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Headline Comics (1943 Prize) comic books 1947-1949

  • Issue #24
    Headline Comics (1943 Prize) 24
    • .5" Spine split from bottom. Centerfold detached at one staple.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Cover by Jack Kirby. Stories and art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Headline Comics featured the lurid, hard-edged crime dramas then in vogue, many by Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. The grim history of New England's Chain Murderer; Gangsters force local shops to carry their crooked pinball machines; A killer conceals a gun in his wooden leg. Trapping New Englands Chain Murderer; Murder on a Wave Length; Grim Pay-Off for the Pinball Mob; A Phantom Pulls the Trigger; The Thing Inside Bob Tate; You Cant Forget a Killer; The Case of the Floating Corpse. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #27
    Headline Comics (1943 Prize) 27
    • 1/2" Spine split from top. Centerfold detached at one staple.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Cover by Jack Kirby. Stories and art by Bill Draut, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Headline Comics featured the lurid, hard-edged crime dramas then in vogue, many by Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. The notorious Simon-Kirby crime classic, "Stella Mae Dickson...the Bobby Sox Bandit Queen"; The truth about legendary outlaw Jesse James; A gang starts a phony fortune-teller racket with Flo as the medium. Stella Mae Dickson...the Bobby Sox Bandit Queen; The Guns of Jesse James; The Death of the Gambler King; The Spark of Murder; Bring Me His Corpse; I Was the Front for the Merciless Spirit Swindlers. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #28
    Headline Comics (1943 Prize) 28
    • INCOMPLETE. Multiple pages missing, interrupts art and story. Staples added. 4" Spine split.

    Cover by Jack Kirby. Stories and art by Bill Draut, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Headline Comics featured the lurid, hard-edged crime dramas then in vogue, many by Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Monica Bell, the Sweet Switcher, works for a stolen jewelry racket; The Chicago "Devil Drivers" lead police on a dangerous chase; Notorious outlaw Machine-Gun Kelly stages a kidnapping. I Worked For The Fence; Trapping Chicago's Speed Demon Mob; Postage Stamp Swindle; The Lone Wolf; Machine-Gun Kelly - Kidnapper; Murder Makes Bad Medicine. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #30
    Headline Comics (1943 Prize) 30
    • Centerfold detached at one staple. 2" Cumulative spine split. Water damage.

    Cover by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. Stories and art by A. C. Hollingsworth, Bill Draut, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Headline Comics featured the lurid, hard-edged crime dramas then in vogue, many by Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Tillie is considered a witch in the Chicago slums where she correctly predicts deaths, but the truth may be more sinister. Bored, redheaded heiress Billie turns to a life of crime. Old West outlaw Jim Miller improvises one of the first bullet-proof vests. I Was An Unwitting Accomplice to a 'Numbers' Racket Combine!; The Witch Murders; Pistol-Packin' Playgirl; The Roasted Mail-Robber Ghost; Menace in the Making; Bullet-Proof Bad Man. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #33
    Headline Comics (1943 Prize) 33
    • INCOMPLETE. Piece missing, slightly interrupts art or story. .5" Spine split from bottom.

    Cover by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. Stories and art by Will Elder, Manny Stallman, Vic Donahue, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Headline Comics featured the lurid, hard-edged crime dramas then in vogue, many by Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. A British swindler plots to steal an ocean liner in 1912; A story with early art by EC legend Will Elder; A crook plays a dangerous game by preying on other crooks. Premeditated Homicide!; The Man Who Stole An Ocean Liner!; The FBI and the Gun Happy Robber; How The FBI Trapped the Booby Trap Slayer; A Mother's Ominous Dream!; What Price Fate? ; The Shattered Alibi; Underworld Parasite! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #35
    Headline Comics (1943 Prize) 35

    Cover by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. Stories and art by John Severin, Manny Stallman, Vic Donohue and Jack Kirby. Headline Comics featured the lurid, hard-edged crime dramas then in vogue, many by Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. The Darrow Brothers plot an armored car heist; A story with early art by EC legend John Severin; 1900s detectives the Baldwin Brothers use their offbeat methods to investigate a murder. Dead Or Alive; The Deadly Gilas; The Great Mouthpiece; Georgie's Last Ride; Independence Day; The Golf Links Murder; The Fabulous Baldwins. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.