Black Cat Mystery (1951-1963 Harvey) comic books

Add to cart PR 0.5 $119.95 or Best Offer View scan INCOMPLETE. Centerfold missing, does not affect main features. Severe water damage, Mold. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Stories and art by Manny Stallman and Rudy Palais. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. A strange old woman sells roses dripping with blood that drive the buyer to madness and murder. A cane that glows in the night means death for someone, but its horrible tapping serves as a warning of its approach. Legendary pirate Harry Main lures ships to their doom on the Ipswich Shoals, but the souls of the dead get their revenge. Bloody Red Rose; The Thing; The Tapping Doom; Ghost Town; Black Cats Encyclopedia of Superstition; Trapped!; The Sea Witch of Sandy Hook; The Sleepwalking Killer; Ghosts That Never Rest: The Devil-Doomed Sand-Man!; Weird Facts. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $449.95 or Best Offer View scans Staple rust/migration. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Tom Hickey, Vic Donahue and Rudy Palais. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. A ship docks at a port ravaged by the dreaded Gray Plague. The 13th green of a haunted golf course is the site of a player's death, and now his spirit won't let anyone else play through. A death-row inmate insists on his innocence. This issue was mentioned in the British anti-comics classic Parade of Pleasure. Electrocution cover by Lee Elias. Corpses From The Sea; Army of Scorpions; Ghost Train; Horror In The Stone Age; The Red Death; Grave On The Green; Vat of Death!; Man-Made Monster. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $195.00 View scans Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Cover by Warren Kremer. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Joe Certa, and Manny Stallman. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. A Frankenstein-like monster protects young Donnie from zombies at the cost of its own life. Treasure hunters encounter zombies in the Louisiana swamps. The last man on Earth, a horrible radioactive mutant, travels back in time to settle a score with the people of 1952. This issue was mentioned in the text of the anti-comics classic Seduction of the Innocent, pp. 270-271. Battle of the Monsters; Rotting Demons; Dimension Death; Deaths Garden; The Last Man Returns; Whip of Death!; Carnival of Death. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $99.95 or Best Offer View scan INCOMPLETE. Piece missing, interrupts art or story. Missing back cover. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Joe Certa, Warren Kremer, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Vic Donahue and Rudy Palais. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. A witch returns from the grave after 300 years, bent on revenge. A painting made with a murder victim's blood contains evil magic that backfires on the painter. A mad taxidermist creates the world's worst gorilla suit. This issue was mentioned in the text of the anti-comics classic Seduction of the Innocent, pp. 386-388. The Ape Man; Voodoo; The Witch Killer; The Evil Eye; The Stranger; The Body Maker; Hoof Beats of Death; Portrait in Blood. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Bob Powell, Abe Simon, Moe Marcus, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, and Al Eadeh. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. Unkillable monsters emerge from a mysterious hidden room. A man insists on living with the dead. A killer encounters a monstrous batlike beast. Also featuring a strange vintage ad: "Fly Like a Bird with Wings Made from the Original Sketch of Leonardo Da Vinci!" The Room of Mystery; Inferno; Ishtar and Tammuz; The Beast of Doom; Path To Death; Live Mans Funeral. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $210.00 View scans 2" Spine split from bottom. Staple rust with migration. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Stories and art by Joe Certa, Abe Simon, Moe Marcus, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, and Al Eadeh. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. A mask is created from a synthetic rubber that has strange new properties. A mathematician's formula contacts the 4th dimension, drawing the attention of the evil creatures that live there. Undersea explorers encounter a beautiful woman - or is it a shape-shifting octopus-like sea monster? Kiss of Doom; Next Attraction - Death; The Visitor; Mask of the Murderer. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $155.00 View scan INCOMPLETE. Centerfold missing, does not affect art or story. Full-length spine split. Cover and interior oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Moe Marcus, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, and Warren Kremer. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. An American in India wants to murder his native wife, but her pet panther protects her. A chess-lover kills for a special chess set, then is forced to play chess with Death. A sailor is tried for abandoning a sinking ship by the ghosts of his crew. My Husband The Cat; Truth Is Stranger; Devil Drums; The Rage in Suspense; Black Knight; Saucer; Weird Facts; Eternity! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Howard Nostrand. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, and Joe Certa. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. A man hypersensitive to color is driven to murder for a cure, in a creative, oft-reprinted story. A boxer regains his confidence in the ring after drinking a mysterious potion. Also, superstitions about birds and animals from around the primitive world. Terrific pre-psychedelic cover by Howard Nostrand. Colorama; Lynch Mob; Knockout; I.O.U. One Body! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $480.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #3880395001

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $469.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Scuffing to inner well of case Label #2045610004 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Manny Stallman and Joe Certa. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. A scientist tries to convince future Earth of the folly of shooting convicted criminals into space. A prisoner gets a chance to escape his cruel captors, or so he thinks. A dark spoof of the movie High Noon, an experiment in the Mad-style humor that resulted in Harvey's short-lived comic Flip. Supreme Penalty; Low Noon; Torture; Regent 3! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $370.00 View scans Paper: Slightly britle Slab: Scuffing to inner well of case Tape on interior cover. Label #2017097003

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $295.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #4122534005

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $295.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #3845867002

