Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) comic books 1950-1952

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $950.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4333897005

Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "The Living Corpse"; A wife has dreams about a man dead for 10 years. Her husband makes a deal with the devil to bring the corpse back to life; The corpse kidnaps his wife; The husband gets the wife back, but is shot by her. "The Blood Curse"; A woman is killed by ghosts as a result of a curse; A psychic researcher investigates and ends the curse. "The Man with No Shadow" text story. "The Lost World Below"; Two brothers take off in an experimental rocket ship and land inside the Earth in a frozen world; They find a woman in suspended animation. "Fangs of the Wolf Woman!"; A major in the army is sent to Hungary to help the resistance; He is shot but recovers with the help of locals. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $240.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #4017947008

Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Swamp Terror!"; A man leaves his fortune to his inconsiderate niece and nephew instead of his beloved sister; They must live in a house in the swamp & find the inheritance. "Chamber of Doom!"; A man is murdered by the ghost of a woman who he had jilted when she was alive. "Ghost Bait" text story by Kermit Welles. "The Haunted Hand!"; A man wins an auction for a hand that belonged to "Bloody John"; The hand steals things, and kills the protagonist. "Planet without Death"; A scientist becomes ill and travels to a planet he's studied where death doesn't occur; Instead, people become trees. He returns to Earth with an alien. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $129.00 View scans 1.5" Cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

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Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Pit of Terror"; A woman considers buying a castle; She accidentally removes a stake from a vampire, restoring him to life. She falls under the vampire's spell. "Fleshless Horror"; A reporter interviews a recluse; The recluse has no flesh on her head and limbs; The recluse prepares to take the reporter's flesh for her head and arms. "Face with the Blood-smeared Mouth" text story. "Witch Curse"; A woman drinks a potion which allows her to read thoughts but has the side effect of aging; Her friend doesn't recognize her and shoots her. "Peril from Afar"; A college student communicates with Jupiter; Mars attacks Jupiter but is repelled; Mars attacks the Earth; Jupiter pulls the Earth out of orbit to save it. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Hands of Death"; A woman finds a mirror covered with black paint so she scrapes it off; A hag escapes from the mirror and puts the woman in it. "Ghouls Unmasked"; A woman contacts her dead former husband; Her new husband pretends to be her former husband and shoots her. "Revenge in Miniature" text story. "Rat Men of Paris"; A gravedigger finds a tunnel to an underworld of human-like rats; The queen keeps him as a slave but he escapes; The ratmen reach the surface world and are killed by police. "Terror's Prisoner"; A scientist puts the brain of a hitchhiker in a gorilla; The gorilla takes the scientist's daughter. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart CGC 3.5 $295.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4091493008 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $99.95 or Best Offer View scan INCOMPLETE. Piece missing, interrupts art or story. 6" Cumulative spine split. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Blood of the Zombie"; A man asks to be embalmed because a zombie colony will think that he has white blood and thus believe him to be a god. "Dead Men Never Die!"; A reporter covers his first execution, and sees the executed man alive later; He pretends to kill someone so that he will be executed. "The Ghost Came Back" text story by Michael Arthur. "Eyes of Evil"; A woman buys an idol which is missing its eyes; Her husband brings home two rubies which are the eyes of the idol. "Bury Us Not!"; A woman answers a classified ad for assisted suicide; Her husband's ghost convinces her to leave. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $125.00 View scans Restored (see item notes) RESTORATION. Staples replaced. Full-length spine split (taped). Cover detached. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Kiss of the Vampire"; A policeman suspects a woman of foul play; He poses as an artist and meets her; She is a vampire and tries to kill him. "Corpse in the Vat"; A medical student finds his girlfriend with another man; The medical student kills her and plans to cut her body into millions of pieces; A ventriloquist causes the man to think she's still alive. "Short Steps to Death" text story by Paul Oren. "Death. Going Up"; Three people are summoned to a hotel and disappear; A detective investigates and receives a note to come to the hotel. "Fit to Die!"; A woman's husband is a cataleptic; The wife meets a younger man, and they bury the husband when the husband has a cataleptic fit; The will was not signed so they dig him up and make him sign it. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $189.95 or Best Offer View scans 5" cumulative spine split, piece of back cover missing, tape. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Flaming Horror"; A fat man's face is horribly scarred when he accidentally sets fire to his hotel room; He inherits a house and meets a lonely ghost. A man tries to kick him out of his house so he kills him. "Mask of the Devil"; The wife of an evil ruler gives birth to a demon because of a curse; The demon is raised in secrecy and vows revenge on his father. "Brain of Belial" text story by David Palmer. "Through Wicked Eyes"; A witch leaves a pair of glasses for a man; These glasses allow the man to see how people will die; He looks at a picture of his wife and sees that she will be killed by a taxi. "Return of the Corpse"; A policeman and doctor scheme to catch a grave robber; The policeman pretends to die and is buried in a coffin; The doctor is the grave robber and blocks the air hole. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.