2002 December Comic Auction - Dallas Texas. Sale #805 - Session 2

Mad #18 (EC, 1954) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. Great Kurtzman do-it-yourself cover. Flat, clean copy, with brilliant cover color and sharp corners.

Mad #19 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. Just in time for the 50th anniversary of Mad, we have an incredible selection of issues, mostl

Mad #19 Gaines File pedigree 3/9 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. This issue, with its predominantly white front cover, is more difficu

Mad #19 (EC, 1955) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. Finding a non-Gaines-File copy in this high-grade condition is a daunting task; in fact, ju

Mad #20 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. A comic designed to be snuck into class! From an original-owner collection, this copy has few visible flaws

Mad #20 Gaines File pedigree 5/12 (EC, 1955) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. Everyone automatically thinks of kids reading Mad in class, and t

Mad #21 (EC, 1955) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages. Significant among Mad collectors, this book features the first appearance of Alfred E. Neuman

Mad #22 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. Kept in a cedar chest since first purchased, this book has remained in Near Mint condition with white pages

Mad #23 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. This is the very last Mad comic, but, don't cry, they brought it back as magazine that c...

Modern Love #2 (EC, 1949) CGC FN 6.0 Cream to off-white pages. EC even did the romance genre the right way, even though they had a very limited output

Panic #1 Gaines File pedigree 10/12 (EC, 1958) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. This seminal issue was used in Senate Investigation hearings. Perhaps the best

Panic #2 Gaines File pedigree 10/12 (EC, 1954) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. This classic early Mad parody features an atomic bomb cover by Al Feldstein. E

Panic #3 Gaines File pedigree 10/12 (EC, 1954) CGC VF/NM 9.0 White pages. This historically significant issue features a Senate Subcommittee parody. J

Panic #4 Gaines File pedigree 10/12 (EC, 1954) CGC VF/NM 9.0 White pages. This classic spoof of Mad features a John Wayne parody. Straight out of Bill

Panic #5 Gaines File pedigree 9/11 (EC, 1954) CGC VF/NM 9.0 White pages. Clean and glossy with outstanding page quality, this is great example of this

Panic #7 Gaines File pedigree 9/11 (EC, 1955) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. This may be copy #9 of the 11 set aside by Bill Gaines, but it could pass for c

Panic #9 Gaines File pedigree 10/12 (EC, 1955) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. During ECs final days, they were really trying anything they coul

Panic #11 Gaines File pedigree 10/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. Panic was doing a pretty good job of copying Mad with this great parody of Wh

Panic #12 Gaines File pedigree 10/12 (EC, 1956) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. Finding this issue in any condition can prove to be very diffi

Picture Stories From American History #2 Gaines File pedigree 8/11 (EC, 1946) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. The British are coming! The British are com

Picture Stories From American History #3 Gaines File pedigree 3/11 (EC, 1947) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages. That's right, the grade is...

Picture Stories from Science #1 Gaines File pedigree 4/11 (EC, 1947) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. Before EC meant "Entertaining Comi...

Picture Stories from Science #2 Gaines File pedigree 8/11 (EC, 1947) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. This "Education Comic" from Max ...

Picture Stories from the Bible #2 (Old Testament) Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (DC, 1942) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. This is one of the earlies

Picture Stories from the Bible #2 (Old Testament) Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (EC, 1946) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages. A beautiful, near-perfect comic fro

Picture Stories from the Bible #3 (Old Testament) Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (DC, 1943) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. Let's start with th...

Picture Stories from the Bible #3 (New Testament) Gaines File pedigree Certificate Missing (EC, 1946) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages. Here we offer a gorg

Picture Stories from the Bible #4 (Old Testament) Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (DC, 1943) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. The fourth issue of the O

Picture Stories from the Bible (Complete New Testament) Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (EC, 1946) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. The "Complete New Tes...

Picture Stories from the Bible (Complete Life of Christ) Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (EC, 1944) CGC NM+ 9.6 Cream to off-white pages. This is the &quo...

Picture Stories from World History #1 Gaines File pedigree 4/11 (Eastern Color, 1947) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. From back in the days when

Piracy #2 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. EC's "Sagas of the Sea, Ships, Plunder, and... " managed seven...

Piracy #3 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. Reed Crandall's cover has us peering over pirates' shou...

