Mystic (1951 Atlas) comic books graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $335.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1174550003

The Jaws of Creeping Death; A man dreams that he is a judge of a trial during the Spanish Inquisition, which no one expects. Dimension of Death text story, art by Russ Heath. The Undead!, art by Allen Bellman; A reanimator brings his wife back to life after being dead for many years and he is repulsed that she is a moving rotted corpse instead of the beautiful girl he remembers. The Man in the Moon; The first man to land on the moon encounters creatures that lack the ability to build space ships but have perfected a will-sapping gas that they wish to administer into Earth's atmosphere in order to enslave the population into building enough space ships to transport their people to Earth. Beware the Eyes of Horror. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $265.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4368217010

The Eye of Doom, art by Basil Wolverton; Floating eyes from Venus invade Earth. I Shall Never Die text story. Nothing, pencils by Manny Stallman; A scientist invents a time machine and then commits suicide after going ten years into the future and witnessing atomic war. The Old Lady's Son, pencils by Vernon Henkel; A gold digger becomes the victim of an old lady's vampire son. She Wouldn't Stay Dead! 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $159.95 or Best Offer Paper: Slightly britle Slab: See item notes Significant front/back scuff(s). Label #4037738024 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.80) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

The Eye of Doom, art by Basil Wolverton; Floating eyes from Venus invade Earth. I Shall Never Die text story. Nothing, pencils by Manny Stallman; A scientist invents a time machine and then commits suicide after going ten years into the future and witnessing atomic war. The Old Lady's Son, pencils by Vernon Henkel; A gold digger becomes the victim of an old lady's vampire son. She Wouldn't Stay Dead! 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $505.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4318716018

Cover by Joe Maneely. Stories by Stan Lee, Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Bill Everett, Tony DiPreta, Al Hartley, George Roussos and Ed Smalle. The most eerie stories ever told! In this issue: "It Happened in the Darkness!" by Stan Lee and Bill Everett - Teenor is interested in a man she meets at a horror film showing, but upon learning he doesn't believe in the supernatural she returns to her world, convinced humans aren't ready for her people; "You'll Die Laughing" by Carl Wessler and Tony DiPreta - Harry thinks Arnold is trying to kill him when accidents keep recurring...he finally shoots Arnold in terror...Arnold was just bringing him his pills and in death his hand is clutched so tightly on the bottle that Harry can't open it; "The Man Who Couldn't Sleep" with art by Al Hartley - After robbing people in their coffins Harry sees ghosts and fears going to sleep...he visits Dr. Mardo and obtains drugs which are supposed to give him a dreamless sleep, but the ghosts are real and the pills kill Harry...Mardo is one of the ghosts and they carry Harry's body away; "The Sandwich Sign" with art by George Roussos - Lucky answers an ad offering $1000, no strings attached...he enjoys spending the money, then looks up the generous giver to find out who he is...as the man tells Lucky, a car suddenly runs Lucky over; "The Wax Man" with art by Ed Smalle - Felipe makes realistic wax figures for the museum by killing people and coating them in wax...when bar patrons realize what's going on they raid the wax museum and light it on fire...Felipe melts along with his figures; and 2-page text story "Tick-Tock"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $315.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4378464012

The Hooded Horror!, script by Stan Lee, pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Sy Barry; A gang boss who always wears a hood makes his underlings curious about what lies beneath so one of them uses a knife on him when he's asleep and discovers that the hood really was his head. Haunted Seas text story. Stop the Presses, art by Gene Colan; A reporter is driven to murder the paper's editor in order to achieve a sensational story. The Dummy, art by Vic Carrabotta. The Man in the Tomb!, art by Bob Fujitani; A mobster wants to join a lodge and for initiation they lock him behind a door with the key hanging outside which can be reached through an opening in the door. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $541.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #0361580025 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.23) will be charged at checkout.

Help Wanted!, art by Mort Lawrence; A cheap department store owner's toy demonstrator quits after receiving a Christmas bonus of only one dime, and so the owner attempts to save money by shortening the help wanted ad to "Demon. Wanted." Curse of the Mummy text story. Swamp Girl!, art by Vic Carabotta; A deserter becomes a werecat when he drinks water from the bayou. They Dive by Night!, art by Al Luster; A native warns a pearl diver not to dive by night so as to have enough light to see where to avoid the man-eating clams, but he doesn't listen. Fast Freight; A man escapes from prison and manages to hop onto a passing train, not knowing that the train is carrying freight right back to the prison. Bong!, art by Tony DiPreta; A man resolves to murder his rival for the affections of a beautiful girl, but ends up killing himself by falling into the bell-maker's molten vat. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $499.00 Paper: Off white Label #0305709013 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($14.97) will be charged at checkout.

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.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $300.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4108562005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.00) will be charged at checkout.

