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Front Cover: Mad #1

Mad #1

Issue Date: Oct.-Nov. 1952
Publisher: E.C. Comics
Pedigree: Gaines File Copy
Era/Age: Golden/Atom

Grade: 9.8 (NM/MT)
Grade Service: CGC   ID#0083457001
Page Condition: Off-White to White
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Price: $24,500
Status: SOLD!
What more can be said of this classic book? This copy is taken from the publisher Bill Gaines' own files (4/12). Not surprisingly, it is the highest graded copy. And at CGC 9.8 you can safely bet none higher will ever appear. Certificate of Authenticity included.

NETWORK OF DISCLOSURE NOTE: In 2003, this copy was previously in an older CGC label and graded a 9.6. CGC regraded it in or around 2004 as a 9.8.

Overstreet 2006 NM- 9.2 value = $6,800.

Front Cover: Mad #2

Mad #2

Issue Date: Dec. 1952 - Jan. 1953
Publisher: E.C. Comics
Era/Age: Golden/Atom

Grade: 7.5 (VF-)
Grade Service: CGC   ID#0109803001
Page Condition: Cream to Off-White
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Price: $892
Status: SOLD!
Severin, Elder & Wood art.

Overstreet 2005 VF 8.0 value = $908.

Front Cover: Mad #17

Mad #17

Issue Date: Nov. 1954
Publisher: E.C. Comics
Pedigree: Gaines File Copy
Era/Age: Golden/Atom

Grade: 9.6 (NM+)
Grade Service: CGC   ID#0097968006
Page Condition: Off-White to White
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Price: $2,900
Status: SOLD!
Those crazy E.C. folks printed the interior of this book intentionally upside down! Good thing Gaines kept this second best copy around so that it could be available 50 years later.

Overstreet 2005 NM- 9.2 value = 575.

Front Cover: Shock SuspenStories #7

Shock SuspenStories #7

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Publisher: E.C. Comics
Pedigree: River City
Era/Age: Golden/Atom

Grade: 7.5 (VF-)
Grade Service: CGC  
Page Condition: Off-White
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Price: $895
Status: For Sale
From the pedigree River City collection. Classic face melting cover by Al Feldstein with interior work by Wally Wood, Jack Kamen, George Evans and Joe Orlando. Full deep color strike with tight clean spine and excellent overall eye appeal. Flat and tight with a 1-inch tear and minor chips on bottom edge of back cover.
Front Cover: Vault of Horror #20

Vault of Horror #20

Issue Date: Aug.-Sept. 1951
Publisher: E.C. Comics
Pedigree: Northford
Era/Age: Golden/Atom

Grade: 9.4 (NM)
Grade Service: CGC   ID#0008331007
Page Condition: Cream to Off-White
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Price: $1,200
Status: For Sale
Overstreet 2005 NM- 9.2 value = $535.
 
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