Beware! Terror Tales
Fawcett // May 1952 - July 1953
Issue count: 8
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Beware! Terror Tales was an anthology comic featuring horror stories. It was hosted by The Mummy, who welcomed the readers to every issue and presented the stories. It was originally published by Fawcett Publications, but was acquired by DC Comics when DC bought Fawcett's comic book assets in 1991.
At the time, after 8 issues, the publisher couldn’t keep releasing the comic series due to the low demand of readers, who were migrating from horror to new comic subjects, such as the new superheroes and fantasy comics.
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Issue #1
What's Beware! Terror Tales #1 worth in 2024?
The top price for a copy of Beware! Terror Tales #1 is $2,200, paid in July 2008 for a 9.4 copy. A 6.5 book has a July 2019 price of $290, and a 4.0, the lowest rated copy recorded, sold for $130 in June 2020. All three prices are their only recorded values.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #1 of Beware! Terror Tales Vol. 1 has a cover date of May 1952. It was penciled and inked by Bernard Bailey, Bob Powell and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features a man walking on a cemetery with some demons surrounding him.
Story Synopsis
The issue features different short horror stories:
1. Ghost Hounds of Trelawney: Two men travel through a field and encounter some pretty horrific hounds.
2. The Nameless Horror: Story about a creature that, when men lay eyes upon it, they go maniac or suicidal.
3. Horror on the Hill: 2-page text story
4. Custodian of the Dead!: A man robs a golden ring from a grave and the dead are not OK with it.
Price Guide Report
| GD 2.0 | VG 4.0 | FN 6.0 | VF 8.0 | NM 9.4 | RECORD SALE! |
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| $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Issue #2
What's Beware! Terror Tales #2 worth in 2024?
The highest quality copy of Beware! Terror Tales #2 is a 9.4 book, valued at $3,600 in November 2021. That same issue sold in 2013 for just $875. An issue rated 6.0 sold in April 2017 for $150, and a 2.5 book sold for $35 in May 2017. These last two issues were only sold once.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #2 of Beware! Terror Tales Vol. 1 has a cover date of July 1952. It was penciled and inked by Bernard Bailey, Bob Powell and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features a couple opening a chest and a mummy watching them from behind
Story Synopsis
The issue features different short horror stories:
1. Eerie Footsteps in the Red Snow!: A mountain climber is determined to scale Mount Olympiad as the first human being able to do it. He kills his colleagues while ascending, but has to face their vengeful ghosts on top of the mountain.
2. The Devil's Creation: A crime fiction writer created the serial killer called "The Lunk", and is very surprised to see The Lunk leaving the world of fiction and entering into a duel to death with his creator.
3. Fiend of Fire: 2-page text story
4. The Slaying of Joshua Sprague!: A schoolteacher teaches not woodworking, but ordinance of the devil. He is put to death by the good townsfolk. Centuries later his modern descendant visits the place and has to relive the former incidents.
Price Guide Report
| GD 2.0 | VG 4.0 | FN 6.0 | VF 8.0 | NM 9.4 | RECORD SALE! |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,380 |
Issue #3
What's Beware! Terror Tales #3 worth in 2024?
Issue #3 of Beware! Terror Tales is valued at $1,680 as of January 2022, which is the price paid for an 8.0 copy. The same issue was sold in 2016 for just $330. A 5.0 copy had a value of $480 as of September 2020, previously sold in 2018 for $226, less than half the price. And a 2.5 copy was sold for $65 in September 2017, being the only time it changed hands.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #3 of Beware! Terror Tales Vol. 1 has a cover date of September 1952. It was penciled and inked by Bernard Bailey, Bob Powell and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features a huge horrifying spirit taking a couple hostage by lifting them in the air.
Story Synopsis
The issue features different short horror stories:
1. The Dry Doom: A prospector kills a man in the desert for a bag of gold. The victim's ghost takes revenge by letting the man die of thirst. Every drop of water turns to sand, is salted, scalding hot or vanishes into thin air.
2. The Haunting White Shadow: Two murderous thugs encounter Lady Justice in person and embark on a psychedelic journey into madness and poetic retaliation.
3. Voice in the Brain: 2-page text story
4. Death's Round Trip: A doctor drugs himself to death and takes a tourist trip into the realm of death. His colleague will revive him after some minutes, so that the doctor can return and live to tell. There are complications, of course.
Price Guide Report
| GD 2.0 | VG 4.0 | FN 6.0 | VF 8.0 | NM 9.4 | RECORD SALE! |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Issue #4
What's Beware! Terror Tales #4 worth in 2024?
The highest price for an issue of Beware! Terror Tales #4 sold at auction is $3,200 for a 9.2 copy, sold in May 2021, being its only recorded price. A 6.5 book had a July 2020 value of $384, after selling for $305 the previous April. The lowest quality book recorded is a 5.0 copy, sold for $386 in November 2021.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #4 of Beware! Terror Tales Vol. 1 has a cover date of November 1952. It was penciled and inked by Bernard Bailey, Bob Powell and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features a smoke-like creature holding two men.
Story Synopsis
The issue features different short horror stories:
1. Revolt of the Fingers: A brilliant young musician has no control over his left hand, which he calls "Dividi". When his mentor starts bullying him, Dividi goes berserk.
2. The Black Candle of Life: A couple is traveling through Tibet when they have to seek shelter in a cave from a rainstorm. By lighting a black candle the tourists revive the zombie-like "evil ones".
3. Little Lady: 2-page text story
4. The Crawling Horror: Two scientists invented a living mass of protoplasm and an electronic brain. One of them is willing to hook the brain to the blob and create "a creature far superior to man".
