Comic books November 1954, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,172.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4301298016 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($35.16) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Doomsmoke, art by Ken Rice; Pipe collector Ira Krim is fascinated by a skull-shaped pipe in a curio shop; Despite all warnings, he is compelled to own the pipe, even if it means his doom. Legend of the Long 3rd Finger, art by Louis Zansky; With his terrible first marriage behind him, a man starts a life with a new family; He is called to the deathbed of his first wife, who lets the man know that his first-born was born with a long 3rd finger, a sure sign that he is cursed to be a werewolf. Candles for the Undead, art by Jim McLaughlin. The Face In the Fog, art by Martin Marty Rose. 36 pages Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $500.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4480158017 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($15.00) will be charged at checkout.

Stories by Gardner Fox. Art by Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Cover by Frank Bolle. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #122. A solo effort starring bad girl Black Phantom, formerly an adversary of Western hero Redmask, who has turned to fighting outlaws on her own. Black Phantom takes on the trio of outlaws who ride into town with their eyes on the bank; BP must figure out why someone is stealing what appears to be useless junk; Sheriff Satan of the outlaw town of Helldorado puts lawmen in jail and outlaws in power, until the Black Phantom comes along. Featuring early stories by future comics legend Gardner Fox. The Unholy Three!; The Nothing Robber!; Sheriff Satan!; The Ghost Rider. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $2.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $555.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #1445024011

Origin and 1st appearance of Mirror Man. Cover art by Win Mortimer. The Key to Success! public service announcement starring Buzzy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. The Mysterious Mirror Man! starring Batman and Robin. The World Without Ships! starring Captain Compass, script by Otto Binder, art by Joe Certa. Supermarket Sleuth article by Jack Miller (as Jim Malone). The Return of Ben Franklin! starring Roy Raymond TV Detective, script by Jack Miller, art by Ruben Moreira. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $379.00 Paper: White Label #4391256019 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.37) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Stories and art by Dick Briefer. Cover by Dick Briefer. Prize Comics revives Dick Briefer's Frankenstein series in line with the horror trends of the Pre-Code 1950s A bell-ringer befriends the Frankenstein Monster. A mad scientist grows a deadly man-eating plant, in a horrific remake of a comedy story from issue #11. A scientist captures a burglar with his shrinking machine. Death O'Clock; Small Fry!; I Confess; Doorway To the Future!; Bird Hater; The Monster of Frankenstein and the Plant. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $350.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #2106293002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.50) will be charged at checkout.

Bill Woggin cover and story art. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $238.00 Paper: Off white to white From the top-rated Katy Keene CGC registry set. Label #1972314008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.14) will be charged at checkout.

Bill Woggin cover and story art. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $249.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1132577008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Wally Wood. Art by Wally Wood, Al Williamson, Angelo Torres, Marie Severin, Jack Davis, and Reed Crandall. One of EC Comics' early New Direction titles, featuring pre-Code tales of piracy on the high seas. A privateer working for the British government wants to become a "true" pirate, and gets his wish in the worst way, with art by Reed Crandall. A pirate captain remembers his early days as a shanghaied sailor, in a tale with a trademark EC twist ending. Wally Wood's art highlights a chronicle of life aboard a ship with a cruel master. The Privateer; The Mutineers; Harpooned; The Challenge; Shanghaied. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Secret Mysteries (1954) 16 CGC 7.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #1273892009

Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Tony Tallarico, Edvard Moritz and Rudy Palais. Crime and horror comics. Series continues from Crime Mysteries (1952-1954 Trojan Magazines) #15. Hiding out in a department store overnight, Sally learns about the strange shadow people who live there full-time. Jewel thieves Ian and Jayne hide a stolen gem inside Jayne's very leg, which proves tricky when cops capture them. Ten strangers, all guilty of different crimes, are gathered on a remote island by a mysterious invitation. Plus a vintage PSA, "Better Schools Make Better Communities." The Shadow People; Hiding Place; Deathlook; Doomed by the Clock; The Jeweled Curse; The Week End of Dread. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $300.00 Paper: Off white Label #2091404002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Tony Tallarico, Edvard Moritz and Rudy Palais. Crime and horror comics. Series continues from Crime Mysteries (1952-1954 Trojan Magazines) #15. Hiding out in a department store overnight, Sally learns about the strange shadow people who live there full-time. Jewel thieves Ian and Jayne hide a stolen gem inside Jayne's very leg, which proves tricky when cops capture them. Ten strangers, all guilty of different crimes, are gathered on a remote island by a mysterious invitation. Plus a vintage PSA, "Better Schools Make Better Communities." The Shadow People; Hiding Place; Deathlook; Doomed by the Clock; The Jeweled Curse; The Week End of Dread. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $799.00 Restored: C1 Paper: Off white to white Restoration Includes: Small Amount of Color Touch on Cover. Label #3764489008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($23.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Ad for Panic. "Deadly Beloved!", script by Carl Wessler, art by Johnny Craig; Edward's car overheats and is forced to stop and seek out help; He spots a stately mansion is the bayous, and enters, finding it burnt out inside. "Top Billing," script by Carl Wessler, art by Reed Crandall; Three actors find themselves at the stage entrance of mysterious Woltam Theatre; A rehearsal of Hamlet stops when a vital prop turns up missing. "Show Stopper!" text story. "The Purge," script by Carl Wessler, art by Bernard Krigstein; King Horace is called to the cell of a lovely lady and he asks her why she wants to see him; Alicia tells him that she was controlled by the devil and wanted to be purged of him. "All for Gnawt," script by Carl Wessler, art by Graham Ingels; Millie is drinking herself into a stupor, lamenting that her previous four husbands had not left her the funds she craved, but to find another husband would be difficult considering her looks and weight. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $715.00 Paper: Light tan to off white Small chip in plastic at left edge of slab. Label #1257829007

Cover by Johnny Craig. Ad for Panic. "Deadly Beloved!", script by Carl Wessler, art by Johnny Craig; Edward's car overheats and is forced to stop and seek out help; He spots a stately mansion is the bayous, and enters, finding it burnt out inside. "Top Billing," script by Carl Wessler, art by Reed Crandall; Three actors find themselves at the stage entrance of mysterious Woltam Theatre; A rehearsal of Hamlet stops when a vital prop turns up missing. "Show Stopper!" text story. "The Purge," script by Carl Wessler, art by Bernard Krigstein; King Horace is called to the cell of a lovely lady and he asks her why she wants to see him; Alicia tells him that she was controlled by the devil and wanted to be purged of him. "All for Gnawt," script by Carl Wessler, art by Graham Ingels; Millie is drinking herself into a stupor, lamenting that her previous four husbands had not left her the funds she craved, but to find another husband would be difficult considering her looks and weight. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $719.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #4641070010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($21.57) will be charged at checkout.

"Terror On TV," art by Eugene Hughes; Vampiric monsters take over a television studio and begin attacking the cast and crew of the production; However, the audience watching the program live on their TV sets at home think it's part of the show. "Clumsy," art by Eugene Hughes; A wife convinces her clumsy scientist husband to freeze her body thus putting her in suspended animation for 7 years; After she's declared legally dead, he will thaw her out and they can cash in on her insurance; Unfortunately, his clumsiness causes her frozen body to shatter to pieces when he knocks into her; When he thaws her out, he has to piece her body back together making her into a horrid jigsaw-like monstrosity. "Voice of Doom," art by Eugene Hughes; A parrot convinces his abusive owner that his beautiful pregnant wife is having an affair causing the unstable man to kill her and himself in a murder suicide. "Fateful Ferry" text story; On a foggy night, a ferry is overrun by skeletal pirates that are centuries old. "The Bogey Man," art by Eugene Hughes; A young orphan is left in the care of his shady aunt and uncle; When the boy is convinced he sees a "bogeyman" in the coal bin in the basement, the couple convince the boy that it's real so he will go insane with fright and have to be institutionalized, thus allowing them to cash in on his inheritance with him being incapacitated. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $589.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #4468974004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($17.67) will be charged at checkout.

