, art by Nick Cardy. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $720.00 Paper: Off white Label #4108608005

Cover by Carl Burgos. Written by Joe Gill, Don Rico and unknown. Art by Carl Burgos, John Romita, Sr. and Bill Everett. In this issue: The Human Torch (Jim Hammond), Toro (Thomas Raymond) and the Vulture (Isidoro Scarlotti) in a story by Joe Gill and Carl Burgos; Captain America and Bucky in "Captain America Turns Traitor!" by Don Rico and John Romita, Sr.; the Sub-Mariner in a story with art by Bill Everett; and "Pursuit" text story. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $760.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #3775450018

Cover by Carl Burgos. Written by Joe Gill, Don Rico and unknown. Art by Carl Burgos, John Romita, Sr. and Bill Everett. In this issue: The Human Torch (Jim Hammond), Toro (Thomas Raymond) and the Hypnotist in a story by Joe Gill and Carl Burgos; Captain America, Bucky and the Red Skull in "The Return of the Red Skull!" by Don Rico and John Romita, Sr.; the Sub-Mariner in a story with art by Bill Everett; and "The Big Theft" reprint text story. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.8 $426.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Panel cut out of page 12, affects story. INCOMPLETE. Label #3889758001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($12.78) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Carl Burgos. Written by Joe Gill, Don Rico and unknown. Art by Carl Burgos, John Romita, Sr. and Bill Everett. In this issue: The Human Torch (Jim Hammond), Toro (Thomas Raymond) and the Hypnotist in a story by Joe Gill and Carl Burgos; Captain America, Bucky and the Red Skull in "The Return of the Red Skull!" by Don Rico and John Romita, Sr.; the Sub-Mariner in a story with art by Bill Everett; and "The Big Theft" reprint text story. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.