Price Guide Report
| GD 2.0 | VG 4.0 | FN 6.0 | VF 8.0 | NM 9.4 | RECORD SALE! |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $3,200 |
Issue #5
What's Beware! Terror Tales #5 worth in 2024?
The highest quality book of Beware! Terror Tales #5 ever sold is an 8.0 copy, valued at $1,440 as of November 2021. It’s a major increase from its 2006 price of $131. A 5.0 book sold in December 2017 for $174, being the only time it changed hands, and a 2.5 copy sold in October 2021 for $290, after increasing its value of $182 from 2019.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #5 of Beware! Terror Tales Vol. 1 has a cover date of January 1953. It was penciled and inked by Bernard Bailey, Bob Powell and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features some horrifying creatures attacking a man in a suit.
Story Synopsis
The issue features different short horror stories:
1. The Horrors of the 13th Stroke: A police inspector comes into possession of a magic clock which transports people to another dimension on its thirteenth stroke. Behind a gateway of horrors fiendish ghouls are waiting for human victims.
2. The Lonely One!: Two polar explorers have to spend months alone in an igloo. One of them goes insane.
3. Gray Matter: 2-page text story
4. The Ghoul at Eldritch Manor!: Ellison Eldritch inherits Eldritch Manor and takes care of the family mausoleum. He is shocked to find that a ghoul keeps visiting the place.
Price Guide Report
| GD 2.0 | VG 4.0 | FN 6.0 | VF 8.0 | NM 9.4 | RECORD SALE! |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,300 |
Issue #6
What's Beware! Terror Tales #6 worth in 2024?
The highest price for a copy of Beware! Terror Tales #6 is $10,200, paid for a 9.4 copy in January 2022. A 5.5 copy sold in February 2014 for $132; and a 2.5 sold in February 2021 for $329, being the only one of these issues with more than one sale, selling previously for $150 in 2019.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #6 of Beware! Terror Tales Vol. 1 has a cover date of March 1953. It was penciled and inked by Maurice Gutwirth, Harry Harrison and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features some horrifying creatures attacking a man in a suit.
Story Synopsis
The issue features different short horror stories:
1. Horror at the Lighthouse!: A lighthouse keeper meets an alien underwater monster that commands him to feed him the flesh of shipwrecked sailors.
2. The Tattooed Heart!: After WWII, a Nazi commander of a concentration camp escapes justice but is hunted down by the ghosts of his victims and put to death in an equally cruel fashion.
3. Strange Friendship: 2-page text story
4. Search into the Unknown!: Alan Clarke searches for his wartime buddy Ted, who's vanished without a trace in India. Clarke comes across a conspiracy of fakirs and is faced with the inexplicable mysteries of the east.
Price Guide Report
| GD 2.0 | VG 4.0 | FN 6.0 | VF 8.0 | NM 9.4 | RECORD SALE! |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
V2 Issue #7
What's Beware! Terror Tales V2 #7 worth in 2024?
An 8.0 copy of Beware! Terror Tales #7 was sold for $1,800 in January 2022, greatly increasing its 2012 price of $317. A 6.5 rated book has a September 2004 price of $121, being the only time it changed hands. And a 3.5 had a value of $221 as of December 2019.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #7 of Beware! Terror Tales Vol. 1 has a cover date of May 1953. It was penciled and inked by Maurice Gutwirth, Harry Harrison and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features a woman running from a skeleton with some skulls on the ground.
Story Synopsis
The issue features different short horror stories:
1. The Man who Defeated Death!: A chess master dies of heart failure and meets Death in the afterworld, who enjoys playing chess with him. When the doctors bring him back to life, Death continues visiting him to play for information about imminent deaths.
2. Dripping Terror: A captain kills a native girl for a bag of pearls. He is haunted by her ghostly apparition for decades and he’s finally claimed to join her in death.
3. Tempest in a Teapot: 2-page text story
4. Last Express!: A train conductor quits his job because he's made an offer he can't refuse: riding the train of the dead to Hades.
Price Guide Report
| GD 2.0 | VG 4.0 | FN 6.0 | VF 8.0 | NM 9.4 | RECORD SALE! |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0 | $220 | $120 | $320 | $420 | $700 |
V2 Issue #8
What's Beware! Terror Tales V2 #8 worth in 2024?
The highest price for issue #8 of Beware! Terror Tales is $1,380, paid in January 2006 for a 9.4 copy. A 5.5 rated book was sold for a price of $800 in July 2019, and a 2.0 copy had a December 2020 value of $405. All three prices are the only times those issues were sold.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #8 of Beware! Terror Tales Vol. 1 has a cover date of July 1953. It was penciled and inked by Maurice Gutwirth, Harry Harrison and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
This is the last issue of the series. The cover art features witches making a brew with a skeleton.
Story Synopsis
The issue features different short horror stories:
1. The Man Who Could Fly!: A young fisherman encounters the scourge of the fishing village: a bird man commanding a horde of attack eagles. When he gets bitten by the evil one, he partly changes into a bird creature and fights him to the death in mid-air.
2. Tomorrow Is Today: A junk dealer comes into possession of a magic Ouija board. When the letters spell his death for the following day, he tries to run from every possible danger, but in the end, he can't escape a self-fulfilling prophecy.
3. Place of Death: 2-page text story
4. Black Tunnel of Mesa Verde!: Story about a ghost sabotaging a railroad line.
Price Guide Report
| GD 2.0 | VG 4.0 | FN 6.0 | VF 8.0 | NM 9.4 | RECORD SALE! |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0 | $50 | $800 | $0 | $0 | $1,375 |