This Magazine is Haunted
Fawcett Publications // October 1951 - December 1953
Issue count: 14
Supernatural tales presented by Doctor Death! See what copies that are floating around are selling for by using our online price guide!

This Magazine is Haunted was an anthology horror comic series released in 1951. The host was Doctor Death, who presented the stories inside.
The issues featured supernatural tales, such as corpses coming back to life, undead people, etc.
The comic series lasted for three years until it was canceled due to the large number of horror comic books in the market at the time.
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Issue #1

What's This Magazine is Haunted #1 worth in 2025?
The highest quality book of issue #1 of This Magazine is Haunted is a 7.0 rated book, valued at $1,800 as of March 2020; a huge increase from its 2007 sale, when it was valued at just $158. A mid-range 5.5 copy had a price of $408 as of July 2020, increasing its $200 value from 2014. And a 1.8 copy was valued at $125 as of January 2021, being the only time it was sold.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #1 of This Magazine is Haunted Vol. 1 was published in October 1951. It was written, penciled and inked by George Evans, Bernard Baily and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
This series featured very scary horror comics, and it was worked on by one of the many artists that collaborated on the DC’s Batman comics, Sheldon Moldoff.
Story Synopsis
The issue features some horror stories with different characters:
1. The Curse of Carnoc Castle: After two hundred years, a Duke rises newly born from his casket at Carnoc Castle. Now immortal, he seeks to lead a second life. But the forces of witchcraft which granted him his gift return to haunt him.
2. Stand-in for Death: A man steals the coat of a dying man and uses the ticket he finds in his pocket to escape in a ferry. But unknowingly, he has chosen the ferry of the dead and is doomed to ride along.
3. The Coffin-Maker!: A beautiful woman marries an undertaker for his money. Things get dangerous when she finds out that her husband made a pact with the devil in person.
Price Guide Report
GD 2.0 | VG 4.0 | FN 6.0 | VF 8.0 | NM 9.4 | RECORD SALE! |
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$130 | $500 | $410 | $0 | $0 | $1,800 |
Issue #2

What's This Magazine is Haunted #2 worth in 2025?
The highest quality copy of issue #2 of This Magazine is Haunted is an 8.5 book, sold in 2013 for $238. However, the top price for this issue is $408 for a 7.0 copy sold in February 2022, after increasing its $300 price from 2019. The lowest quality issue sold at auction is a 3.5 book, sold for $125 in December 2019. The 8.5 and 3.0 issues were only sold once.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #2 of This Magazine is Haunted Vol. 1 was published in December 1951. It was written, penciled and inked by George Evans, Bernard Baily and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
The series started to release on a bi-monthly basis. The cover art for issue #2 features a dead man coming out of the water and a couple watching him with a terrified look.
Story Synopsis
The issue features some horror stories with different characters:
1. The Green Hands of Terror: Two killers on the run hide in a house where a chemist is experimenting with “synthetic protoplasm” – thus creating aggressive body parts which attack any intruder.
2. The Devil's Due: A Nazi colonel kills his prisoners of war single-handedly. But one day, the dead return to take revenge.
3. The Weirdest Corpse of All Time!: An exterminator is troubled with his profession. All the killing gets to him. Things take a turn for the worse when mice start stalking him and he mysteriously begins to shrink.
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 | $290 | $340 | $370 | $0 | $440 |
Issue #3

