Price history & market evidence
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57 dated observations. Last recorded 2026-11-01. Source record #2388822
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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | $264.00 | PriceCharting · guideguide | 1952-09-01 |
| 6.0 | $548.23 | PriceCharting · guideguide | 1952-09-01 |
| 8.0 | $1,140.00 | PriceCharting · guideguide | 1952-09-01 |
| 9.2 | $1,482.00 | PriceCharting · guideguide | 1952-09-01 |
| RAW | $195.87 | PriceCharting · guideguide | 1952-09-01 |
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Graded population
CGC records 61 graded copies for Strange Tales #10 (1952). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
The Boy Who Was Afraid
A boy doesn't want to play outside because if he steps on the cracks in the pavement the ground will swallow him up.
A father writes a will for his three sons warning them not to do certain things that could lead to their deaths. His eldest, Ralph, he warns to not ride a horse. The middle child, Lysle, he warns to not get on a boat The youngest, John, he warns to not marry or else she will murder him. Ralph ends up marrying a woman who lives in Kentucky who he has a child with. He buys his son a horse and Ralph's son ends up being killed in an accident. Ralph's wife, Grace ends up killing Ralph and herself out of sadness at it is revealed Ralph rode a horse. Lysle ended up owning a boat with his wife, Betty, in Long Island and while tying it up he fell onto a plank and drowned.
John with no family questioned the "mark" of shame he would bare on his shoulder that his father wrote about if he were to marry. John told himself that he will marry the girl he had been seeing and that's when he saw the ghost of his father in the mirror, his hands gripping his shoulder. The ghost again warned him about marriage but John instead blamed him and that he was responsible for the killing of his family. John took a sword from the wall and cut the arms from his shoulder, but the hands and their blood stumps remained behind gripping him. John then confronted his wife to be who saw the bloody hands on his shoulder and drew the other sword from the wall and seemingly stabbed John with it.
Frankenstein's Monster creates an heir.
A rabbit hunter who hacks off their feet to sell as good luck charms has the tables turned on him.
A Nazi officer threatens a plastic surgeon's family during the fall of Berlin with death unless he alters his appearance. The surgeon makes him look like Adolph Hitler.
A gangster on the run takes shelter behind the shooting range of a carnival.
Creative credits
Writers: N/A, Carl Wessler
Interior art: Bernie Krigstein, Joe Maneely, Jim Mooney, Bill Benulis, Ed Winiarski, Dick Ayers
Color: N/A
Cover art: Bill Everett, Stan Goldberg
Source records & attribution
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