Comic books January 1953, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $279.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #2108091008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.37) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Siggy’s Comics

Cover by Sol Brodsky. "The Different Vampire," pencils by Dick Ayers, inks by Ernie Bache; A vampire destroys one of his own coven when he uncovers his secret that he prefers vampire blood to human blood. "Horror Hill" text story. "The Worm That Turned," art by Ed Winiarski. "The Manhunter!", art by Vic Carrabotta. "The Man Who Went To Far!", script by Carl Wessler, pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel. "Gorilla!", script by Carl Wessler. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $1,495.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white File Copy. Label #0009636007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($44.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Al Avison, Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Abe Simon and Moe Marcus. Harvey Comics joins the parade of pre-Code horror comics pioneered by EC in the 1950s. Scientists create a ravenous bacteria and realize they can control its actions. Archaeologists encounter deadly ants and living mummies in a pyramid. A doctor learns how to read the minds of others, but the first person he tries it on turns out to be a murderous lunatic. Nightmare of Doom; Vengeful Corpse; The Place!; The Living Mummies; True Tales Of The Tomb; Mind Over Matter; Web of Doom! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Hy Fleishman. "The Note of Death," art by A. C. Hollingsworth; Norman Conway is made mayor on the promise to buy a haunted house from mobster Jake Lomax and turn it into a school; The witch Mary appears on the scene and starts fires. "Food For Thought!", art by John D'Agostino; Phil Stewart crashes his plane into the jungle and is rescued by mystery woman Kadira; She flees from her cannibal tribe and follows Stewart to the US to be his wife. "Grave Information" text story by Ellen Lynn. "Vampires Bite," art by Hy Fleishman; Doctor Ralph Bowan keeps a menagerie of freaks - a vampire, a ghoul and a witch - in his house, encased in big formaldehyde vats; When Bowan finds out that his wife Lily is cheating on him with his assistant Alan, he kills them and integrates them into his collection. "Sea of Ghosts," pencils by Harry Harrison; Captain Caleb Firth is a slave trader; He murders a cargo of Chinese workers to escape the coast guard; But one of them returns from the dead and comes for revenge. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Don Heck. Stories and art by Thompson L. Bennett and others. Pre-Code horror comics by the talents at the Iger Shop. After concert pianist John's hands are severed in an accident, the mysterious Mr. Jones gives him a pair that plays beautifully - but they also compel him to kill. A strange world offers terrifying secrets. Notorious cover by future Marvel legend Don Heck is also the first of the influential "face" covers. Devil Claws; The Silent Clock; Death's Cargo; Forbidden World; The Thing from Out There. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Beast of Bedlam; a man fights for his soul against the forces of evil from out of the past. Miser in the Coffin; millionaire Thaddeus Crewe decides to take his wealth with him to the grave. The Missing Man text story. Terror in the Night. Blood on Her Lips; a man of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police braves winter climes to try and capture a trapper wanted for murder. Circus Toys and Big Top ad. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $2,600.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #2115021002

All reprints. L. B. Cole cover. Numbering continues from Shock Detective Cases (1952) #21. Cover shows a human body hanging by the neck from a tree branch. A violent panel on page seven of "Her Face of Horror.." shows a woman's face dissolving in acid. In order of appearance: "Headless Horror!" retitled and reprinted from "Sergeant Spook, Headless Horseman!" in Blue Bolt Vol. 06 (1945) #8; "The Sensitive Killer, Six Feet Under" art by Wally Wood, retitled and reprinted from "Six Feet Under" in Spectacular Stories Magazine (1950) #3; "Double Cross to Death.." art by Walter Palais, retitled and reprinted from "Smart Guy" in Crime Incorporated (1950) #2; "Her Face of Horror.." retitled and reprinted with modifications from "Madame Rachel" in Crimes by Women (1948) #6. "Crazy to Kill!!" text story retitled and reprinted from "The Shattered Alibi" in Famous Crimes (1948) #10. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $2,600.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #2094930003

All reprints. L. B. Cole cover. Numbering continues from Shock Detective Cases (1952) #21. Cover shows a human body hanging by the neck from a tree branch. A violent panel on page seven of "Her Face of Horror.." shows a woman's face dissolving in acid. In order of appearance: "Headless Horror!" retitled and reprinted from "Sergeant Spook, Headless Horseman!" in Blue Bolt Vol. 06 (1945) #8; "The Sensitive Killer, Six Feet Under" art by Wally Wood, retitled and reprinted from "Six Feet Under" in Spectacular Stories Magazine (1950) #3; "Double Cross to Death.." art by Walter Palais, retitled and reprinted from "Smart Guy" in Crime Incorporated (1950) #2; "Her Face of Horror.." retitled and reprinted with modifications from "Madame Rachel" in Crimes by Women (1948) #6. "Crazy to Kill!!" text story retitled and reprinted from "The Shattered Alibi" in Famous Crimes (1948) #10. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $490.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4568491009