What's This Magazine is Haunted #3 worth in 2025?
The mint condition copy of issue #3 of This Magazine is Haunted is a 7.0 book, valued at a very healthy $10,200 as of January 2022. The other copies of this issue sold at auction are low quality books, with the lowest being a 1.5 copy sold for $432 in November 2020. Both copies were only sold once.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #3 of This Magazine is Haunted Vol. 1 was published in February 1952. It was written, penciled and inked by George Evans, Bernard Baily and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features a man about to stab a vampire in his coffin with a wooden stick.
Story Synopsis
The issue features some horror stories with different characters:
1. The Cult Of The 13 Ghosts: When a landlord finds a society of murderers lodging in one of his buildings, he tears the place down and rebuilds it in a modern way. But the evil ghosts appear anew and confront him with his promise to join them in their cult of murder.
2. Beware The Jabberwock: Trapped in a mirror world, two men face a flesh-eating monster. The horror subsides when the magical mirror is smashed from the outside.
3. Quest Of The Vampire!: On behalf of his friend, a famous investigator of psychic phenomena looks into the strange happenings at Buloff mansion. He encounters Buloff's vampire bride and her creepy butler. The investigator manages to foil all evil plans.
Price Guide Report
GD 2.0 | VG 4.0 | FN 6.0 | VF 8.0 | NM 9.4 | RECORD SALE! |
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$525 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $10,200 |
Issue #4

What's This Magazine is Haunted #4 worth in 2025?
An 8.5 copy of This Magazine is Haunted #4 was sold for $880 in June 2013. But the highest price belongs to a 6.5 book that had a price of $1,016 as of April 2018. Both issues were only sold once.
The lowest rating and price belong to a 3.0 copy, sold in December 2021 for $260, after slightly decreasing its $265 price from 2020.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #4 of This Magazine is Haunted Vol. 1 was published in April 1952. It was written, penciled and inked by George Evans, Bernard Baily and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features a skeleton covering a woman’s mouth with his hand, while a man looks for her.
Story Synopsis
The issue features some horror stories with different characters:
1. The Constant Eye: A man murders his business partner and disposes of his body in a nearby lake. But he is haunted by the dead man’s curse who swore to "keep an eye" on him. Becoming more and more paranoid, the man goes too far in his attempts to cover his tracks.
2. Seance of Terror!: Attending a seance, a man's soul is pulled out of his body and wanders the realms of the beyond. Meanwhile an otherworldly creature inhabits his body and tries to build a machine that will call all the lost souls into this world.
3. The Blind, the Doomed-- and the Dead!: A carnival owner tries to buy out the proprietor of the wax museum. When the latter refuses, he is killed, but returns to drag his murderer before a ghostly tribunal. The sentence is death.
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 | $3,600 |
Issue #5

What's This Magazine is Haunted #5 worth in 2025?
Issue #5 of This Magazine is Haunted has a copy with a 9.2 rating valued at $478, but the highest price is for a 7.0 book valued at $1,320 as of January 2022.
The lowest price belongs to a 3.5 book, sold for $141 in March 2020.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #5 of This Magazine is Haunted Vol. 1 was published in June 1952. It was written, penciled and inked by George Evans, Bernard Baily and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features a woman hiding from a skeleton that’s looking for her.
Story Synopsis
The issue features some horror stories with different characters:
1. The Slithering Horror of Skontong Swamp!: The gangster Goldie Ricon escapes from death row into the Skontong swamplands. There he gets bitten by a zombie and from then on is haunted by terrible zombie encounters. Driven almost insane, Goldie returns to death row - and to Skontong swamp.
2. The Ghost of Fanciful Hawkins!: Country boy Hawkins comes to death in a fight with rival bully Withers. The victim's oversized shoes appear as ghostly accessories and chase the evildoer around. He will die the same way poor Hawkins went.
3. The Last Man: A small carnival pitches its tents in a small town where the cheapest room is $5 per night. Four men from the carnival go looking for cheaper lodgings and find an old abandoned house that a local man says is haunted by the ghost of a man who killed his friends with a hammer. The four men try to stay in the house and the murder begins.
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 #6

