MARVEL TALES #110 * CGC 4.5 * Coffin for Carlos

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Title: MARVEL TALES No. 110
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Publisher:Atlas [Indicia: Marvel Comics, Inc.]
Date Published: December, 1952
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CGC certified: VG+ (4.5). Cream to off-white pages. Cover: Russ Heath. Stories and art: Stan Lee, Syd Shores, Russ Heath, Bill Benulis, Don Perlin. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade in 7 years. A 4.0 copy sold for $250 in June 2020.

Marvel Tales was the flagship of a veritable armada of horror titles rushed into print by Atlas publisher Martin Goodman to cash in on the horror craze. "Timely [Atlas], the first major comics publisher to focus on horror, was putting out twenty-five horror books, each of which had six stories." — David Hadju, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. FSG: 2008, p. 189.

A limited edition of 150 softcover and 15 hardcover catalogues is available. 400 lots, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcover $30, deluxe hardcover with dust jacket and limitation plate $200. Ten of the 15 hardcovers are pre-ordered and the rest will go quickly, so reserve yours now. To order, contact ivan@pbagalleries.com.

Consignments welcome for PBA's December 2021 Comic Book sale. Top prices for Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age, Silver Age, original art and ephemera. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com.