Comic books November 1952, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $300.00 Restored: C1 Paper: Off white to white Restoration includes: small amount of color touch on cover, tear seals to cover, cover reinforced. (Small amount of tape on centerfold.) Label #2073692001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.00) will be charged at checkout.

Atomic War! (1952) #1. Indicia indicates this was published by Junior Books, Inc.; however, the Ace logo is on the cover. Reel in horror as a nuclear sneak attack from the Russians leads to the utter annihilation of New York City, Detroit, and Chicago! Stories include "The Sneak Attack," "Berlin Powder Keg," and "Counterattack!" Two page text story, "Operation Haystack." These shocking stories will awaken every American to "the dangers, the horror, and utter futility of WAR!" Remember -- "only a strong America can avert World War III!!!" Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $599.95 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4361821001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($18.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Stories and art by Harry Harrison and Roy G. Krenkel. Violent pre-Code war comics from Youthful Magazines. Marine Sgt. Steve Quinn makes the ultimate sacrifice to destroy a bridge in Korea. The true story of Merrills Marauders, an early and legendary special-ops unit that fought behind enemy lines during World War II. Two American POWs set out to escape from Stalag VII in Germany during WWII. Sgt. Quinn, Fighting Leatherneck; I Was a P.O.W.; Battlewagon; Merrills Marauders; Jet Jockey. Final issue under this title; series continues as Atomic Attack (1953 Youthful) #5, while Trojan Magazines continues the Attack title and numbering with Attack (1953 Trojan) #5(1/53). 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $930.00 Paper: Off white to white The DC Universe Collection. Label #4317841001

Cover pencils by Dick Sprang, inks by Charles Paris. What Do You Know about Other People? public service announcement with Binky, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. "Guns For Hire!", pencils by Dick Sprang, inks by Charles Paris; Gotham City criminals have developed a new method of commiting crimes with rented firearms; Batman and Robin start investigating the case without success until Bruce disguises himself as a criminal. Half-page Casey the Cop story by Henry Boltinoff. "Vicki Vale's Secret!", script by David Vern, pencils by Bob Kane (Batman and Robin figures only) and Lew Sayre Schwartz, inks by Charles Paris; Vicki Vale goes to Wayne Manor, desperately looking for help; She explains that she has brought doom upon herself, but passes out before saying anything else; Bruce and Dick leave her with Alfred while they investigate at Vicki's house as Batman and Robin. One-page Varsity Vic story by Henry Boltinoff. Finger Print Forgeries article by Jack Miller. "The Joker's Utility Belt!", script by David Vern, pencils by Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane), inks by Charles Paris; When the Joker's seemingly easy capture of the Caped Crusaders goes terribly wrong when Batman springs a surprise on him using his utility belt, the Crime Clown decides to outdo the Batman with his own utility belt! One-page Professor Eureka story by Henry Boltinoff. 44 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $425.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #2031122006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($12.75) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jim McLaughlin. The Terror of Dread Isle, art by Louis Zansky; Off the coast of Scotland lies Dread Isle; There live "fog creatures" with the ability of shapeshifting. I Walked at Midnight, art by Al Eadeh; Two vampires live in a cemetery; One day this hunting ground cannot provide nourishment for both of them. The Lyre of Doom. Treasure of the Dead, art by Gene Colan; On the deathbed of his father, Ralph Sandon promises to return a pirate treasure the father stole. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $289.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #0358251007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.67) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jim McLaughlin. The Terror of Dread Isle, art by Louis Zansky; Off the coast of Scotland lies Dread Isle; There live "fog creatures" with the ability of shapeshifting. I Walked at Midnight, art by Al Eadeh; Two vampires live in a cemetery; One day this hunting ground cannot provide nourishment for both of them. The Lyre of Doom. Treasure of the Dead, art by Gene Colan; On the deathbed of his father, Ralph Sandon promises to return a pirate treasure the father stole. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $750.00 Paper: Off white Label #0250166012

