Comic Values on the Move: Ghost Manor #23
The secondary comic market regularly ebbs and flows as book sales go through moderate changes, and occasionally see big jumps (or falls) in value. Overstreet Access tracks these changes through diligent research into the market and via assessment of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide marketing reports. Those changes are routinely updated on OverstreetAccess.com’s Recent Value Changes page, which can be viewed with a membership to the website.
Overstreet Pricing Editor Yolanda Ramirez has noted that a key book in the Ghost Manor horror-suspense anthology series has seen a huge increase in value.
Published by Charlton Comics, Ghost Manor was a two-volume title that started in July 1968 and ran for 19 issues through July 1971 before it was renamed as Ghostly Haunts, and continued for 39 issues until April 1978. The second volume of Ghost Manor began in October 1971, and produced 77 issues through November 1984.
Similar to the EC comics structure, Ghost Manor stories were framed and introduced by a host. It started with an Old Witch, then was more famously taken over by Mr. Bones, a skeleton butler who wore a mask with a wicked grin. The anthology book was part of Charlton’s line of horror anthologies that also included Ghostly Tales, The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves, and Haunted.
The second volume of Ghost Manor started off with covers that embraced horror themes, but were tamer than the earlier covers produced for EC’s horror titles. Some had brighter colors than are typically seen on a horror cover, some showed characters in peril, they featured menacing figures minus weapons, and a few early covers gave off a Scooby-Doo vibe. Then came Tom Sutton’s cover on Ghost Manor #23.
Sutton was an artist who worked primarily with Marvel and Warren Publishing on their black and white horror books. While Sutton could draw in a cartoony style, he pulled no punches for his work in horror by making monsters look as frightening and dangerous as possible.
For the cover of Ghost Manor #23, Sutton drew a decrepit old man, detailing the crags in his skin with sickly green and yellow hues. The decaying figure stares at the reader with a rictus grimace on his face as the edges of his clothing and even his skin separate in tatters. Making the cover even more ghastly, the old man is seated with a teddy bear on his lap that looks anything but cuddly.
Sutton’s classic cover has driven interest in the Ghost Manor key to a new Near Mint valuation of $750, marking a 2,627% increase. Comparing it to other Ghost Manor books, a Near Mint copy of the first issue in Volume 2 is valued at $125. Ghost Manor #22 in Near Mint is valued at $30, and Ghost Manor #24’s Near Mint value is at $27.50.
The Recent Value Changes page on OverstreetAccess.com can be found by clicking on the “Search Titles” tab in the Quick Navigation bar on the home page, then click the green “Recent Value Changes” button on the “Titles” page.
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Comic Values on the Move: Ghost Manor #23
The secondary comic market regularly ebbs and flows as book sales go through moderate changes, and occasionally see big jumps (or falls) in value. Overstreet Access tracks these changes through diligent research into the market and via assessment of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide marketing reports. Those changes are routinely updated on OverstreetAccess.com’s Recent Value Changes page, which can be viewed with a membership to the website.
Overstreet Pricing Editor Yolanda Ramirez has noted that a key book in the Ghost Manor horror-suspense anthology series has seen a huge increase in value.
Published by Charlton Comics, Ghost Manor was a two-volume title that started in July 1968 and ran for 19 issues through July 1971 before it was renamed as Ghostly Haunts, and continued for 39 issues until April 1978. The second volume of Ghost Manor began in October 1971, and produced 77 issues through November 1984.
Similar to the EC comics structure, Ghost Manor stories were framed and introduced by a host. It started with an Old Witch, then was more famously taken over by Mr. Bones, a skeleton butler who wore a mask with a wicked grin. The anthology book was part of Charlton’s line of horror anthologies that also included Ghostly Tales, The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves, and Haunted.
The second volume of Ghost Manor started off with covers that embraced horror themes, but were tamer than the earlier covers produced for EC’s horror titles. Some had brighter colors than are typically seen on a horror cover, some showed characters in peril, they featured menacing figures minus weapons, and a few early covers gave off a Scooby-Doo vibe. Then came Tom Sutton’s cover on Ghost Manor #23.
Sutton was an artist who worked primarily with Marvel and Warren Publishing on their black and white horror books. While Sutton could draw in a cartoony style, he pulled no punches for his work in horror by making monsters look as frightening and dangerous as possible.
For the cover of Ghost Manor #23, Sutton drew a decrepit old man, detailing the crags in his skin with sickly green and yellow hues. The decaying figure stares at the reader with a rictus grimace on his face as the edges of his clothing and even his skin separate in tatters. Making the cover even more ghastly, the old man is seated with a teddy bear on his lap that looks anything but cuddly.
Sutton’s classic cover has driven interest in the Ghost Manor key to a new Near Mint valuation of $750, marking a 2,627% increase. Comparing it to other Ghost Manor books, a Near Mint copy of the first issue in Volume 2 is valued at $125. Ghost Manor #22 in Near Mint is valued at $30, and Ghost Manor #24’s Near Mint value is at $27.50.
The Recent Value Changes page on OverstreetAccess.com can be found by clicking on the “Search Titles” tab in the Quick Navigation bar on the home page, then click the green “Recent Value Changes” button on the “Titles” page.
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