Strange Adventures #8 White Mountain pedigree (DC, 1951) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. There's a gorilla on the cover... and he's ...
Auction amount: $1,955.00
Sold: Aug 13, 2005
Strange Adventures #8 Values
Publisher: DC, 1951
About Strange Adventures #8
Early DC gorilla cover by Win Mortimer. Murphy Anderson, Gil Kane, and Alex Toth art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Johnny Farrel [Ralph Gain] (a gorilla); Ruth Gain
Pencils: Win Mortimer
Inks: Win Mortimer
Notes: First "gorilla cover".
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Johnny Farrel; Ralph Gain; Ruth Gain
Synopsis: Scientist Ralph Gain invents a machine that can evolve animal subjects. His hoodlum friend, Johnny Farrel, accidentally kills him and uses the machine on himself, running up the evolutionary ladder until he finds himself devolved into a gorilla's form. He tries to convinced authorities that he is Gain but he slowly loses his mind and becomes a gorilla in thought as well as form.
Pages: 10.000
Script: Gardner Fox [as Gardner F. Fox] (credited)
Pencils: Bob Oksner
Inks: Bernard Sachs
Notes: Writer and art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
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 |
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Universal |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 |
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