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Black Cat Horror Comic Price Guide

Full Black Cat Horror Comic Price Guide

If you come across a pile of old horror comics, then chances are some of them will be Black Cat Mystery comics.

This series by Harvey is famous for including some of the best horror comics of the 1950s.

Individual issues have sold for thousands in excellent condition. Even in rough shape, they have significant value. The gorier the cover, the better!

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Black Cat Horror Comics Values

#1 Most Valuable: Black Cat Mystery #50

Black Cat Mystery #50
Classic radiation cover

Lowest price $4,000

Average price $14,000

Record price $72,000

This one is repeated lower down the page, but it's such an important horror comic book that we wanted to show it before the rest of the series.

A crazy, very popular vintage horror comic featuring a horrific image of a man's face being eaten away by radiation. Worth big money in any condition, the record being $72K and the minimum value in complete condition $4K.

Black Cat Comics #29
Title sub-titled "Mystery" prior to official name-change

Lowest price $200

Average price $850

Record price $4,800

Black Cat was a costumed superhero prior to Harvey Comics changing her title to a horror and suspense theme. But the craziness didn't end there.

Issue #54 saw it change theme AGAIN and become a Western comic series!

Black Cat Comics #30
Name change to Black Cat Mystery

Lowest price $100

Average price $550

Record price $2,650

From issue #30, the title was officially renamed Black Cat Mystery Comics.

Black Cat Comics #31

Lowest price $40

Average price $200

Record price $2,650

Black Cat Comics #32
Bondage cover

Lowest price $80

Average price $600

Record price $3,120

Black Cat Comics #33
Electric chair cover

Lowest price $100

Average price $650

Record price $3,600

Electrocutions and survivors of capital punishment were popular themes in old horror comics.

Black Cat Comics #34
Bondage cover

Lowest price $60

Average price $300

Record price $2,300

Not only bound, but buried alive? This woman is having an especially bad day.

Black Cat Comics #35
Post-nuclear holocaust cover

Lowest price $80

Average price $400

Record price $15,600

Post-WWII and in the cold war, aka Atomic Age of comics, the theme of nuclear war was common, and suitably chilling for readers.

Black Cat Comics #36

Lowest price $80

Average price $600

Record price $3,000

Black Cat Horror Comics #37

Lowest price $100

Average price $1,000

Record price $12,000

Sleepwalker meets walking dead.

Black Cat Comics #38

Lowest price $80

Average price $400

Record price $6.600

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Black Cat Comics #39
Hanging cover

Lowest price $100

Average price $600

Record price $3,600

Hanging covers were popular with readers of horror comics of the 1950s. They are also very collectible today.

Black Cat Horror Comics #40

Lowest price $40

Average price $200

Record price $1,300

Black Cat Comics #41

Lowest price $40

Average price $200

Record price $750

Black Cat Comics #42

Lowest price $60

Average price $400

Record price $1,600

Black Cat Comics #43
Bondage cover

Lowest price $60

Average price $400

Record price $2,300

Black Cat Comics #44
Mutilated man on cover

Lowest price $100

Average price $900

Record price $4,000

The cover features a man with many of his features cut out. Gross.

Black Cat Comics #45

Lowest price $100

Average price $700

Record price $2,900

Black Cat Comics #46

Lowest price $60

Average price $400

Record price $4,000

Black Cat Comics #47

Lowest price $60

Average price $300

Record price $2,300

Black Cat Horror Comics #48

Lowest price $80

Average price $350

Record price $2,000

Black Cat Comics #49
Rats eating man

Lowest price $100

Average price $450

Record price $2,300

Black Cat Mystery #50
Classic radiation cover

Lowest price $4,000

Average price $14,000

Record price $72,000

If you thought that the criminal burning the woman's hair was too much, then this gruesome cover raises the bar yet again (or, perhaps more fittingly, lowers it...).

Black Cat Horror Comics #51
Mummy cover

Lowest price $100

Average price $500

Record price $3,850

Along with werewolves, vampires and skeletons, mummies were the most popular of monster features.

Black Cat Comics #52

Lowest price $50

Average price $250

Record price $1,700

Black Cat Comics #53

Lowest price $40

Average price $200

Record price $1,800

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