Strange Tales (1951-1976 1st Series) comic books 1962, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $229.99 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4072032013 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.90) will be charged at checkout.

Last 10-cent cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Thing Hunts for Me!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An old man in a boarding house tells a woman that is being hunted by a shape-shifting alien; He dies of a heart attack and the woman is relieved, since she is the alien and will not have to kill him. "The Flying Saucer That Was" text story. "The Man Who Shrunk the World!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A man from the future travels back to the 1960s to conquer the world with a shrinking gas; When he tests the gas on himself he becomes too small to release the antidote and shrinks to nothingness. "Somewhere Sits a Lama," art by Don Heck; A villager sneaks into a nearby monastery to find the secret of eternal life; He finds the secret, but in order to live forever he must stay motionless in one room until someone comes to take his place. "Inside the Flying Saucer!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; An audience watches a film of an alien invasion. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $315.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #3748182004

First 12-cent cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "When the Thing Runs Amok!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An inventor builds a robot, but others are afraid of it; The robot goes on a rampage and is dropped into the sea. It leaves a letter saying that it will emerge when humanity learns tolerance. :The Magician" text story. "Earth Will Be Lost Tonight!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An agent signs a singer who is an instant hit; He discovers that the singer is an alien whose next record will help his people conquer Earth, and manufactures a scandal to ruin the aliens career. "Mister Black," art by Bob Forgione; A Japanese youth doesnt want to fight in World War II; A stranger named Mr. Black saves him, but only so he will be where he was fated to be in 1945, in Hiroshima as the bomb falls. "The Wax People!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; The mannequins in a store come to life in a creepy atmosphere as it closes; However, this is not thought odd by anyone, because on this alien world all people are made of wax, and some work as mannequins, but leave with everyone else at closing. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $130.00 Paper: Off white Label #4398082005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.90) will be charged at checkout.

First 12-cent cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "When the Thing Runs Amok!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An inventor builds a robot, but others are afraid of it; The robot goes on a rampage and is dropped into the sea. It leaves a letter saying that it will emerge when humanity learns tolerance. :The Magician" text story. "Earth Will Be Lost Tonight!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An agent signs a singer who is an instant hit; He discovers that the singer is an alien whose next record will help his people conquer Earth, and manufactures a scandal to ruin the aliens career. "Mister Black," art by Bob Forgione; A Japanese youth doesnt want to fight in World War II; A stranger named Mr. Black saves him, but only so he will be where he was fated to be in 1945, in Hiroshima as the bomb falls. "The Wax People!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; The mannequins in a store come to life in a creepy atmosphere as it closes; However, this is not thought odd by anyone, because on this alien world all people are made of wax, and some work as mannequins, but leave with everyone else at closing. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $525.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #3814454010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($15.75) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Two-Headed Thing!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; In a storm, a convict escapes through a hole smashed in the wall; When he is found, he tells a tale of a shape-shifting monster; When the guards scoff, the escapee reveals that HE is the monster. "Muscle Man" text story. "The Monster Escapes!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An alien planning to invade Earth crash lands and tries to find a rocket to escape; Instead, he accidentally conceals himself in an airtight time capsule and suffocates. "The Cave of Shaggdorr!", art by Don Heck; No one had ever returned from a treasure search in the cave of the Shaggdorr on Ursa Centaurius; Bruno Krugg escapes the authorities and heads for the planet to steal the treasure. "Do Not Panic!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; An alien craft arrives over a city and descends; The pilot wears a frightening spacesuit, but since the military do not panic, they do not attack, and when the human pilot removes his helmet he is warmly greeted by the people of Mars. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $135.00 Paper: Off white to white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #0040832012

