Price history & market evidence
Price observations belong to this edition. Guide estimates, catalog references and completed sales are separate kinds of evidence.
| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10.0 | $15,341.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_10_0_valueguide | 1956-06-01 |
| 4.0 | $108.66 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_4_0_valueguide | 1956-06-01 |
| 6.0 | $263.29 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_6_0_valueguide | 1956-06-01 |
| 9.2 | $1,567.21 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_9_2_valueguide | 1956-06-01 |
| 9.6 | $12,981.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_9_6_valueguide | 1956-06-01 |
| 9.8 | $11,801.08 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_9_8_valueguide | 1956-06-01 |
| RAW | $49.24 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1956-06-01 |
| 8.0 | $336.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_8_0_valueguide | 1956-06-01 |
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Graded population
CGC records 14 graded copies for Mystery in Space #32 (1956). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
Riddle of the Vanishing Earthmen
On April 29, 1986, aliens from the planet Kallabar take over every tv broadcast in the world and demonstrate their superiority by blowing up Haley's Comet. They also demonstrate their defensive capabilities as their cities are protected by force-screen that repel even "meteoric dust". Earth's scientists realise that said dust was actually full-sized meteors, meaning that the aliens must be gigantic, and come up with a plan.
On the side of the Earth that the aliens can’t observe through their telescopes, they build an oversized spaceship that makes the aliens think that humans are the same size as them. When they go to board, the aliens find the ship seemingly empty while the humans sneak away to disable their superweapons.
| StoryTitle2 = The Secret of the Space-Bomb! | Synopsis2 = Genius physicist Allan Garrett, in the middle of demonstrating an anti-gravity beam he invented, is called away to investigate a more pressing issue. Small disks have appeared around the world, which Garrett realises are bombs which are absorbing the potency of Earth's nuclear weapons to make themselves more powerful. Casting their images onto Earth's atmosphere, some aliens threaten to detonate the bombs unless mankind surrenders to them.
Undaunted, Allan Garret straps himself into a guided missile and launches himself into space to pull the bombs with him using his anti-gravity beam. He then releases the bombs, which are gravitationally attracted to the object with the largest mass nearby - the aliens own ship.
| StoryTitle3 = The Pea-Pod Planet! | Synopsis3 = Space Cabbie receives an emergency broadcast from the Interplanetary Police that the Sun is about to supernova. Since Space Cabbie is the closest to Sirius, he is tasked with picking up Xitt Xott, a scientist who can possibly prevent it.
Space Cabbie lands on Sirius but is shocked to discover that all its inhabitants look exactly alike to him. One of them identifies themselves as Xitt Xott, but they turn out to be a bank robber who plans to use him as a getaway driver. Space Cabbie tricks the criminal by turning around and landing back on Sirius, then picks up the real Xitt Xott, who successfully prevents the Sun's expansion using his atomic fire extinguisher to spray anti-nuclear foam.
| StoryTitle4 = There's No Place Like Earth! | Synopsis4 = Scientist David Rawson ends up tailing a suspicious man whose presence causes strange events - balloons pop, photos of him come out blurry, and people near him end up sunburnt. When David tries to talk to him, light emits from the man's mouth instead of sound.
Dave realise that the man must be an alien and that physics work differently around him after his presence causes a fireman's water to become flammable, which David extinguishes using oxygen. Using a device he invented that analyses wavelengths of light, David learns that the man was a scout for a potential alien invasion, but the invasion will have to be called off since it turns out that physics work differently on Earth than in anywhere else in the universe.
| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Earthlings
**Antagonists:** * Kallabarans
**Locations:** * April 29, 1986 ** Earth ** Kallabar ** Halley's Comet **Items:** * Kallabaran superweapon **Vehicles:** * Terran spaceship, 25 miles long
| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *
| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Space Cabby) **Supporting Characters:** * Professor Xitt Xott **Antagonists:** * A thief **Other Characters:** * Interplanetary Police **Locations:** * 22nd Century ** Sirius system * Mercury (planet)) * Venus (planet)) * Mars (planet)) * Earth * Vega **Items:** * **Vehicles:** * Space Cab
| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *
| Notes = "Riddle of the Vanishing Earthmen" is set on 1986, then the future by the time this issue was published (1956).
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Creative credits
Writers: Gardner Fox, Ed Herron, Otto Binder
Interior art: Sid Greene, Carmine Infantino, Gil Kane
Source records & attribution
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