Journey into Mystery #12 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1953

About Journey into Mystery #12

Carl Burgos cover. Dick Briefer, Howard Nostrand, Ed Goldfarb, and Tony di Preta art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: A Night at Dragmoor Castle!

Pencils: Carl Burgos

Inks: Carl Burgos

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: A Night in Dragmoor Castle!!

Synopsis: A thief meets a girl who works as a maid at a castle and convinces her to help him rob the place so that they can acquire enough money to return to America together. He doesn't love her and is just manipulating her, but she says she loves him and agrees to leave the door open late at night. The thief encounters the lord of the castle and draws his gun on him. The girl offers to hide him in the castle tower, and he finds himself locked in. What the man doesn't realize is that all the castle occupants, including the girl, are ghosts.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Al Eadeh

Inks: Al Eadeh

Notes: Cover story. Writer credit per M. Vassalo.

Title: A Witch in Love

Synopsis: A witch, who has never seen a man before, one night leaves the forest for the nearby town only to mistakenly fall in love with a statue in the town square.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Dick Briefer (signed)

Inks: Dick Briefer (signed)

Title: The Sight of the Ghost!

Synopsis: A ghost in the forest comes across a boy trapped in a pit, but everyone who sees him is to frightened to lend aid. Eventually he comes across a trio of people singing, who are not afraid of him in the slightest, and they have a rope. They rescue the boy and take him home. The ghost is gratified to have met such sensible people. The trio go on their way but what the ghost doesn't realize is that they are mental patients who used the rope to escape from their insane asylum.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Tony DiPreta (signed)

Inks: Tony DiPreta (signed)

Title: The Strange Boy

Synopsis: A greedy couple gain custody of a small boy, who survives a fire, in hope of extracting a reward from relatives when they are located. It turns out the boy is an alien being who can read thoughts, and when his parents arrive, they kill the greedy couple and rejuvenate the old drunk who lives in a shack to a youthful body as a reward since he had befriended the boy.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Ed Goldfarb (signed)

Inks: Ed Goldfarb (signed)

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	4	2	4	4	2	4	3	4	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	33
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	4	2	4	5	2	4	3	4	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	34

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