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EC · Crime SuspenStories · #27 · ID-2419853
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Crime SuspenStories #27 demonstrates disciplined liquidity depth and stable sovereign grade spread characteristics across current secondary market trading.
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| 9.6 | $49.99 |
| 9.4 | $49.99 |
| Raw | $8.09 |
| Grade | Dealer buy | Retail sell | Gap |
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| Raw | $1.80 | $8.89 | 79.8% |
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An editorial on how the horror and shock books are being cancelled due to the community and congressional backlash against these type of books. Also how EC Comics would continue with "New New Trend" titles (later renamed "New Direction" titles).
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A new librarian is deathly afraid that she will become the victim of a town maniac who has killed seven men. Turns out that she is the maniac.
Ed had been looking for Marty for two years, hoping to exact revenge upon him for taking his girl, Shirley, and his money. But Marty tries to convince Ed that the girl and his soon-to-be wife, was no good and it was her idea to take Ed's money. But Ed discovered it was a ruse to await a local trooper that stopped in every night about that time. Unfortunately, as the trooper drove up, a speeding car went by and the cop went after it. As Ed kills Marty, the trooper is talking to the couple in the car: a guy and Shirley, Marty's wife, who was cheating on him.
A man enjoys making his own horror films by frightening people to near death and filming their facial expressions. He plans on filming a victim in an elaborate trap he sets up but accidently gets trapped himself.
A man plans to kill his wife by drugging her and setting her on fire, but she turns the tables and does that to him instead.
Jim Ward was a strict father, but a loving one as well toward his son, Paul. But Jim was concerned with all the trouble his son was continually getting into, and every time the boy offered an excuse for his behavior, Jim looked the other way. As time went along, Paul because worse and worse, until he murdered a criminal named Evans, who had gotten Paul involved in illegal activities. But a father's love caused Jim Ward to do the unthinkable! He killed his son!
Recorded price evidence by source and grade tier. Ungraded / RAW pricing represents loose physical copies; certified grading authorities record authenticated slabbed grades only. Unpriced grades remain unpriced.
| Authority Source / Metric | RAWUNGRADED | 1.8 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.6 | 9.8ANCHOR | 10.0 |
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Panel Profits(Exchange FMV) | $8.09 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $49.99 | — | — |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $1.80 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $8.89 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 sold | — |
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