Comic books 1950-1959, graded by CBCS

Add to cart CBCS 7.5 $80.00 Paper: White Label #0002057-AC-014

Cover art by Bob Brown. The Stunt Man of Space, art by Nick Cardy. Dissection of Planet Earth, art by Howard Purcell. The Giant With My Face, art by Ruben Moreira; a space explorer comes across a giant with his look and name. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 4.5 $179.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #17-31CE7D8-053 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.37) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Bob Brown. The Last Days of Planet Mars!, art by Jim Mooney. Peter Puptent Explorer humor page by Henry Boltinoff. The Lighthouse In The Sky, art by Howard Purcell. Scientific Word Origins fact half-page by Mort Drucker. The Super-Insect Army text story. Battle of the Colossal Creatures, art by Bob Brown; two giant creatures battle over an airplane. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.5 $900.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #21-155D344-017 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($27.00) will be charged at checkout.

Published by Magazine Enterprises. Cover by Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Stories and art by Bob Powell and others. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #68. Action-packed fact and fiction about the US Marine Corps, in a series revived for the Korean War. A pilot flies night raids over Korea; The story of the battle of Tripoli, remembered in song in the Marines' Hymn; Profiles of the U.S.M.C. Hall of Fame. The Man in the Flying Nightmare; Marine Boot Camp; The Shores of Tripoli!; "Look After My Billy!"; Mister Marine Corps; The Spirit of Semper Fi! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Venus (1948 Marvel) 11 CBCS 4.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #22-478CA56-011

"The End of the World!" Venus manages to help a scientist with his love life and save the Earth from falling into the Sun. "Beyond the 3rd Dimension." A scientist dies, taking the secrets of dimensional travel with him. Also includes: "The Plot!" and "Perilous Patrol." With this issue, the title changes format, with "Stories of the Supernatural" appearing on the cover. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 8.0 $140.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #22-0B4D2A4-009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.20) will be charged at checkout.

#177, 6/55, Vol 15/No 9, 10c. Donald Duck, the Li'l Bad Wolf, and Pluto in untitled stories and Mickey Mouse and Goofy in part two of "The Lost City." The Donald Duck story is by Carl Barks. Issue also has one-page and half-page gag strips, and a two-page text feature "Goofy's Spring Housecleaning." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.0 $230.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #21-4283FBE-022

"I Died Laughing," "Realm of Lost Faces" (art by Lou Cameron), "She Shrieked With Horror," and "My Sinister Double." Cover by Ken Rice. Stories by Jim McLaughlin, Sy Grudko, Lou Cameron, Sy Grudko, Chic Stone, and Ken Rice. Suspense-filled horror tales that weave a Web of Mystery for the reader! 36 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.5 $495.00 Paper: White Label #20-48E05B5-013 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($14.85) will be charged at checkout.

"The End" (art by Wally Wood), "The Trip" (art by Jack Kamen), "Home to Stay" (art by Wood; unauthorized swipe of two Ray Bradbury stories, "Kaleidoscope" and "Rocket Man"), and "Don't Count Your Chickens" (art by Joe Orlando). The letters page features a well-reasoned response from the editors to a letter from a parent critical of SF and horror comics such as those published by EC. Al Feldstein classic outer space cover. NOTE: See 1st Series for 1950 #13.

NOTE: Also, this issue was reprinted by East Coast Comics with a $1 cover and 1970's copyright date (see E.C. Classic Reprints # 5). These and other changes make the reprint easy to distinguish from the original, which has a 10-cent cover price and a 1950's publication date. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.0 $420.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #23-3812DEF-015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($12.60) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Al Feldstein. "For Us the Living," script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), pencils by John Severin, inks by Bill Elder; Dr. Cromwell tells the F.B.I. that he came from an alternate timeline. "I, Rocket," script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), pencils by Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta, inks by Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, and Roy Krenkel; A very expensive new rocketship, once built for war and now rusting away, relates the story of her glory with Captain Lamb in charge, but also of treachery aboard ship, which the rocket secretly dealt with. "Discovery" text story. "Conquers All!", script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Al Feldstein (co-plot and script), art by Jack Kamen; As a prelude to an invasion of the Earth, an infiltration rocket from a far distant world is sent to the Earth to examine, estimate, judge and report back to their leaders. "The Automaton," script by Al Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando. "The Automaton," script by Al Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 6.0 $660.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #7004212-AA-005

Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Petrizza, Sal Trapani and Gerald Altman. Pre-Code tales of horror from Stanley Morse Publications. A man is captured and tormented by a bizarre cult. Ghosts rise to reveal their living secrets in epitaphs, giving Edgar an unpleasant surprise about his late wife. A struggling author discovers that a mysterious doppelganger is writing the same book he's writing. Dream; The Garcon; The Plan!; Out of Focus; Epitaph; Destiny's Double Deal. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 6.0 $395.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #20-48E05B5-014 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Al Feldstein. Stories by Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art by Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kamen, Wally Wood, and Al Feldstein. EC's influential New Trend title featured some legendary sci-fi and comics artists. A man has an unhealthy reciprocal relationship with his Model T auto, in a story by Harvey Kurtzman. A communications glitch results in war between two planets, with tragic consequences for Earth, illustrated by Wally Wood. A scientist and his hillbilly brother capture a bloblike visitor from the fourth dimension. Classic Al Feldstein rocket/space cover. It Was the Monster From the Fourth Dimension; Something Missing!; Miracle!; …Gregory Had a Model-T!; The Aliens! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.5 $350.00 Paper: White Label #17-045AA32-005

Everett Raymond Kinstler art in two stories, "Jungle Vengeance" and "Death Wears the Jungle Crown," plus inside front cover. Other stories include "The Witch Doctor Murder Cult" and "The Strange Mission to Ormuz." Origin of Malu, Slave Girl Princess is reprinted. Kinstler cover. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 7.0 $799.99 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #16-2897383-008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($24.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Joe Certa, and Manny Stallman. A showcase for Harvey's distinctive brand of pre-Code horror. An undertaker's son is sheltered from the outside world, knowing only death, until he finally snaps, in a story with strong Eisner influences by Howard Nostrand. A MAD-style spoof of the classic Mutiny on the Bounty. Private eye Rudy Crane is hired to find a beautiful woman's missing husband, in a spoof of hardboiled detective stories. Undertaker; Pictures; Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes; Mutiny on the Boundary; Eye Eye, Sir; Surgery; Monumental Feat. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.5 $285.00 Slight amateur restoration Paper: White Amateur Restoration Includes: Small amount of color touch on cover. Label #23-4937718-009

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Joe Certa, and Manny Stallman. A showcase for Harvey's distinctive brand of pre-Code horror. An undertaker's son is sheltered from the outside world, knowing only death, until he finally snaps, in a story with strong Eisner influences by Howard Nostrand. A MAD-style spoof of the classic Mutiny on the Bounty. Private eye Rudy Crane is hired to find a beautiful woman's missing husband, in a spoof of hardboiled detective stories. Undertaker; Pictures; Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes; Mutiny on the Boundary; Eye Eye, Sir; Surgery; Monumental Feat. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 6.0 $95.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #17-4049963-097 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.85) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. Stories and art by Paul McCarthy, Marvin Stein, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. As the Comics Code goes into effect and horror comics are taken out of the marketplace, this former horror mainstay switches to reprints of the classic Simon and Kirby comic Boy's Ranch. This kid-gang series set in the Old West is often hailed as a creative high-point in the partnership of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. The boys strike out for the Oklahoma territory. Clay is enlisted as part of a team to protect a fortune arriving by train from Kansas City, but he doesn't trust the others. Lessons for readers on how to ride, rope and even talk like cowboys. First issue with the Comics Code seal on the cover. Teeth for the Iron Horse!; How To Ride a Horse, Lesson 6; Remember the Alamo!; Happy Boy Carries the Ball!; Fun at the Zoo; Now You Can Make Your Pair of Western Moccasins; How Cowboys Say It; How To Spin a Rope, Lesson 6; Indian Attack; Six-Gun Justice. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 4.5 $235.00 Paper: Off white Label #20-2ACD52B-029 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.05) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Ray Burnley. The Super-Batwoman starring Superman and Batman, script by Edmond Hamilton, pencils by Dick Sprang, inks by Stan Kaye; Batwoman takes a capsule created by Jor-El that gives her super powers for 24 hours; She uses that time to try to find out Batman and Superman's secret identities. The Amazing Archer from Mars starring Green Arrow, art by George Papp. Danger: Prejudice At Work public service announcement, script by Jack Schiff, art by Ruben Moriera. The Shell Hunters text article. The Riddle of the Mystery Tracker starring Tomahawk, art by Fred Ray. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.0 $375.00 Paper: Off white to white Slab: Scuffing on front and back of case Label #17-4085E2E-011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.25) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover by Sheldon Moldoff. Stories and art by Bob Powell and Sheldon Moldoff. Pre-Code tales of horror from Fawcett, a publisher not normally noted for grue. Ted dies in an accident, but is allowed to return to life until he finds his soul mate. A pro athlete finds an evil way to enhance his performance, by channeling the abilities of dead baseball stars. A gang boss's head is kept alive by a mad scientist to help his cronies plan their crimes. The Dead Lover Returns!; The Man Who Lost His Body; The Shrunken Head; The Resurrected Head. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.