Auctions: comic books published by Fiction House, graded by CGC

Fight Comics (1940) 31 CGC 3.0

Paper: Off white

Small amount of dried glue on spine of cover.

Label #2006599012

Exceptionally violent cover for its time! Metaphorically speaking, as with this poor individual Jap soldier, Imperial Japan lost its head as well after taking on America and her allies exclamation

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by Claude Lapham and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Robert Webb, Alex Blum, and Arnold Hicks. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Senorita Rio suspects a stage mentalist is involved in a plot against a government official; A criminal gang tries to get a signed confession away from Hooks Devlin before he turns it in to police; The final adventure of comedic teen military mascot Dusty Rhodes. Exceptionally gory pre-Code cover by Joe Doolin. Shark Brodie; Dusty Rhodes; Senorita Rio; Rip Carson; The Lieutenant Meets a Lady; Kayo Kirby; Hooks Devlin. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Jumbo Comics (1938) 31 CGC 3.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #1339603002

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Edited by Malcolm Reiss and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Will Eisner, Jerry Iger, Art Saaf, Sy Reit, Mort Leav, Bob Kane and Robert Webb. An influential anthology starring jungle hero Sheena, featuring early art by legendary comics artists in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Sheena encounters slavers, voodoo and treasure in the jungle; Time-traveler Stuart Taylor visits ancient Greece and encounters Medusa, Mercury and the Oracle of Delphi; A Jumbo Laffs joke page is drawn by Batman creator Bob Kane. The Hawk; Weird Stories of the Supernatural; Bobby; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; Midnight the Black Stallion; Tom Dick and Harry; Suicide Channel; Jumbo Laffs; ZX-5 Spies In Action; Inspector Dayton; Lightning. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Jumbo Comics (1938) 108 CGC 4.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4394374002

In order of appearance: "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle", reprinted in Good Girl Art Quarterly (1990) #4, and "The Hawk" art by Robert Webb; "ZX-5" art by Jack Kamen; "Sky Girl" art by Matt Baker, reprinted in Good Girl Art Quarterly (1990) #7; and "Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural" and "The Ghost Gallery" art by Jack Kamen. "Top of the World" text story by Henry Wysham Lanier. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) 23 CGC 5.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #0918549004

Cover art by Dan Zolnerowich. Mars, God of War story, art by Joe Doolin. Reef Ryan story. Star Pirate story, art by George Appel. Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron story, art by Art Saaf. Will Earth Be Invaded? text story. The Lost World story, art by Pagsilang Rey Isip. 100 Years After, art by Lee Elias. Auro Lord of Jupiter, art by Rafael Astarita. Norge Benson story, art by Fran Deitrick. Flint Baker story, art by Joe Doolin. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) 28 CGC 3.5

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #4393105013

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by Malcolm Reiss. Stories and art by Graham Ingels, Joe Doolin, Fran Hopper, George Appel, Alex Blum, Arnold Hicks, Lily Renee, and Lee Elias. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. Good-girl art aplenty as Gale Allen and her team are captured by man-eating plants; Mars tries to inspire war on a pacifist planet; Hunt and Lyssa get caught in a war between cave-dwellers and surface people in The Lost World. Outer-space derring-do cover by Joe Doolin approaches the level the series was famous for. The Lost World; Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron; Mars, God of War; Space Rangers; Can the Creatures of Space Enslave Us?; Norge Benson; Auro Lord of Jupiter; The Star Pirate. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) 31 CGC 4.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4339764006

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by Paul Payne. Stories and art by Graham Ingels, Lee Elias, Lily Renee, Fran Hopper, George Appel, and Joe Doolin. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. Good-girl art aplenty as Gale and her team are captured by the Tatlans, whose dress and architecture resembles ancient Incas; Norge and Jolie are trapped by tigers in the past, but mammoths help them escape; While crossing the Atlantic, Hunt and Lyssa are captured by refugee humans on a submarine. Featuring art by pioneering female artists Fran Deitrick/Hopper and Lily Renee. The Lost World; Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron; Mars, God of War; Space Rangers; First Earthman on Mars; Norge Benson; The Star Pirate. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) 33 CGC 3.5

