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  • Item #62334853
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    Published Nov 1947 by DC.

    Action Comics (1938 DC) 114 CGC 3.5

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #4483102001

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover art by Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye. The Man Who Was Honest starring Superman. Floating Gold starring Congo Bill, art by Ed Smalle. The Canines and the Crooks starring Zatara, script by Joe Samachson, art by W. F. White. The Goshawful Ghost starring Hayfoot Henry, script by Al Schwartz, art by Stan Kaye. Wheels of Danger starring Vigilante, art by George Roussos. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62159798
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    Published May 1951 by DC.

    Action Comics (1938 DC) 156 CGC 2.0

    Paper: Off white to white

    Cover re-attached with tape. Tape on cover, interior cover & interior.

    Label #0296034001

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover art by Al Plastino. The Girl of Steel starring Superman and Lex Luthor, art by Al Plastino. World of the Metal Men starring Tommy Tomorrow, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by John Fischetti. Pipeline Peril starring Congo Bill, art by Ed Smalle. Riddle of the Rainbow Man starring Vigilante, art by Bob Brown. 52 Pages, Full Color. Full-page ad for Mystery in Space # 1/Strange Adventures # 7. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61804054
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    Air Fighters Comics Vol. 1 (1941-1943) 8 CGC 2.5

    Paper: Off white

    Label #3985537006

    Starts Apr 5

    Airboy (art by Tony DiPreta), the Iron Ace, Skinny McGinty, Sky Wolf (art by Bob Fuje), the Bald Eagle, the Black Angel (art by J. Cassone), and the Flying Dutchman (art by Ulmer). Edited by Ed Cronin. Stories by Dick Wood, Tony DiPreta, Al Ulmer, Bob Fujitani, Harry Sahle, and John Cassone. Heroic action stories of war and airborne adventure—these are Air Fighters Comics! 68 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62283077
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    All Star Comics (1940-1978) 41 CGC 3.0

    Paper: Cream to off white

    Slab: Significant front/back scuff(s)

    Label #4448181018

    Starts Apr 5

    Black Canary officially joins the Justice Society of America (she's appeared since issue 38) in "The Case of the Patriotic Crimes!" Injustice Society appearance. Script by John Broome. Pencils by Alex Toth (splash page), Carmine Infantino (chapter 1), Arthur Peddy (chapter 2), and Irwin Hasen (chapter 3); inks by Toth (splash), Frank Giacoia (chapter 1), Bernard Sachs (chapter 2), and Hasen (chapter 3). Two-page text story, "No More Favors" by Ted Udall. One-page Tootsie Roll ad, "Captain Tootsie Tames a Tornado" by C.C. Beck. Toth cover. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62383989
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    All True Crime (1948 Marvel / Atlas) 43 CGC 4.5

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #4491131016

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    Written by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Pierce Rice, John Tartaglione, Vernon Henkel, Bill La Cava, Al Fass, Mike Becker, Ed Moore and unknown. True cases proving crime can't win! The all-true crime chronicle of Doc Channing Paulson, who committed a murder and couldn't stop running until justice halted him! Don't miss the startling true facts behind 1930's brutal..."Man Hunt in Hell's Kitchen" with art by Al Fass. Also in this issue: "He Passed the Queer" with art by Vernon Henkel (the story explains that "pass the queer" is an underworld term for distributing counterfeit money); "Earl Cardozza, the Man With No Face" with art by Bill La Cava; "The Corpse"; 2-page text story "Taken For a Ride"; "The Ugly Woman" by Carl Wessler, Pierce Rice and John Tartaglione; "Hide-Out" with art by Mike Becker; and "The Crates of Murder" with art by Ed Moore. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62160108
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    All Winners Comics (1941) 16 CGC 3.5 Restored

    Restored: C2

    Paper: Off white to white

    Restoration Includes: Small Amount of Color Touch on Cover, Piece Added With Tape to Cover. Top and Right Edge Trimmed.

