Sensation Comics #107 Values

Publisher: DC, 1952

About Sensation Comics #107

First mystery-related issue. Johnny Peril begins a run in a story continued from Danger Trail #5. Considered "scarce" by Overstreet. Alex Toth cover. Toth and Carmine Infantino art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Sinister Jack-in-the-Box!

Characters: Jack-in-the-Box

Pencils: Alex Toth

Inks: Joe Giella ?; Sy Barry ?

Colors: Jack Adler

Notes: Giella credit from Craig Delich. Barry credit from Saltarella.

STORY DETAILS

(8 Stories)

Title: Sinister Jack-in-the-Box

Characters: Jack-in-the-Box

Synopsis: A magic toy, a jack-in-the-box, passes from hand to hand and fulfills wishes. Good-hearted people make reasonable wishes and are granted with what they want. Finally a gangster comes into possession of the toy. Greedily he wishes for millions of dollars - and finds death.

Pages: 7.670

Pencils: Frank Giacoia

Inks: Frank Giacoia

Notes: Giacoia art credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. We previously credited Irwin Hasen (pencils) and Bernard Sachs (inks).

Title: The Last Dream!

Synopsis: A 400 year old curse catches up with Frederic Beaumont. All of his male ancestors were killed by the ghost of family rival Tybalt Fletcher. Beaumont tries to hide in a mountain lodge, but he can't escape his grisly fate.

Pages: 7.670

Script: John Broome

Pencils: Carmine Infantino

Inks: Frank Giacoia ?

Reprints: Ghosts (DC, 1971 series) #1 (September-October 1971)

Notes: Pencilling credit confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. The indexer of the reprint says Sy Barry inked this. Martin O'Hearn says Giacoia inked it. Martin O'Hearn also identified the writer in Apa-I.

Title: Man Into Frog

Pages: 0.500

Script: Mort Drucker

Pencils: Mort Drucker

Inks: Mort Drucker

Letters: Mort Drucker

Reprints: House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #25 (October 1959)

Notes: Credits verified from copies of DC editorial records sent from E. Nelson Bridwell to Gene Reed in 1986.

Title: A Voice from Beyond

Synopsis: When Harry Houdini died, he had previously arranged for a supernatural contest. He left a secret message with his wife. Mediums should try and contact him in the afterlife. A certain Arthur Ford held a number of seánce sessions and contacted a spiritual guide named Fletcher - who told him the secret message only Houdini and his wife could know about. Mrs. Houdini confirmed the correctness of the message.

Pages: 2.000

Script: David Kahn

Pencils: Raymond Perry ?

Inks: Raymond Perry ?

Letters: typeset

Title: Queen of the Snows!

Characters: Johnny Peril; Lee Allen; Subara; Bill Davis; Jack Gordon

Synopsis: Johnny Peril finds his friend Lee Allen, who just before he dies swears he has seen Subara the Ice Queen, who the natives believe lives on frozen Mt. Subara. Johnny returns to the mountain with two more friends, but only he encounters Subara. They refuse to believe he met the mythical woman until he produces her crown of roses.

Pages: 7.670

Script: Robert Kanigher

Pencils: Alex Toth [as Al Toth] (signed)

Inks: Sy Barry (signed)

Reprints: The Unexpected (DC, 1968 series) #127 (September 1971)

Notes: Pencilling credit confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Signature in last panel. First-person narrative.

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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	0	0	0	1	3	1	3	5	8	5	3	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	35
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	1	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	1	5	7	8	5	3	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	40

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