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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAW | $72.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1952-03-19 |
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Graded population
CGC records 34 graded copies for Amazing Detective Cases #13 (1952). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
Honeymoon of Horror!
Gordon romances Sara) to get her money, finally marrying her. He prepares to kill her on their honeymoon, only to learn Sara is already dead and he has married her ghost. Sara intends to haunt him so he runs to the police to confess his crimes, only to be thrown into an asylum where Sara continues to haunt him.
| StoryTitle2 = The Strange Fingerprints | Writer2_1 = | Penciler2_1 = | Inker2_1 = | Colorist2_1 = | Letterer2_1 = Typeset | Editor2_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Jerry Thorne) **Supporting Characters:** * Claude Miller) **Antagonists:** * Leona Miller) **Other Characters:** * Captain Flaherty) **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** North America *** United States of America **** Boston, Massachusetts
| Synopsis2 = Text story.
| StoryTitle3 = Close Shave | Writer3_1 = | Penciler3_1 = Werner Roth | Inker3_1 = Werner Roth | Colorist3_1 = | Letterer3_1 = | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Dominic Costanza)
**Antagonists:** * Blackie
**Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616
| Synopsis3 = Blackie walks into Costanza)'s barber shop as he is closing and forces him to give him a shave. Blackie boasts about his exploits, recalling how he beat a coal shoveller on the steamer Grey Ghost to death. As Dominic has Blackie strapped down and the razor sharpened, he reveals the man Blackie killed was his son.
| StoryTitle4 = The Clinging Vine | Writer4_1 = | Penciler4_1 = Fred Kida | Inker4_1 = Fred Kida | Colorist4_1 = | Letterer4_1 = | Editor4_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Jenny Wills) **Supporting Characters:** * Herbert Wills)
**Other Characters:** * Dr. Keith **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616
| Synopsis4 = Jenny) married Herbert) for his money and hates how he spends his time devoted to his vines. Jenny wants to be with Keith but Herbert's health is strangely resilient. Jenny finally decides to destroy the vines, hoping the shock will kill Herbert, but she trips on a root and is tangled in the vines, which strangle her to death.
| StoryTitle5 = Cave-In | Writer5_1 = Carl Wessler | Penciler5_1 = Joe Sinnott | Inker5_1 = Joe Sinnott | Colorist5_1 = | Letterer5_1 = | Editor5_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Herbert Marson) **Supporting Characters:** * Thawley
**Other Characters:** * Tearle * Clayton * Galliardi * Joe Leonard) * Ryan **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616
| Synopsis5 = Herbert) steals Thawley's money and hides it in his lunchbox. Herbert misplaces the lunch inside the mine and heads in to find it again, only to be caught in a cave-in. Although he survives, he is trapped underground with rescue days away. He thinks at first his lunch will keep him alive - then he remembers he replaced his food with the stolen money.
| StoryTitle6 = Ghost Story | Writer6_1 = | Penciler6_1 = William Blake Everett | Inker6_1 = William Blake Everett | Colorist6_1 = | Letterer6_1 = William Blake Everett | Editor6_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Rocky Nixon) **Supporting Characters:** * Red Collins)
**Other Characters:** * Judge Robert X. Brown) **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616
| Synopsis6 = On the electric chair, Rocky) vows revenge on Collins) and on Judge Robert X. Brown), the man who sentenced him. Soon after, the judge is killed by mysterious means which suggest only a ghost could have entered his home. Collins recalls how Rocky had a partner named Grey the Great who was a magician and could have pulled off the murder. As the police head out to get Grey, Rocky's ghost enters the police station to kill Collins.
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Creative credits
Writers: Carl Wessler
Interior art: Hy Rosen, Werner Roth, Fred Kida, Joe Sinnott, William Blake Everett
Source records & attribution
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COMICBASE: comicbase:51113
GCD: 9791
PANEL PROFITS: 8440278