    Label #4410275014

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Fabulous Racket! starring Sub-Mariner, art by Allen Simon; Namor substitutes as a speedboat for one of Betty Dean's newspaper friends on a surfboard when suddenly the man's board explodes, killing him; Namor soon realizes that the board has been treated with a chemical which becomes explosive when left in the sun for long periods of time. Dead Man's Shoes starring Captain America, art by Vince Alascia; Cap and Bucky come across the scene of a gang striping a dead man of his clothes, and soon learn that the murdered man is a night watchman at the Woolsey Museum, and that the gang was intending to strip the musuem of its art and jewel collections. Meteor III starring The Whizzer, art by Louis Ferstadt. Ad for the May, 1945 issue of Miss America Magazine. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62282932
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    Published 1946 by Fox.

    All Your Comics (1946 Fox) 1 CGC 4.0

    Paper: Off white to white

    COA Included

    Label #4402888003

    Starts Apr 5

    Stories and art by Jack Lane, Ron Rogan, Dan Doyle, Sy Barry and Louis Ferstadt (credited as Larry Page). A collection of adventure and humor comics from Fox Feature Syndicate. A team of scientists in the Arctic discovers the lost city ruled by the wicked Merciless the Sorceress; Alerted by his black sidekick Speed, Red Robbins battles Diamond Dunn, a crooked numbers-runner who is swindling people in Harlem; An illustrated article featuring aviation advances of the future, including airborne runways, detachable passenger cabins, and submersible planes. Merciless the Sorceress; Red Robbins; The Poil Necklace; The Flying Future; Red Kamphor; O'Brine Twins: Wolves in Sheep's Clothing. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62225141
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    Tags: Flash
    Published Jun 1941 by DC.

    All-Flash (1941) 1 CGC 6.0 Restored

    Restored: C1

    Paper: Off white

    Restoration Includes: Small Amount of Color Touch on Cover, Small Amount of Glue on Cover, Tear Seals to Cover.

    Label #4339839002

    Starts Apr 5

    1st solo Golden Age Flash title. Written by Gardner F. Fox. Art and cover by Everett E. Hibbard. Origin of the Flash retold. A scientist discovers the serum KZ-10 that transforms living objects into stone, a discovery that certain criminal types would like to wield for themselves. Hop Harrigan text story, art by Sheldon Mayer. Butch McLobster story by Ed Wheelan. The Flash Presents His Hall of Speed Records; Flash discusses actual speed records, such as for the Lockheed P-38, the Cheetah, the race horse Equipoise, miler Glenn Cunningham, and a comet. Boys and Girls: Meet the Author and Artist of The Flash -- Fastest Man Alive!, with photo of Gardner F. Fox. Art and cover by Everett E. Hibbard. Ad for Justice Society of America. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61804058
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    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 19 #4 CGC 2.0

    Paper: Off white

    Label #4421337008

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    December 1945. Cover by Robert Gibson Jones. Stories by Richard Shaver ("Quest of Brail"), Frances M. Deegan, William Lawrence Hamling, Robert Moore Williams, Chester S. Greier, Berkeley Livingston, and Rog Phillips ("Let Freedom Ring!" -- his first published work). Illustrations by Brady, Robert Fuqua, Malcolm Smith, Julian S. Krupa, Brady, James B. Settles, and Rod Ruth. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 176 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Item #61092759
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    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 26 #5 CGC 4.5

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #4416090011

    Starts Jul 5

    Volume 26, Issue 5 - May, 1952. Cover by Lawrence Stevens. Science fiction stories by John Fletcher, F. Willard Grey, Rog Phillips, Gerald Vance. Illustrations by Leo Ramon Summers, Ed Valigursky, Lawrence, Virgil Finlay, Tom Beecham. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 164 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Item #61508214
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    America's Best Comics (1942) 9 CGC 3.5

    Paper: Off white

    Label #4467067002

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover by Alex Schomburg. "Havoc In Holland"; Black Terror vs. Nazis. "The Digitron Beam"; Doc Strange vs. Galohz, Karl, and Nazis. "The Thunderer"; Fighting Yank vs. The Thunderer and Nazis. "The Curse of the Naghwar Diamond"; Ghost vs. Kim and two other Datavians. 52 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62297116
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    Archie's Mechanics (1954) 1 CGC 3.5

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #3785540011

    Starts Apr 5

    Join Archie and his crew in "How To Make It! - How To Fix It!" Archie's Mechanics No.1 from Sept., 1954. This nifty comic book, with the help of Archie Andrews, Betty, Veronica, and even Jughead, shows you the "mechanics" of a wide range of "new era" things including a new atomic locomotive, the low-down on hi-fi, color TV, plus the "ABC's of power steering and power brakes!" Inside this 52-page issue, learn "What's Inside a Baseball," "The Pitch on Bike Care," "How to take Better Summer Photos," and much more! Cover price $0.15.

