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Comic books May 1953, graded by CGC

  • Item #61722822
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    Stories and art by Antonio Canale, Edd Ashe, Ken Landau, George Olesen, Bernard Sachs, Enrico Bagnoli, Michael O'Malley¸ Ralph Lane, and Bill Molno. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. 100-page giant. Holdup man "Lefty" reveals the secrets of his past to a reporter as he's on the way to Alcatraz. Private eye Vic Flint goes to a fancy dinner and gets a lead on a cold murder case, in the evocatively titled "Hell-Bent for the Hot Squat." Nate is released from prison after five years and immediately picked up by his ex-partners, who want to know where he stashed the loot. Gunmans Gamble; Full Dress Shakedown; The Killer Quartet; The Push-Button Murder; Kingpins in Crime; The Short Beer Kid; Boomerang Booty; Ticketed for Murder; Escape by Night; Too Dumb to Be Dangerous; Guns for Gangland!; Vic Flint: Hell-Bent for the Hot Squat; Comedy Column; Gag Bag; Mr. Bluebeard Takes Wife No. 13. 100 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

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    Stories and art by Sheldon Moldoff, Bill Woolfolk, Maurice Gutwirth and Bob McCarthy. Classic pre-Code horror from St. John. Chess master Roger engages Death in a chess game during a near-death experience, but after he's revived, Death wants to continue the game. A train engineer gets a job offer to conduct the train to Hell, a one-way trip for most. Scientist Hiram creates a machine that can transport the souls of the elderly into the bodies of the freshly dead, and it just gets worse from there. The Man Who Defeated Death!; Dripping Terror; Last Express!; Tempest in a Teapot; The Walking Cadaver. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    • Restored: C1
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    Cover by Dick Beck. Stories and art by Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Sal Trapani and Ed Goldfarb. Pre-Code tales of EC-style horror from Story Comics. Seeking revenge for his wife's death, a doctor ensures that a reporter really does have ink in his veins. Cowardly Crowell goes on safari with his wife, but when she has an affair with the guide, he manages to make at least one kill. A horror host (based on EC's Crypt-Keeper) reveals the story of Paul, who falls in love with the vampire next door. Two Heads Are Better Than One; Deadline; The Rat and the Rattlesnake; The Big Game Hunter; The Bloodless Killer. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Cover by Dick Beck. Stories and art by Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Sal Trapani and Ed Goldfarb. Pre-Code tales of EC-style horror from Story Comics. Seeking revenge for his wife's death, a doctor ensures that a reporter really does have ink in his veins. Cowardly Crowell goes on safari with his wife, but when she has an affair with the guide, he manages to make at least one kill. A horror host (based on EC's Crypt-Keeper) reveals the story of Paul, who falls in love with the vampire next door. Two Heads Are Better Than One; Deadline; The Rat and the Rattlesnake; The Big Game Hunter; The Bloodless Killer. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Kent Blake of the Secret Service (1951) 13 CGC 6.0

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    Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. While visiting Pa Potter, Billy, Mary and Freddy discover an old treasure map and go in search of lost treasure. This Goonies-style adventure takes a left turn with the appearance of the Scarlet Skull and his army of zombies, something only the Marvels can handle. Headline Harry's hand-grenade joke gets him assigned to the underworld beat. The Flying Skull; FBI Triumphs; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Handy Hand Grenade; Wilbur the Waiter; Rubbernose Randolph; The Marvel Family Battles Chief Thundercloud. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Stories by Stan Lee. Art and Cover by Dan DeCarlo. Millie the Model in: two untitled stories; five untitled 1-pagers; and "Millie's Fashion Page"! Plus: untitled Chili story; 2-page text story "Mask of Hearts" (writer unknown); and untitled Daisy and Iggy story. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    "Witch Wolf Terror"; A man returns to Ireland to claim his ancestral home which he moves to the States; A curse was put upon the man's family by the Witch Wolf; The man's secretary plots to kill the man. "Isle of the Doomed"; Two honeymooners die at sea; Their bloated bodies wash up on shore and become animated; Each thinks the other is ugly. "Grim Masquerade" text story. "Club Horror"; A man who is bored with his life of gambling accepts an offer from Death to gamble using chips that represent years of his life. "The Stolen Brain"; A scientist kills an investor and removes his brain; He forces the brain to give him stock market tips; The brain gives the scientist a bad tip. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Cover art by Russ Heath. The Witch and I; A Count has a witch for a mother and he forces her to use her black magic to gain advantage over the peasants; As she lays dying, she gives him a last doll and tells him that it is a figure of his greatest enemy; She dies before she can instruct him what to do with it. The Door that Never Opens; The constructor of the French Bastille tricks an abbot into serving as a prison guard, but the abbot gets back at him by locking him into the newly-opened Bastille and then setting the prisoners loose upon him. The Slaves!, art by art by Ed Win; This story is narrated by a strangler's hands who regret the actions their owner makes them do. Invitation to the Waltz text story. His Dead Wife!, art by art by Tony DiPreta; A Nazi spy marries a woman who hates them and he kills her and stashes a wireless set in the coffin which he leaves in the castle to warn the Nazi of raids. In the Wake of the Werewolf, art by Sam Kweskin; A man stumbles into a situation where two people accuse a girl of being a vampire and attack her. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    Cover art by Russ Heath. John Doe, script by Stan Lee, art by Joe Maneely; A criminal attempts to steal an inventor's robot so that he can sell it, but when he attempts to rub out the inventor's daughter, the robot attacks and kills him. The Apple Orchard text story. The Saucers Strike, art by George Tuska. Witch-Hunt, pencils by Larry Woromay, inks by Matt Fox; The devil is annoyed with a do-gooder who drives away his witches so he assumes the guise of an official of the kingdom and has her sent to the stake. Boris and the Bomb, art by Gene Colan. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Lee Elias, Bob Powell, and Jack Sparling. Tomb of Terror was one of Harvey Comics' notorious pre-Code horror comics. A convict tunneling to freedom breaks through the wall into Hell itself. "True" legends of the Leopard Men of Africa. Competing mountain climbers resort to murder to be the first to reach a summit. Bubble, Cauldron, Bubble; The Stranger; Food for Thought; The Tunnel; Backwash; Flying Saucers; The Leopard Men; The Prize. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Edited by Allen Hardy. Cover by Don Heck. Horror, suspense, and Weird Terror tales patterned after the classic EC comics. "Full Moon," art by Don Heck; Young chemistry student Alex Nome discovers a formula which changes him into a werewolf; After a killing spree he is determined to put a stop to his insanity. "Big Screen," art by Rudy Palais; Hugh Carson, inventor, develops a radio machine and gets tuned in to alien signals; He learns of an invasion to earth; Frantically Carson tries to find someone who will believe him. "Ghouls, Inc." text article; Historical account of the business of "body-snatching", providing anatomy students with corpses. "Devil's Hex," art by Pete Morisi; Sandra and Louise are fighting over the same man; Sandra disposes of Louise by destroying a voodoo-sculpture likeness of her; But Louise finds a way to haunt the murderous Sandra. "Taboos of Death" text article; Account of funeral rites all over the world. "Cadaver," art by Mannie Banks; The mortician Carl Moreno supplies old spinster Anna Mord with human body parts to humor her cannibalism; And to make him her sole heir to her riches; To speed up things Carl poisons Anna. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.