Heritage Auctions sold a near complete collection featuring every single EC Comic ever published. Listed below are the highlights.

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Low
$180
Mid
$540
High
$1.8k

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.0 sold for $2,280 [$1,328 in Dec] +72%

Low
$180
Mid
$765
High
$1.8k

Key Facts

Origin of the Crypt Keeper

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.5 sold for $2,640 [$1,550 in 2022] +70%

EC ⋅ 1951

Low
$85
Mid
$255
High
$845

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🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.5 sold for $1,560 [$917 in 2022] +70%

Low
$310
Mid
$975
High
$3.1k

Key Facts

Premiere issue of a sci-fi/horror format, formerly titled A Moon, A Girl…Romance

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.5 sold for $2,040 [$1,215 in 2018] +68%

Low
$185
Mid
$880
High
$2.6k

Key Facts

Early artwork by Wally Wood whose first work for EC was Modern Love #5

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.0 sold for $660 [$405 in 2015] +63%

EC ⋅ 1952

Low
$100
Mid
$300
High
$1k

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

8.0 sold for $1,920 [$1,236 in 2023] +55%

EC ⋅ 1953

Low
$35
Mid
$110
High
$370

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

6.0 sold for $600 [$395 in 2023] +52%

Low
$800
Mid
$2k
High
$8k

Key Facts

Published prior to the establishment of the Comics Code Authority

Market News

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7.0 sold for $4,080 [$2,700 in 2021] +51%

EC ⋅ 1949

Low
$75
Mid
$230
High
$770

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

8.0 sold for $960 [$660 in 2020] +45%

Low
$1k
Mid
$3k
High
$10k

Key Facts

First EC horror comic which, along with Vault of Horror #12, changed the course of the publisher and set into motion future censorship

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

9.2 sold for $15,600 [$10,800 in 2022] +44%

Low
$18
Mid
$55
High
$180

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8.5 sold for $288 [$200 in 2015] +44%

Low
$120
Mid
$360
High
$1.2k

Market News

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4.0 sold for $720 [$500 in 2020] +44%

Key Facts

Published prior to the establishment of the Comics Code Authority

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.5 sold for $1,440 [$1,000 in 2021] +44%

EC ⋅ 1951

Low
$120
Mid
$360
High
$1.2k

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

6.5 sold for $1,140 [$800 in 2018] +43%

Low
$30
Mid
$100
High
$300

Key Facts

One of publisher EC's ‘Picto-Fiction’ magazines, a short-lived and commercially unsuccessful format created to circumvent the newly-formed Comics Code requirements

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

8.5 sold for $552 [$390 in Apr] +42%

EC ⋅ 1952

Low
$650
Mid
$1.8k
High
$6.6k

Key Facts

Premiere issue of the long-running satirical magazine that ceased new content publications in 2019

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

8.5 sold for $9,100 [$6,500 in 2023] +40%

EC ⋅ 1952

Low
$70
Mid
$205
High
$685

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.0 sold for $900 [$650 in 2022] +38%

EC ⋅ 1951

Low
$65
Mid
$200
High
$670

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

6.0 sold for $660 [$480 in Jan] +38%

EC ⋅ 1952

Low
$80
Mid
$235
High
$780

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.5 sold for $720 [$526 in 2021] +37%

EC ⋅ 1951

Low
$100
Mid
$300
High
$1k

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

6.5 sold for $1,080 [$790 in 2022] +37%

Low
$100
Mid
$300
High
$1k

Key Facts

Cover art by Al Feldstein, published prior to the establishment of the Comics Code Authority

Market News

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7.5 sold for $1,320 [$1,000 in May] +32%

Low
$120
Mid
$400
High
$1.2k

Key Facts

Cover art by Frank Frazetta and Al Williamson

Market News

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7.0 sold for $1,140 [$868 in Mar] +31%

Low
$120
Mid
$400
High
$1.2k

Key Facts

Cover art by Al Feldstein

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.5 sold for $1,560 [$1,200 in 2022] +30%

EC ⋅ 1954

Low
$95
Mid
$280
High
$925

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

6.0 sold for $504 [$390 in 2020] +29%

EC ⋅ 1952

Low
$130
Mid
$390
High
$1.3k

Market News

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5.5 sold for $840 [$650 in 2023] +29%

Low
$200
Mid
$800
High
$2k

Key Facts

Published prior to the establishment of the Comics Code Authority

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.5 sold for $2,880 [$2,300 in May] +25%