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Ken W. Fitch, Jay Disbrow, Louis Zansky and Wally Wood. Romance comics with "real world" problems from L.B. Cole's Star Publications. After many letters to her beau Dan, stationed overseas, Toni finally decides to tell him the truth. Helen must choose between secret romance with Alan, whom she loves, or a public relationship with Theo, a man she tolerates, in a story with art by comics legend Wally Wood. Socially awkward redhead Linda sheds her glasses and becomes a sought-after beauty, but still can't win the man she loves. Take Back Those Words; How Cruel My Love; I Gave My Heart to One Man; I Waited for the Man I Love; My Empty Dreams. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Voodoo (1952 Ajax/Farrell) 5 CGC 6.5

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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.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $600.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #1074629008

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.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $450.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #3870926015

This key and very classic EC issue begins with an Al Feldstein dinosaurs and space cover. "In the Beginning" (art by Joe Orlando), "Ahead of the Game" (art by Bill Elder), "The Aliens" (art by Al Williamson with Roy Krenkel), the classic story that features a single full infinity page in which two aliens gaze at a page the repeats itself into infinity and say "Squa Tront!" and "Spa Fon" (and we ALL know what that means!), and Ray Bradbury's haunting "There Will Come Soft Rains" (art by Wally Wood). NOTE: See 1st Series for 1951 #17. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $2,600.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4281405010

Cover by Basil Wolverton. Stories and art by Tony Mortellaro, Eugene Hughes, Hy Fleishman and Basil Wolverton. Pre-Code tales of science fiction and horror from Stanley Morse Publications. After being abducted by aliens, a man returns to Earth to find civilization destroyed. During a mountain-climbing trip, a man plots revenge against the friend who's sleeping with his wife. A woman decides to free herself from her domineering sister once and for all. Plus an adventure of whimsical spacefaring hero Jumpin' Jupiter. Stories and a classic alien cover by comics legend Basil Wolverton. The Man from the Moon; The Worm Turns; Else Youll Be Dead; Jumpin' Jupiter; Worst Enemy; Under Her Thumb; Torture! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $1,190.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #1292057008

Cover by Basil Wolverton. Stories and art by Tony Mortellaro, Eugene Hughes, Hy Fleishman and Basil Wolverton. Pre-Code tales of science fiction and horror from Stanley Morse Publications. After being abducted by aliens, a man returns to Earth to find civilization destroyed. During a mountain-climbing trip, a man plots revenge against the friend who's sleeping with his wife. A woman decides to free herself from her domineering sister once and for all. Plus an adventure of whimsical spacefaring hero Jumpin' Jupiter. Stories and a classic alien cover by comics legend Basil Wolverton. The Man from the Moon; The Worm Turns; Else Youll Be Dead; Jumpin' Jupiter; Worst Enemy; Under Her Thumb; Torture! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Don Heck cover. Includes the particularly gruesome "Den of Horror," in which an evil playboy transforms his lavish drawing room into a...well, you know. Plus text pieces on sin eating and dowsing. Edited by Allen Hardy. Stories by Pete Morisi, Don Perlin, Abe Simon, and Rudy Palais. Horror, suspense, and Weird Terror tales patterned after the classic EC comics. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $550.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #0362270004

Cover pencils by Irwin Hasen, inks by Bernard Sachs. "The Man Who Shook the Earth," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman vs. Mole Men. Wonder Women of History: three-page Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska bio by Julius Schwartz. Superboy stars in a one-page public service announcement, "Superboy Discovers a New Kind of Junior Sport!" Superman is on Television! ad. "Her Crowning Glory" text article. 44 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $175.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4613687024 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.25) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Cover art by Winslow Mortimer. The Seven Secrets of Superman starring Superman and Lex Luthor, script by Edmond Hamilton, pencils by Wayne Boring, inks by Stan Kaye. Free Speech -- Free for All! public service announcement starring Buzzy, script by Jack Schiff. The Black Magician starring Green Arrow, art by George Papp. A New Kind of Junior Sport public service announcement starring Superboy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. Super Sleuth McFooey story, script and art by Jack Farr. The Gold Squad starring Manhunters Around the World, pencils by Curt Swan. Jerry The Jitterbug humor page by Henry Boltinoff. The Million Dollar Coin starring Wyoming Kid, script by Gardner Fox, art by Bruno Premiani. Hair on Their Faces text article by Dick Keene. Sir Batman and the Black Knight starring Batman, Commissioner Gordon, and the Black Rogue, script by David Vern, pencils by Dick Sprang, inks by Charles Paris. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.