Valor (1955 E.C. Comics) comic books
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Issue #1
$75.00
View scans- 2 1/2" Cumulative spine split.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
Cover by Wally Wood. Stories by Carl Wessler. Art by Al Williamson, Angelo Torres, Marie Severin, Bernie Krigstein, Graham Ingels, and Wally Wood. One of EC Comics' late New Direction titles, a response to the new Comics Code, featuring historical adventure. A Roman gladiator rises and falls on the word of the Emperor's smitten wife, with art by Al Williamson and Angelo Torres. An overconfident general finds the Haitian natives have outmaneuvered him, illustrated by Bernie Krigstein. A British warrior claims to be the returned King Arthur, but his rule is anything but kingly, in a Wally Wood story. The Arena; The Guardians of Empire; Strategy; Revolution; The Return of King Arthur. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #2
$65.00
View scans- Cover detached at one staple.
Cover by Al Williamson. Stories by Carl Wessler. Art by Al Williamson, Bernie Krigstein, Graham Ingels, and Wally Wood. One of EC Comics' late New Direction titles, a response to the new Comics Code, featuring historical adventure. A Roman gladiator lives his life in service to the empire, but never forgets the family he left behind, with art by Al Williamson. A 12th-century Chinese poet crafts a fitting revenge against the cruel emperor who outlawed his craft and slaughtered his peers, illustrated by Bernie Krigstein. Aspiring knight Geoffrey fights to earn his way into King Arthur's Round Table, in a story by Wally Wood. The Champion; No Survivors; Poetic Justice; The Colonels Son; A Day of Battle; King Arthur: The King's Service. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #3
$65.00
View scans- Staple rust. Rust migration.
$24.00
View scans- .5" Spine split from top.
Cover by Joe Orlando. Stories by Otto Binder and E. Toomey. Art by Al Williamson, Reed Crandall, Bernie Krigstein, and Joe Orlando. One of EC Comics' late New Direction titles, a response to the new Comics Code, featuring historical adventure.A Roman commander learns the hard way that ambition is no substitute for strategy, with art by Al Williamson. An ailing pharaoh has an unusual reason to have his slaves work on a pyramid, illustrated by Bernie Krigstein. A stand-off between King Richard and Saladin during the Crusades is ended by a soldier's treachery, with Reed Crandall art. The Cloak of Command; Gentle as a Whisper; The Pyramid; The Wandering Minstrel; Debt of Honor. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