What's This Magazine is Haunted #6 worth in 2025?
The highest quality book of This Magazine is Haunted #6 ever sold at auction is a 9.4 book, valued at $863 as of January 2006. It was sold only once.
A 5.5 book was sold in March 2020 for $268, decreasing its $299 price from 2009; while a 3.0 was sold in June 2020 for $157 for the first and only time.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #6 of This Magazine is Haunted Vol. 1 was published in August 1952. It was written, penciled and inked by George Evans, Bernard Baily and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features a group of ghostly souls coming out of the ground trying to escape over a wall.
Story Synopsis
The issue features some horror stories with different characters:
1. The Secret of the Walking Dead: A scientist works as a graveyard keeper to conduct experiments on the deceased. When he succeeds in waking a corpse, he fatally chooses to revive a homicidal maniac.
2. Showcase for Horror!: A window display designer at a big store abuses his mannequins. An especially hideous one comes alive, chases him and substitutes the man for itself in the window display.
3. The Curse of the Crystal!: A man comes to Salem, New England, to disprove theories that one of his ancestors was a witch. When he finds a magic crystal with the soul of a man trapped inside, the man delves into witchcraft himself, with tragic consequences.
Price Guide Report
GD 2.0 | VG 4.0 | FN 6.0 | VF 8.0 | NM 9.4 | RECORD SALE! |
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Issue #7

What's This Magazine is Haunted #7 worth in 2025?
The top price for This Magazine is Haunted #7 is $8,400, paid for a 9.2 copy in January 2022. The same book previously sold for $1,350 back in 2003.
In November 2021, a 5.5 copy was sold for $283, increasing its $146 price from 2016. And a 3.0 book had an October 2019 price of $144, selling only once.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #7 of This Magazine is Haunted Vol. 1 was published in October 1952. It was written, penciled and inked by George Evans, Bernard Baily and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features a scientist watching a body emerge from one of his brews.
Story Synopsis
The issue features some horror stories with different characters:
1. The Man Who Saw Too Much: A photographer comes into possession of a camera able to take pictures of ghosts. Investigating this, the man detects an unsolved murder case and endangers his own life.
2. Toreador of Death!: A man wants to be the greatest bullfighter of all time. While plotting against his rival, he is forced by death himself to make a final stand at a fatal corrida.
3. The Grim Unreality: A man entertains guests at his summer house by telling them horror stories about the demon "Karzz". To his surprise, Karzz appears after a murder has been committed.
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 | $8,400 |
Issue #8

What's This Magazine is Haunted #8 worth in 2025?
Only a bunch of copies of This Magazine is Haunted #8 have been sold at auction, with the highest price being $1,050 for a 9.6 issue, sold in June 2013, after increasing its 2008 price of $717.
A 4.5 copy holds a price of $150 as of October 2018, increasing its $119 price from 2018; while a 2.5 book was valued at $115 as of July 2020, being sold only once.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #8 of This Magazine is Haunted Vol. 1 was published in December 1952. It was written, penciled and inked by George Evans, Bernard Baily and Sheldon Moldoff.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features a man hiding from an undead creature behind a grave in a cemetery.
Story Synopsis
The issue features some horror stories with different characters:
1. The House in the Web: The satanic supernatural Mr. Avarice makes pacts with humans willing to let their life be fuelled by greed.
2. The Aged Curse!: A manager runs a cruel regime in his old people's home. Father Time in person puts him to the test by making him age rapidly. Lowry has to experience the curse of old age first-hand.
3. The Dance of the Dead!: A beautiful dancer named Tanya is kidnapped into another dimension by three carcass-like fiends. The power of dance, however, is too much for these ghouls, and Tanya dances right back into the arms of her earthly lover.
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 #9

