Comic books published by Superior Comics, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $200.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #0778746017 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.00) will be charged at checkout.

Pre-Code romance comic from Canadian publisher Superior, featuring elements of crime, infidelity and good-girl art that later romance comics eschewed. Farmer's wife Martha is shocked at the way her bad-girl cousin Sally throws herself at her husband Bill. Anne falls for wealthy gadabout Phil, ignoring her brother's warnings that he's a notorious ladies' man. Bored with her older husband (who looks like Clark Kent), Jean hides her wedding ring to flirt with handsome Jim, then wonders if she's gone too far. Also featuring a vintage ad for the Rosary Cross of Seven Sorrows. Lesson for a Cheat; Gal on the Make; Loves Happy Landing; Runaway Romance. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $335.00 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Scuffing on front of case Label #1994753003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.05) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Select Comics

Couples wrestle with marital strife in this pre-Code romance comic from Canadian publisher Superior that often features good-girl art. Mary is pledged to absent soldier Mike, but soon finds herself in the arms of another man. Shirley, whose husband doesn't enjoy dancing, has a surprisingly enjoyable time hitting the town with handsome Jim, in a story with some spicy good-girl art. Doris finally gets a chance to rebel against her strict, old-fashioned father, in story with the lurid title "Love On Demand." Also featuring a vintage ad for the Rosary Cross of Seven Sorrows. Fun pre-Code bad-girl cover by an unknown artist. It Could Happen To You; Kisses For All; Innocent Scandal; Love On Demand. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $280.00 Paper: Off white to white Canadian Edition. Label #4197846019

Couples wrestle with marital strife in this pre-Code romance comic from Canadian publisher Superior that often features good-girl art. Beautiful but poverty-stricken Claire uses love and friendship to secure happiness, but risks losing the man she loves. A woman hospitalized after a car crash reveals how a shameful attempt at romance brought her there. Nurse Smith falls for the handsome doctor she works with, but their first surgery together is a disaster. I Won't Cheat Again; Wrong Bridegroom; His Kisses Fooled Me; I Loved My Doctor! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $499.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #0229504004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($14.97) will be charged at checkout.

Pre-Code mystery and horror stories from Canadian publisher Superior. A crook soon regrets stealing a cursed gem from the coffin of his aunt's twin sister, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. After the grisly murder of his wife (in an iron lung!), Bill is repeatedly visited by a woman who looks just like her. Watching a horror movie unleashes the beast within henpecked Horace, turning him into a werewolf with a taste for the ladies. Some horror-comics covers are symbolic, but this cover actually illustrates a scene from the comic, when gangster Big Jim visits a hellish nightclub called the Charnel House. Trapped in the Tomb; The Deadly Double; Mark of the Beast; Horror a la Mode; Call Me Monster. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.8 $199.00 Paper: Off white to white Slab: Scratch on front of case Label #2039140015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.97) will be charged at checkout.

Pre-Code mystery and horror stories from Canadian publisher Superior. A shape-shifting, demonic figure called The Masher is preying on women in the city, so policewoman Pat prepares to go undercover. Two criminals kill each other for a stolen jewel, but their struggle goes on beyond the grave. Sea goblins abduct women from a coastal town and townspeople give pursuit, but no one realizes the terrible truth. Demon in Disguise; One Was Human; Death in Possession; Blood Oath; The Sea Goblins. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $950.00 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 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 CGC 3.5 $295.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4091493008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.85) will be charged at checkout.

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 CGC 4.5 $490.00 Paper: Off white Slab: Scratch on front of case; Scratch on back of case; Scuffing to inner well of case Label #3886194003

Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Zombie Vengeance"; An aviator crashes in Haiti. He finds a house of zombies who welcome him in; He and a zombie woman escape the other zombies and their zombie dogs. "Death Thumbs a Ride"; A man learns that his wife is having an affair; He kills her and her lover and buries them in the basement. "Was It a Dream?" text story by Charles James. "You Can't Cheat a Ghost"; Three criminals search for pirate gold; One fools the others into thinking he's the ghost of the pirate. "Night of Horror"; A writer of horror books has writer's block; He goes to a movie to steal an idea; He falls asleep and when he wakes he's alone in the theater so he runs a movie. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 15 CGC 2.5

Paper: Off white

Label #4258134002

Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "The Corpse Comes Back"; A lawyer murders his partner and buries the body in 5 states; The dead man is stitched together and sent back to get revenge; His body falls apart and the lawyer tries to destroy him with acid and bury him in a trunk. "Black Pearls of Death"; Two men force islanders to dive for them to steal black pearls from a sunken idol; Once they get the pearls, they kill the islanders. "Horror's House" text story by John Martin. "Over His Dead Body"; A woman suspects that her husband returning from a business trip is abnormal; His skin is cold and he never sleeps; He refuses medical exams; She cheats on him. "Horror Unseen"; A scientist accidentally turns into a glass man; He steals money and wears makeup to fool his new bride; She is suspicious, discovers that he is glass, and is killed by him. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.8 $1,140.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Slab: Scuffing on front of case; Scuffing to inner well of case Cover detached. Tape on interior cover & interior. Label #3697690024 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($34.20) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "The Corpse Comes Back"; A lawyer murders his partner and buries the body in 5 states; The dead man is stitched together and sent back to get revenge; His body falls apart and the lawyer tries to destroy him with acid and bury him in a trunk. "Black Pearls of Death"; Two men force islanders to dive for them to steal black pearls from a sunken idol; Once they get the pearls, they kill the islanders. "Horror's House" text story by John Martin. "Over His Dead Body"; A woman suspects that her husband returning from a business trip is abnormal; His skin is cold and he never sleeps; He refuses medical exams; She cheats on him. "Horror Unseen"; A scientist accidentally turns into a glass man; He steals money and wears makeup to fool his new bride; She is suspicious, discovers that he is glass, and is killed by him. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $225.00 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #0347600033

Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Death Deals a Hand"; Several people join a club in which one person kills another each meeting until only one is left; The remaining person inherits all the others possessions. "Heart of the Corpse"; A man kills himself because he is fired; Another employee kills the mean boss, and is executed; A doctor digs up the three bodies, and finds that the mean boss had a stone heart. "Vengeance Night" text story by John Martin. "Tomb for a Werewolf"; A tombstone engraver is a werewolf who kills villagers and then makes money by carving their tombstones. "Call from the Grave"; Two newlyweds crash off of a cliff; The wife is killed; The disconsolate widower is urged by his dead wife to kill himself and join her. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $285.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4088784001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.55) will be charged at checkout.

Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Preview of Chaos!"; A druid has been hired to make it appear that the moon is on a collision course with California so a crook can buy real estate cheap. "Was He Death-proof?"; A criminal sentenced to die promises to get revenge; The judge's daughter paints the criminal's picture; The dead man's ghost returns and kills the judge and tries to kill the daughter. "Terror in the Tomb" text story by John Martin. "I Am Murder"; A woman became photophobic because her fiancé broke up with her because she was too ugly; A blind man comes to her house during a storm. "The Playful Executioner"; An evil spirit causes discord between a nagging wife and her husband by moving objects around; The spirit kills the wife by causing her to trip on the stairs. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.