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Auction History Result 6s0207 STRANGE MYSTERIES #12 Canadian edition comic book July 1953 cover art of The Golden Skeletons Date Sold 6/9/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Canadian Edition Comic Book (measures approximately 7 1/8" x 10 1/4" [18 x 26 cm]) (Learn More) Strange Mysteries was a pre-code horror thriller comic book series that was published from 1951 to 1955 by Superior Comics. Titles like this were created in imitation of EC comics, and they can often be even more rare than EC's! Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this comic book, which is the Canadian edition! Contents: Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "The Golden Skeletons"; A cemetery caretaker and his wife discover that the cemetery's skeletons have turned to gold; They take them to their house and grind them into gold dust. "One Second to Live"; A convicted murderer relives his life in the second of his hanging; He sees his mother murdered and his discovery that his father was the murderer. "Fatal Proof" text story by John Martin. "No Escape from Evil"; A woman marries an old man for his money; She pushes him off a cliff. The old man although dead returns to kill the widow's new boyfriend. "Devil's Festival"; The village of Walpurgen in Austria, destroyed by Turks, reappears every 100 years; An American couple chances upon it, sees hangings, torture and stonings, and is almost burned at the stake. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10. Please note that we don't use a "comic guide" grading system, and OUR grading scale is completely different from standard comic book grading. Our "very good" is completely different from a comic book graded "very good". Note that this comic book will be sent to the winning bidder in a brand new Mylite2 protective sleeve and a half-back 100% acid-free backing board. Note that we have pictured both covers and some interior page of this comic, which means that you can hopefully see most defects the comic has, AND get a good sense of its condition. While we gave the comic an overall condition grade (and sometimes describe the defects in words) please rely on the actual images of the comic we provide here to help you decide what YOU think its condition is, and then bid or not bid based on what you are seeing in the images. And if you have ANY doubt as to what the condition of the comic is, or whether you want it in the condition it is is, then please do not bid, as we do not want any retracted bids or returns if at all possible. If in doubt, do not bid!. Condition: fair. There is paper loss in the top left of the cover and some tiny tears and tiny paper loss down the spine. Learn More about condition grades 
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