Menace (1953) #2

Marvel 1953–1954 series Cover date Apr 1953

Fair market value

Grade	CGC slab	Raw
9.8 NM/M	$480 $408–$552	$210 $179–$242
9.6 NM+	$374 $318–$431	$168 $143–$193
9.4 NM	$292 $248–$336	$134 $114–$155
9.2 NM-	$228 $194–$262	$108 $91.39–$124
9.0 VF/NM	$178 $151–$204	$86.02 $73.12–$98.92
8.5 VF+	$139 $118–$159	$68.81 $58.49–$79.13
8.0 VF	$108 $91.89–$124	$55.05 $46.79–$63.31
7.0 FN/VF	$84.31 $71.66–$96.96	$44.04 $37.43–$50.65
6.0 FN	$65.77 $55.90–$75.64	$35.23 $29.95–$40.51
5.0 VG/FN	$51.30 $43.61–$58.99	$28.19 $23.96–$32.42
4.0 VG	$40.01 $34.01–$46.01	$22.55 $19.17–$25.93
2.0 GD	$31.21 $26.53–$35.89	$18.04 $15.33–$20.75
Raw, ungraded	—	$65.00 $55.25–$74.75

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About this issue

Menace #2 (1953) is issue #2 of Marvel's Menace (1953–1954), with a cover date of April 1953. Written by Stan Lee and drawn by Bill Everett, Russ Heath, Joe Sinnott and others.

Creators

Writer: Stan Lee
Pencillers: Bill Everett, Russ Heath, Joe Sinnott, George Tuska
Inkers: Bill Everett, Russ Heath, Joe Sinnott, George Tuska
Letterers: Bill Everett, Joe Letterese
Cover artist: Bill Everett

The stories

“The Man in Black”

A communist agent mistakes his contact for the man he is supposed to kill.

“Burton's Blood!”

A vampire sleeps for years after gorging on all the blood available to him in the atomic war of 1998. When he awakens and looks for another victim, he is astonished to find that humans died out long ago and only the human-like robots are left.

“Rocket to the Moon”

A lab assistant builds a rocket that will travel to the moon and volunteers to fly it, but his boss wants the credit, so he knocks him out and takes off. Unfortunately for him, the rocket is only one way.

“On with the Dance!”

A dancer who wants a part threatens the girl who got it with a gun to resign. Unfortunately for her, this girl is a witch, and she hexes the dancer to dance in place without ever stopping until she starves to death and even then her corpse dances on and on.

Credits, characters and story details from the Grand Comics Database, CC BY-SA 4.0.