Comic books July 1953, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $375.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #1482262022 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.25) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Antonio Canale, Enrico Bagnoli, Michael O'Malley¸ Ralph Lane, and André LeBlanc. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. 100-page giant. Art and his gang kidnap the adult daughter of a wealthy Vegas casino owner, but she turns out to be smarter and more formidable than they expected. Private eye Vic Flint investigates a murder, and gets set up as a fall guy for his trouble. Crooks set their sights on a lavish party for millionaires aboard the yacht Sea Nymph. Cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Las Vegas Loot; Lou Erskines One Man War; The Kidnapped Sea Nymph; The Crown Prince of Frisco; Vic Flint: The Case of the Jumping Beans; The Police Always Win; Piracy on Route One; Easy-Money Kid; The Tailor-Made Crime Wave; First Offense; The Body on Demand. 100 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $300.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1999686023 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Jim McLaughlin. Doom Comes in Emerald Green, art by Ken Rice; Professor Montross sets up a magical slide show projecting scenes from history through the emerald of doom; He shouldn't have killed the projector's owner, because the show reveals his crime--in front of an assembly of policemen, of all things. The Witch's Vengeful Return, art by Louis Zansky; The soul of old witch Hepzibah is awakened in her descendant Nora; Nora goes on a vengeance spree, killing all descendants of those who burned Hepzibah at the stake 300 year earlier. Strands of the Faceless Horror, art by Lou Cameron; Harold Carpenter acquires a magical rug in India; The genie of the rug kills Carpenter's rival and weaves his soul into the fabric of the rug. Wings of Wickedness, art by Jim McLaughlin. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $2,400.00 or Best Offer Paper: Light tan to off white Label #0012178003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($72.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, 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. An atomic explosion transforms a man into a radioactive monster. A man tries to impress his girlfriend with dangerous stunts. A man must exorcise the spirits who inhabit his house. Haircut!; Weather Forecast; Monsters of History; Atom; Friend!; Nosey; Strange Superstitions; The House! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.5 $195.00 Paper: Cream to off white Tape on interior cover. Label #1974355006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by William Zeller. Stories and art by Richard Kahn, Mo Marcus, Robert Leslie Bellem, Bill Fraccio, Art Gates, Jack Miller, Ray McClelland and Mike Esposito. Crime and adventure comics featuring detective heroes. Dr. Lance Storm's arch enemy Professor Zarno sets his sights on the British Crown Jewels during the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (a hot topic at the time). To solve a murder at the United Nations, Chinese-American scientist Dr. Foo employs his natural deductive skills, and perhaps even his supernatural skills. Wax figures confuse the clues in a case for Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (the most famous sleuth in the pages of Crime Mysteries). Bondage-themed cover by William Zeller is an homage to (or swipe from) an early Jack Kirby cover, for Champion Comics (1939-1940 Worth Publishing) #10. Lance Storm: Death Stalks the Crown; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Murder in Wax; Kitty Vale: Picture of Death; Murder is a Skin Game; The Fantastic Dr. Foo: Prayer of Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $750.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #2034728009

Jury of the Undead; vengeful corpses come back to haunt a sadistic hanging judge. Deadly Revenge; Lester Parke brings into existence a kidnapper ape. Fatal Impersonation text story. Return of the Corpse. The Green Witch; an evil witch steals the body of young Sandra Jones. Comic strip ad for Joe Bonomo body building books. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $200.00 Paper: Light tan to off white Label #4585538005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by TheInnerGeek

Cover art by Carl Burgos. Bwana Brown!, art by Gene Colan; Bwana Brown, a member of the Explorer's Club, gives a talk at their meeting of an African tribe who will give gold and diamonds to one who can prove they are immortal; The explorers ask for the location of this tribe, figuring to impress the natives with modern gadgets and pass the test, but Bwana Brown refuses to tell them. The 'Genie' text story. The Son of Rasputin, art by Russ Heath; A man uses Pavlovian conditioning on his actress beloved in order to get her to automatically shoot his rival when he rings a bell. The Secret of Asteroid #85!, script by Stan Lee, art by Gil Evans. A Monument to Mortimer!, art by Hy Fleischman. The Race That Vanished, art by Don Perlin. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $380.00 Paper: White From the top-rated Katy Keene CGC registry set. Label #0345837011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.40) will be charged at checkout.

Stories, Art and Cover by Bill Woggon. America's pin-up queen Katy Keene in four untitled stories: K.O. has a weenie roast with Katy, so Randy shows him up by arriving with steaks; Sis tries to make a good impression with Randy's Aunt Fanny, who's visiting the ranch from Boston; Randy takes Katy golfing with K.O. serving as caddy; and it starts to rain after Katy gets her hair done at Colossal Studios, so she borrows a diver's suit from the prop department for her walk to the soundstage. Plus: "Katy Beach Fashions" 1-pager; untitled Sis the Candy Kid story - After Sis notices that Katy hides her candy on the top shelf in the closet, she takes a sudden interest in reading large books...that she can use a step stool to reach the candy; "Sis Fashions" 1-pager; "Katy Fashions" 1-pager; untitled Sis the Candy Kid 1-pager; and 2-page Hollywood Gossip article. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $290.00 Paper: Off white Label #3768000002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.70) will be charged at checkout.

