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Auctions: comic books March 1954

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    Chamber of Chills (1952-1954 Harvey 2nd Series) #22 CGC 6.5
    Tags: Pre-Code Horror
    Published Mar 1954 by Harvey.

    Chamber of Chills (1952-1954 Harvey 2nd Series) 22 CGC 6.5

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #4405340004

    Starts Jul 6

    Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Jack Sparling, Howard Nostrand, Joe Certa, John Giunta and Manny Stallman. Harvey Comics joins the parade of pre-Code horror comics pioneered by EC in the 1950s. A disfigured man knows he must eventually show his face to the woman he loves. A fugitive criminal forces a scientist to use his reincarnation machine on him. Scientists discover a subterranean society and its sinister lottery. The Ugly Duckling; A Model Girl; Reincarnation; Lottery; Chilly Chamber Music: Songs from the Spook Box; The Satchel; The Skeptic! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) #16 GD/VG 3.0
    Published Mar 1954 by Superior Comics.

    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 16 GD/VG 3.0

    Cover detached at one staple, loose at second.

    Starts Jul 6

    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Horror Holds the Reins"; Death drives a carriage and picks up those whose time it is to die; He picks up a couple forbidden to be married by her grandfather and feels pity. "House of the Doomed"; A newlywed couple are forced to stop at a hotel; The hotel is inhabited by a woman and her son and daughter; They are all ghosts. "Digger of Death" text story by John Martin. "Postmark: Graveyard"; A housekeeper and her boyfriend murder her employer, an atomic scientist; The boyfriend dumps her now that the scientist is dead. "Ghoul's Gold"; An escapee of a prison finds a hermit's home; Convinced that the hermit has a fortune, he kills the hermit and finds gold coins; He buries the coins with the hermit. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.