Piracy #4 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. Yet another of the fine covers Reed Crandall limned for the EC gang, the powerf

Piracy #5 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. This awesome cover, furnished by Bernard Krigstein, is supplement

Piracy #5 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white pages. Cover creator Bernie Krigstein was the last artist to come to EC prior to

Piracy #6 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. Bernie Krigstein's blinding cover ranks with the best of EC&...

Piracy #7 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. Wow, what an opportunity to own a piece of history! Having an ori

Psychoanalysis #1 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. This Gaines file copy was deemed to be the very best one

Psychoanalysis #1 Gaines File pedigree 12/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. "People Searching for Peace of Mind through... &qu...

Psychoanalysis #2 Gaines File pedigree 12/12 (EC, 1955) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. Freddy Carter, Ellen Lyman, and Mark Stone are back for

Psychoanalysis #4 Gaines File pedigree 12/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Cream to off-white pages. Jack Kamen retired from comics about this time, but this

Saddle Justice #5 (EC, 1949) CGC VF 8.0 Cream to off-white pages. Overstreet notes this title to be "the 1st EC by Bill Gaines to break away fr...

Shock SuspenStories #1 Gaines File pedigree 8/12 (EC, 1952) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages. Al Feldstein's electrocution cover was perfe...

Shock SuspenStories #2 Gaines File pedigree 7/10 (EC, 1952) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages. One of Wally Wood's most memorable covers is...

Tales From the Crypt #20 (#1) Gaines File pedigree 1/11 (EC, 1950) CGC 9.8 NM/MT Off-white to white pages. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect

Tales From the Crypt #21 Gaines File pedigree 1/10 (EC, 1951) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. The second issue of this famous title has a memorable Al Fe

Tales From the Crypt #22 Gaines File pedigree 1/10 (EC, 1951) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. The undead zombie pulls the man into the grave in

Tales From the Crypt #23 Gaines File pedigree 1/10 (EC, 1951) CGC 9.6 NM+ Off-white pages. This a beautiful and near-immaculate copy of this issue. Fo

Tales From the Crypt #25 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1951) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-White Pages. According to Bob Overstreet this was the best file copy o

Tales From the Crypt #26 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1951) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. Wally Wood's second-ever cover for EC is a m...

Tales From the Crypt #27 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1951) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. Wally Wood's executioner cover has to be one of the m...

Tales From the Crypt #28 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1952) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. The blood-red inks just drip off the cover of this near-imm

Tales From the Crypt #31 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1952) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. This is an incredibly cool issue, with Jack Kamen

Tales From the Crypt #33 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1952) CGC NM+ 9.6 Cream to off-white pages. Meet the Crypt Keeper's "mummy" an...

Tales From the Crypt #34 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1953) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. The very best set from this famous pedigree has to hold a s

Tales From the Crypt #36 Gaines File pedigree 1/10 (EC, 1953) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white pages. William Gaines only kept ten copies of this issue, and th

Tales From the Crypt #39 Gaines File pedigree 1/11 (EC, 1953) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. Offered here is the number one copy to emerge from the depths o

Tales From the Crypt #40 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1954) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages. Except for the first nine issues of the title, Jac

Tales From the Crypt #46 Gaines File pedigree 1/11 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. This fantastic werewolf cover marks the end of thi

Tales of Terror Annual #3 (EC, 1953) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Cream to off-white pages. Al Feldstein digs deep and comes up with one of EC's finest bondage...

Tales of Terror Annual #3 (EC, 1953) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white pages. Gerber lists this as a "less than average" copy scarcity-wise, which is ...

Tiny Tot Comics #9 (EC, 1947) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Off-white pages. Where can you find a flying elephant and donkey, in a plane, racing two pigs in a sports

Two-Fisted Tales #21 Gaines File pedigree 7/10 (EC, 1951) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. The grade would indicate this book isn't quite p...

Two-Fisted Tales #22 Gaines File pedigree 7/10 (EC, 1951) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages. If we thought we had seen the most sensational copy

Two-Fisted Tales #23 Gaines File pedigree Certificate Missing (EC, 1951) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. After looking at so many of the famous

Two-Fisted Tales #24 Gaines File pedigree 7/10 (EC, 1951) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. This title and its EC companion, Frontline Combat, bor

Two-Fisted Tales #26 Gaines File pedigree 7/10 (EC, 1952) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. Face it; you're just not going to find a copy that approa...