  • Item #60865878
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    Atomic War! (1952) 4 CGC 7.0

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #2101548003

    Starts Apr 5

    Stories by unknown. Art by Kenneth Rice, Jim McLaughlin, Lou Cameron and unknown. Only a strong America can prevent...atomic war! In this issue: "Arctic Assault" with art by Kenneth Rice; "Old-Timers Die Hard" with art by Jim McLaughlin; 2-page text story "Weapon of Horror!"; "Operation Satellite" with art by Lou Cameron; and "Peril at Ploesti"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62162260
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    Tags: Batman
    Published Sep 1943 by DC.

    Batman (1940) 18 CGC 2.0

    Paper: Off white

    Slab: Significant front/back scuff(s); Minor side/edge crack(s)

    Label #3739689004

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover pencils by Ed Kressey, Dick Sprang, and Stan Kaye, inks by Dick Sprang and Stan Kaye. "The Secret of Hunter's Inn!", script by Joe Samachson, pencils by Jerry Robinson (as Bob Kane), inks by Jerry Robinson (as Bob Kane); Batman and Robin, in their everyday identities as Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson (accompanied by Alfred), are investigating Hunter's Inn, the scene of many robberies of wealthy patrons and run into the Tweed Brothers. One-page Private Pete story by Henry Boltinoff. "Robin Studies His Lessons!", script by Joe Samachson, pencils by Bob Kane, inks by Jerry Robinson; When Dick brings home a miserable report card, Bruce relegates the youngster to studying at home instead of gallivanting about as Robin, the Boy Wonder! One-page Chief Hot Foot story by Henry Boltinoff. "The Good Samaritan Cops," script by Bill Finger, pencils by Jack Burnley (as Bob Kane), inks by Jack Burnley (as Bob Kane) and Ray Burnley (backgrounds); In the first story of a series, Batman and Robin meet and work with different agencies within the realm of the Police Department: in this story, it's the Police Emergency Squad. "Boarders Away!" text story by Tod Lowry. "The Crime Surgeon!", script by Bill Finger, pencils by Bob Kane, inks by Jerry Robinson; The Crime Surgeon, after successfully operating on and saving the life of the Warden at the prison he is incarcerated in, makes good his escape and re-opens his Crime Clinic: an agency that helps crooks to better carry out their crimes! 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #60775911
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    Beyond (1950 Ace) 6 CGC 5.0

    Paper: Off white

    Label #4219560016

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover pencils by Jim McLaughlin. Scourge of the Scorpion Cult; Searching for a cure for scorpion's venom, Dr. Marston and "his lovely daughter Celia" run into a cult of scorpion people; Their leader wants to take Celia as his queen. Riddle of Pete Dunn's Last Fight, pencils by Jim McLaughlin; Boxer Pete Dunn is ready to win the lightweight championship; As his father dies, he promises him to win the fight and become champion; Dunn gets killed in a car accident, but manages to show up for his fight. He wins the championship, but vanishes in his dressing room. Black Wings of the Demon Gondolier, art by Maurice Gutwirth and George Appel. Return From the Great Abyss, art by Gene Colan. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #60655204
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    Beyond (1950 Ace) 14 CGC 3.0

    Paper: Off white

    Label #4219560011

    Starts Apr 5

    Fanged Nemesis of the North, script by Robert Turner; Gold prospector Jason Fee has to fight off wolves, but is hurt in the process; Every now and then he turns abruptly into a werewolf. The Gong Of Singh Chlam; In India, art collector Ralph Burgess steals the sacred gong of Singh Chlam; This mythical artifact summons the ghosts and demons of an ancient sect of thugs. Wedded to a Witch, script by Robert Turner, pencils by Bill Molno. Satana's Fatal Beauty, pencils by Robert S. Pious. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #60775912
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    Beyond (1950 Ace) 15 CGC 5.0