What's This Magazine is Haunted #9 worth in 2025?
Same as with issue #8, only a handful of This Magazine is Haunted #9 issues have been sold at auction. The book with the highest quality is a 9.2 copy, sold in June 2013 for $625, after increasing its $443 price from 2009.
A 5.0 book was sold in August 2020 for $420, while a 3.0 had a price of $220 as of July 2020. Both of these books were only sold once.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #9 of This Magazine is Haunted Vol. 1 was published in February 1953. It was written, penciled and inked by Bill Woolfolk, Sheldon Moldoff, Bob McCarty and Leonard Frank.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features a couple watching an undead man walking towards them.
Story Synopsis
The issue features some horror stories with different characters:
1. The Witch of Tarlo: An old and evil witch is accidentally resurrected and haunts a young couple which moved into an abandoned New England home.
2. Devil's Mask!: A man buys a devil's mask to wear to a masquerade. He commits evil deeds, kills the rival for his love and is in for an unpleasant surprise.
3. Lady or the Tigress?: The owner of a private zoo is presented with a beautiful tigress. The animal however can transform into a mysterious white lady and makes the man fall in love with her - with fatal consequences.
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 #10

What's This Magazine is Haunted #10 worth in 2025?
The top price for This Magazine is Haunted #10 is $1,135, paid for a 9.2 copy that was sold in July 2012. It was valued at $1,265 in 2005.
A 5.0 copy from Aurora Pedigree was sold for $150 in July 2008, decreasing its $175 value from 2008; and a 2.5 book was sold in October 2019 for $151, selling only once.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #10 of This Magazine is Haunted Vol. 1 was published in April 1953. It was written, penciled and inked by Bill Woolfolk, Sheldon Moldoff, Bob McCarty and Leonard Frank.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features a man fishing out a huge head that’s smiling menacingly.
Story Synopsis
The issue features some horror stories with different characters:
1. Let the Past Lie Buried!: When a professor unearths the remains of a Neanderthal man, the whole town suddenly regresses into inexplicable caveman behavior.
2. The City of the Dead!: A photographer wants to take pictures of a mysterious, forbidden place called "City of the Dead" amidst a desert. He forces his entry by poisoning himself, but takes too high a dose and actually belongs in the realm of the dead.
3. Phantom of Disaster!: An engineer is able to see striking doom in the form of a black phantom. With a sorcerer's help he captures the phantom and imprisons it. But the horrible creature can free itself and strikes again.
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 #11

What's This Magazine is Haunted #11 worth in 2025?
The top quality book of This Magazine is Haunted #11 ever sold at auction is a 9.2 copy, with a price of $546 as of January 2006. But the highest price belongs to an 8.5 copy, valued at $3,840 in November 2021.
The lowest rating and price belong to a 2.5 book, sold in October 2021 for $191. All three books were only sold once.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #11 of This Magazine is Haunted Vol. 1 was published in June 1953. It was written, penciled and inked by Bill Woolfolk, Sheldon Moldoff, Bob McCarty and Leonard Frank.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features a skeleton with a rope in his hands about to hang a terrified man.
Story Synopsis
The issue features some horror stories with different characters:
1. Lover: An actor is cheating on the many women he dates. When one of them commits suicide, her former boyfriend swears revenge and builds a female robot - with the mission to search and destroy.
2. And Then What????: A psychiatrist helps man overcome his delusion of turning into a bat.
3. The Bags of Trouble: The series host character Dr. Death actively stars in this story as a satanic magician fulfilling wishes – with a catch, of course.
4. Touch of Death: A witch is cursed with the ability that anything that comes in contact with her is killed instantly. She's trying to live a reclusive life, but townsfolk just won't leave her be.
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 #12