"Terror On TV," art by Eugene Hughes; Vampiric monsters take over a television studio and begin attacking the cast and crew of the production; However, the audience watching the program live on their TV sets at home think it's part of the show. "Clumsy," art by Eugene Hughes; A wife convinces her clumsy scientist husband to freeze her body thus putting her in suspended animation for 7 years; After she's declared legally dead, he will thaw her out and they can cash in on her insurance; Unfortunately, his clumsiness causes her frozen body to shatter to pieces when he knocks into her; When he thaws her out, he has to piece her body back together making her into a horrid jigsaw-like monstrosity. "Voice of Doom," art by Eugene Hughes; A parrot convinces his abusive owner that his beautiful pregnant wife is having an affair causing the unstable man to kill her and himself in a murder suicide. "Fateful Ferry" text story; On a foggy night, a ferry is overrun by skeletal pirates that are centuries old. "The Bogey Man," art by Eugene Hughes; A young orphan is left in the care of his shady aunt and uncle; When the boy is convinced he sees a "bogeyman" in the coal bin in the basement, the couple convince the boy that it's real so he will go insane with fright and have to be institutionalized, thus allowing them to cash in on his inheritance with him being incapacitated. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $519.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1969435009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($15.57) will be charged at checkout.

"Terror On TV," art by Eugene Hughes; Vampiric monsters take over a television studio and begin attacking the cast and crew of the production; However, the audience watching the program live on their TV sets at home think it's part of the show. "Clumsy," art by Eugene Hughes; A wife convinces her clumsy scientist husband to freeze her body thus putting her in suspended animation for 7 years; After she's declared legally dead, he will thaw her out and they can cash in on her insurance; Unfortunately, his clumsiness causes her frozen body to shatter to pieces when he knocks into her; When he thaws her out, he has to piece her body back together making her into a horrid jigsaw-like monstrosity. "Voice of Doom," art by Eugene Hughes; A parrot convinces his abusive owner that his beautiful pregnant wife is having an affair causing the unstable man to kill her and himself in a murder suicide. "Fateful Ferry" text story; On a foggy night, a ferry is overrun by skeletal pirates that are centuries old. "The Bogey Man," art by Eugene Hughes; A young orphan is left in the care of his shady aunt and uncle; When the boy is convinced he sees a "bogeyman" in the coal bin in the basement, the couple convince the boy that it's real so he will go insane with fright and have to be institutionalized, thus allowing them to cash in on his inheritance with him being incapacitated. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $399.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4548078005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.97) will be charged at checkout.

"Terror On TV," art by Eugene Hughes; Vampiric monsters take over a television studio and begin attacking the cast and crew of the production; However, the audience watching the program live on their TV sets at home think it's part of the show. "Clumsy," art by Eugene Hughes; A wife convinces her clumsy scientist husband to freeze her body thus putting her in suspended animation for 7 years; After she's declared legally dead, he will thaw her out and they can cash in on her insurance; Unfortunately, his clumsiness causes her frozen body to shatter to pieces when he knocks into her; When he thaws her out, he has to piece her body back together making her into a horrid jigsaw-like monstrosity. "Voice of Doom," art by Eugene Hughes; A parrot convinces his abusive owner that his beautiful pregnant wife is having an affair causing the unstable man to kill her and himself in a murder suicide. "Fateful Ferry" text story; On a foggy night, a ferry is overrun by skeletal pirates that are centuries old. "The Bogey Man," art by Eugene Hughes; A young orphan is left in the care of his shady aunt and uncle; When the boy is convinced he sees a "bogeyman" in the coal bin in the basement, the couple convince the boy that it's real so he will go insane with fright and have to be institutionalized, thus allowing them to cash in on his inheritance with him being incapacitated. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.