Cover by Bud Thompson. Stories by Bill Woolfolk, Art Helfant and Howard Boughner. Art by Bud Thompson, Art Helfant, Howard Boughner, and Joe Certa. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Captain Marvel Jr. discovers the "flying saucers" everyone is talking about are piloted by gigantic floating eyeballs, in a story with plenty of "injury-to-the-eye motif" (for the monsters). An angry fire demon curses Captain Marvel Jr. so that any fire near him will go out, even if he doesn't want it to. The Mad Mongol Monster; Judge Smudge; Rubbernose Randolph; Kanvasback: The Examination; The Thousand-Eyed Idol of Doom; Waterfront Cop; The Curse of the Fire Demon. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $569.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4176234007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($17.07) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

L.B. Cole cover. All stories reprinted in Popular Teen-Agers (1950) #23. Contains original and reprinted material as noted. "Heart-Break" art by Jay Disbrow; "Will I Have His Kisses Forever??"; and "I Was Dazzled by Love" retitled and reprinted from "I Hid My Lover" in My Desire (1949) #3. "Love's Mailbox" and "It's Personal, Do You Wear a Girdle?" text articles. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $259.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #0354562004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.77) will be charged at checkout.

"Born to Burn" (art by Mike Sekowsky?), "Death Was His Partner," "The Homicidal Hitchhikers," "Teen-Age Private Eye," and "The Legacy of Death." Two page text story, "Cops Don't Cry!" by Jim Hendryx, Jr., and one page filler "X Marks the Spot." Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $349.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4418355005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.47) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Dick Briefer and Mort Meskin. Cover by Dick Briefer. Prize Comics revives Dick Briefer's Frankenstein series in line with the horror trends of the Pre-Code 1950s. The Monster and his hunters encounter a lost prehistoric world of dinosaurs. Explorers bargain with the ghost of pirate captain Jean Lafitte to find his treasure. The sinister-looking actor playing Satan in a movie is a little too real. World of Monsters; Ghost of Jean Lafitte!; Satan and the Sailor. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $625.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #3858906013

"Tail of Death"; Amos Hatter has to take care of his younger scientist brother, Joseph; The mentally deranged Joseph experiments with a growing formula, but finds the opposite and shrinks himself down to mouse size; Amos helps him to regain his normal size, but is murdered by Joseph out of fear to be submitted to a mental institution. "Terror On High"; Two criminals infiltrate a monastery in the Bavarian Alps, where the bodies of the dead are preserved in its sub-zero cellar; Ralph and Jerry steal precious gems from the corpses and make their escape to their hide-out cabin; But the ghosts of the robbed come for revenge. "The Bony Shadow" text story by Brett Thompson. "The Clay Coffin"; Sculptress Hortense Hollingsworth creates things of beauty, but is homely herself; When husband Grover starts flirting with the new maid, Hortense poisons her and makes her into a statue. "The Vengeful Corpse"; Fisherman John Penn murders old Silas Barnes for his gold; He dumps the body at sea. Penn panics, however, when the corpse turns up in his fishing net. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $1,599.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4487780002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($47.97) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. In an issue-length, multi-part adventure, The Marvel Family tries to prevent another of King Kull's attacks on civilization. This story promotes the "Junior U.N.," similar to the later Model UN, and indirectly the United Nations, a new organization at the time. Another unforgettable cover, possibly by Pete Costanza. The Threat of the Junior U.N., Chapter One: The Beastman Strikes; Green Thumb; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Chapter Two: The Marvel Air Lift; Headline Harry: The Stingiest Man in Town; The Torrential Downpour; Chapter Three: Peace or War. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $1,200.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Slab: Scuffing on front of case; Top edge label strip missing Label #0019162004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($36.00) will be charged at checkout.

