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Haunted Thrills (1952) comic books in grade FR or lower

  • Issue #1
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 1
    • INCOMPLETE. First wrap and centerfold missing, affects art and story.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. Wealthy playboy Peter Brooke has a secret life as a creature of the darkness. The police are baffled by the strange murders at Surfside Manor. A Nazi bomb frees a 17th-century witch from her grave to fulfill her curse. A Coffin Waits...; Ghost Gloves; Ghost of R'wana; Skeletons Have Secrets!; The Witch's Curse! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #5
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 5
    Published 1953 by Ajax.
    • Full length spine split (taped). Staple rust/migration.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
      Other items consigned by humble cow

    Stories and art by Joe Doolin and others. Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A Faulkneresque tale of murder on a faded Southern plantation includes a zombie and art possibly by Human Torch creator Carl Burgos. A woman hires a witch and then unwisely ignores her bill. A butcher in a famine-stricken city turns to an obvious source for fresh meat. Hands of Terror; Swamp Haunt; House of Chills; Fatal Scalpel. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #7
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 7
    Published 1953 by Ajax.
    • COVERLESS. Margin pieces missing, slightly interrupts art or story.

    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A scientist makes mental contact with an executed convict's preserved brain. A movie actor drafted to the Korean front uses makeup to fake his own death, but it works too well. A dying plastic surgeon reveals he changed Hitler's face after WWII. Trail to a Tomb; The Corpse Who Killed; Harbinger of Violence; Two on the Aisle... Of Death!; Screams in the Night. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #10
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 10
    Published 1953 by Ajax.

    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. Scientist Marcus Kemp creates a robot duplicate, then gets blamed for its murders. A man is haunted by unearthly dreams of a departed lover. An escaped killer encounters a witch on the British moors, and it doesn't end well for either of them. Death at the Mardi Gras; Screams in the Swamp; Night of Horror; Murder on the Moor; Witch's Horror. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #11
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 11

    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A strange rain of blood is centered on a man who framed a romantic rival for murder. Two embezzlers fight to the death, but the story doesn't end there. The truth about a pirate's cursed treasure is uncovered by horror host The Hexmaster. Blood in the Sky; Death at the Throttle; The Stranger in the Sky; Dead Man's Chest; Out of the Grave. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #16
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 16
    • 5" cumulative spine split. Cover detached. Interior spine splitting through most wraps, due to oxidation. Brittle.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
      Other items consigned by humble cow

    Stories and art by Carl Burgos and others. Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A woman's jilted fiance commits suicide, but he's not done making her life miserable. A killer's victims are reincarnated as lethal swans. Mysterious, beautiful Suthina appears after Matt is bitten by the deadly temple spider in Egypt, and soon follows him to America. Devil's Bride; Web of the Widow; Phantoms Are Fatal to Fakers; Howling Horror!; Blade of Horror. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #18
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 18
    Auction opens April 5
    • REMAINDERED COPY.

    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A murdered animal trainer returns as a tiger to get revenge on her killer, in a story with multiple killings-by-tiger. Detective Bill White goes all Kolchak on a murderous demon called Kehama. A dead man's soul is judged by the afterlife to be completely neutral. Tiger - Tiger!; If I Should Die; The Ghost and the Gallows; Fanged Terror; Strange Spirits; No Place to Go. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.