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Comic books in 'Pre-Code Horror'

  • Issue #23
    Chamber of Chills (1952-1954 Harvey 2nd Series) 23

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    Wow! There's no more lurid cover than this, not in comics, not even in the pulps! A must have issue for serious pre-code horror collectors!

    Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Jack Sparling, Howard Nostrand, Bob Powell, John Giunta and Manny Stallman. Harvey Comics joins the parade of pre-Code horror comics pioneered by EC in the 1950s. A surgeon saves a woman's life with a heart transplant, but she becomes obsessed with the donor. An asylum inmate insists that aliens are planning to invade Earth. A reporter spends the night in a wax museum. Extra-creepy cover by Lee Elias. Heartline; The Storm; Invasion; The Museum; Chilly Chamber Music: Songs from the Spook Box; The Meaning of Dreams; Dust Unto Dust. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #24
    Chamber of Chills (1952-1954 Harvey 2nd Series) 24

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    Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Tom Hickey, Howard Nostrand, Bob Powell, Mort Meskin and George Roussos. Harvey Comics joins the parade of pre-Code horror comics pioneered by EC in the 1950s. A vampire tells the reader the story of his existence from his point of view. A henpecked husband finally snaps. An ex-convict seeks revenge on the man who framed him, in a story with atmospheric art by Tom Hickey. Plus a vintage ad for a "Toy Circus," featuring a live "performing chameleon" lizard offered through the mail! Classic hand-from-the-grave-cover by Lee Elias. Heartline; The Storm; Invasion; The Museum; Chilly Chamber Music: Songs from the Spook Box; The Meaning of Dreams; Dust Unto Dust. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $795 CHAMBER OF CHILLS #24 Harvey Publications 7/54 CGC 2.0 Lee Elias Pre Code Horror

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  • Issue #25
    Chamber of Chills (1952-1954 Harvey 2nd Series) 25

    Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, John Giunta, Manny Stallman, and Joe Certa. Harvey Comics joins the parade of pre-Code horror comics pioneered by EC in the 1950s. A brain operation unleashes the monstrous beast within an ordinary man. A meteorite is discovered to be filled with precious gems, bringing out the worst in humanity. A shrunken head tells its new owner that it needs a body. The Shrunken Skull; An Appointment With a Corpse; The Army Ants; The Devil's Blood; Operation--Monster; Spirit In the Stone; Return of the Werewolf! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $299 Chamber of Chills #25 (1954) ⭐ CGC 2.5 ⭐ Rare! Golden Age Horror Harvey Comic

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  • Issue #26
    Chamber of Chills (1952-1954 Harvey 2nd Series) 26
    • 2" spine split from top. Cover oxidation. Water spotting.
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    Cover by Al Avison. Stories and art by Tom Hickey, Al Avison, Manny Stallman, John Giunta and Vic Donahue. Harvey Comics joins the parade of pre-Code horror comics pioneered by EC in the 1950s. Antarctic explorers discover a long-frozen caveman. A man arranges a fiendish revenge on the thieves who murdered his wife, setting the eight-armed Ranu against them. Figures from nursery rhymes are brought to life as murderous minions. Bondage cover by Al Avison. The Eight Hands of Ranu; The Captain's Return; The Ice Horror; Demons of the Night. Final issue under this title; the series continues as Chamber of Clues (1955) #27. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #13
    Chilling Tales (1952) 13

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    Cover art by Matt Fox. The Screaming Skull, art by Harry Harrison. The Hand of Glory, art by Matt Fox; A mystical item is made from the hand of a dead thief that grants the user the ability to steal from anyone. What Is a Ghoul? text story. Pursued, art by Vic Carrabotta. Spider Hider. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    $12,500 CHILLING TALES #13 CGC 8.0 OW/W PAGES / 2nd Highest Grade

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  • Issue #14
    Chilling Tales (1952) 14

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    Cover by Matt Fox. Stories and art by Harry Harrison, Joe Galotti and Bob Baer. Tales of pre-Code horror from Youthful Magazines. A horror story based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's classic poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," as a sailor's curse follows him home. A man thrown into a snake-pit by his parents somehow survives, and learns the truth about a subterranean race of snake-people descended from the snake in the Garden of Eden. Or was it all a hallucination born of madness? Cover art by noted artist Matt Fox, better known for his covers of pulp magazines such as Weird Tales. The Ancient Mariner; The Smell of Death; Don't Wear That Suit; The Snake Pit. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #15
    Chilling Tales (1952) 15

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    Cover by Matt Fox. Stories and art by Harry Harrison, Joe Galotti, Henry Kiefer and Vince Napoli. Tales of pre-Code horror from Youthful Magazines. A proud Medieval lord boasts that he loves hunting so much he would ride with the Devil himself, but the wrong person takes that literally. Cover art by noted artist Matt Fox, better known for his covers of pulp magazines such as Weird Tales. The Hounds of Hell; The Monster; Curse of the Tomb; Sacrifice. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $4,365 Chilling Tales #15 CGC 4.0 1953 Matt Fox Cover

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  • Issue #16
    Chilling Tales (1952) 16