Stories by Stan Lee. Art and Cover by Dan DeCarlo. In this issue: Millie the Model in two untitled stories and two untitled 1-pagers. Plus: untitled Chili story; 2-page text story "Twin Trouble" (creators unknown; same text story from #11?); untitled Daisy 1-pager; and Daisy and Iggy in "Smiling Sam Used Car Man"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $3,799.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #4542146004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($113.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Hy Fleishman and others. Pre-Code horror tales from Aragon, an imprint of Stanley Morse Publications. Scientists seeking a subterranean paradise where people live forever instead find horrifying monsters. A man gets wishes from a genie and uses them for the perfect crime spree, but makes one wish too many, in a story featuring a pre-Code decapitation panel. Cover by Bernard Baily is the all-time classic "injury-to-the-eye motif" cover, a strange pre-Code horror trend. Shangri-La; Unknown Factor; The Curse of Aladdin; The Monster; The Trap. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $950.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1615603039 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($28.50) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover art by Sol Brodsky. The Invisible Woman, art by Tony DiPreta. Mummies' Gold text story. Booby Trap, script by Stan Lee, art by Joe Sinnott. The Sure Thing, art by Ross Andru. The Death of a Miser, art by Chuck Winter. The Lucky Stiff. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $1,250.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #4361821010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($37.50) will be charged at checkout.

The Corpse That Came to Dinner, pencils by Reed Crandall, inks by Mike Peppe; A young couple returns from their honeymoon; They learn that a friend has committed suicide, because he had wanted to marry the girl; The friend's corpse climbs out of his grave and lays siege to the couple's apartment. The Horror of Candle Lodge, art by Nick Cardy; Ghost of US-American freedom fighter slays the descendants of British soldiers who lured him into a trap. Till Death Do Us Part, pencils by Nick Cardy; Charles finds out that her sister's husband is keeping him from his inheritance by pretending the sister still to be alive. High Hung the Witch text story by John Marvin. Gunnvor the Sorceress, art by Ralph Mayo; Account of Icelandic saga about madwoman Gunnvor, who could not be killed and haunted her people in many different shapes. Hanged by the Neck, art by Reed Crandall; The magician El Rondo grows jealous of his assistant and hangs him on stage (during a magic routine). 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $980.00 Paper: White Label #2015446008

The Corpse That Came to Dinner, pencils by Reed Crandall, inks by Mike Peppe; A young couple returns from their honeymoon; They learn that a friend has committed suicide, because he had wanted to marry the girl; The friend's corpse climbs out of his grave and lays siege to the couple's apartment. The Horror of Candle Lodge, art by Nick Cardy; Ghost of US-American freedom fighter slays the descendants of British soldiers who lured him into a trap. Till Death Do Us Part, pencils by Nick Cardy; Charles finds out that her sister's husband is keeping him from his inheritance by pretending the sister still to be alive. High Hung the Witch text story by John Marvin. Gunnvor the Sorceress, art by Ralph Mayo; Account of Icelandic saga about madwoman Gunnvor, who could not be killed and haunted her people in many different shapes. Hanged by the Neck, art by Reed Crandall; The magician El Rondo grows jealous of his assistant and hangs him on stage (during a magic routine). 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $349.99 Paper: White Label #4630449024 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Dick Beck. She Hated Her Husband!; Elaine married TV repairman Larry while still in high school; 18 months later she hates her life as a mother and housewife; After Elaine goes to the beach with friends and takes their baby along, Larry takes the infant and goes home to his mother. Thrill Seeker, art by Edward Goldfarb; Brenda leaves her small town and would-be suitor Tom for a vacation in New Orleans during Mardi Gras; She falls in love with a costumed man named Andre, but sees him kissing another woman and returns home, disillusioned. The Turning Of The Worm text story by Diane Lowe. I Fell In Love With An Ex-Con, art by Dick Beck; Connie, secretary for the parole board, falls in love with paroled convict Joe, over her fathers objections; Joe disappears after meeting her father and Connie thinks hes rejoined his old gang; When Connie sees Joe in police custody, she fears the worst. My Terrible Confession; Even as a child, Carol had no regard for truth and honesty, and as a department store employee she continues to take credit for work others do; She falls in love with her new boss Bruce, even though he warns her that he can't stand liars; Carol mistakenly wins a store slogan contest, but doesnt admit the error. 36 pgs., full color.

NOTE: Other than the issue #, Romantic Hearts (1951 1st Series) #11 and Romantic Hearts (1951 1st Series) #1 are virtually identical. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $299.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4476313016 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.97) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Clark Mason, Spy Fighter stars in "Death Rides the Moscow Express," "Corpse in Caracas," and "Top Secret" (art on all three by Mac Pakula). Back-up story, "Spy List!" (art by Ed Moline). Two-page text story, "Day of Fear." Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $2,500.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4454349003

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Bernard Sachs and others. Tales of teen angst and amour, often featuring art and covers by celebrated good-girl artist Matt Baker. Chuck is worried about what Pat will do while he's overseas with the military. Joan is working as a tutor for wealthy Barbara, and falls for Barbara's goofy brother Jack. After her father's death, Margaret resists the efforts by her stepmother Anna to curtail her wild dating life and move to New York. Stunning beachwear cover by Baker. No Trust in My Love; I Wanted a Good Time; My Lesson in Love; Comedy Column; Gag-Bag; Someone to Look Up To; The Man I Really Wanted. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $675.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #0194216011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($20.25) will be charged at checkout.

"The Loathsome" (art by Wally Wood); "50 Girls 50" (art by Al Williamson with Frank Frazetta and Roy Krenkel), "Surprise Package" (adapted from a story by Ray Bradbury, "Changeling"; art by Jack Kamen), and "The Reformers" (art by Joe Orlando). Wood cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.