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Tales of Horror (1952 Toby/Minoan) comic books 1953

  • Issue #4
    Tales of Horror (1952 Toby/Minoan) 4
    • Staple rust with migration.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Ernest Schroeder, Ben Brown, David Gantz and Myron Fass. Pre-Code horror comics from Toby Press. For sinister reasons, a man slips his niece and her husband a magic potion that shrinks them down to four inches tall. A monster created for a hoax turns out to be real. A scientist's super intellect-booster works too well on the test rats. The Curse of King Kala; Death from the Sea; The Man Who Imagined a Monster; Who Shall Inherit the Earth?; Li'l Pepp. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $178 Tales of Horror #4 CGC 1.0 Giant Beetle Rare 1953 Toby Press
    $269 Tales of Horror #4 CGC 2.5 Giant Beetle Rare 1953 Toby Press HTF
    $600 Tales of Horror 4 CGC 6.5 TOP GRADED Giant Beetle Rare 1953 BEST COPY Toby Press

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  • Issue #5
    Tales of Horror (1952 Toby/Minoan) 5

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    Cover by Moe Marcus. Stories and art by Ben Brown, David Gantz, Moe Marcus, and Bernard Baily. Pre-Code horror comics from Toby Press. Hideously ugly Hans Bruckner is rejected from town after town, not because of his appearance, but because of his Mr. Hyde-like violent temper. The world's champion chess player is challenged by the mysterious Invincible One, who plays with a chessboard whose pieces look like miniature human beings. Vampires stalk the help at a country farm, but the farmer himself seems strangely unconcerned. The Man Who Lost His Shadow!; Hand of Fate!; Sisters of the Witch; Game of Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $270 Tales Of Horror #5 CGC 1.0 Toby Press Pre Code Golden Age Horror 1953

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  • Issue #6
    Tales of Horror (1952 Toby/Minoan) 6

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    Stories and art by Mel Keefer and Jack Sparling. Pre-Code horror comics from Toby Press. This issue may have been used as an example in the anti-comics classic, Seduction of the Innocent (p. 161). Nebbish Edgar buys a genie who will fulfill his wishes from a man at a strange old shop...but there's always a catch. A zombie wants to know why her husband is late for their undead rendezvous. A jar of beet juice turns out to be human bean juice. The Treacherous Genie; Test of Terror; The Fiend of Flames; Weirdest Suicide Pact; Special on Beet Soup; Brief Stop at Lambeau. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $479 TALES OF HORROR #6- CGC 5.5 (APPARENT) - 1953 TOBY PRESS-RARE HORROR COMIC
    $1,000 CGC 4.5 TALES OF HORROR #6 TOBY PRESS 1953 RARE HORROR COMIC BOOK (GOLDEN AGE)

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  • Issue #7
    Tales of Horror (1952 Toby/Minoan) 7
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #7004007-AA-010
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    • 6" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached. Lateral spine tear. Brittle.
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    Cover by Howard Rosenberger. Stories and art by Howard Rosenberger, Mel Keefer and Jack Sparling. Pre-Code horror comics from Toby Press. A creature from the depths is summoned by the sound of a foghorn, in an early comics version of the classic Ray Bradbury story "The Foghorn." An arrogant lawyer believes he is so smart that he can trick the Devil himself. Harriet marries a decrepit old man for his money, only to learn that he's immortal and has placed a horrible curse on any man who loves Harriet. The Man Who Tricked the Devil; Die for the Beggar; The Beast from the Deep; Dinky. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $240 TALES OF HORROR #7 CGC 3.0 JACK SPARLING HOWARD ROSENBERGER
    $1,250 Tales of Horror #7 CGC 6.0

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  • Issue #8
    Tales of Horror (1952 Toby/Minoan) 8

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    Cover by Howard Rosenberger. Stories and art by Mel Keefer and Jack Sparling. Pre-Code horror comics from Toby Press. A bookkeeper with delusions of heroism decides to track down the mad killer stalking the city. Mad Avery devises a fiendish trap for the guests at his pool party, and the only person who suspects is his butler, Jarvis. A deadly snake gets hold of a mad scientist's giantification formula, and soon menaces the city, inspiring a great cover by Howard Rosenberger. The Slasher!; Pool of the Skeletons; The Witness!; Doorway to Darkness; The Death Ship; The Big Snake! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.