Please help me identify this comic. 0

[AgonistesNix]

Hello everybody.

I cannot seem to find any information on this particular issue so I'm turning to the experts. I know that there is a title called "MYSTIC", but I can't match any issue to this cover and mine is from Miller Comics while the others are Atlas. Does anybody have some insight? Thanks for you time.

[Get Marwood & I]

1 hour ago, AgonistesNix said:

Hello everybody.

I cannot seem to find any information on this particular issue so I'm turning to the experts. I know that there is a title called "MYSTIC", but I can't match any issue to this cover and mine is from Miller Comics while the others are Atlas. Does anybody have some insight? Thanks for you time.

 

Hello @AgonistesNix and welcome to the forum 

The comic in your picture is a 1965 L Miller UK reprint of the 1956 'Strange Stories of Suspense' #9 comic from Marvel / Atlas:

https://www.comics.org/issue/376512/

According to the GCD  (link above) the cover "derives from the splash panel of the source story."

Nice book!

 

[tv horror]

5 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Nice book!

I have to agree there, I love these old black and white reprints I think they show the artist's work of better and the detail in the drawing. Welcome aboard.  

[AgonistesNix]

Thank you so much, gentlemen. Not to push it, but do either of you have any idea of the value? I dabble in Silver, but mostly only the mainstream titles. I bought this with a lot years ago and came across it a few weeks ago.

[Get Marwood & I]

34 minutes ago, AgonistesNix said:

Thank you so much, gentlemen. Not to push it, but do either of you have any idea of the value? I dabble in Silver, but mostly only the mainstream titles. I bought this with a lot years ago and came across it a few weeks ago.

You're welcome. Being a reprint, and not of a significant title / issue (i.e. it doesn't reprint AF15 or something like that) it has fairly low value in this grade I'm afraid. I can get a VG now for £8 online in the UK, there's a nice looking copy on eBay UK with a £4.99 opening price and a wildly speculative outlier at £52 listed on eBay Canada which, I would wager, will never sell in a million years of Wednesdays.

So not a retirement planner alas. But anything with a shilling price on it is a treasure, after a fashion 

 

[AgonistesNix]

Thank you for the info. Guess I'll just hold on to it for the "cool" factor. You have been a great help.

[porcupine48]

1 hour ago, AgonistesNix said:

Thank you for the info. Guess I'll just hold on to it for the "cool" factor. You have been a great help.

I have a copy too,so it's extra cool.

 

[porcupine48]

@tv horror I remember reading this and the repro quality on mine was terrible.Lots of word balloons and pics smudged up.

[tv horror]

26 minutes ago, porcupine48 said:

I have a copy too,so it's extra cool.

 

There you go if Porcupine has one then he should know for he's one cool cat.

[AgonistesNix]

22 minutes ago, porcupine48 said:

@tv horror I remember reading this and the repro quality on mine was terrible.Lots of word balloons and pics smudged up.

The interior inks on my copy are actually very nice. Not a bad story either.