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $190.00 View scans 4.5" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple. Centerfold detached at one staple. Staple rust. Rust migration. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, John Giunta and Joe Certa. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. Henpecked Abner contends with his domineering wife over their shared bathroom, until one day Abner just snaps. A dark spoof of The Three Musketeers finds the sinister Milady with a secret advantage against the heroes. A harried businessman is tormented by letters from Death, promising an impending meeting. Clean As a Whistle; The Three Musketeers; Paranoia; A Promise Kept. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $9,999 or Best Offer View scans 6" spine split from bottom. Cover detached. Cover oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Add to cart Coverless $899.95 or Best Offer View scans Margin tears in a few pages. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Manny Stallman, John Giunta Joe Certa, John Belfi, Sid Check and Frank Frazetta. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. A man is stealing corpses form the cemetery, and the townspeople want to know why. A dark spoof of the movie Mogambo, an experiment in the Mad-style humor that resulted in Harvey's short-lived comic Flip. A mysterious visitor to a small town has plans of revenge against the town elders, in a story with early inking assists by fantasy art legend Frank Frazetta. Notorious pre-Code cover by Lee Elias, showing a man's face and hands burning away, is one of the most famous of the era. The King Is Dead; The Artificial Sky; Occupation; Moe Gambo; White Heat; And Still Champion; Torture!; Here Today…. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $300.00 View scans 1.75" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Nat Barnett, Mort Meskin, and Joe Certa. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. Blue-haired femme fatale Cambria lures worker Steve into killing her father, so they can take over the mill that makes curiously pink flour. A dark spoof of the movie Come Back, Little Sheba, an experiment in the Mad-style humor that was originally intended for the third issue of Harvey's short-lived comic Flip. Gangster Rudy cons boxer Punchy into dangerous fights so he can win bets, but he didn't bet on Punchy finding out. The Old Mill Scream; The Wrong Way; Come Back Bathsheba; Punch & Rudy; Your Dreams Mean; Greek Mythology; One, Two, Tree; Switcheroo. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $279.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #2055589011 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $180.00 View scans Cover detached at one staple and glued to first wrap. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Rudy Palais, Manny Stallman, and Joe Certa. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. Sarah's uncle brings a macabre trophy back from India - a severed hand that grants wishes, in a pastiche of the horror classic "The Monkey's Paw." A wife-killer is pursued by the corpse of his victim. Halloween partiers are forced into a macabre scavenger hunt by a strange creature. Plus a vintage ad for a "Savage Australian Boomerang." Hand of the Yogi; Jack of Horror; Halloween Nightmare; Shadows on the Tomb; The Return of the Mummies; Mark of the Vampires. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $90.00 View scan Cover and centerfold detached and anchored with glue. Glue spots at spine. 1.5" Edge tears. Water damage.

Stories and art by Bob Powell, Joe Certa, John Giunta, Vic Donahue and Rudy Palais. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. In the far future year of 3052, atomic rays transform The Last Man on Earth into a horrible monster. Castaways in an Asian desert discover a lost city of the living dead. A peasant makes a deal with the devil to win a woman's hand. The Last Man on Earth; Forbidden Room!; Man Against Beast; Strange Superstitions; Marching Zombies; The Case of the Tell-Tale Shoes; Trick the Devil! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $90.00 View scan 4" cumulative spine split. Cover-to-cover puncture. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Lee Elias and others. As the Comics Code goes into effect, former horror comic Black Cat Mystery briefly restores its superhero star and her Code-friendly adventures. (Official title is Black Cat Western Mystery, but superhero Black Cat is featured on the cover, just to confirm this is anything but a horror comic.) When a horse on a Hollywood set is revealed to be stolen, Black Cat investigates. Linda dreams that her alter ego Black Cat takes her place on a date with Rick. A misunderstanding over a borrowed Oscar gets Linda involved in a mix-up with screen legend Bob Hope. First issue to feature the Comics Code seal on the cover. Oil Well Menace!; Justice Avenged; A Day with Linda Turner: The Borrowed Oscar!; A Day with the Black Cat; Terror Rides the Highways; The Underwater Plot. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $250.00 View scans Water damage. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Lee Elias and others. As the Comics Code goes into effect, former horror comic Black Cat Mystery briefly restores its superhero star and her Code-friendly adventures. (Official title is Black Cat Western Mystery, but superhero Black Cat is featured on the cover, just to confirm this is anything but a horror comic.) In a Scooby Doo-style plot, Linda's film crew encounters ghosts in an abandoned gold mine, but they're actually crooks trying to scare the crew away from hidden gold. Linda encounters danger and drama among the lumberjacks while shooting a film on location in the Northwest. Black Cat tries to protect a film crew shooting a Perils of Pauline-style cliffhanger. The Ghost Town Terror; Blind Fury; Big Wood's Death; Perils of Linda Turner. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Lee Elias and Bob Haney. As the Silver Age gets going, Harvey revives former horror/western/sci-fi comic Black Cat and its original star, an early female superhero Black Cat's teen sidekick Kit is introduced. The mad arsonist (with a cool costume) called The Fire Bug burns down a circus, killing trapeze artists the Flying Westons. Black Cat saves their son Kit, who joins her in tracking down Fire Bug. Cunning master criminal The Sceptre mocks both police and Black Cat. Who Is the Black Cat?; Flames Over Hollywood; Judo Tricks; The Black Cat Adopts a Kitten; A Day In the Life of Linda Turner; The Warrior; The Crimson Raider; Mistaken Identity; Jungle Danger; The Farewell Note; Perils of Linda Turner; Obviously, the Sceptre. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.