Paper: Slightly britle

Label #4257043004

Cover by Lily Renee. Edited by Paul Payne. Stories and art by Lily Renee, Murphy Anderson, Lee Elias, Ruth Atkinson, Fran Hopper, and Joe Doolin. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. Good-girl art aplenty as Gale Allen and her team investigate strange doings on an amphibian world; A great Murphy Anderson strip speculating about what life on Mars might look like; In the Lost World, Hunt and Lyssa discover the remains of Britain's navy on the English coast. Featuring art by pioneering female artists Fran Deitrick/Hopper and Lily Renee and legendary artist Murphy Anderson. Lost World cover by Lily Renee is classic good-girl art, right down to Lyssa's missing shoe. The Lost World; Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron; Mars, God of War; Space Rangers; Justice of the Stars; Life On Other Worlds: Mars; The Star Pirate. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) 45 CGC 3.0

Paper: Off white

Label #4409592020

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by J. F. Byrne. Stories and art by Lily Renee, Bob Lubbers, Murphy Anderson and Chester Martin. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. In the Lost World, the alien Volta introduce Red Rain to drive the animals mad and make Earth more like Venus; Murphy Anderson's Life on Other Worlds strip speculates about what life on Pluto might look like; Satania has Space Ranger Flint Baker framed for treason. Girl-vs.-giant cover by Joe Doolin. The Lost World; Futura; Life on Other Worlds: Pluto; Mysta of the Moon; Auro Lord of Jupiter; Coffin Cargo; Space Rangers; The Star Pirate. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) 47 CGC 3.0

Paper: Off white

Label #4393105014

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by J. F. Byrne. Stories and art by Lily Renee, George Evans, Bob Lubbers, Howard Larsen, Murphy Anderson and Chester Martin. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. In the Lost World, Hunt and Lyssa try to persuade the Volta aliens to rebel against their own leaders; Murphy Anderson's Life on Other Worlds strip speculates about where the Asteroid Belt came from; Mysta and Bron must brave the Swamps of Venus to obtain a rare element. Also featuring a letter to the editor from future science fiction legend Lin Carter, age 16. The Lost World; Futura; Life on Other Worlds: Mystery of the Asteroids; Mysta of the Moon; Auro Lord of Jupiter; Was Earth a Colony of Venus?; Space Rangers; The Star Pirate. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) 53 CGC 7.5

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #1290328002

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by J. F. Byrne. Stories and art by George Evans, Matt Baker, Joe Doolin, Frank Doyle, Walter Palais, and Maurice Whitman. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. In the Lost World, Hunt and Lyssa discover the hideous truth about the ominously-named Project Monster; Mysta goes on vacation in disguise, but finds trouble anyway, in a story by good-girl art legend Matt Baker; Futura prepares to return to Earth, unaware that Mentor and the Brainmen have survived and crave revenge. Bondage cover by Joe Doolin. The Lost World; Futura; Mysta of the Moon; Auro Lord of Jupiter; Holiday on Venus; Space Rangers; The Star Pirate. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) 68 CGC 4.0

Paper: Off white

Label #4339764007

Cover by Maurice Whitman. Edited by J. F. Byrne. Stories and art by Lily Renee, Fran Hopper, Murphy Anderson, and Joe Doolin. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. Reprints most of issue #40: The Space Rangers battle the mind-control perfume of the golden-skinned Queen Theca of Venus; Gale Allen investigates attacks by space dragons that can pass through steel walls; In the Lost World, the humans take refuge in the old New York Subway tunnels, but something horrible already lives there. Featuring art by pioneering female artists Fran Deitrick/Hopper and Lily Renee and legendary artist Murphy Anderson. Action-packed cover, possibly by Maurice Whitman. The Lost World; Gale Allen; Space Rangers; The Star Pirate; Mysta of the Moon. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.