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "I Dream of Doom!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Frank Atwell can't sleep because he has nightmares in which a monster tries to catch him; His doctor sedates him and he sleeps so heavily that the monster catches him before he can wake up. "The Universal Gadget" text story. "The Impossible Tunnel!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Robert Saunders wants to build a sub-oceanic tunnel from North America to Europe; He discovers a gentle underground civilization and he destroys the tunnel to protect them from the upper world. "Beware the Future Man!", art by Don Heck; A gangster tries to escape the police by forcing an old man to take him to another state; The old man turns out to be from the future and is looking for a male specimen to put on display. "The Clock-Maker!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; The Clock-Maker cannot stand anything that's not perfect; When his bookkeeper makes a mistake it sounds like he has killed him; The local police arrive to discover the bookkeeper was a clockwork man and the Clock-Maker was repairing him. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $120.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4398082010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.60) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "I Dream of Doom!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Frank Atwell can't sleep because he has nightmares in which a monster tries to catch him; His doctor sedates him and he sleeps so heavily that the monster catches him before he can wake up. "The Universal Gadget" text story. "The Impossible Tunnel!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Robert Saunders wants to build a sub-oceanic tunnel from North America to Europe; He discovers a gentle underground civilization and he destroys the tunnel to protect them from the upper world. "Beware the Future Man!", art by Don Heck; A gangster tries to escape the police by forcing an old man to take him to another state; The old man turns out to be from the future and is looking for a male specimen to put on display. "The Clock-Maker!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; The Clock-Maker cannot stand anything that's not perfect; When his bookkeeper makes a mistake it sounds like he has killed him; The local police arrive to discover the bookkeeper was a clockwork man and the Clock-Maker was repairing him. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $589.00 or Best Offer Trimmed Paper: Off white to white Bottom Edge of Trimmed. (Cover Married.) MARRIED/TRIMMED. Label #0325333002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($17.67) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "When a Planet Dies!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Humans are forced underground by the Suns death; An approaching planet alarms many, but humans vote against destroying it: saving Earth as the new planet, really a sun, thaws the dying world. "Mystery Pupil," art by Joe Maneely; A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal. "The Madness!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A man is transported by a mist to the 16th century, where he is locked up as a madman; He escapes and is transported with the asylum keeper back to the present, where the keeper is taken for mad! "Goodbye to Linda Brown," script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A girl in a wheelchair living with her aunt and uncle begins sleepwalking; In her sleep, she wheels herself underwater. "Behind the Dreadful Door!", art by Gene Colan; A painter breaks into a room which he thinks is the source of a famous artist's inspiration; It contains supernatural beings that model for the artist, who take the intruder as their own model. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $849.99 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #0282462001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($25.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "When a Planet Dies!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Humans are forced underground by the Suns death; An approaching planet alarms many, but humans vote against destroying it: saving Earth as the new planet, really a sun, thaws the dying world. "Mystery Pupil," art by Joe Maneely; A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal. "The Madness!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A man is transported by a mist to the 16th century, where he is locked up as a madman; He escapes and is transported with the asylum keeper back to the present, where the keeper is taken for mad! "Goodbye to Linda Brown," script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A girl in a wheelchair living with her aunt and uncle begins sleepwalking; In her sleep, she wheels herself underwater. "Behind the Dreadful Door!", art by Gene Colan; A painter breaks into a room which he thinks is the source of a famous artist's inspiration; It contains supernatural beings that model for the artist, who take the intruder as their own model. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $500.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1244491004

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "When a Planet Dies!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Humans are forced underground by the Suns death; An approaching planet alarms many, but humans vote against destroying it: saving Earth as the new planet, really a sun, thaws the dying world. "Mystery Pupil," art by Joe Maneely; A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal. "The Madness!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A man is transported by a mist to the 16th century, where he is locked up as a madman; He escapes and is transported with the asylum keeper back to the present, where the keeper is taken for mad! "Goodbye to Linda Brown," script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A girl in a wheelchair living with her aunt and uncle begins sleepwalking; In her sleep, she wheels herself underwater. "Behind the Dreadful Door!", art by Gene Colan; A painter breaks into a room which he thinks is the source of a famous artist's inspiration; It contains supernatural beings that model for the artist, who take the intruder as their own model. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $189.00 Paper: Off white Label #4341776001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.67) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "When a Planet Dies!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Humans are forced underground by the Suns death; An approaching planet alarms many, but humans vote against destroying it: saving Earth as the new planet, really a sun, thaws the dying world. "Mystery Pupil," art by Joe Maneely; A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal. "The Madness!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A man is transported by a mist to the 16th century, where he is locked up as a madman; He escapes and is transported with the asylum keeper back to the present, where the keeper is taken for mad! "Goodbye to Linda Brown," script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A girl in a wheelchair living with her aunt and uncle begins sleepwalking; In her sleep, she wheels herself underwater. "Behind the Dreadful Door!", art by Gene Colan; A painter breaks into a room which he thinks is the source of a famous artist's inspiration; It contains supernatural beings that model for the artist, who take the intruder as their own model. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Strange Tales (1951-1976 1st Series) 98 CGC 1.0

