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Marvel Tales 103
Atlas Tales
Issue Information
- Cover Date
- October 1951
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher
- Marvel Comics, Inc.
- Cover Titles
- Touch of Death!
Behind The Mask!
When Time Stood Still!
The Ink Blots! - Cover Credits
-
Sol Brodsky pencils guess
Christopher Rule inks guess
- Contributions
-
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Cover Creator Credit
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Current market pricing for Marvel Tales #103 shows a latest raw sale of FR sold for $26.77 on November 1st, 2021, a latest graded sale of CGC 6.0 sold for $432 on July 9th, 2024.
Raw price ranges include Fair/Good $66.40 (1 comp).
Graded price ranges include CGC 5.5 $129.95 (1 comp); CGC 6.0 $432 (1 comp).
Pricing data last updated October 26th, 2026.
Stories
Touch Of Death
Credits
Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Michaël Dewally: Story Scan
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Michaël Dewally: Story Scan
Notes: I looked at this a long time, feeling I should know the artist. And looked again. And again.
Great inking, especially on the ghosts. Tonight it suddenly hit me... it's an early unsigned
Reinman story. Quite obviously so, if you see it. The story is by Chapman and is his usual
fare about a tortured soul... this time a grave digger who is so mad about money that
when he accidentally frees a ghost from a grave and gets a wish, he wishes that everything
he touches will turn to money. Like King Midas, it doesn't end well for him. - Ger A.
The Devil Is Davy Jones
Credits
Credits not yet documented
When Time Stood Still
Credits
Ross Andru pencils unsigned
Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Notes: Another story about someone who wants to be rich so badly he does something stupid.
And it's not the last one in the book. - Ger A.
Behind The Mask
Credits
Jerry Robinson pencils and inks signed
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Notes: When the main character loans a mask that makes it possible for him to pretend he is a
long lost tycoon, he decides not to bring it back and keep it on, fooling everyone... except
the mysterious maskmaker. - Ger A.
The Ink Blots!
Credits
Manny Stallman pencils and inks signed
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Notes: The main character is
a deaf man, who gets a job as a stooge for a magician. For his job he has to pretend to fly
around the stage by the power of the magician's wand. He does this in an oldfashioned red
and blue superhero type long underwear suit, with an H on his chest (because his name is
Hubert, it seems). No archetype as far as I know. He kills the magician to get the wand of
course. - Ger A.
Market Pricing
Last Updated
2026-10-26 07:35:03
Last Raw Sale
FR sold for $26.77 on November 1st, 2021
Last Graded Sale
CGC 6.0 sold for $432 on July 9th, 2024
Sources Represented
PriceCharting, Heritage Auctions
Raw Price Ranges
Fair/Good
$66.40 (1 comp)
Graded Price Ranges
CGC 5.5
$129.95 (1 comp)
CGC 6.0
$432 (1 comp)
Featured eBay Matches
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Grade
Price
Date
Provenance
Record
6.0
$432
July 9th, 2024
Heritage Auctions Marvel Tales #103 (Timely, 1951) CGC FN 6.0 Off-white to white pages.
5.5
$129.95
March 7th, 2004
Heritage Auctions Marvel Tales #103 Palo Alto pedigree (Marvel, 1951) CGC FN- 5.5 Off-white pages.
Auction 14031, Lot 16503
4.0
$199.95
March 3rd, 2024
PriceCharting MARVEL TALES #103 (4.0) TOUCH OF DEATH! 1951~
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VG
$156
June 7th, 2020
Heritage Auctions Marvel Tales #103 (Atlas, 1951) Condition: VG.
VG
$79
October 14th, 2012
Heritage Auctions Marvel Tales #103 (Atlas, 1951) Condition: VG.
VG-
$124.50
July 5th, 2024
PriceCharting Marvel Tales 103 | VG- | Touch of Death cover by Brodsky. Early Atlas PCH | 1951 1951 #103
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GD/VG
$165
July 23rd, 2023
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GD/VG
$165
March 6th, 2023
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GD-
$66.40
December 4th, 2022
PriceCharting Marvel Tales #103 1.8 GD- Timely Comic - Oct 1951 Sol Brodsky 1951 #103
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FR
$26.77
November 1st, 2021
PriceCharting Marvel Tales #103 1951 FAIR Pre Code Horror 1951 #103
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-
$95
June 27th, 2024
PriceCharting Marvel Tales # 103 1951 Golden Age Atlas/Marvel Comics 1951
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Issue Overview
Marvel Tales #103 was published by Marvel Comics, Inc. in October 1951. It is part of the Marvel Tales series, which ran from August 1949 to August 1957.
Cover credits include Sol Brodsky and Christopher Rule.
Atlas Tales indexes 5 stories for this issue, including "Touch Of Death." Indexed story credits include Hank Chapman and Paul Reinman, among others.