Spellbound #18 – Bill Everett Strangulation Cover – 1.8 GD- (1953)
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Pre-Code Horror

Golden Age horror published before Comics Code restrictions

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Atlas Comics

Early Marvel-era horror from the Atlas publishing period

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Condition

1.8 GD- Raw

Spellbound #18 – Bill Everett Strangulation Cover – 1.8 GD- (1953)

£80.00

Spellbound #18 – Bill Everett Strangulation Cover – 1.8 GD- (1953)

Original December 1953 Atlas pre-Code horror, featuring Bill Everett's unsettling “Sleep My Love!” strangulation cover. Offered as a raw, ungraded vintage copy with a supplied visual grade estimate of 1.8 GD- (Good Minus).

Key Details

  • tag Series / issue Spellbound #18, Vol. 1
  • storefront Publisher Atlas Comics; indicia publisher Male Publishing Corp.
  • event Publication date December 1953, confirmed by the indicia
  • info Printing Original 1953 US printing, with the Atlas cover logo and 10¢ price; not a later I.W./Super Comics reprint
  • info Era / genre Golden Age pre-Code horror and science fiction
  • brush Cover artist Bill Everett
  • info Editor Stan Lee
  • info Format Raw English-language comic
  • info Condition 1.8 GD-, visual estimate

Why It Matters

The standout feature is Everett's disturbing cover: a terrified man in bed, hands at his throat, beside a looming sinister face. Published in 1953, this is an original example of Atlas horror from before the Comics Code era.

Cover-featured stories include Sleep My Love!, Terror in Time!, When the Martians Strike! and The City!. The photographed opening of When the Martians Strike! shows a Martian fleet setting out to attack Earth, adding period science-fiction appeal to the horror anthology.

Creators

Cover
Bill Everett
Editor
Stan Lee
  • star Interior art: Catalogued contributors include Al Eadeh, Tony DiPreta, Dick Ayers, Jim Mooney and Gil Evans. Individual unsigned story credits should be treated as attributions.
  • star Writers: Individual script credits have not been reliably established; Stan Lee's editorial credit does not establish authorship of every story.

Collector Notes

Raw / ungraded. The supplied grade of 1.8 GD- is a visual estimate. Grading is subjective; no CGC or other professional grade is guaranteed.

This is a heavily worn copy. The photographs show substantial spine wear and paper loss, visible thread/stitching along the spine, tears and chips at the edges, creasing, surface rubbing, a missing piece at the lower front-cover edge and handwriting in the title area. These defects should be considered alongside the grade. The photographs of the actual copy form part of the description; please inspect the cover, back cover and interior views carefully.

Issue and publication details were checked against the photographed cover and indicia; cover, editor and interior artist listings were cross-checked against GoCollect's issue record.

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