KORAK, SON OF TARZAN #24

Cover shows strong gloss and vibrant color retention with sharp print registration. There is a small corner crease/bend visible at the upper right tip and minor rubbing along the top edge; the spine appears tight with no obvious major stress lines visible from this angle. The book is housed in a protective sleeve, which may be masking minor surface wear; interior pages and back cover were not assessed.

Korak, Son of Tarzan #24 is a late-1960s entry in Western Publishing's Gold Key adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle mythos, continuing the adventures of Tarzan's son. The issue carries the era's typical creative team: Gaylord DuBois, the primary scripter across Western's Burroughs line for decades, paired with interior art by Dan Spiegle, known for his clean, cinematic storytelling on licensed adventure titles, and a painted cover by George Wilson, whose work defined the visual identity of Gold Key's adventure and Western lines throughout the 1960s.

Market activity for this issue is thin, consistent with the broader collector base for Western Publishing's licensed jungle-adventure titles, which trades well below contemporaneous Marvel and DC output despite comparable print runs. Certified population remains extremely small, with only a handful of universal graded copies known and a single recorded sale at the top of the census. This scarcity of sales data, rather than genuine demand pressure, is the primary driver of the wide gap between raw-copy value and the certified high-grade result.

This is a book for completists of the Korak and Tarzan comic lineage or specialists in Gold Key adventure titles rather than mainstream Silver Age investors. Raw copies in worn condition circulate cheaply through back-issue bins and online marketplaces, mid-grade raw copies see modest premiums from series collectors, and the rare high-grade certified example commands a disproportionate price simply due to its scarcity on the census rather than broad collector competition.