Witchcraft (1952 Avon) comic books
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Issue #1
Published Mar 1952 by Avon Publications.$836.00
View scans- Paper: Off white to white
- Slab: Significant front/back scuff(s)
- Label #0983684031
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
$356.00
View scans- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #4459865010
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
- Interior is complete. Back cover missing.
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"Heritage of Horror!", script by Sol Cohen, art by Joe Kubert; Weird events occur when Julian Daniels puts brush to canvas. "Devil-Music!", pencils by Gene Fawcette, inks by Vince Alascia; A beautiful young singer discovers what brings evil to life. "This Ship Is Doomed!"; The Indies Queen and its passengers were destined for disaster. "Demon's Bargain!" text story. "Vengeance of the Ouanga!"; Bob Grant carried a dead killer's good luck charm-the bones of a hand and arm-which leads to terror. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #2
Published May 1952 by Avon Publications.- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #1992838023
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Art by Sid Check, Norman Nodel, Vince Alascia, Ed Goldfarb, and Joe Kubert. Cover by Gene Fawcette. Tales of pre-Code horror, curses, and spells. A cursed tattoo gives its owner hypnotic powers, but slowly drives them to madness and death, then goes off to find a new victim. A scientist creates a formula that brings inanimate objects to life, then finds himself trapped in his own living and malevolent house. In the frozen north, explorers ill-advisedly investigate a lost Viking ship that is not as dead as it seems. Also featuring a classic horror cover, probably by Gene Fawcette, and a campy contents page illustrated by Sid Check on the inside front cover. Witchcraft; The Death Tattoo!; The Vampire Puppet; The Dead Do Tell! A True Ghost Story; House to Let; The Northern Horror! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #3
Published Jul 1952 by Avon Publications.- Interior complete. Full length spine split with missing back cover. \
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- Interior is complete. Severe water damage. Mold.
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Art by Everett Raymond Kinstler, Mort Lawrence, Vince Alascia and Gerald McCann. Cover by Gene Fawcette. Tales of pre-Code horror, curses, and spells. Entomologist Damon Rankin finds a fabled red spider in the Caribbean, but it holds dangers he cant conceive; The ghost of a murdered clown haunts the man who killed him; A boxer begins seeing visions of his dead girlfriend. Also featuring a wicked contents page illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler on the inside front cover, featuring huge spiders, disembodied eyes, and an evil clown. Witchcraft; The Red Spider!; The Thirteenth Clown; Ghostly Warning!; The Will; The Ghosts Revenge! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #4
Published 1952 by Avon Publications.$300.00
View scan- Interior is complete. Full length spine split.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
- INCOMPLETE. First wrap missing, affects art and story.
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Art by Everett Raymond Kinstler, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Mort Meskin, George Roussos and Harry Lazarus. Cover by A. C. Hollingsworth. Tales of pre-Code horror, curses, and spells. A dying man makes a bargain with death, but now he must kill others to stay alive; A jealous plastic surgeon disfigures his romantic rival, but his own inner ugliness comes to the surface; No one believes an arsonists claims that he is possessed by a fire monster. Also featuring a spooky contents page illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler on the inside front cover, including a skeleton in a top hat & tuxedo and an evil cat. Witchcraft; The Man Who Bribed Death; The Terrible Face; The Witch of Death Swamp!; Claws of the Cat; The Thing Beneath the Earth; Diary of the Monster! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #6
Published Mar 1953 by Avon Publications.- Cover oxidation. Water spotting. Tape on interior cover.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
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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.
