RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT! TRUE GHOST STORIES #24

The cover shows strong original gloss and vibrant color with no major creases across the main art area. There is minor corner blunting at the bottom-left corner and a few faint stress lines near the wagon wheel at lower left, along with slight wear along the top edge consistent with handling. The spine appears tight with no visible major stress lines or color breaks. Interior pages and back cover were not visible in this photo and were not assessed.

Ripley's Believe It or Not! True Ghost Stories was Gold Key's attempt to fold the long-running Ripley's licensed brand into the era's appetite for supernatural anthology comics, following the same true-crime-adjacent, allegedly-factual framing that made the newspaper panel a household name for decades. Issue #24 arrived deep into the Bronze Age horror boom, when Warren, Marvel, and DC were all expanding ghost and mystery anthology lines, and Gold Key leaned on the Ripley name rather than a specific creative team to sell the book; as with most of the company's non-flagship anthology output, contemporary sources rarely single out this issue's writer or artist for the era's reference guides.

The title has never developed meaningful collector demand independent of the broader Gold Key horror-anthology category, and the certified population reflects that: only a handful of copies have ever been submitted, with just one recorded sale at the low end of the grading scale and no verified transactions in mid or high grade. Pricing here tracks the general pattern for peripheral Bronze Age anthology comics with thin distribution and no first appearances or landmark creator work attached — modest value at all grades, with the steepest curve reserved for the rare high-grade survivor rather than any recognized key status.

This is a book for completists of the Ripley's brand, Gold Key horror-anthology specialists, and Bronze Age filler buyers rounding out a run rather than chasing a marquee title. Low and mid grade copies trade as inexpensive, easily sourced reading copies, while a well-preserved slab in the 9.2–9.4 range already represents the top of the known census; a true 9.8, should one ever surface, would likely draw a real premium simply from novelty and scarcity rather than any established sales history to support it.