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    Stories and art by Steve Kirkel, Henry Kiefer and Vince Napoli. Tales of pre-Code horror from Youthful Magazines. A horror story based on the classic Rudyard Kipling story "The Mark of the Beast." Another story is based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, his first to see print, in which the survivor of a brutal family feud is undone by fate and an untamed horse. An artist makes a deal with the devil, and receives a disembodied hand that will do anything he asks, even draw...or kill. The Mark of the Beast; The Curse of Metzengerstein; The Creeping Hand; The House of Greed. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #17
    Chilling Tales (1952) 17
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    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4339402018
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #2134553001

    Cover by Matt Fox. Stories and art by Harry Harrison and Steve Kirkel. Tales of pre-Code horror from Youthful Magazines. A horror story based on the classic Sir Walter Scott story, "The Strange Case of Wandering Willie." Two other stories are adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe classics. In "The Tell-Tale Heart," a killer's guilt drives him to madness, or maybe it's the other way around. In a story based on Poe's "MS Found In a Bottle," a shipwrecked sailor is taken aboard a ghost ship. Cover art by noted artist Matt Fox, better known for his covers of pulp magazines such as Weird Tales. Strange Case of Wandering Willie; The Secret of Life and Death; The Tell-Tale Heart; Doomsday Ship; The Evil Eye. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $350 CHILLING TALES #2 CGC 0.5 Youthful Magazines 1953 PCH CLASSIC Matt Fox Cover
    $1,000 Chilling Tales Issue 17 Pre Code Horror October 1953 CGC 3.5 Matt Fox Cover

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  • Issue #1-1ST

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    Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Nov 1950-May 1951!" Collects Black Magic (1950-1961 Prize/Crestwood) Vol. 1 #1-4. Cover art by Jack Kirby. The first in an ongoing series of amazing accounts of the strangest stories ever told. By masters of the genre Jack Kirby & Joe Simon. Ably assisted by Mort Meskin. All in our popular Softee format, four comics in each volume. Softcover, 212 pages, full color. Cover price $34.99.

  • Issue #2-1ST
    PS Artbooks Softee: Black Magic TPB (2023 PS Artbooks) 2-1ST


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    Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Jul 1951-Dec 1951!" Collects Black Magic (1950-1961 Prize/Crestwood) Vol. 1 #5-6 and Vol. 2 #1-2. Cover art by Jack Kirby. The second in an ongoing series of amazing accounts of the strangest stories ever told. By masters of the genre Jack Kirby & Joe Simon. Ably assisted by Mort Meskin. Softcover, 284 pages, full color. Cover price $32.99.

  • Issue #3-1ST
    PS Artbooks Softee: Black Magic TPB (2023 PS Artbooks) 3-1ST


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    Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Feb 1952-May 1952!" Collects Black Magic (1950-1961 Prize/Crestwood) Vol. 2 #3-6. Cover art by Jack Kirby. The third in an ongoing series of amazing accounts of the strangest stories ever told by masters of the genre Jack Kirby & Joe Simon, ably assisted by Marvin Stein, Bruno Premiani, John Prentice, George Roussos, and Mort Meskin. All in our popular Softee format, four comics in each volume! Softcover, 220 pages, full color. Cover price $32.99.

  • Issue #4-1ST
    PS Artbooks Softee: Black Magic TPB (2023 PS Artbooks) 4-1ST


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    Volume 4 - 1st printing. "Jun 1952-Oct 1952!" Collects Black Magic (1950-1961 Prize/Crestwood) Vol. 2 #7-11. Cover art by Jack Kirby. The fourth in an ongoing series of amazing accounts of the strangest stories ever told. By masters of the genre Jack Kirby & Joe Simon. Ably assisted by Bill Walton, George Roussos, Al Eadeh, Bob McCarty, and Mort Meskin. All in our popular Softee format, four comics in each volume. Softcover, 220 pages, full color. Cover price $32.99.

  • Issue #2
    Three Dimensional Tales from the Crypt (1954) 2
    • Restored (see item notes)
    • RESTORATION. Color touch, staples replaced, spine split seal, tear seal, piece fill. 3" cumulative spine split (unsealed), 1" tear around staple throughout interior. One pair of 3-D glasses included.
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    • Interior is complete. Full length spine split.
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    Series continued from Three Dimensional E.C. Classics. Unless otherwise noted, this comic will not come with the original 3-D glasses. "The Trophy" (art by Jack Davis, story from Tales From the Crypt # 25), "The Strange Couple" (art by Bill Elder, story from Vault of Horror # 14), "Bats in My Belfry" (art by Johnny Craig, story from Tales From the Crypt # 24), and "The Thing From the Grave" (art by Joe Orlando, story from Tales From the Crypt # 22). Stories redrawn to 3-D format. Original stories not necessarily by the artists here. Al Feldstein cover. 36 pages. Cover price $0.25.

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    $360 Three Dimensional Tales From The Crypt of Terror #2 1954 CGC .5 Al Feldstein 3D
    $410 E.C. Comics 3-D Tales From The Crypt Of Terror #2 CGC 3.0
    6 days left Auction Three Dimensional Tales From The Crypt of Terror #2 1954 no glasses VG

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