    Paper: Off white

    Label #4219560012

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover art by Ken Rice. Noose for a Magician, pencils by Lou Cameron; Englishman Gaxton learns powerful magic from an Indian fakir; Including a rope trick which leads to the region of the undead. Having learned all, Gaxton murders his master and starts performing on his own. Don't wake the Dead!, pencils by Jim McLaughlin; Delia, a medium at seances, is overpowered by visions of the dead, commanding her to help them kill all those who disturbed their rest; A young man tries to intervene, but the dead get their murderous revenge. The Gold Monster of Hell's Canyon, pencils by Bill Molno. The Harpy of Central Park, art by Chic Stone. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62400283
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    Black Cat Mystery (1951-1963 Harvey) 50 CGC 1.0

    Paper: Cream to off white

    Slab: See item notes

    Label #0015754004

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Manny Stallman, John Giunta Joe Certa, John Belfi, Sid Check and Frank Frazetta. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. A man is stealing corpses form the cemetery, and the townspeople want to know why. A dark spoof of the movie Mogambo, an experiment in the Mad-style humor that resulted in Harvey's short-lived comic Flip. A mysterious visitor to a small town has plans of revenge against the town elders, in a story with early inking assists by fantasy art legend Frank Frazetta. Notorious pre-Code cover by Lee Elias, showing a man's face and hands burning away, is one of the most famous of the era. The King Is Dead; The Artificial Sky; Occupation; Moe Gambo; White Heat; And Still Champion; Torture!; Here Today…. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62349208
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    Brenda Starr (1948-1949 Superior) 8 CGC 5.5

    Paper: Cream to off white

    Label #4491124021

    Starts Apr 5

    The adventures of Dale Messick's fearless comic strip hero, redheaded reporter Brenda Starr. Brenda faces a terrifying chase on a roller coaster when she tracks supposedly dead gangster Mugs Lawson to an amusement park. Newspaper copy boy Pesky Miller, who looks a lot like classic Jimmy Olsen, is crowned prince for a day to fill column space on a slow news day. Brenda narrates the real-life story of newspaper publisher Carl Magee, who exposed the Teapot Dome Scandal. The Case of the Undead Corpse; Paradise by Proxy!; Trapped by Nothing; Tempest in the Teapot Dome!; Murder in Style. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62282959
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    Published Dec 1953 by Harvey.

    Captain 3-D (1953 Harvey) 1 CGC 9.0

    Paper: White

    Label #4074742008

    Starts Apr 5

    May or may not contain 3-D glasses. For consignment items, please check individual item notes to see whether the copy offered still has the 3-D glasses intact. "The Man From the World of D," "The Menace of the Living Dolls," and "Iron Hat McGinty and his Destruction Gang." Pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko (tied for third published work with Strange Fantasy 9). Kirby cover pencils, Mort Meskin cover inks. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

  • Item #62173100
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    Captain Aero Comics (1941) Vol. 4 #26 CGC 0.5

    Paper: Off white

    Pieces cut out from page 1, 8 and 10.

    Label #4526560002

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Carmine Infantino, Frank Jackson, Rudy Palais, George Gregg, and Tony DiPreta. A patriotic WWII aviator hero whose motto is "Keep 'Em Flyin'!" Miss Victory discovers that a nationwide crime wave is only a distraction for criminals targeting the Federal Reserve Bank. A detailed early history of the hobby of flying model aircraft. Plus an early story by DC legend Carmine Infantino. Terrific sci-fi cover by legendary artist L. B. Cole. Captain Aero: Moon That Was Motionless; Miss Victory; Adventure in the Air; Derby Day; The Mighty Mite; The Sinister Surgery Incident; Little Planes with Big Ideas; Captain Aeros Sky Scouts. Final issue of the series. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62162274
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    Captain America Comics (1941 Timely) 43 CGC 3.5 Restored

    Restored: C1

    Paper: Off white to white

    Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s)

    Restoration Includes: Interior Reinforced. (Cover Detached.)

    Label #3739689006

    Starts Apr 5

    Includes: Syd Shores cover art; The Shadows of Death, Pencils by Vince Alascia, Inks by Al Bellman; Mystery of the Wingless Bat starring Human Torch; The Death That Came Out of Nowhere, art by Alascia; The Black Fortune text story; and The Sea Dragon, pencils by Alascia. 52 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61755696
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    Captain Future (1940-1944 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 4 #2 CGC 5.0 Restored

    Trimmed

    Paper: Off white

    ALL 3 EDGES OF COVER TRIMMED.

