Vault of Evil (1973-1975 Marvel) comic books

Auction Item: VG- 3.5 View scan Auction opens May 6 Cover detached at one staple. Cover oxidation.

Auction Item: GD/VG 3.0 View scan Auction opens May 13 Water damage.

Add to cart CBCS 8.5 $150.00 View scans CBCS Authentic Signature Paper: Off white to white Witnessed Signature: Roy Thomas on 9/18/2021. Label #22-0692A42-640 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover by Gil Kane and Tom Palmer. The Thing that Grew!; Professor Borglum creates a new life when his blood is accidently mixed with an experiment; When it continues to grow and kill people for their blood he tries to find a way to kill it. The Withered Hand, art by Paul Reinman; While in Tibet John Clay steals a priceless ruby that a monk tells him contains a sinner's soul. House ad for Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #12 (February 1973), featuring Man-Thing art. The Man in the Box!, script, pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel; The story of a little (roughly inch tall) man who lives in a little green box and comes out every night to do a good deed. Poor Mister Watkins, script by Stan Lee, art by Werner Roth; Henry Higgins is an obnoxious man who enjoys being mean to others and harrasses a young lady at the library. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Very Good $9.10

Add to cart VG 4.0 $9.10

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Add to cart CGC 9.0 $115.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4270106009 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Mike Ploog. The Witching Hours!, art by Ed Goldfarb; Tony marries Linda but a skeletal witch is following them around on their honeymoon. The Bugs!, art by Larry Woromay; Alien scientists are disgusted when they look at the humans they have collected from Earth under their microscopes and recommend that the small planet be destroyed. How Clumsy Can Ya Be?, art by Howie Post; A would-be magician bungles his training in India, and when he returns to the States to begin his career, he bungles his first performance, too. The Hiding Place, script by Carl Wessler, art by John Tartglione; Three crooks hide the money they've stolen and agree to retrieve it in a year. but each one plots to get the loot for himself. The Unseen!, art by Sol Brodsky; An alien lands and possesses a man's dog. house ad for Supernatural Thrillers #3, art by Gil Kane. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $10.75

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $6.30 Chew.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $4.49

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $115.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: White Label #4270106010 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Frank Brunner. The Woman Who Wasn't, art by Tony DiPreta; Professor Lansing obtains financing for a trip to uncover the wealth he read about in some manuscripts he discovered; Journeying to Greece, he finds a cave guarded by a man with snakes for hair. Jaws of Death, art by Cal Massey; Jack Spence and Bart Tedlow grow fed up with working on an alligator farm; Spence suggests to Tedlow that they rob a bank in town and get out of town. The Tarantula!, art by Hy Rosen; The Romanian town of Marud is overrun by giant tarantulas, and people are leaving in droves. The Lion's Mouth!; Pierre Brazo, a lion tamer with the circus, is greeted by his wife after his performance, but Brazo hates his wife, something he makes evident to her, because he thought that she was wealthy when they married. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover by Gil Kane, John Romita, and Tony Mortellaro. Help Wanted!, art by Mort Larwence; A cheap department store owner's toy demonstrator quits after receiving a Christmas bonus of only one dime, and so the owner attempts to save money by shortening the help wanted ad to "Demon, Wanted. Don't Shrink Sam's Head!; A man wants to go to Jivaro country so he can acquire a shrunken head for his collection of horror memorabilia but is afraid of having his head shrunk, so he hires a scientist to treat his head so that it is unshrinkable. The Other Face, art by George Tuska; A plastic surgeon wants a man's wife so knocks him out and exchanges faces with him. They Dive By Night!, art by Al Luster; A native warns a pearl diver not to dive by night so as to have enough light to see where to avoid the man-eating clams, but he doesn't listen. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Very Good $9.10

Add to cart VG 4.0 $9.10

Add to cart Good $4.49

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $395.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: White Label #3961561001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Russ Heath. The Giant Killer, art by Sid Greene; Four mutant giants emerge from hiding after an atomic bomb test so that they can destroy the menacing mutant creatures created by the blast. The Gentlemen of the Jury!, script by Stan Lee, art by Russ Heath; Gangster Nick Rico's lawyer keeps him out of jail in spite of many murders. The Dictator!, art by John Forte; Zinyov the dictator forces a scientist to develop a virus that will kill everyone in his country that doubts his ability to lead them. Murder!, art by Doug Wildey; Rorney kills his uncle and his cousin Eric gives him an alibi, but when their expected inheritance doesn't come through it leads to two more murders when they kill each other. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Very Good $9.10

