Marvel Tales #96 The Promise Collection Pedigree (Atlas, 1950) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $5,040.00

Sold: Jun 19, 2021

Marvel Tales #96 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1950

About Marvel Tales #96

Horror stories. Syd Shores bondage cover. Mike Sekowsky, Gene Colan, and Werner Roth art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Monster Returns!

Characters: Frankenstein's Monster

Pencils: Syd Shores; Joe Maneely ? (see notes)

Inks: Syd Shores; Joe Maneely ? (see notes)

Notes: Possible Maneely sidebar art per Michael J. Vassallo and Nick Caputo.

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Title: The Return of the Monster

Synopsis: A contemporary continuation of the Frankenstein story.

Pages: 9.000

Pencils: Gene Colan; Syd Shores (see note)

Inks: Vince Alascia ?; Syd Shores (see note)

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #32 (November 1974)

Notes: Job number from www.atlastales.com. Shores splash page taken from his cover image.

Title: The Mask of the Mind!

Synopsis: No one suspects that the handsome and kind Dr. Hill is secretly a grave robber who disguises himself with a hideous mask to do his evil work.

Pages: 4.000

Reprints: Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #11 (November 1974)

Notes: A similar plot to the Ditko story in Tales to Astonish #11. Job number from www.atlastales.com.

Title: Don't Shake Hands with the Devil

Synopsis: Satan sends an emissary to a horror story publisher so that he will read the scroll of suffering and be transported to Hell. Satan wants his soul because the stories he publishes turn people away from evil, but he cannot collect it until he is dead, so he puts the curse of Satan upon the publisher to kill the first person he sees (as then he will be executed for the crime), and sends him back.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Mike Sekowsky

Reprints: Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #15 (November 1974)

Notes: Job number from www.atlastales.com. Features “a publisher of weird and fantastic horror stories,” whose titles include Satanic Stories, the magazine that dares defy the devil!”. (Note by Tom Lammers)

Title: The Witch's Son!

Synopsis: A boy releases bears from their cages in order to save an old woman from being burned at the stake as a witch, but she actually is a witch, and rewards him with a protective spell.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Carl Burgos ?

Inks: Carl Burgos ?

Reprints: Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #11 (November 1974)

Title: The Terror That Creeps

Synopsis: A man tries in vain to convince the world that the Sphinx is slowly crawling to the edge of the desert where it will regain its full power to fly and commit atrocities in the name of the evil god Set.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Werner Roth

Inks: Werner Roth

Reprints: Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #14 (November 1974)

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	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	1	0	1	2	2	2	1	5	5	4	7	6	10	5	5	3	2	4	0	0	0	0	65
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
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
Restored	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
Total	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	2	2	1	5	5	4	7	6	10	5	5	3	2	4	0	0	0	0	65

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