Auctions: Thrill comic books

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.

Sport Thrills (1950 Star) 12 VG 4.0

Water damage.

Cover by L. B. Cole. True-life tales of sporting greats, and stories about athletic people. MVP, All-Star and cultural icon, Joe Dimaggio is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. (This issue was published before his marriage to Marilyn Monroe.) Yogi Berra comes to be regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history, as well as a widely quoted armchair philosopher. Also featuring biographies of Phil Rizzuto, Tommy Henrich, Red Grange, Bill Tilden and Christy Matthewson. Fear to Fight; Christy Matthewson; Red Grange the Galloping Ghost. 32 pages, Full Color. NOTE: There is also a #12 "Accepted" reprint edition. In the reprint edition, the "Accepted" logo appears in upper left corner of cover. Cover price $0.10.

Supernatural Thrillers (1972) 4 FN/VF 7.0

Cover pencils by Ron Wilson, inks by Ernie Chan and John Romita (retouches). Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde!, script by Robert Louis Stevenson (Original Story), and Ron Goulart (Adaptation), art by Win Mortimer; Adapted from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson; a doctor creates a potion that brings out his dark side. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Supernatural Thrillers (1972) 8 VG- 3.5

Three center wraps detached at one staple.

1st appearance of The Elementals - Cover pencils by Larry Lieber, inks by Tom Palmer. Power Times Four!, script by Tony Isabella, art by Val Mayerik; N'Kantu is transported to the Elementals, four former rulers of Earth that wish to return; They make the mummy their slave and teleport him back to earth to destroy a scarlet scarab--an ancient weapon of magic capable of destroying them. The Little Gypsy Tea Room, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A criminal forces a gypsy to hide him from the police, but gets more than he bargained for when she does help him.

NOTE: "The Elementals are featured in the 2019 film Spider-Man: Far from Home." - Odinson, mycomicshop.com Archivist

Cover price $0.25.

Thrilling Adventure Stories (1975) 1 FN/VF 7.0

Cover art by Ernie Colon. Action-oriented comics and stories. "Tigerman and the Flesh Peddlers," script by John Albano, art by Ernie Colon; Tiger-Man stumbles onto a white slavery ring. "The Sting of Death," script by John Albano, art by Leo Summers; Six people survive a plane crash only to find that they are trapped by savages. "Kromag, the Killer," script by Gabriel Levy and Jack Sparling, art by Jack Sparling; Kromag battles a mastodon, a snake, a tyrannosaur and a sabre-tooth tiger to keep his people safe. "Films of Alistair MacLean" article by Ric Meyers. "Lawrence of Arabia," script by Jeff Rovin, art by Frank Thorne; Mr. Price travels to the Middle East to do a story on Lawrence of Arabia. Movie stills from the George Pal "Doc Savage" movie starring Ron Ely. "Escape from Nine by 1," script and art by Russ Heath; A soldier escapes from a German prisoner of war camp. Part of the short-lived Atlas line from former Marvel publisher Martin Goodman. Magazine format. 68 pgs., B&W. Cover price $0.75.

Thrilling Comics (1940-51 Better/Nedor/Standard) 16 CGC 6.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4173885001

Cover by Kin Platt. Edited by Ned Pines. Stories by Richard Hughes, Kin Platt, Ed Wexler, George Mandel, Donald Bayne Hobart, Ray Gill, and John Daly. Chock full of action and adventure, these are Thrilling Comics! 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Thrilling Comics (1940-51 Better/Nedor/Standard) 32 PR 0.5 (R)

Trimmed

INCOMPLETE. Centerfold missing, interrupts art and story. TRIMMED. Cover coming loose at one staple.

Cover by Jack Binder. Edited by Ned Pines. Stories by Max Plaisted, Al Camy, Maurice Gutwirth, August Froehlich, and Ed Moritz. Chock full of action and adventure, these are Thrilling Comics! 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Thrilling Comics (1940-51 Better/Nedor/Standard) 42 CGC 5.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4481526001

Cover by Alex Schomburg. Edited by Ned Pines. Stories by Richard Hughes, Bob Oksner, Maurice Gutwirth, Charles S. Strong, August Froehlich, Buck Benson, and Leo Morey. Chock full of action and adventure, these are Thrilling Comics! 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Thrilling Comics (1940-51 Better/Nedor/Standard) 71 CGC 7.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #1625747018

Cover by Alex Schomburg. Edited by Ned Pines. Stories by Art Saaf, Ruben Moreira, Jerry Devers, Donald Bayne Hobart, Gene Fawcette, Oliver Buchanan, and Frank Frazetta. Chock full of action and adventure, these are Thrilling Comics! 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Weird Thrillers (1951) 3 GD 2.0

Water damage. Interior tearing.

Painted cover by Allen Anderson. Stories and art by Everett Raymond Kinstler, Dan Barry, Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, George Tuska, Ed Silverman, Martin Epp, and John Giunta. Classic 1950s science-fiction and horror tales from Ziff-Davis. John falls in love with Tania, a mermaid, after she saves him from drowning, in a story with early art by future Flash Gordon artist Dan Barry. Ben's soul seeks a new body to inhabit, in one of two stories this issue with art by comics legend Bob Powell. Bull, meanwhile, finds his soul split into two bodies, in a story with early art by comics legend George Tuska. Plus a one-pager by Everett Raymond Kinstler. Classic painted cover of a mermaid vs. a sea monster by Allen Anderson. Letter in Black; Princess of the Sea; The Soul of Benjamin Sprague; The Mind Reader; Death x 2 = 0; The Shadow on the Screen; Space Age Glass. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.