Comic books in 'EC Titles', graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $1,399.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4438054019 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($41.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Al Feldstein. Stories by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art by Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kamen, Harry Harrison, Wally Wood and Al Feldstein. Numbering continues from Saddle Romances (1949) #11. EC's influential sci-fi title featured some of the legendary SF artists of comics history. NOTE: There are two issues in this series numbered 12. The issue pictured here, dated May-June 1950, although numbered 12, is the actual # 1 in the series. The one dated May-June 1952 is issue # 12 in the series. NOTE 2: This issue was reprinted by East Coast Comics with a $1 cover a 1970's copyright date (See E.C. Classic Reprints #11). These and other changes make the reprint easy to distinguish from the original, which has a 10-cent cover price and a 1950's publication date. Scientist Karl accidentally ingests a shrinking formula and finds himself entering succeedingly smaller universes, in a story by Harvey Kurtzman. A man who is constantly dreaming is never sure when he's awake, with art by Harry Harrison and Wally Wood. Alien invaders leave a strange crater in the desert. Classic cover by Al Feldstein. Lost in the Microcosm; Dream of Doom; Murder in the 21st Century; Experiment in Death; By the Dark of the Moon; Things From Outer Space! 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 $399.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1482320005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Al Feldstein. Stories by Al Feldstein and others. Art by Bill Fraccio, Johnny Craig, John Sink and Al Feldstein. EC's entry to the romance comics genre, in the early Bill Gaines years. A farmer's son and a coal-miner's daughter have a Romeo-and-Juliet romance while their families are at odds. Mining-company rep Hal is torn between his tribal liaison Grey Fawn and his old flame Monica, in a rare (for its era) tale of interracial romance with early inks by EC legend Johnny Craig. Wealthy girl Toy thinks diver Bob will be easy to win, but he's not impressed by her money or her beauty. Our Families Clashed; The Triangle; A Womans Treachery; Blind Love; Love Must Be Earned! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $1,044.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4153735003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($31.32) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

1ST ISSUE in series (see note following) - "Am I Man or Machine?" (art by Al Feldstein), "Only Time Will Tell" (script by Harry Harrison, art by Harrison and Wally Wood), "The Men of Tomorrow" (art by Jack Kamen), and "Trip Into the Unknown" (art by Harvey Kurtzman). Feldstein cover. NOTE: See 2nd series for 1952 #13. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,025.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #3827967004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($30.75) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Albert B. Feldstein. The Neat Job!, script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Jack Kamen; An abused housewife married to a neat freak snaps one day and neatly dices the sections of her husband's body into small jars. Yellow!, script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Jack Davis; A Colonel's son faces the firing squad for cowardice under fire, and is court-martialed and found guilty, sentenced to die by firing squad. Alibi! text story by Albert B. Feldstein. The Monsters!, script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), pencils by Joe Orlando, inks by Joe Orlando; Aliens deposit their mutant births on Earth which, to them, appear as horrible monsters, but appear as regular human beings to the Earth men. The Rug!, script by Ball Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Graham Ingels (as Ghastly); Conrad and his friend Reggie head up to the big woods for some relaxation, as well as going hunting for a grizzly bear. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.