PRE-CODE HORROR COMICS SELL BIG AT AUCTION

A week ago, Heritage Auctions in Dallas, TX hauled in the biggest sale of a comic book ever with a copy of ACTION COMICS #1 going for a whopping $6,000,000. It turns out that a number of pre-code horror comics fared pretty well, too, as seen here in these top examples. Heading the pack was a CGC-graded 9.2 copy of Farrell's HAUNTED THRILLS #6 that sold for a scary $50,400. Overall, horror comics have been holding -- and in many cases increasing -- in value over the past few years. Whoever thought that these hunks of newsprint would become  such a hot commodity after almost 70 years?

Chamber of Chills #19 (Harvey) - Cover: Lee Elias - $18,000.

Diary of Horror #1 (Avon) - Cover: Alvin Hollingsworth - $3,600.

The Haunt of Fear #14 (EC) - Cover: Graham Ingels - $4, 080.

The Haunt of Fear #16 - Cover: Graham Ingels - $4,680.

The Haunt of Fear #17 (EC) - Cover: Graham Ingels - $12,000.

Haunted Thrills #6 (Ajax) - Cover: ? - $50,400.

Haunted Thrills #18 (Ajax) - Cover: Iger Shop - $3,120.

Horrors #13 (Star) - Cover: L.B. Cole - $3,840.

Startling Terror Tales #11 (Star) - Cover: L.B. Cole - $10,200.

Startling Terrors #12 (Star) - Cover L.B. Cole - $8,400.

Tales from the Crypt #23 (EC) - Cover: Al Feldstein - $4,560.

Tales from the Crypt #31 (EC) - Cover: Jack Davis - $6,600.

Tales from the Crypt #35 (EC) - Cover: Jack Davis - $7,500.

This Magazine is Haunted #14 (Fawcett) - Cover: Sheldon Moldoff? - $4,320.

Tomb of Terror #15 (Harvey) - Cover: Lee Elias - $12,600.

Vault of Horror #13 (EC) - Cover: Johnny Craig - $7,500.

Web of Evil #11 (Quality) - Cover: Chuck Cuidera? - $3,600.

Web of Evil #14 (Quality) - Cover: ? - $2,640.

Web of Mystery #8 (Ace) - Cover: Lou Cameron - $4,100.

Weird Mysteries #5 (Stanley Morse) - Cover: Bernard Bailey - $16,200.