    Label #4365247019

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    Volume 4, Issue 2 - Summer, 1942. Stories by Edmond Hamilton ("The Comet Kings"), Jack Williamson, Williamson Morrison, and Manly Wade Wellman. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 132 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Item #62418795
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    Captain Marvel Adventures (1942 Mighty Midget Miniature) 11A CGC 9.8

    Top CGC census grade for this issue.

    Paper: White

    Label #1997540004

    Starts Apr 5

    Variant with plain back cover (no color on back). Stories include "Captain Marvel and the Bumble-Brained Bridegroom" and "The Alaskan Adventure." Newsprint cover and interior, 5" X 4", 36 pages in black, white, and red. Listed as Mighty Midget Comics in Overstreet.

  • Item #62282952
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    Captain Tootsie and the Secret Legion (1950) 1 CGC 5.0

    Paper: Off white to white

    Slab: Significant front/back scuff(s)

    COA Included

    Label #0186440003

    Starts Apr 5

    Stories and art by Art Helfant and Vic Herman. A short-lived series from Toby Press presenting the adventures of Captain Tootsie, the Tootsie Roll mascot created by Shazam creator C.C. Beck. Captain Tootsie and the Secret Legion kids travel to Venus to help the Goonans rebel against their cruel masters. Then they have to find a way to get back to Earth. Tookie gets a call from a radio quiz-show while she's baby-sitting. Plus a letter to the readers from Captain Tootsie. Out of the World!; The Double Clock Face; Prospector Pete; Tookie; Riders of the Red Lizards. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62297122
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    Crime and Justice (1951) 6 CGC 6.0

    Paper: Cream to off white

    Label #0346150004

    Starts Apr 5

    Stories and art by Albert Tyler, Bob Forgione and Dennis Laugen. Pre-Code crime comics from Charlton, sometimes published under its short-lived Capitol or Law and Order imprints. Vacationing in New Orleans, Nick and Nora-like Mr. and Mrs. Chase get caught up in a strange series of killings that target dance duos. A detective in the "Federal Anti-Swindle Bureau" describes the con job known as the "option swindle," which tricks suckers into buying back an option on their own land. When a judge is targeted for death, a detective figures out who's behind it: the last person anybody would have suspected. Crime Facts: Counterfeiting; Mr. and Mrs. Chase Mystery: The Dance-Team Killer!; The Option Swindle; The Borgia Ring Clue; Buildup to Murder; Radio Patrol: Dash of Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61143308
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    Daring Comics (1944 2nd series) 10 CGC 2.5

    Paper: Cream to off white

    Centerfold re-attached with 2 pieces of tape.

    Label #0988594004

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Death From the Unknown, art by Allen Simon; A criminal steals a spaceship and travels to Venus; He returns with some of the population and attempts to steal the wealth of a West Indian island, but Sub-Mariner kills him. Horror Rides the Rails starring the Human Torch, pencils by Al Gabriele. The Devil's Doorway! starring The Angel. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    Detective Comics (1937 1st Series) 17 CGC 5.5 Restored

    Restored: B3

    Paper: Off white to white

    Restoration Includes: Color Touch, tear Seal, Spine Sealed, Reinforced.

    Label #3739689005

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover art by Creig Flessel. The Snake Death starring Speed Saunders, script by Gardner Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. Larry Steele story, script and art by Will Ely. Cosmo story, art by Sven Elven. Dr. Fu Manchu story, script by Sax Rohmer, art by Leo O'Mealia. The Hooded Hordes starring Spy, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. Disaster On the Diamond text story by Gardner Fox (Paul Dean). The Coolie Smugglers (Part 1) starring Bruce Nelson, art by Tom Hickey. The Right Trail starring Buck Marshall, script and art by Homer Fleming. Slam Bradley Gets the Air starring Slam Bradley, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. 64 pgs. $0.10. First Appearance of Fu Manchu in Detective Comics. Cover price $0.10.

