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  • Item #60647760
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    Chilling Tales (1952) 17 CGC 3.0

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #4339402018

    Starts Apr 6

    Cover by Matt Fox. Stories and art by Harry Harrison and Steve Kirkel. Tales of pre-Code horror from Youthful Magazines. A horror story based on the classic Sir Walter Scott story, "The Strange Case of Wandering Willie." Two other stories are adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe classics. In "The Tell-Tale Heart," a killer's guilt drives him to madness, or maybe it's the other way around. In a story based on Poe's "MS Found In a Bottle," a shipwrecked sailor is taken aboard a ghost ship. Cover art by noted artist Matt Fox, better known for his covers of pulp magazines such as Weird Tales. Strange Case of Wandering Willie; The Secret of Life and Death; The Tell-Tale Heart; Doomsday Ship; The Evil Eye. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #60383849
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    Crime Suspenstories (1950-55 E.C. Comics) 19 CGC 1.8

    Used in Seduction of the Innocent

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #4362037006

    Starts Apr 6

    Cover art by Al Feldstein. "The Killer," script and art by Reed Crandall; Jonathan worked hard at his work, never wanting to follow in the footsteps of his father. Then he met Elsie, whom he intended to marry after he had established himself; However, because Jonathan's father was not a member of a guild, Jonathan was denied his opportunity to make a living, and reluctantly accepted doing his father's line of work. "Wined-Up!", script by Bill Gaines (plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (plot, script), art by George Evans; Charles, in a wheelchair since an auto accident, learns that the accident was no accident at all, and that his wife Laura wanted to kill him because she was sick and tired of living with him; She now informs him that is going to try again by wheeling him out on a pier, attaching a wire to it so that she can pull the chair into the lake as she goes swimming. "Rendezvous!" text story, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Marie Severin. "Murder May Boomerang," script and art by Johnny Craig; Nearly inseparable, a father and son did everything in life together until that one day when a prisoner from a nearby penitentiary discovers the pair's cabin, where he steals clothing and nearly beats the father to death. "About Phase," script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by George Evans; 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #60669828
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    Jughead (1949 1st Series Archie) 20 CGC 8.5

    Only copy at the top CGC grade of 8.5.

    Paper: Cream to off white

    Label #1261638013

    Starts Apr 6

    "Hair Raid," art by George Frese; Jughead hopes to cash in on the chlorophyll craze by marketing a hair tonic he claims contains chlorophyll. "Swim for Your Supper," pencils by Samm Schwartz; Veronica invites Jughead to a weenie roast she's holding, but only if he agrees to swim after. "No Blood, Bud," art by Dave Berg; Mr. Weatherbee's first aid lecture takes a toll on Reggie. "Nothing But the Sleuth," pencils by George Frese; Jughead starts a private investigator business and Betty hires him to find out if Veronica is two-timing Archie. "Puppy Love"; Wilbur risks his life to save Laurie's arm-candy dog from a car. "Whiff All My Heart," pencils by Joe Edwards, inks by Terry Szenics; Coach tries to demonstrating proper hitting form to his team. "It's for Reel," pencils by George Frese, inks by Joe Edwards; Jughead finds a 3-D film a little too realistic. "Ice Cream, You Scream," art by Tom Moore; Jughead suggests Pop hold an ice cream eating contest as a means of increasing his business. "Dare Today Gone Tomorrow," script by Frank Doyle, art by Bill Vigoda; Jughead only gets away with sitting with Midge because Moose thinks he is Souphead and Moose doesn't mangle children. "Hay There," pencils by Harry Lucey; Ginger mysteriously lets Bunny bully her out of a date with Tommy. "The Bear Facts," pencils by Bill Vigoda; Jughead reassures his fellow hikers that they're safe from bears. "Dog-Gone," art by Samm Schwartz; Betty proves through logic that the dog didn't steal Jughead's steak. "Party of the First Part," pencils by Bill Vigoda; The gang prepare a surprise party for Jughead at the behest of a mystery planner. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #60260992
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    Strange Tales (1951-1976 1st Series) 23 CGC 4.5

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #4362428001

    Starts Apr 6

    Cover art by Sol Brodsky. "Welcome to Pluto," art by Joe Sinnott; The story begins in 1993 by showing muscle builder Bruto winning a body building competition; Bruto was shown to be a cruel callous man as when a disable child try asking for his autograph, not only did Bruto kicked the kid to the ground but destroyed his autograph book. "Just Around the Corner" text story. "The Man Who Knew Everything!", art by Joe Maneely; An encyclopedia publisher who is disrespected by his employees buys a robot to replace the editor-in-chief; The assistant editors become fed up with taking correction from the machine so, thinking that he is human, prepare to assault him. "White on Black!", art by Louis Ravielli; A space explorer steals an alien camera to photograph Earth and the result makes everything on Earth appear as a negative; He tells the scientists that he must be sent into space to take another photograph with the piece of film he has left, but when he develops it in the white on black darkroom, it causes the picture to be overexposed and turn out all white. "The Beginning!", script by Carl Wessler, art by Ed Goldfarb; One scientist argues that men descended from the sea and another that man has descended from the ape; The sea theorist develops a serum that will regress them to their beginnings and challenges his opponent to submit to an injection of the serum. "Can You Picture This?", art by Gil Evans; One night a lone Photographer named Harry was working on his photograph for cheesecake phot when he accidental spilled all of his developing formula into the water; To his amazement, he see the women from each photo stepping out into the real world. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.