What's This Magazine is Haunted #12 worth in 2025?
Only a handful of copies of This Magazine is Haunted #12 have been auctioned, with the highest price paid being for a 9.4 book, valued at $920 in January 2006.
In January 2021, a 5.5 book was sold for $315, after increasing its $203 value from 2019. And a 3.5 rated copy had a price of $180 when it was sold in July 2020. The highest and lowest rating books were sold only once.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #12 of This Magazine is Haunted Vol. 1 was published in August 1953. It was written, penciled and inked by Bill Woolfolk, Sheldon Moldoff, Bob McCarty and Leonard Frank.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features a frightened man watching another man covered in blood coming down the stairs towards him.
Story Synopsis
The issue features some horror stories with different characters:
1. The Door: An American writer visits the castle of Valord, home of the vampire lady Siroon. There he discovers the entrance to the beyond, hidden behind a strange door. When he returns for a second visit, the demons greet him all too familiarly...
2. The Store at the Cemetery: A society lady wants to show off with an exquisite piece of pottery for her dinner party. She seeks the services of a ghoulish potter living next to a graveyard. He does create something unique.
3. The Wall of Flesh!: While a nurse is waiting for her fiance, an evil doctor pushes her into a flesh-eating wall of pulsating meat he created. A race against the clock unfolds. Can the fiance rescue the nurse from her impending doom?
4. Ready-- Action-- Camera!: A movie about a Martian invasion is promoted by faking one. But instead of the hired actors, real men from Mars land in Hollywood and begin their attack.
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 #13

What's This Magazine is Haunted #13 worth in 2025?
In January 2006, a 9.4 copy of This Magazine is Haunted #13 was sold for $1,495. A 5.0 had a price of $185 as of June 2018; and a 2.5 copy was valued at $110 when it was sold in May 2020. All three prices are for the only recorded auction sale of each book.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #13 of This Magazine is Haunted Vol. 1 was published in October 1953. It was written, penciled and inked by Bill Woolfolk, Sheldon Moldoff, Bob McCarty and Leonard Frank.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features some men breaking open a huge ice block to reveal a man's head trapped inside.
Story Synopsis
The issue features some horror stories with different characters:
1. The Tapestry of Tolchime: A family curse haunts castle Tolchime. Oscar Tolchime, the last descendant, is trapped there and has to face the vengeful spirit of Lady Constance, who was put to death there 400 years before.
2. The Man Who Lost His Head!: A movie actor makes his way to fame with the help of a witch’s magic potion. When he breaks his promise to marry her in return, she makes his head disappear.
3. Where Do We Go from Here?: We accompany Warren Hopkins on his journey from his deathbed to the pearly gates. In between he takes over his body once more, giving his family a scare when he rises as a zombie from the grave.
4. The Formless Shadows: A newspaper reporter is assigned to cover a scientific discovery: A professor shows him proof of an alien invasion – and dies moments after. The reporter has to run for his life, but everywhere he turns, the aliens are already in control.
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 | $1,495 |
Issue #14

What's This Magazine is Haunted #14 worth in 2025?
There aren’t many copies of This Magazine is Haunted #14 sold at auction. The top price is for a 6.0 book, sold for $3,360 in January 2013. The lowest price belongs to a 1.8 copy, sold for $189 in May 2019.
Why is this comic book valuable?
Issue #14 of This Magazine is Haunted Vol. 1 was published in December 1953. It was written, penciled and inked by Bill Woolfolk, Sheldon Moldoff, Bob McCarty and Leonard Frank.
Key Facts About the Comic
The cover art features an abstract drawing of a flaming skull.
Story Synopsis
The issue features some horror stories with different characters:
1. The Greatest Secret on Earth: When a man freakishly survives a suicidal jump, he finds out that men are not masters of their destiny, but mere puppets engineered by a race of supernatural demons called Ids. The man tries to go up against them and make others realize the horrible truth.
2. The Wig: Barber Louie is ridiculed by his customers for his baldness. So he makes a wig out of the fast-growing hair of a werewolf he kills in his shop. The werewolf wig however keeps growing and attacks Louie.
3. Death Fish: A party of big game fishermen go after the famous "enchanted marlin". When they finally encounter the murderous specimen, a battle over life and death ensues.
4. Gaunt Gray Cat: A man inherits the home of his aunt, but has to take care of her many cats. Her aunt however returns in the shape of a gray cat and takes revenge upon her nephew, who willingly lets her die.
Price Guide Report
GD 2.0 | VG 4.0 | FN 6.0 | VF 8.0 | NM 9.4 | RECORD SALE! |
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