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    Doc Savage (1933-1949 Street & Smith^) Pulp Vol. 1 #1 CGC 0.5

    Paper: Cream to off white

    Slab: See item notes

    All 3 edges of cover trimmed. Pages 51-64 missing. Page 49 and 50 inverted. 65 wrong pages married. Small amount of dried glue on cover. Bottom right corner peg is broke off and loose inside slab. (slab is fully sealed)

    Label #4529290001

    Starts Apr 5
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    Exciting Comics (1940) 69 CGC 5.0

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #4085197003

    Starts Mar 3

    The Deadly Dude, art by John Celardo; A dude riding a huge bicycle comes to town, and shortly after a masked bandit begins to rob and kill. The King of the Toys starring Judy of the Jungle, art by Ralph Mayo. Clean Up Your City! starring Speedy Hopper. The Kid Plays a Lone Hand starring the Black Terror, art by George Tuska. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    Famous Funnies (1934) 36 CGC 4.5 Qualified

    Paper: Slightly britle

    Page 5, 6, 8, 9 missing.

    Label #4491105022

    Starts Apr 5

    Victor E. Pazmiño cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Screen Oddities" by Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Alec and Itchy" by Jimmy George and Merle Mulholland; "War on Crime" by Rex Collier and Hammon; "Nipper" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Nippie" and "Mickey Finn" by Frank E. Leonard (as Lank Leonard); "Fisher's History of Boxing" and "Joe Palooka" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Beau Geste" by P. C. Wren and Bill W. Depew; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "Good Deed Dotty" and "Dixie Dugan" by J. P. McEvoy and J. H. Striebel; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Holly of Hollywood" and "Keeping Up With The Joneses" by Pop Momand; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Little Brother" and "The Bungle Family" by Harry J. Tuthill; "Ned Brant of Carter" by Bob Zuppke and Bill W. Depew; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Bobby" by S. M. Iger; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Lena Pry" and "Jane Arden" by Monte Barrett and Jack W. McGuire; "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Flight" by W. D. Tipton and J. H. Mason; "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Strange as it Seems" by John Hix; "Toddy" by George Marcoux; "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher; "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; and "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins). "Powder for the Fleet" text story by Ruth Colby. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Fighting Daniel Boone (1953) 0 CGC 5.5

    Paper: Off white

    Label #4491131010

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    1953 edition cover (with red background and no issue number) by Everett Raymond Kinstler. Art by Everett Raymond Kinstler, Mort Lawrence and Vince Alascia. Pioneer hero Daniel Boone leads a life of adventure on the American frontier. Boone and the settlers of 19th-century America fight for land with every weapon at their disposal. Plus a backup crime story, as Wallie Norman goes from loansharking to murder. Also featuring an elegant contents page illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler on the inside front cover. Fighting Daniel Boone; Wallie Norman -- The Crime King! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Published May 1955 by Ajax.

    Flame (1955 Ajax) 3 CGC 6.0

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #4203914002

    Starts Apr 5

    Stories and art by Robert Webb, Ken Battefield, Manning Lee Stokes Alex Blum, and Fred Schwab (credited as Fist E. Cuffs). Chemist Kip Adams becomes The Flame, with superhuman strength and a reporter girlfriend. The Flame tries to find out who's behind a sabotage ring. Tugboat Tessie and Melody leap into action after an escaped circus elephant runs amuck on the Brooklyn Bridge. Boxer Plug McTee doesn't know what to do after his manager is bought out for ten grand. Devil's Business; The Man in the Seven-League Boots; Tugboat Tessie: Traffic and Tide!; Plug McTee; Everybody's Secret; The Flame's Field Day. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Forbidden Worlds (1951 ACG) 23 CGC 3.0

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #2136607006

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Charles Nicholas, Bill Walsh and Harry Lazarus. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A mad scientist creates horrifying insect-animal hybrids; A robot falls in love with a woman and goes on a rampage; A ghost ship appears over the South Pacific with a crew of undead privateers. Nightmare for Two!; The Mummy That Lived; The Machine That Fell in Love; The Thing in the Bottle!; Terror of the Deep! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Four Favorites (1941) 28 CGC 3.0

    Paper: White

    Label #4508088006

    Starts Apr 5

    In order of appearance: "The Unknown"; "Colonel Blow and His Radio Show"; "Hap Hazard"; "Doc Klockenhand's Clinic"; "Hurry-Up Harrigan, Police Reporter"; "Luke the Lawyer"; "Hiram Hayseed"; "Captain Courageous"; and "Bachelor's Diner". "Hangnoose Heritage" text story by Cliff Howe, reprinted from Four Favorites (1941) #19. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Published 1951 by Star.