Two-Fisted Tales #27 Gaines File pedigree 7/10 (EC, 1952) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white pages. Beautiful colors characterize this Harvey Kurtzman dynamo of

Two-Fisted Tales #28 Gaines File pedigree 7/10 (EC, 1952) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages. Harvey Kurtzman offers a brilliant cover for this issue, then al

Two-Fisted Tales #29 Gaines File pedigree 8/11 (EC, 1952) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. Kurtzman brought his own view of "War is Hell!" to ...

Two-Fisted Tales #31 Gaines File pedigree 6/12 (EC, 1953) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. Not many war-themed comic books took on the Civil War,

Two-Fisted Tales #33 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1953) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. Wally Wood uses this incredible cover to capture the em

Two-Fisted Tales #36 Gaines File pedigree 8/11 (EC, 1954) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. John Severin performed yeoman duties with his first cov

Two-Fisted Tales #37 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1954) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. A moving "Cowboys 'n Indians" cover by...

Two-Fisted Tales #38 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1954) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. For someone who just began working in the comic book field seven ye

Two-Fisted Tales #39 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1954) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. John Severin did the cover, wrote the stories, and edit

Two-Fisted Tales #41 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages. Jack Davis was responsible for just three of the twenty-four re

Valor #2 Gaines File pedigree Certificate Missing (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. Cover creator Al Williamson's realistic style ...

Valor #3 Gaines File pedigree 5/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages. Joe Orlando often got lost in the shuffle of bigger names and reputations am

Valor #5 Gaines File pedigree 5/12 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white pages. With cover art by Wood, and interior pictures from Williamson, Ingels, Evan

Vault of Horror #12 (EC, 1950) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Cream to off-white pages. Caught between lusting after a high-grade copy of a key EC title, and a relucta

Vault of Horror #13 Gaines File pedigree 4/9 (EC, 1950) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. Johnny Craig wasted no time incorporating the undead int

Vault of Horror #14 Gaines File pedigree 4/9 (EC, 1950) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. A corner dent on the upper back cover holds this outrageous copy &qu...

Vault of Horror #18 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1951) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages. The horror comics produced by EC Comics are arguably

Vault of Horror #18 (EC, 1951) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white pages. It looks like his wish didn't come true, but yours can if you are looking for an att...

Vault of Horror #20 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1951) CGC NM/MT 9.8 White pages. Blood and gore as you like it! Rendered by Craig, Ingels, Kamen, a

Vault of Horror #22 Gaines File pedigree 1/12 (EC, 1951) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. To date, only one other copy has received a higher CGC g

Vault of Horror #23 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1952) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white pages. Just another superlative, fetid cover that the title is famous

Vault of Horror #26 Gaines File pedigree Certificate Missing (EC, 1952) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. The dead and decaying hands, bursting up

Vault of Horror #28 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1952) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white pages. Graham Ingels and George Evans, among others, illustrated terr

Vault of Horror #32 Gaine File pedigree 8/11 (EC, 1953 CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. The graphicness of EC's covers were enough to give ...

Vault of Horror #34 Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (EC, 1954) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages. Over the course of 40 issues and two titles spanning seven years

Vault of Horror #40 Gaines File pedigree 9/12 (EC, 1954) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white pages. This rare final issue is alway a standout in its own right, ev

Weird Fantasy #9 (EC, 1951) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. EC did science fiction with a class and a style as no other publisher has ever been able to

Weird Fantasy #14 (#2) Gaines File pedigree 3/10 (EC, 1950) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages. You can tell this book is a 9.8 from across the ro

Weird Fantasy #15 (EC, 1952) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. Finding high-grade copies of these fantastic EC comics, outside of the Gaines file copies,

Weird Science #14 (#3) Gaines File pedigree 8/11 (EC, 1950) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages. This third issue's end-of-the-world cover is c...

Weird Science #16 (EC, 1952) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. Wally Wood's cover for this issue of Weird Science is one that is etched in...

Weird Science-Fantasy #29 (EC, 1955) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. EC's sci-fi title would undergo a name change and a New Direction aft...