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Top 60 Best Horror Comic Books

60 Most Expensive Horror Comic Books

Ready for some scarily high prices on horror comics? Here are the top 60 all-time highest sales. Click on any image or link to see current item prices.

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60 All-Time Highest "Gross-ing" Horror Comic Books

Suspense Comics #3 (1944)
Highly controversial cover with Nazis,
sacrifice and Klan images

Record sale: $173,000
Minimum value: $7,000

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NEW ENTRY! Punch Comics #12 (1945):
Shootout in Giant Skull Cover

Record sale: $55,000
Minimum value: $310

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Prize Comics #7
1st Horror Comic Book ever published

Record sale: $35,000
Minimum value: $780

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Werewolf by Night #32
1st Appearance of Moon Knight

Record sale: $31,200
Minimum value: $280

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Fight Against Crime #20 (1954):
Decapitated Woman's Head Dumped in Sewer cover!

Record sale: $30,000
Minimum value: $430

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Vault of Horror #12
Classic Torture and Bondage cover

Record sale: $29,000
Minimum value: $260

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Captain America Comics #74 (1949):
Rare Captain America horror
comic, retitled to
"Captain America's Weird Tales"
in an attempt to revive sales

Record sale: $204,000
Minimum value: $1,200

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Mask Comics #1
LB Cole Cover

Record Sale: $012,000
Minimum Value: $500

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Crime Does Not Pay #24 (1942):
Criminal Pushes Woman's Head on to Flaming Stove

Record sale: $24,000
Minimum value: $980

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NEW ENTRY! Walking Dead #1 (2003):
First issue of the series of
modern horror comic books;
TV show drives values

Record sale: $20,000 (CGC 9.9 -- most copies are worth far less)
Minimum value: $610

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Weird Mysteries #5
Brain Removed from Head cover

Record sale: $20,000
Minimum value: $300

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Mask Comics #2
LB Cole Cover

Record Sale: $33,60
Minimum Value: $370

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Weird Tales of the Future #3 (1952):
Classic Cover art

Record sale: $15,420
Minimum value: $310

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Tomb of Dracula #10 (1973):
First Appearance of
Blade the Vampire Slayer

Record sale: $48,000
Minimum value: $180

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House of Secrets #92 (1970):
1st Swamp Thing

Established Bernie Wrightson in
horror comics

Record sale: $90,000
Minimum value: $160

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Tales to Astonish #1 (1959):
Classic Marvel horror, 1st in series

Record sale: $13,100
Minimum value: $150

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Black Cat Mystery #50 (1954):
Explicit Radium-Rotted Corpse cover

Record sale: $72,000
Minimum value: $1,850

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Haunt of Fear #15 (1950):
First issue of the series (continued from “Gunfighter”);
Classic Graham Ingels artwork

Record sale: $13,150
Minimum value: $180

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Vampirella #1 (1969):
Origin and 1st Appearance of
Vampirella in Horror Comic Books

Record sale: $13,150
Minimum value: $200

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Tales from the Crypt #20 (1950):
First issue of the series; retitled from "Crypt of Terror"

Record sale: $12,600
Minimum value: $230

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NEW ENTRY! Famous Monsters of Filmland #1 (1958):
First issue of the series of
magazine-sized horror comics

Record sale: $12,500
Minimum value: $120

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Crime Patrol #15 (1950):
1st Appearance of the Crypt-Keeper

Record sale: $12,500
Minimum value: $310

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Tomb of Terror #15 (1952):
Disgusting Exploding Face Cover Art!

Record sale: $45,600
Minimum value: $200

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Tales of Terror Annual #1 (1951):
Very rare Golden Age horror comic -- only 13 CGC-graded copies!

Record sale: 36,000
Minimum value: $1,180

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Haunt of Fear #17 (1950):
Origin stories for Crypt of Terror,
Vault of Horror, and Haunt of Fear;
Classic Graham Ingels artwork

Record sale: $10,220
Minimum value: $190

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Journey into Mystery #1 (1951):
First issue of long-running Horror and Suspense series

Record sale: $9,600
Minimum value: $180

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Eerie #1 (1947):
Rare Avon Per One-Shot;
Publisher revived Horror Comic
Books series in 1951

Record sale: $90,000
Minimum value: $890

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Crime SuspenStories #22 (1954):
Classic Severed Head cover

Record sale: $15,200
Minimum value: $950

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Lawbreakers Suspense
Stories #11 (1953): Madman Holding Severed Tongues Cover!

Record sale: $9,300
Minimum value: $40

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Crypt of Terror #17 (1950):
First issue of the series that later became "Tales from the Crypt"

Record sale: $9,000
Minimum value: $150

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NEW ENTRY! Spellbound #14 (1953):
Classic Cover with Man and Zombies in Romantic Park

Record sale: $9,000
Minimum value: $200

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Venus #19 (1952):
Last issue of series, rare,
only 32 of these horror comic
books certified by CGC

Record sale: $52,500
Minimum value: $1,600

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Adventures in the Unknown #1 (1948): Earliest Ongoing Series of
Horror Comic Books

Record sale: $10,200
Minimum value: $650

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Mister Mystery #12 (1953):
Classic Flame Approaching
Eye Cover art

Record sale: $36,000
Minimum value: $800

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Startling Terror Tales #11 (1952):
Classic L. B. Cole cover art

Record sale: $19,200
Minimum value: $370

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Crime Patrol #16 (1950):
Last in series before renamed "Crypt of Terror"