    Frisky Animals (1951 Star) 50 CGC 4.5

    Paper: Off white

    Label #4495153016

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by A. N. Howe, Pat Adams and A. W. Nugent. Funny-animal hijinks from Star Publications. A castaway washes up on Li'l Pan's island and offers to take him to America to play his pan pipes with Sinatra and Bobby Sox. Dirty Dog plots to loot the treasures of Atlantis, so Cosmo Cat infiltrates the crew of his ship to stop him. Senor Tamale (a parrot, not a tamale) goes into business with his monkey pal harvesting and selling coconuts. Li'l Pan; Cosmo Cat: Atlantis; Dead Shot!; Percy; Senor Tamale; Pencil Play/Magic Tricks. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Heroic Comics (1940 Famous Funnies) 25 CGC 4.0

    Paper: Off white

    Label #4481630002

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover by H.C. Kiefer. Stories and art by Allen Ulmer, Harry G. Peter, Frank Wead, Russell Keaton and Stephen Douglas. Superhero comics from Famous Funnies, featuring some of the stranger heroes of the Golden Age. Hydroman and Rainbow Boy track down the Phantom Pirate who is attacking ships on the eastern seaboard; A PSA for wartime scrap-metal drives featuring Hydroman; Music Master battles The Lama Who Had No Face. Music Master and Man o' Metal were listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes; this was the final appearance of Rainbow Boy until his revival in the 2000s. True Stories of War Heroes; Hydroman; The Music Master; He Changed Their Plans; Man O' Metal; Ammunition for Victory; Flyin' Jenny. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Jungle Comics (1940 Fiction House) 12 CGC 0.5

    Paper: Brittle

    Centerfold missing.

    Label #4491131017

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    Cover art by Dan Zolnerowich. "The Devil's Death-Trap," art by George Tuska; Gangsters from American attempt to take over Kaänga's jungle. Untitled story, pencils by Arthur Peddy; The Panther rescues a party of scientists from a native tribe and then leads them to diamonds so that they can afford to carry on their scientific research. Untitled story; Camilla and Champion are shrunken to insect size by a mad scientist. Untitled story; Roy helps stops a cattle raiding tribe from plundering the herds of a peaceful village. "Violent Death" text story. Untitled story, script and art by Fletcher Hanks (as Barclay Flagg); A European army plans to use bases in Africa and South America to destroy democracy; Fantomah gives African lions the power of flight to destroy the European airborne assault in South American. Untitled story, art by Witmer Williams; Simba helps rescue a couple taken hostage by the savage chieftain, Wuga Moro. Untitled story, art by Bill Bossert; Terry outwits a group of Arabs determined to destroy an oil pipeline. Untitled story, art by Charles Sultan; Tabu liberates a group of slaves working in a mine for the evil Baron Logh. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Wambi prevents a Nazi-planned tribal war. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Kent Blake of the Secret Service (1951) 11 CGC 7.0

    Paper: Off white

    Label #4491131006

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    Kent Blake of the Secret Service (1951) 13 CGC 6.0

    Paper: Off white

    Label #4491131007

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    Lone Ranger's Companion Tonto (1951-1959 Dell) 13 CGC 9.0

    Paper: Off white to white

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    Label #1626980006

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover art by Don Spaulding. Article that recounts the Menomini legend of the Good Spirit Nanabush, the first Menomini brave Shekatcheke, and the wild rice found at Lake Winnebago. War Feathers, art by Alberto Giolitti; Young Crow wants to win glory in war and finds his chance when enemy braves steal his tribe's calumet. Fight for the Water Hole, art by Alberto Giolitti; A gang controlling the only water hole for miles about charge pioneers exorbitant sums per barrel; Tonto tricks the gang using a tomato. Story includes inside back cover and concludes on back cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (1941-1962 Dell) 80 CGC 7.5

