Spellbound (1952 Atlas) 12
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Issue #12
- Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Cover and centerfold detached. Water damage. Oxidation.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Graded by MCS, not consignor.
Other items consigned by Mike'sRack
Cover by Russ Heath. Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Paul Reinman, Tony DiPreta, Russ Heath, Sam Kweskin, Louis Zansky and unknown. "On the Spot" with art by Paul Reinman - An actor kills the man who directs the spotlight on stage when he finds out his girlfriend is seeing him. He gets condemned to the chair and escapes, but the spotlight pins him to the wall and the cops open fire. Only after his lifeless body slumps to the ground do the cops realize that there is no one at the spotlight. Plus: "My Friend the Ghost" with art by Tony DiPreta - A doctor and his friend cook up a plot to acquire the family fortune by the doctor declaring the man dead and then he pretends to return as a ghost and scare the remaining members to death. But the doctor wants all the money and betrays the man by injecting poison into him rather than a drug to make him appear dead, and so he realizes at the end of the story that he actually is a ghost. He kills the doctor. Also in this issue: "What Happened to Mister Snively?" by Stan Lee and Russ Heath - During an atomic war, grocer Snively hoards food in his bomb shelter...however, he starves to death after the bombs fall because he forgot to bring a can opener; 2-page text story "M'Batu -- Giant Jelly Fish"; "The Diet of Donald Moore" with art by Sam Kweskin - A man uses a chlorophyll spray as a health tonic until he develops plant-like qualities; and "The Gas Man" with pencils by Louis Zansky. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
