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Haunted Thrills (1952) comic books 1953

  • Issue #5
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 5
    Published 1953 by Ajax.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #0353089008
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4354866004
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
    • Full length spine split (taped). Staple rust/migration.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    Stories and art by Joe Doolin and others. Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A Faulkneresque tale of murder on a faded Southern plantation includes a zombie and art possibly by Human Torch creator Carl Burgos. A woman hires a witch and then unwisely ignores her bill. A butcher in a famine-stricken city turns to an obvious source for fresh meat. Hands of Terror; Swamp Haunt; House of Chills; Fatal Scalpel. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #6
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 6
    Published 1953 by Ajax.

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    Stories and art by Carl Burgos and others. Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A ship is taken over by an army of ravenous rats. A zoo's latest acquisition is a minotaur, but it requires a very special diet: human youths. A female ventriloquist's dummy comes to life, and she's brought her friends with her, in a story with art by Human Torch creator Carl Burgos. Crawling Death; Pit of Horror; Monster Mill; Dearest, Deadest Dummy. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #7
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 7
    Published 1953 by Ajax.
    • Cover detached at one staple and coming loose at second. Cover oxidation.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A scientist makes mental contact with an executed convict's preserved brain. A movie actor drafted to the Korean front uses makeup to fake his own death, but it works too well. A dying plastic surgeon reveals he changed Hitler's face after WWII. Trail to a Tomb; The Corpse Who Killed; Harbinger of Violence; Two on the Aisle... Of Death!; Screams in the Night. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #8
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 8

    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A wife-killer unleashes a demon while hiding the body. A couple discovers a lunatic living on a shipwreck off the Cornish shore. A comics retelling of the old legend that the head of King Charles I haunted his usurper, Oliver Cromwell. Three in a Grave; Coward's Curse; Jiavaro Magic; Horror Harbor; The Vanishing Skull. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #9
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 9
    Published 1953 by Ajax.
    Auction opens April 29
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #4141723023
    • Water spotting.

    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A man kills his wife, but she won't stay in the coffin. An art critic's latest objet d'art contains a demon. A female sculptor's jungle refuge succeeds with the help of a mysterious stranger. Madness of Terror; Devil on His Shoulder; The Genius. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #10
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 10
    Published 1953 by Ajax.

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    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. Scientist Marcus Kemp creates a robot duplicate, then gets blamed for its murders. A man is haunted by unearthly dreams of a departed lover. An escaped killer encounters a witch on the British moors, and it doesn't end well for either of them. Death at the Mardi Gras; Screams in the Swamp; Night of Horror; Murder on the Moor; Witch's Horror. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #11
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 11

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    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A strange rain of blood is centered on a man who framed a romantic rival for murder. Two embezzlers fight to the death, but the story doesn't end there. The truth about a pirate's cursed treasure is uncovered by horror host The Hexmaster. Blood in the Sky; Death at the Throttle; The Stranger in the Sky; Dead Man's Chest; Out of the Grave. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #12
    Haunted Thrills (1952) 12
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4248014009

    Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A murdered ganglord returns for revenge. A political mission to Central America is sabotaged by voodoo chieftains. A practical joker encounters a humorless ghost in a Spanish castle. Terror Below; Badge of Glory; Goodbye Earth!; Death Laughs Last; Voodoo Vengeance. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.