Record sale: $8,600
Minimum value: $200

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Haunt of Fear #16 (1950):
Origin and first appearance, Old Witch;
Classic Graham Ingels artwork

Record sale: $6,700
Minimum value: $80

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Captain America Comics #75 (1950):
Rare Captain America horror comic,
retitled "Captain America's Weird Tales"; last Cap comic until 1954

Record sale: $31,200
Minimum value: $300

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Strange Tales #1 (1951):
Classic pre-hero Marvel Horror

Record sale: $5,530
Minimum value: $630

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Moon Girl #5 (1948):
The first of EC's infamous
horror comic books

Record sale: $21,600
Minimum value: $250

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House of Mystery #174 (1968):
Mystery format begins

Record Sale: $7,500
Minimum Value: $70

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Chamber of Chills #23 (1954):
Classic horror comic books
cover, Woman kissing Zombie!

Record sale: $4,500
Minimum value: $60

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NEW ENTRY! Underworld Crime #7 (1953):
Woman Threatened by Hot Poker

Record sale: $21,600
Minimum value: $600

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Crime SuspenStories #20 (1954):
Graphic and Controversial
Hanged Man Cover

Record sale: $30,000
Minimum value: $180

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Vampirella #113:
Last issue, very low print run

Record sale: $4,000
Minimum value: $30

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House of Secrets #1 (1956):
First issue of classic horror
comic books series

Record sale: $4,060
Minimum value: $70

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NEW ENTRY! Marvel Preview #7 (1976):
1st Appearance Satana; 1st Rocket Raccoon

Record sale: $4,500
Minimum value: $120

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NEW ENTRY! Beware #10 (1954):
Zombies Drag Top-Heavy Woman into Grave

Record sale: $3,800
Minimum value: $120

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NEW ENTRY! Thing #7 (1953):
Vampire Gouging Out Eyes cover

Record sale: $3,600
Minimum value: $260

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Horrific #3 (1953):
Classic Bullethole in Forehead cover

Record sale: $5,040
Minimum value: $490

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Haunt of Fear #4 (1950):
First Appearance of Crypt Keeper
and Vault Keeper in this
Horror Comic series

Record sale: $3,240
Minimum value: $140

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Creepy #1 (1964):
First issue of the magazine-sized
Horror comic books series

Record sale: $3,000
Minimum value: $60

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Chilling Tales #13 (1952):
First issue of series; Rare, only
17 CGC-rated copies

Record sale: $5,520
Minimum value: $120

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Worlds of Fear #10 (1953):
Classic Eye-Theme Cover

Record sale: $3,910
Minimum value: $200

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Witches' Tales #25 (1954):
Controversial Decapitated Head
as Bell Clapper cover!

Record sale: $12,600
Minimum value: $300

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Astonishing #3 (1951):
First issue of the series

Record sale: $2,550
Minimum value: $150

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NEW ENTRY! Savage Tales #1 (1971):
First "graphic" Conan; published as magazine under
Curtis label to avoid Comics Code Authority
rules on horror comic books;
First Appearance of Man-Thing

Record sale: $37,200
Minimum value: $240

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Tales from the Crypt #33 (1952):
Origin of Crypt Keeper

Record sale: $2,400
Minimum value: $140

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House of Mystery #1 (1952):
First issue of long-running
series of suspense and
horror comic books

Record sale: $2,300
Minimum value: $190

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Tomb of Dracula #1 (1972):
1st in Series, Neal Adams cover

Record sale: $8,000
Minimum value: $50

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Black Magic #1 (1950):
First issue of series; Jack Kirby cover

Record sale: $2,250
Minimum value: $120

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Witching Hour #1 (1969):
1st in Series

Record sale: $3,150
Minimum value: $30

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Amazing Mysteries #32 (1949):
1st Ever Marvel / Atlas Horror comic book

Record sale: $26,400
Minimum value: $270

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Creatures on the Loose #10:
First issue of the horror
comic books series retitled from
"Tower of Shadows"

Record sale: $1,550
Minimum value: $20

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Fantastic Fears #5 (1954):
First Steve Ditko art

Record sale: $2,280
Minimum value: $450

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Classic Comics / Classics
Illustrated #13 (1943): Very early
horror comic book

Record sale: $1,440
Minimum value: $80

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Chamber of Chills #21 (1951):
First issue in this classic series
of horror comic books

Record sale: $5,760
Minimum value: $100

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NEW ENTRY! Dracula Lives! #1 (1973):
Curtis magazine (Marvel): rare in high grade

Record sale: $1,200
Minimum value: $30

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NEW ENTRY! Vampire Tales magazine #2 (1973):
Curtis (Marvel) publication, rare in high grade

Record sale: $3,200
Minimum value: $120

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Eerie #2 (#1 in series) (1965):
First issue of Magazine horror

Record sale: $3,590
Minimum value: $270

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Tales of Horror #1 (1952):
First issue in Golden Age horror
comic books series

Record sale: $900
Minimum value: $140

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Tower of Shadows #1 (1969):
1st issue of classic Marvel
horror comic books series

Record sale: $780
Minimum value: $20

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Tales of Terror #1 (1952):
First in Golden Age Horror
comic books series

Record sale: $36,000
Minimum value: $1,180

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Tales from the Tomb #1 (1969):
First in Series

Record sale: $650
Minimum value: $160

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Chamber of Darkness #1 (1969):
1st in this Silver Age horror
comic books series

Record sale: $570
Minimum value: $20

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