Paper: White

Label #4398082009

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "No Human Can Beat Me!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Paul Reinman; An alien lands on Earth and issues a challenge to best any man at any contest or the Earth will be invaded; The alien defeats all comers until one man challenges it to sleep longer than him, claiming to have slept for one million years. "The Party" text story. "They Vanished Forever!", art by Dick Ayers; Sailors find the "Flying Dutchman" and take the ship's gold, despite the pleas of the ghost crew; They are turned into ghosts to replace that crew, leaving the man who refused the gold unharmed. "The TV Fan!", art by Don Heck; A lazy cad tricks a rich girl into marrying him so that he can watch TV all day. "A Fortune in Beans!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A bean seller is chagrined to find that he has competition from the Giant, of Jack and Beanstalk fame, who has decided to go into business selling his giant beans. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $80.00 Paper: White Label #4398082006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.40) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "The Man in the Crazy Maze," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A carnival owner cons patrons with an impossible maze, and kills a reporter that might expose him; He is trapped in another maze with only one exit, into hell. "Blueprint for Victory" text story. "The Imitation Man," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A dictator forces a scientist to use his duplicator machine on him so that he can have a substitute appear in public places to avoid assassination attempts. "Beware the Uboongi!", art by Don Heck; Americans flee Uranus due to ferocious wildlife; The Soviets take the opportunity to land their own expedition, but because they ignore the American warnings they do not realize that the sheep-like creatures in the mountains are the deadly Uboongi. "The Mighty Oak!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; An atomic test gives an oak tree the ability to think and move, and it plots the destruction of humanity's implements of war and crime. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $321.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #3875745005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.63) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. The Human Torch stars in "Prisoner of the Wizard," script by Stan Lee (plot) and Larry Lieber (script), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; The Human Torch is tricked and trapped by the renowned genius the Wizard, who impersonates the Torch to frame him for crimes. "The Treasure" text story. "The Secret of the Hidden Planet!", pencils by Gene Colan; Human-like aliens are seen on Venus, and a wicked pilot poisons his rival to be able to make first contact. "Who Needs You?", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A general who has the responsibility of launching a nuclear counter attack is replaced by a robot that his bosses think is more suited for a role that requires perfection; When an unidentified radar object approaches at ICBM speed, the robot concludes that it must be a Soviet first strike and prepares to launch a counter attack. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $227.00 Paper: White Label #4045562010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.81) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. The Human Torch stars in "Prisoner of the Wizard," script by Stan Lee (plot) and Larry Lieber (script), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; The Human Torch is tricked and trapped by the renowned genius the Wizard, who impersonates the Torch to frame him for crimes. "The Treasure" text story. "The Secret of the Hidden Planet!", pencils by Gene Colan; Human-like aliens are seen on Venus, and a wicked pilot poisons his rival to be able to make first contact. "Who Needs You?", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A general who has the responsibility of launching a nuclear counter attack is replaced by a robot that his bosses think is more suited for a role that requires perfection; When an unidentified radar object approaches at ICBM speed, the robot concludes that it must be a Soviet first strike and prepares to launch a counter attack. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $140.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4083253011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.20) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. The Human Torch stars in "Prisoner of the Wizard," script by Stan Lee (plot) and Larry Lieber (script), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; The Human Torch is tricked and trapped by the renowned genius the Wizard, who impersonates the Torch to frame him for crimes. "The Treasure" text story. "The Secret of the Hidden Planet!", pencils by Gene Colan; Human-like aliens are seen on Venus, and a wicked pilot poisons his rival to be able to make first contact. "Who Needs You?", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A general who has the responsibility of launching a nuclear counter attack is replaced by a robot that his bosses think is more suited for a role that requires perfection; When an unidentified radar object approaches at ICBM speed, the robot concludes that it must be a Soviet first strike and prepares to launch a counter attack. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $475.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #0006646002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($14.25) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by SamsCGCgoodies

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. The Human Torch stars in "Prisoner of the 5th Dimension!" (and it's not referring to the sixties pop group!), script by Stan Lee (plot) and Larry Lieber (script), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; The Human Torch discovers an impending invasion from the 5th Dimension, but he is captured by that dimensions tyrannical ruler; The Torch is freed by the tyrants opponents. "Lady Luck" text story. "The Little People!", script by Stan Lee (plot) and Larry Lieber (script), art by Don Heck; An American expatriate stumbles across tiny people in Europe who seem to recognize him; He is captured and escapes, thinking the experience was a dream, but wondering about reincarnation. "Jasper's Jalopy," script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A man is mocked for keeping his old car, but it saves his life by sacrificing itself to keep him from crossing an unsafe bridge. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.