EC ⋅ 1951

Low
$70
Mid
$215
High
$720

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.5 sold for $720 [$576 in Apr] +25%

EC ⋅ 1952

Low
$55
Mid
$160
High
$535

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

5.5 sold for $360 [$300 in Apr] +20%

Low
$120
Mid
$400
High
$1.2k

Key Facts

Decapitation cover

Market News

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7.0 sold for $1,200 [$1,000 in 2022] +20%

Low
$400
Mid
$1.2k
High
$4.2k

Key Facts

First horror story published by EC Comics titled ‘Zombie Horror’

Tap cover and swipe to see the complete five-page story

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.5 sold for $3,840 [$3,215 in 2020] +19%

EC ⋅ 1951

Low
$90
Mid
$270
High
$900

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

8.5 sold for $1,800 [$1,560 in Feb] +15%

EC ⋅ 1954

Low
$50
Mid
$145
High
$490

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.0 sold for $552 [$480 in 2022] +15%

EC ⋅ 1950

Low
$120
Mid
$360
High
$1.2k

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

6.0 sold for $960 [$840 in 2023] +14%

Low
$215
Mid
$850
High
$2.1k

Key Facts

Second issue of EC's horror format

Market News

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7.0 sold for $1,800 [$1,599 in 2022] +13%

Low
$120
Mid
$360
High
$1.2k

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

5.5 sold for $840 [$750 in 2023] +12%

Low
$150
Mid
$500
High
$1.5k

Key Facts

Hanging cover, published prior to the establishment of the Comics Code Authority

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

9.0 sold for $1,140 [$1,020 in Mar] +12%

Low
$120
Mid
$400
High
$1.2k

Key Facts

Violent cover art, published prior to the establishment of the Comics Code Authority

Market News

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6.0 sold for $900 [$825 in 2022] +9%

Low
$140
Mid
$475
High
$1.4k

Key Facts

Cover art featuring The Old Witch

Interior biography of Ray Bradbury and story adaptation of 'The Black Ferris'

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

4.5 sold for $600 [$550 in 2022] +9%

Key Facts

Decapitation cover, published prior to the establishment of the Comics Code Authority

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

6.5 sold for $1,080 [$1,000 in 2022] +8%

Low
$600
Mid
$1.8k
High
$6k

Key Facts

Referenced in Seduction of the Innocent, led to the establishment of the Comics Code Authority

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

6.5 sold for $3,120 [$2,979 in 2022] +5%

Low
$1.6k
Mid
$6.5k
High
$16k

Key Facts

1st appearance of the Crypt Keeper, the host of the book's anthology format of stories and inspiration behind the host of the HBO series Tales From The Crypt

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

6.0 sold for $28,800 [No Previous Data]

Low
$600
Mid
$1.8k
High
$6k

Key Facts

Final EC comic published, with the exception of Mad Magazine

Considered the rarest EC publication, this issue had an extremely limited circulation of approximately 100 copies, most of which were distributed to staff and subscribers

Due to financial difficulties exacerbated by the widespread adoption of the Comics Code Authority, EC could not afford to bind (staple) the printed pages

As a result, nearly the entire print run of approximately 250,000 copies was destroyed

Although Shock Illustrated #4 was produced, it was never published until 2006, when all four issues (#1–#4) were released in a hardcover collection

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

8.0 sold for $10,800 [No Previous Data]

Low
$400
Mid
$1.2k
High
$4k

Key Facts

Reprinted E.C. stories

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

8.0 sold for $6,600 [No Previous Data]

Low
$180
Mid
$600
High
$1.8k

Key Facts

Drug abuse cover

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.5 sold for $3,840 [No Previous Data]

Low
$175
Mid
$625
High
$1.8k

Key Facts

Final issue of Crypt of Terror, title becomes Tales from the Crypt

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

9.2 sold for $3,600 [No Previous Data]

Low
$90
Mid
$275
High
$920

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

8.5 sold for $3,360 [No Previous Data]

EC ⋅ 1952

Low
$70
Mid
$215
High
$715

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

6.5 sold for $3,360 [No Previous Data]

EC ⋅ 1950

Low
$150
Mid
$450
High
$1.5k

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

6.5 sold for $2,400 [No Previous Data]

Low
$250
Mid
$800
High
$2.5k

Key Facts

Published prior to the establishment of the Comics Code Authority

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

7.0 sold for $1,920 [No Previous Data]

Low
$160
Mid
$480
High
$1.6k

Market News

🥈 Runner-Up: New High [Previous High]

6.5 sold for $1,680 [No Previous Data]

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