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Flame (1955 Ajax) 2 0.3

Comic is complete other than being coverless.

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Stories and art by Robert Webb, Manning Lee Stokes and Alex Blum. Chemist Kip Adams becomes The Flame, with superhuman strength and a reporter girlfriend. When mobsters kill an ice-cream man for selling the wrong popsicle, The Flame springs into action. Harbor tug captain Tugboat Tessie has adventures on the waters of the bay. Aviator hero Captain Speed discovers a mysterious hidden city in the Arctic. Deadly Vanilla and a Violin; Captain Speed: Danger Drift; Tugboat Tessie: Salt and Pepper; Trick Rescue; Where There's Smoke, There's Suspicion. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 1 GD- 1.8

Centerfold detached. Interior tearing. Water damage.

Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. Wealthy playboy Peter Brooke has a secret life as a creature of the darkness. The police are baffled by the strange murders at Surfside Manor. A Nazi bomb frees a 17th-century witch from her grave to fulfill her curse. A Coffin Waits...; Ghost Gloves; Ghost of R'wana; Skeletons Have Secrets!; The Witch's Curse! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 2 GD/VG 3.0

1" Spine split from bottom. Cover oxidation.

Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. Mine workers unearth a tentacled horror from the subterranean depths. Grimm, the Ghost Doctor, investigates when a ghost threatens a gardener and his black rose. The ghost of King John arises to protect the original copy of the Magna Carta. Horror in the Mine!; Blood of the Rose; Tropical Madness; Death Is Only Skin Deep; The Voyager Of Death! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 3 CGC 4.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4697725001

Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A cop loses his badge for insisting that a haunted house is responsible for a series of murders. Bolton Baker encounters Gloria, who acts as bait for a werewolf's victims. Grimm, the Ghost Doctor, finds a love triangle at the heart of a woman's unearthly melancholy. Nightmare Mansion; Horror Hour; The Strange Bell of Obani!; Grimm, Ghost Doctor: Music and Mayhem; Monsters for Rent.... 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 3 GD+ 2.5

Cover detached at one staple. Tape. Oxidation.

Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A cop loses his badge for insisting that a haunted house is responsible for a series of murders. Bolton Baker encounters Gloria, who acts as bait for a werewolf's victims. Grimm, the Ghost Doctor, finds a love triangle at the heart of a woman's unearthly melancholy. Nightmare Mansion; Horror Hour; The Strange Bell of Obani!; Grimm, Ghost Doctor: Music and Mayhem; Monsters for Rent.... 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 4 VG 4.0

1" Cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation.

Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A gigantic skeleton unearthed in the Indochinese Peninsula comes back to life. A woman is trapped in a house with an army of zombie slaves. A reporter discovers that the horrible creatures in a mad artist's paintings actually exist. Eerie Bones; Ghouls Castle; Portrait of Death. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 7 VG- 3.5

1" Cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation.

Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A scientist makes mental contact with an executed convict's preserved brain. A movie actor drafted to the Korean front uses makeup to fake his own death, but it works too well. A dying plastic surgeon reveals he changed Hitler's face after WWII. Trail to a Tomb; The Corpse Who Killed; Harbinger of Violence; Two on the Aisle... Of Death!; Screams in the Night. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 8 VG 4.0

Cover oxidation.

Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A wife-killer unleashes a demon while hiding the body. A couple discovers a lunatic living on a shipwreck off the Cornish shore. A comics retelling of the old legend that the head of King Charles I haunted his usurper, Oliver Cromwell. Three in a Grave; Coward's Curse; Jiavaro Magic; Horror Harbor; The Vanishing Skull. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 9 VG+ 4.5

1" Spine split from bottom. Cover oxidation.

Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A man kills his wife, but she won't stay in the coffin. An art critic's latest objet d'art contains a demon. A female sculptor's jungle refuge succeeds with the help of a mysterious stranger. Madness of Terror; Devil on His Shoulder; The Genius. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 10 VG+ 4.5

Cover oxidation.

Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. Scientist Marcus Kemp creates a robot duplicate, then gets blamed for its murders. A man is haunted by unearthly dreams of a departed lover. An escaped killer encounters a witch on the British moors, and it doesn't end well for either of them. Death at the Mardi Gras; Screams in the Swamp; Night of Horror; Murder on the Moor; Witch's Horror. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 11 VG+ 4.5

Cover oxidation.

Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A strange rain of blood is centered on a man who framed a romantic rival for murder. Two embezzlers fight to the death, but the story doesn't end there. The truth about a pirate's cursed treasure is uncovered by horror host The Hexmaster. Blood in the Sky; Death at the Throttle; The Stranger in the Sky; Dead Man's Chest; Out of the Grave. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 12 GD/VG 3.0 (R)

Trimmed

TRIMMED. Tape on interior pages.

Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A murdered ganglord returns for revenge. A political mission to Central America is sabotaged by voodoo chieftains. A practical joker encounters a humorless ghost in a Spanish castle. Terror Below; Badge of Glory; Goodbye Earth!; Death Laughs Last; Voodoo Vengeance. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 13 GD 2.0

Staple added (not manufacturing). Water damage.

Stories and art by Carl Burgos and others. Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A self-centered actor begins glimpsing a beautiful woman after an accident. A mad scientist wants to know which is stronger - love or hunger, featuring art by Human Torch creator Carl Burgos. A baboon develops a fatal attraction to a visiting prospector. Famous, oft-reprinted cover by an unknown artist. Experiment in Terror; Rendezvous with Doom; Death Do Us Part. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 14 FR 1.0 (R)

Restored (see item notes)

RESTORATION. Color touch. 8 1/2" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached. Oxidation.

Stories and art by Robert Webb and others. Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A wealthy man has a special place for his unfaithful wives. A bank robbery turns out to be the work of the most unlikely suspect. The Trumpet that will signal the Apocalypse falls into the hands of Gabriel, who's only too ready to use it. Frigid Fear!; Wheel of Terror; Doctor Death; Trumpet of Doom; Dying Is So Contagious. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 15 VG+ 4.5

Cover oxidation.

Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A dying man suspects shenanigans after learning his doctor is sleeping with his wife. Richard's new wife is repeatedly possessed by the spirit of his departed lover. The Devil Collects; Terror on Location; Fear of the Witch; Dead on Arrival; Death Is the Jury! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 16 VG+ 4.5

Cover oxidation.

Stories and art by Carl Burgos and others. Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A woman's jilted fiance commits suicide, but he's not done making her life miserable. A killer's victims are reincarnated as lethal swans. Mysterious, beautiful Suthina appears after Matt is bitten by the deadly temple spider in Egypt, and soon follows him to America. Devil's Bride; Web of the Widow; Phantoms Are Fatal to Fakers; Howling Horror!; Blade of Horror. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 17 VG- 3.5

Cover coming loose on one staple. Cover oxidation.

Stories and art by Frank Belknap Long and others. Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A ballerina's partner returns from the grave for one last waltz. Lunatics think they're Napoleon, but they can't both be right. Paranormal investigator Dr. Fenn combats the Dorset monster, a Druidic horror from England's past. Mirror of Madness; Devil's Ballet; Die Screaming; Laughing Ghost; Monster in the Mist. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Haunted Thrills (1952) 18 VG- 3.5

Cover oxidation.

Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A murdered animal trainer returns as a tiger to get revenge on her killer, in a story with multiple killings-by-tiger. Detective Bill White goes all Kolchak on a murderous demon called Kehama. A dead man's soul is judged by the afterlife to be completely neutral. Tiger - Tiger!; If I Should Die; The Ghost and the Gallows; Fanged Terror; Strange Spirits; No Place to Go. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vooda Jungle Princess (1955) 21 GD/VG 3.0

Cover oxidation. Water damage.

Stories and art by Matt Baker, Manning Lee Stokes, Kim Kelley and Will Eisner (credited as Heck). The renamed jungle hero South Sea Girl returns in Comics Code-friendly reprints, still featuring art by good-girl legend Matt Baker. A movie crew comes to the Vanishing Isles, but a spoiled starlet tries to kill Vooda's pet cheetah, in a story with art by Matt Baker. A humorous Uncle Otto story by comics legend Will Eisner. Crooked boxing promoters try to lure ex-boxer Zaan of the Jungle back into the ring. The Intruders!; Kimbo: Trapped!; Koko the Kongo Kid: Am I Mad!; Uncle Otto: How to Kill Bugs; The Ape Trail!; Zaan of the Jungle: Congo Champ; The Trek of Danger. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Voodoo (1952 Ajax/Farrell) 5 CGC 6.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #2039114001

Ajax-Farrell's horror series Voodoo managed to stand out in the crowded field of pre-Code horror comics by dint of its sheer weirdness. Three men spend the night in a haunted lighthouse. A wife's hatred of her husband's undertaking job drives her murderously insane. A woman poisons her lover's wife, resulting in madness and revenge from the beyond the grave. Corpses of the Jury; Death Light?; Man-Killer; Ghoul for a Day; The Spiteful Spirit. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.