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Nightmare (1953 St. John) comic books

  • Issue #10
    Nightmare (1953 St. John) 10
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4390430005
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

    Cover by Joe Kubert. Stories and art by Gene Colan, Alex Toth, Everett Raymond Kinstler, and Murphy Anderson. Numbering continues from Weird Horrors (1952) #9. Classic pre-Code horror stories, originally from Ziff-Davis's Weird Thrillers, including art from many comics legends. A man buys a horror mask to scare his wealthy uncle to death, but faces a grim comeuppance, in a story with early art by Marvel legend Gene Colan. A cosmic Fisherman From Space catches humans and leaves them on an island where they never grow old, in a story with art by comics legend Alex Toth. A crook steals a time machine and Grandfather Paradoxes himself, in a story with art by comics legend Murphy Anderson. Also featuring a story by Everett Raymond Kinstler, and a cover by comics legend Joe Kubert. The Fisherman of Space; The Last Man; Destiny Takes a Long Road; A Will from the Grave; The Cycle of Time; The Mystery of Easter Island; Murderers Mask; Headed for the Stars; The Drummer of Tedworth. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #12
    Nightmare (1953 St. John) 12
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #0330651010
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #2029265004
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    • Interior is complete. Full length spine split with missing back cover.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Cover by Joe Kubert. Stories and art by Enrico Bagnoli, Antonio Canale, and Edgar Allan Poe. Classic pre-Code horror from St. John. A man searches for the legendary lost city of San Miguel, where his love waits for him. A killer learns he shouldn't have abused a black cat, in an adaptation of a classic Edgar Allan Poe story. A couple's new coffee shop in an ancient house is haunted by a murder that replays every night. Bondage cover by comics legend Joe Kubert. Death Stalks the Bayou; The Black Cat; The Horror of the SS Malabar; The Face That Wasnt There; The Forgotten Room. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #13
    Nightmare (1953 St. John) 13

    Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Dan Barry, Bob Powell, and George Tuska. Classic pre-Code horror from St. John. John falls in love with Tania, a mermaid, after she saves him from drowning, in a story with early art by future Flash Gordon artist Dan Barry. Ben's soul seeks a new body to inhabit, in one of two stories this issue with art by comics legend Bob Powell. Bull, meanwhile, finds his soul split into two bodies, in a story with early art by comics legend George Tuska. Awesome mermaid cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Princess of the Sea; The Soul of Benjamin Sprague; The Mind Reader; Death x 2 = 0; The Shadow on the Screen; Space Age Glass. Final issue under this title; series continues as Amazing Ghost Stories (1954 St. John) #14. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.