Add to cart VG 4.0 $9.10

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $5.40

Cover by Bill Everett and John Romita. The Death of a Puppet!, art by Jim Mooney; A puppeteer is apprehensive when his performances of a puppet murder mystery seem to coincide with real killings. Let's Face It; When a man develops pills that can take twenty years off one's age, an older actor threatens him with violence unless he hands them over. The Pitchman!, script by Stan Lee, art by Bob Brown; A con man sells the Brooklyn Bridge to a country hick--but the sale turns out to be legitimate! They Wait in the Caves!, art by Mort Drucker; A man finds an island abundant with pearls and gives the location to his friend. Bertha Gets Buried, art by Sam Kweskin; A man assumes his wife is cheating, kills her, and buries her in the cellar. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $10.75 Water damage.

Add to cart Very Good $9.10

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Cover by Larry Lieber and Vince Colletta. Locked In!, art by Bob Powell; A woman trails after her husband for twenty years because, after they murdered a family, he skipped out on her with the loot. Close Shave!, art by Fred Kida; A wife finds an electric razor annoying so she demands her husband use a straight razor. The Hangman's Noose, art by Ed Winiarski; A seller of inferior rope hits his business partner with a crowbar and thinks he has killed him, so he fashions one of the ropes into a hangman's noose and props the body into it so it appears as a suicide. Only One to a Customer, art by Seymour Moskowitz; After a pitchman abuses the hospitality of tiny alien visitors by attempting to sell them on the street for profit, they take him back to their planet where he is sold as a toy mechanical giant. 36 pgs., full color. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $9.10

Add to cart Very Good $9.10

Cover by Larry Lieber and Vince Colletta. The Heat's On, script by Stan Lee, art by Russ Heath; A succubus uses a mirror to blind a sea captain on leave as he attempts to push his homely wife out the top story window. The Telepathic Typewriter, art by Mort Drucker; A writer buys a magic typewriter that shows a mental vision of the truth of any newspaper story that is typed on it. The Madman, script by Stan Lee, art by Bill Everett; Nurse Jane Bryant arrives at the mysterious Hagstone Sanitarium for a job, but she is really there on a secret mission of her own. Contents: One Human!, art by Robert McCarty; The Post Office investigates boxes that contain shrunken people which expand to full size upon arrival at their destination. Stan Lee talks about the new Spidey comic coming out, that's tied into the Electric Company television show. 36 pgs., full color. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $9.10

Add to cart Very Good $9.10

Cover by Larry Lieber and Mike Esposito. A Stranger Among Us, art by Bill Everett; Two men in a lab are told a story by a man behind a glass window about visiting a world of giants. Helen's Hubby!, art by Jay Scott Pike; A woman murders her husband for his money but when she reads his will, she notices he forgot to sign it. The Honeymooners, art by Tony Mortellaro; A man strangles his new bride, and when confronted by a neighbor, is told to mind his own business because that is what she wanted. Effigy!, art by Angelo Torres; A painter paints a painting of a dead man he dislikes who shoots him in the shoulder. The Uncanny Keys, art by Richard Doxsee; When a man finds out that a locksmith is in possession of magic keys given to him by a gypsy, he steals the keys and uses them to open doors that lead to treasure rooms and beautiful locations. 36 pgs., full color. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover by Ed Hannigan and Klaus Janson. The Treasure of Planetoid 12!, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; In the year 2100 a criminal hijacks a spaceship to be the first man to claim the treasure of Planetoid 12. Lost!; Criminals hide loot in a cave and one is arrested and serves a jail sentence of twenty years. For the Birds!, art by Ed Winiarski; When Professor Gorey realizes that there is a valuable market in interplanetary birds, he begins stealing eggs from other worlds, hatching them, and selling the rare birds. Hunger, pencils by Ben Brown, inks by David Gantz; A butcher poisons his ex-partner's meat locker in order to drive him out of business but then comes back later to make sure he did not leave any evidence behind and gets himself locked in. 36 pgs., full color. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $9.10

Add to cart Fair $2.50

Cover by Ron Wilson and Pablo Marcos. Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall..., art by Don Heck; Bill Carter purchases a mirror for his wife's birthday; It turns out to be cursed. The Man in the Morgue; A hoodlum spends his last buck for a psychic reading and is told that his luck will change. Dog-Gone!, art by Howie Post; A failed writer rescues a dog from an alley who turns out to be a better writer than he ever was. Point of View, art by Al Carreno; A janitor in a lab gets access to shrinking formula and shrinks the employees there. Ad for MGM'S Marvelous Wizard of Oz (Marvel / DC, 1975 series) #1, art by John Romita. 36 pgs., full color. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.