    Paper: Off white

    Label #4495153003

    Starts Apr 5

    52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Marvel Mystery Comics (1939) 41 CGC 2.0 Restored

    Restored: C3

    Paper: Off white

    Slab: Plastic debris between case and inner well

    Label #3739689003

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Human Torch untitled story, script and art by Harry Sahle. Metal Monsters starring Sub-Mariner, art by Carl Pfeufer. Jimmy Jupiter untitled story, script and art by Ed Robbins. Bait for Suckers text story. Untitled Patriot story, pencils by Syd Shores. Master of Madness starring Vision, pencils by Syd Shores. Dr. Watson's Call To Fame starring Terry Vance, art by Bob Oksner. The Curse of Baron Trembieu starring Angel, art by Gustav Schrotter. 68 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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    Marvel Science Stories (1938-1939 Postal Publications) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 1 #3 CGC 5.0

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #4541653009

    Starts Feb 24

    Volume 1, Issue 3 - February, 1939. Cover by Hans W. Wessolowski. Science Fiction stories by Jack Williamson, DD Sharp, RR Winterbotham, Hal Remson. 7" x 10"; black and white; 134 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

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    My Experience (1949) 20 CGC 5.5 Restored

    Restored: B1

    Paper: Off white

    Restoration includes: small amount of color touch on cover.

    Label #4481827002

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    Starts Apr 5

    One of many romance comics from Fox Feature Syndicate. A woman rushes into romance; A terrible secret threatens to drive a couple apart; A gal with a taste for danger dates a bad boy who's a little too bad. Plus love advice to readers. I Loved Thoughtlessly; My Sin Was A Secret; Are You In Love; Between Us Girls; I Courted Danger. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    My Secret Romance (1950) 2 CGC 5.5

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    Label #4481827001

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    Starts Apr 5

    Art by Wally Wood and others. Women admit to secret love. A woman deals with insulting insinuations, in a story with early art by EC legend Wally Wood; A man's faith in the woman he loves is shaken; A woman tries to dominate the man in her life, not expecting him to dump her. Plus love advice to readers. They Called Me Cheap; He Couldn't Trust Me; Heart To Hart; Carolyn's Column; I Thought I Owned A Man. Final issue under this title; numbering continues with Star Presentation (1950) #3. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Mysteries (Canadian 1953 Superior) 11 CGC 4.0

    Paper: Off white

    Label #0202025021

    Starts Apr 5

    Pre-Code mystery and horror stories from Canadian publisher Superior. Beautiful ballerina Glenda goes to plastic surgeon Doctor Hill, unaware that he's obsessed with her and has plans for her face. Thieves discover the horrifying secret of hunchback Jonas Palmer, but by then it's too late. A woman investigates the bizarre secret behind a corpse that goes wandering from taxi to train to luxury cruise ship. The Broken Mirror; Midnight Prowler; Grim Wedding Day; The Wandering Corpse; Gypsys Curse. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Published 1953 by Marvel/Atlas.

    Mystic (1951 Atlas) 22 CGC 6.0

    Paper: Cream to off white

    Label #3748682006

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover by Russ Heath. Stories by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Joe Maneely, John Forte, Al Eadeh, Vern Henkel and Art Peddy. The most eerie stories ever told! In this issue: "Doom in the Tomb!" by Carl Wessler and Joe Maneely; "Boy Meets Ghoul!" with art by John Forte; "Man-Eater!" with art by Al Eadeh; "Nothing Else to Write" with art by Vern Henkel; "The Maiden in the Iron Mask" with art by Art Peddy; and 2-page text story "Ghost Ship," reprinted from Suspense (1950) #11 (original title: "Dog Watch Death"). 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    New Funnies (1942-1946 Dell) 126 CGC 8.0

    Paper: Off white

    Label #4495153002

    Starts Apr 5

    52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Perfect Crime (1949 Cross) 2 CGC 4.5

    Paper: White

    Label #4543428002

    Starts Apr 5

    "Cat and Mouse" (art by Bob Powell); "Murder Perfectly Disguised" (art by Cal Massey); "Crime Without Clues!"; "Murder With No Exit!"; "Double Entry" (art by Massey); "Frankie Janes"; and "The Vampire Bat Kill!" (art by Augie Scotto). Cover price $0.10.