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Haunted Thrills (1952) comic books

  • Issue #1
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 1
    • INCOMPLETE. First wrap and centerfold missing, affects art and story.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
      Other items consigned by humble cow

    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. Wealthy playboy Peter Brooke has a secret life as a creature of the darkness. The police are baffled by the strange murders at Surfside Manor. A Nazi bomb frees a 17th-century witch from her grave to fulfill her curse. A Coffin Waits...; Ghost Gloves; Ghost of R'wana; Skeletons Have Secrets!; The Witch's Curse! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #2
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 2

    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. Mine workers unearth a tentacled horror from the subterranean depths. Grimm, the Ghost Doctor, investigates when a ghost threatens a gardener and his black rose. The ghost of King John arises to protect the original copy of the Magna Carta. Horror in the Mine!; Blood of the Rose; Tropical Madness; Death Is Only Skin Deep; The Voyager Of Death! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #3
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 3

    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A cop loses his badge for insisting that a haunted house is responsible for a series of murders. Bolton Baker encounters Gloria, who acts as bait for a werewolf's victims. Grimm, the Ghost Doctor, finds a love triangle at the heart of a woman's unearthly melancholy. Nightmare Mansion; Horror Hour; The Strange Bell of Obani!; Grimm, Ghost Doctor: Music and Mayhem; Monsters for Rent.... 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #5
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 5
    Published 1953 by Ajax.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #0353089008
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4354866004
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
    • Full length spine split (taped). Staple rust/migration.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
      Other items consigned by humble cow

    Stories and art by Joe Doolin and others. Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A Faulkneresque tale of murder on a faded Southern plantation includes a zombie and art possibly by Human Torch creator Carl Burgos. A woman hires a witch and then unwisely ignores her bill. A butcher in a famine-stricken city turns to an obvious source for fresh meat. Hands of Terror; Swamp Haunt; House of Chills; Fatal Scalpel. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #7
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 7
    Published 1953 by Ajax.
    • Cover detached at one staple and coming loose at second. Cover oxidation.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A scientist makes mental contact with an executed convict's preserved brain. A movie actor drafted to the Korean front uses makeup to fake his own death, but it works too well. A dying plastic surgeon reveals he changed Hitler's face after WWII. Trail to a Tomb; The Corpse Who Killed; Harbinger of Violence; Two on the Aisle... Of Death!; Screams in the Night. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #8
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 8

    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A wife-killer unleashes a demon while hiding the body. A couple discovers a lunatic living on a shipwreck off the Cornish shore. A comics retelling of the old legend that the head of King Charles I haunted his usurper, Oliver Cromwell. Three in a Grave; Coward's Curse; Jiavaro Magic; Horror Harbor; The Vanishing Skull. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #9
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 9
    Published 1953 by Ajax.
    Auction opens April 29
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #4141723023
    • Water spotting.

    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A man kills his wife, but she won't stay in the coffin. An art critic's latest objet d'art contains a demon. A female sculptor's jungle refuge succeeds with the help of a mysterious stranger. Madness of Terror; Devil on His Shoulder; The Genius. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #12
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 12
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4248014009

    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A murdered ganglord returns for revenge. A political mission to Central America is sabotaged by voodoo chieftains. A practical joker encounters a humorless ghost in a Spanish castle. Terror Below; Badge of Glory; Goodbye Earth!; Death Laughs Last; Voodoo Vengeance. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #14
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 14

    Stories and art by Robert Webb and others. Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A wealthy man has a special place for his unfaithful wives. A bank robbery turns out to be the work of the most unlikely suspect. The Trumpet that will signal the Apocalypse falls into the hands of Gabriel, who's only too ready to use it. Frigid Fear!; Wheel of Terror; Doctor Death; Trumpet of Doom; Dying Is So Contagious. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #16
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 16
    • 3" cumulative spine split, cover detached, centerfold coming loose at staples.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
      Other items consigned by humble cow

    Stories and art by Carl Burgos and others. Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A woman's jilted fiance commits suicide, but he's not done making her life miserable. A killer's victims are reincarnated as lethal swans. Mysterious, beautiful Suthina appears after Matt is bitten by the deadly temple spider in Egypt, and soon follows him to America. Devil's Bride; Web of the Widow; Phantoms Are Fatal to Fakers; Howling Horror!; Blade of Horror. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #17
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 17
    • 3.5" Cumulative spine split.
    • Interior is complete. Full length spine split.
    • Water damage.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Stories and art by Frank Belknap Long and others. Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A ballerina's partner returns from the grave for one last waltz. Lunatics think they're Napoleon, but they can't both be right. Paranormal investigator Dr. Fenn combats the Dorset monster, a Druidic horror from England's past. Mirror of Madness; Devil's Ballet; Die Screaming; Laughing Ghost; Monster in the Mist. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.