Spellbound #16 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1953

About Spellbound #16

Russ Heath Grim Reaper cover and art. Stan Lee story. Joe Sinnott and Bill Everett art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Behind the Door!

Pencils: Russ Heath [as R.H.] (signed)

Inks: Russ Heath [as R.H.} (signed)

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: typeset

Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: When You Believe

Synopsis: An escaped con goes after his defense lawyer on Christmas day with the intent to murder him and his wife and child. The boy got a disintegrator gun as his present and he aims it at the convict which provokes fits of laughter. The boy pulls the trigger and disintegrates him.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Bill Everett

Inks: Bill Everett

Letters: Bill Everett

Reprints: Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (April 1974)

Title: Too Human to Live!

Synopsis: A human-looking robot employed to work in a factory of mechanical robots resents the conditions of his employment as he doesn't know he's a robot. When he meets a pretty young lady and makes a date with her, he tries to escape the factory, but the other robots take him back to his workstation. He makes a dash for the fire escape but the other robots pursue him and he falls from an open window to smash to pieces on the ground below. The robot supervisor says that it is unfortunate when robots come to think of themselves as different from other robots merely because they look different.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Vic Carrabotta [as Carrabotta] (signed)

Inks: Jack Abel [as Abel] (signed)

Reprints: Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 (March 1973)

Title: Only A Rose!

Synopsis: A woman suspects her husband of cheating on her and so she follows him during the evenings where he is seen giving flowers to young girls. She becomes enraged and sends poisoned candy to her victims. After several deaths reported in the newspaper, her husband reveals that he was delivering flowers to make extra money to buy her a gift. His wife is stricken by remorse for the poisonings, and eats a few of the chocolates the husband has left on the table, which turned out to be poisoned.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: John Forte (signed)

Inks: Matt Fox

Reprints: Dead of Night (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (April 1974)

Notes: Wessler script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 20, No. 9, September 2009.

Title: A Very Grave Matter

Synopsis: Two brothers get hired as watchmen for a cemetery. One falls in a grave and calls for help. A bystander tries to dig him out and the other brother thinks he's grave robbing and shoots him. A month later, the buried brother returns as a zombie and strangles his brother.

Pages: 3.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Russ Heath (signed)

Inks: Russ Heath (signed)

Title: Behind the Door

Synopsis: A wealthy old man builds a viewing device so powerful that it even displays Death approaching him. He hires bodyguards and builds a vault to hold Death once the beam reveals its presence.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks: Joe Sinnott (signed)

Reprints: Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 (March 1973)

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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	1	0	0	2	1	2	3	1	4	4	6	3	1	4	1	0	0	0	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
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Total	1	0	0	2	2	2	3	1	4	4	6	3	1	4	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	36

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