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.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $3,999.95 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #4411225001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($120.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Zombie in the Streets, art by John Buscema. Dorothy's Doll, art by Gene Colan; A man buys a lifelike doll for his ill child unintentionally fooling Death into taking the doll and leaving the girl. The Honeymooners, art by Tony Mortellaro; A man strangles his new bride, and when confronted by a neighbor, is told to mind his own business because that is what she wanted; He is a ghost and now his wife is a ghost, too. Isle of no Escape text story. Homicide; Jim Lane kills a bothersome tramp, then tries to frame his neighbor, an inadvertent witness, for the murder. The Ghost Comes Back!, pencils by Dick Ayers; A woman fools a criminal into thinking that her returning husband is a member of the undead. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $350.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #2045585005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Russ Heath. Don't Shrink Sam's Head; A man wants to go to Jivaro country so he can acquire a shrunken head for his collection of horror memorabilia but is afraid of having his head shrunk, so he hires a scientist to treat his head so that it is unshrinkable. Tribal Mask text story. The Perfect Planet, art by Ross Andru. Hugo, art by Pete Tumlinson. Mother Knows Best, art by Sol Brodsky; A mother tells her daughter that the man in the moon causes the tides but her daughter doesn't believe her. Afterward, the moon gets destroyed by a comet impact and the seas grow calm. Every Dog Has Its Day!; An old miser who is mean to the boys at a neighboring orphanage gets what's coming to him when he poisons one of the orphans' dogs. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $680.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #0236060010

Vampire; A police chief of a village is revealed to be a vampire. The Couple Next Door; A henpecked husband is demanded by his wife to provide something bigger and better than what the neighbors have; When he goes to tell her the latest thing the neighbor's wife got, his wife tells him to shut up and just give her one bigger and better, so he picks up a shotgun and blows her head off. The Toy Train; An orphan boy is visited by a stranger who leaves him a train set. When the boy shrinks to actually be able to board the train, he thinks that he is dreaming, but when his cruel uncle wakes him, he finds the train is still there. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $320.00 Paper: Off white Label #4274001004

Vampire; A police chief of a village is revealed to be a vampire. The Couple Next Door; A henpecked husband is demanded by his wife to provide something bigger and better than what the neighbors have; When he goes to tell her the latest thing the neighbor's wife got, his wife tells him to shut up and just give her one bigger and better, so he picks up a shotgun and blows her head off. The Toy Train; An orphan boy is visited by a stranger who leaves him a train set. When the boy shrinks to actually be able to board the train, he thinks that he is dreaming, but when his cruel uncle wakes him, he finds the train is still there. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $385.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4414357004

Cover art by Sol Brodsky. Who Walks with a Zombie?, art by Russ Heath. When I Die... text story. The Furnace!, art by Al Eadeh; A wooden-legged captain works his furnace stokers until they drop and there is only the most powerful one left; When the last of the coal is gone, they use wood until that is gone and they are still just short of port; The stoker tosses the captain into the furnace so that his wooden leg provides the last bit of wood they need. Where Dragons Swim!, art by Arthur Peddy. A Grave Mistake, art by Vic Carrabotta. Survival. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $237.50 Paper: Off white to white Label #0317286006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.12) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Bill Everett. Stories by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Dick Ayers, Bernard Baily, John Forte, Frank Bolle, Bill Benulis and unknown. Tales of the unusual! In this issue: "The Man Who Could Do Anything" with art by Dick Ayers; "The Magic Mixture" by Carl Wessler and Bernard Baily; 2-page text story "Patent Pending" - A teenager is inventing a mechanical potato peeler, but a supernatural figure stops him to preserve the culture of hand-peeling potatoes in kitchens; "It Happened at Night" by Carl Wessler and John Forte; "Just One More Chance" by Carl Wessler and Frank Bolle; "The One They Left Behind!"; and "The Eager Stranger" with art by Bill Benulis. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $125.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #3899168023 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.75) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Carl Burgos. Stories by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Vic Carrabotta, Ross Andru, Manny Stallman, Ed Moore, Paul Hodge, Hy Fleishman and Mike Esposito. Tales of the unusual! In this issue: "Man of Mystery!" with art by Vic Carrabotta; "The Thing Called...X!" by Carl Wessler, Ross Andru and Mike Esposito; "Creature in Hiding!" with art by Manny Stallman; "The Master!" with art by Ed Moore; 2-page text story "The Strange One" - An extraordinary child excels at sports and school, but does it all backwards; "When the Door Opens" by Carl Wessler and Paul Hodge; and "In the Darkness" by Carl Wessler and Hy Fleishman. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $150.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4099137022

Trapped in the Ant Hill! The Midnight Visitor!; A writer is surprised when he is confronted by the villain from his best-selling novel. The Strange Prison!, art by Bill Everett; A surface man finds himself in an underwater world where their doctors have converted his body to survive under water; The king's daughter is taken with him and so wishes to marry him, but he only wants her dowry treasure chest and steals it; He passes out on the surface since he can no longer breathe air, and is captured and placed in prison; The king tells him he will serve a two year sentence for his theft and then the doctors will reverse their work and deposit him on the surface. He'd Rather Die Than Tell. Time Machine text story. The Room of Shadows!, pencils by Robert Q Sale. You Can't Hide From the Eye!, pencils by Joe Orlando. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.