Spook (1953) #23

Star Publications [1949-1954] 1953–1954 series Cover date Mar 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

Spook #23 (1953) is issue #23 of Star Publications [1949-1954]'s Spook (1953–1954), with a cover date of March 1953. Written by Mickey Spillane and drawn by John Jordan and George Peltz.

Creators

Writer: Mickey Spillane
Pencillers: John Jordan, George Peltz
Inkers: John Jordan, George Peltz
Cover artist: L. B. Cole

The stories

“A Weird Picture of Murder”

An eccentric painter paints a beautiful woman and kills her husband so he can marry her. But the husband's vengeful ghost comes out of one of his paintings and kills him.

“Gorillas, Ghosts and Gangsters”

Boy sleuth Jerry and his partner Captain Spook (a ghost of a policeman), team up with an escaped gorilla to defeat some gangsters.

“The Bloody Horror”

Kansas State Penitentiary riot.

“His Conscience Drove Him Mad!”

The reader is to solve the crime. Killer revealed in the last panel (which is upside down)

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