Blackout at Midnight!, script by Stan Lee, art by Tony DiPreta. The Hand Is Quicker. The Mind Reader!, pencils by Manny Stallman, inks by Manny Stallman. The Enemies. Beware of the Beggar!, art by Ed Winiarski. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $605.00 Paper: Off white to white Slab: Significant inner well scuff(s) Label #3764490006

Blackout at Midnight!, script by Stan Lee, art by Tony DiPreta. The Hand Is Quicker. The Mind Reader!, pencils by Manny Stallman, inks by Manny Stallman. The Enemies. Beware of the Beggar!, art by Ed Winiarski. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $449.95 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #2097996004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($13.50) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Art by Everett Raymond Kinstler, Syd Shores, Michael Becker, Vince Alascia, and Gene Fawcette. Cover by Gene Fawcette. Science fiction adventure from Avon, featuring stories and art from legends in the comics and sci-fi fields. A man discovers by robots in the fourth dimension that are holding humans captive; Space agent Mike Gordon is assigned to rescue the daughter of Earths president from a space bandit; Space criminals are mutated by the planetoid they use as a hideout. Also featuring the finest contents page yet, illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler on the inside front cover. The Radium Monsters; Mystery of Asteroid 9; World of the Monster Brain!; Ransom — One Million Decimars!; Interplanetary Safari; Revenge at Callisto Orbit. Issues #10 through #17 were not published. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Tales of Horror (1952 Toby/Minoan) 3 CGC 4.0

Paper: Off white

Small amount of dried glue on spine of cover.

Label #4481122021

Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Myron Fass, Mel Keefer, and Ben Brown. Pre-Code horror comics from Toby Press. A deadly snake gets hold of a mad scientist's giantification formula, and soon menaces the city. A strange clock transports a man into the distant past, where Satanists appeal to him to sacrifice his wife. An evil pharaoh doll comes to life and commands the toys of the world to rise up in revolt against humanity. The Big Snake; The Devils Closet; The Toy Army; Trespasser from Beyond. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Johnny Craig. Ad for MAD #1. "Silver Threads Among the Mold!", script and art by Johnny Craig; Cedric wants to marry a model named Christine; he makes a statue of her. "People Who Live in Brass Hearses," script by Al Feldstein and Bill Gaines, art by Jack Davis; The children ran up to the hearse as Mr. Byrd drove by, yelling things at him as he made his way to the general store; They couldn't understand why a man, who was NOT an undertaker, would drive such a contraption. "Treasure!" text story by William M. Gaines. "Strictly from Hunger!", art by George Evans; The posse stands before the mouth of the dark cave, where they had trailed a creature that had killed ten of their own, stripping their flesh from their bones. "A Grim Fairy Tale!", script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Graham Ingels (as Ghastly); A tiny kingdom is overrun with rats. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $207.00 Paper: Off white Label #2008940012 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.21) will be charged at checkout.

"The Sign of Doom," "You Dare Not Speak About It," "The Dead Dance on Halloween," and "Haunt of the Iskander Fjord." Stories by Bill Molno, Mike Sekowsky, Bill Walton, and Charles Nicholas. Suspense-filled horror tales that weave a Web of Mystery for the reader! 36 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $599.95 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Slab: See item notes Significant front/back scuff(s). Label #0262541004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($18.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Basil Wolverton and Ed Robbins. Stories and art by Tony Mortellaro, Eugene Hughes, Hy Fleishman and Basil Wolverton. Pre-Code tales of science fiction and horror from Stanley Morse Publications. After a nuclear war, a self-proclaimed king rules over an underground kingdom of survivors. A time traveler brings an inventor his own future interstellar-drive invention, but of course there's a horrible time-travel catch. Plus an adventure of whimsical spacefaring hero Jumpin' Jupiter. Stories and a classic horror cover by comics legend Basil Wolverton. Day of Doom; The Engine That Came Through Time; The Masquerade; Jumpin' Jupiter; Speck of Stardust. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.