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Title: Lot of Three HORROR and SUSPENSE Comics * ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN No. 19 * FORBIDDEN WORLDS No. 8 * STRANGE SUSPENSE STORIES No. 35
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Publisher:ACG and Charlton
Date Published: 1951-1957
Description: Adventures Into the Unknown #19: G/VG (3.0). Spine stress, spine roll, creases, shallow chips to spine ends and adjacent edge of top spine. Cream pages. Credits: Cover: Ogden Whitney. Art: Lin Streeter, George Klein? Richard Brice, Frank Sieminsky, W.G. Hargis, John Rosenberger, Al Camy. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 4.0 sold for $200 in 12/21.

Forbidden Worlds # 8: Good+ (2.5). Spine stress, heavy spine roll, transverse tears to spine, staple rust, nicks and small chips, 1" tear, creases, pencilled arithmatic to front cover. Cream pages. Credits: Cover: Ken Bald. Art: Art Gates, Harry Lazarus, Al Camy, King Ward. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. Lowest-graded sale is a 6.0 that sold for $180 in 4/21.

Strange Suspense Stories #35: VG (4.0). Spine stress, handling creases, back cover corner creased, small abrasion to back cover, rubberstamped distributor's mark to middle of cover ("M1 OCT"). Off-white pages. Credits: Cover: Steve Ditko. Art: Steve Ditko (3 stories), Bill Molno?, Bill Fraccio? GPAnalysis: No reported sales in any grade.Handiwork of Horror: Severed wolf head shoots eyebeams like a lycanthropic Cyclops; headless corpse harasses honey; stubby-fingered sculptor kills his slim-fingered rival and hacks off his hands as part of an insane self-improvement scheme ("I can hollow out his hands without destroying their artistic skill – and wear them like gloves!"); vampiress immolated alive (undead?); ghost of death camp victim strangles Nazis; man mauled by panther with human head; three Ditko stories.______________________________________________________________

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