Comic books July 1953, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $375.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Slab: Scuffing to inner well of case Label #1482262022 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.25) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Antonio Canale, Enrico Bagnoli, Michael O'Malley¸ Ralph Lane, and André LeBlanc. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. 100-page giant. Art and his gang kidnap the adult daughter of a wealthy Vegas casino owner, but she turns out to be smarter and more formidable than they expected. Private eye Vic Flint investigates a murder, and gets set up as a fall guy for his trouble. Crooks set their sights on a lavish party for millionaires aboard the yacht Sea Nymph. Cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Las Vegas Loot; Lou Erskines One Man War; The Kidnapped Sea Nymph; The Crown Prince of Frisco; Vic Flint: The Case of the Jumping Beans; The Police Always Win; Piracy on Route One; Easy-Money Kid; The Tailor-Made Crime Wave; First Offense; The Body on Demand. 100 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $475.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4399320001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($14.25) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by thegeneral

"Fiends from the Crypt"; Chasing a thief named Banco into the Rome sewers, Signor Renzi and his partner, Pietro find Banco with all his body eaten; They try to escape the sewer, and find themselves hunted by the Green Horde. "Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Werewolf"; The Old Crone, saying she's the real grandmother of Little Red Riding Hood, tells the true story; Elmer Dowd turns into a werewolf; As a werewolf, he attacks Red Riding Hood. "Careless Corpse"; Dave Tibbets leaves his wife Becky so he can go to work; He crashes his car and dies; Not realizing he looks like death warmed over, he encounters a lot of people who do realize he looks that way as he heads for home. "Carnival of Terror"; Chun, the Snake Charmer, who charms cobras with his flute, stays with the carnival he despises only to stay near Millie Sears; He reveals his attraction to Millie, who laughs; Joe has Millie tell Chun she'd go with him, and he shows her where his money's hidden; Chun shows her the money, which is kept protected in the cobra cage; Joe and Millie go to steal the money. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $399.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4431924016 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.97) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Jury of the Undead; vengeful corpses come back to haunt a sadistic hanging judge. Deadly Revenge; Lester Parke brings into existence a kidnapper ape. Fatal Impersonation text story. Return of the Corpse. The Green Witch; an evil witch steals the body of young Sandra Jones. Comic strip ad for Joe Bonomo body building books. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $380.00 Paper: White From the top-rated Katy Keene CGC registry set. Label #0345837011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.40) will be charged at checkout.

Stories, Art and Cover by Bill Woggon. America's pin-up queen Katy Keene in four untitled stories: K.O. has a weenie roast with Katy, so Randy shows him up by arriving with steaks; Sis tries to make a good impression with Randy's Aunt Fanny, who's visiting the ranch from Boston; Randy takes Katy golfing with K.O. serving as caddy; and it starts to rain after Katy gets her hair done at Colossal Studios, so she borrows a diver's suit from the prop department for her walk to the soundstage. Plus: "Katy Beach Fashions" 1-pager; untitled Sis the Candy Kid story - After Sis notices that Katy hides her candy on the top shelf in the closet, she takes a sudden interest in reading large books...that she can use a step stool to reach the candy; "Sis Fashions" 1-pager; "Katy Fashions" 1-pager; untitled Sis the Candy Kid 1-pager; and 2-page Hollywood Gossip article. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $1,060.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1615603039 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($31.80) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover art by Sol Brodsky. The Invisible Woman, art by Tony DiPreta. Mummies' Gold text story. Booby Trap, script by Stan Lee, art by Joe Sinnott. The Sure Thing, art by Ross Andru. The Death of a Miser, art by Chuck Winter. The Lucky Stiff. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $1,500.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #4361821010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($45.00) will be charged at checkout.

The Corpse That Came to Dinner, pencils by Reed Crandall, inks by Mike Peppe; A young couple returns from their honeymoon; They learn that a friend has committed suicide, because he had wanted to marry the girl; The friend's corpse climbs out of his grave and lays siege to the couple's apartment. The Horror of Candle Lodge, art by Nick Cardy; Ghost of US-American freedom fighter slays the descendants of British soldiers who lured him into a trap. Till Death Do Us Part, pencils by Nick Cardy; Charles finds out that her sister's husband is keeping him from his inheritance by pretending the sister still to be alive. High Hung the Witch text story by John Marvin. Gunnvor the Sorceress, art by Ralph Mayo; Account of Icelandic saga about madwoman Gunnvor, who could not be killed and haunted her people in many different shapes. Hanged by the Neck, art by Reed Crandall; The magician El Rondo grows jealous of his assistant and hangs him on stage (during a magic routine). 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $1,149.00 Paper: Off white Label #4488726001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($34.47) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by TheGoodOlDays

Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "The Golden Skeletons"; A cemetery caretaker and his wife discover that the cemetery's skeletons have turned to gold; They take them to their house and grind them into gold dust. "One Second to Live"; A convicted murderer relives his life in the second of his hanging; He sees his mother murdered and his discovery that his father was the murderer. "Fatal Proof" text story by John Martin. "No Escape from Evil"; A woman marries an old man for his money; She pushes him off a cliff. The old man although dead returns to kill the widow's new boyfriend. "Devil's Festival"; The village of Walpurgen in Austria, destroyed by Turks, reappears every 100 years; An American couple chances upon it, sees hangings, torture and stonings, and is almost burned at the stake. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $260.00 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Plastic debris between case and inner well Label #4277686005

Cover art by Russ Heath. "The Man Who Couldn't Be Punished," art by Fred Kida; In 1990 prisons have been done away with as wasteful by the machines that run things; Instead, criminals are subject to a process which ages them one year for every second they endure it. "He Swallowed It Up!", art by Gene Colan; Two sword swallowers duel for the title of King of the Sword Swallowers; One attempts to poison the sword of the other, but the intended victim thwarts his ploy by swallowing the sword with its scabbard on. "The Invaders" text story. "Wilbur!", art by Sid Greene; When a lawyer tells a man his rich relative has left some money to Wilber whom he brought back from Africa, the man heads into the dark downstairs with a knife intending to do away with Wilber and collect the full inheritance. "Keep Your Eye on Junior," pencils by Ed Moline, inks by Sheldon Moldoff; A governess is given responsibility over an unruly child who attempts to damage a construct in the attic which contains tiny people; She takes a hatchet away from him, but he threatens to tell his mother. "The World I Lost!", art by John Forte; This unusual two-part story is concluded next issue; In the setup, an atomic scientist who dreads nuclear war resolves to build a time machine in order to visit the year 2053 and determine if the worst takes place. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $426.00 Paper: Off white to white Slab: Significant front/back scuff(s) Label #4276005002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($12.78) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Al Eadeh, Manny Stallman, and John Giunta. Tomb of Terror was one of Harvey Comics' notorious pre-Code horror comics. Practical jokers have fun and games scaring each other, until one of them gets his brain knocked out. A history of all the horrible things that have happened on a Monday. A man named Noah builds a boat to escape his nagging wife, in the hilariously titled "Noahs Arg-h!" Big Joke; Murder for Sale; Why We Call It Blue Monday; Noahs Arg-h!; A Rose Is a Rose; The Big Idea; Man Made Monsters; The Trial. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $1,070.00 Paper: Off white to white Slab: Significant front/back scuff(s) Label #4021884007

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Matt Baker and Ric Estrada. Love plus war equals bittersweet 1950s drama, featuring art by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Cindy is torn between military fiancee Len, just returned from overseas, and hometown soldier Jimmy, who she just met, in a story with art by Baker. Joan doesn't want her husband Mike to know that she's seeing the night-shift guy at his garage, Roger, while Mike is at work on the day shift. Korean immigrants Kim and Lee love each other, but take separate sides in the Korean War, in a story with an unusually high political content for a romance book. Another Baker cover featuring a wealth of detail. Plus a letters page offering to connect overseas GIs with romantic pen pals. We Married in Haste; When Things Got Rough; Correspondence Club; His Fraternity Pin. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $675.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #0194216011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($20.25) will be charged at checkout.

"The Loathsome" (art by Wally Wood); "50 Girls 50" (art by Al Williamson with Frank Frazetta and Roy Krenkel), "Surprise Package" (adapted from a story by Ray Bradbury, "Changeling"; art by Jack Kamen), and "The Reformers" (art by Joe Orlando). Wood cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $200.00 Restored: C1 Paper: Off white Restoration includes: small amount of color touch on cover. Label #4325200002

Cover by Don Heck. Stories and art by Alberta Tewks, Alvah Null, Edwin Green, Kenneth Landau and Rudy Palais. Pre-Code horror comics by the talents at the Iger Shop. Louella is accused of murdering her fiance and sent to an asylum, in a story with some weird, hallucinatory art by Rudy Palais. A man reveals how he tried to poison a romantic rival. A man murders his wife because of her obsession with quiz shows, and winds up on a hellish game show of his own. Also featuring a cover by future Marvel legend Don Heck promising "shrunken skulls, decapitations, cemeteries, murders." Die; Cemetery; The Wizard; Waterfront; A Devil of a Racket; Decapitation. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $180.00 Paper: White Label #4418333013

Cover art by Irwin Hasen. "The War That Never Happened!", script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman journeys 10 years into the future (1963) to stop an atomic war. "The Secret Olympics!", script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Princess Diana contests against the gods themselves to prove herself worthy. Unlucky Brides / Lucky Brides; Superstitions about getting married. "Wonder Woman's Double Date!", script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Steve has a date with Diana, but Wonder Woman keeps butting in. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.