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  • Item #62162291
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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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    Marvel Science Stories (1938-1939 Postal Publications) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 1 #2 GD/VG 3.0

    Starts Apr 5

    Jack Williamson, Henry Kuttner; Stant Coblentz, and David H. Keller.

    Vol. 1, No. 2 - November 1938. Cover by Frank R. Paul. "Exodus" by Arthur J. Burks, "The Time Trap" by Henry Kuttner, "The Dead Spot" by Jack Williamson, "Rout of the Fire Imps" by Stanton A. Coblentz, "The Thirty and One" by David H. Keller. Illustrations by Frank R. Paul, Jack Binder. 7" x 10"; black and white (text); 130 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

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    Spider (1933-1943 Popular Publications^) Pulp Vol. 16 #1 CGC 5.0

    Paper: Off white to white

    All 3 edges of cover trimmed.

    Label #4426080013

    Starts Apr 5

    Oct 1938. Cover by John Howitt. Spider Story by Grant Stockbridge "The Spider at Bay". "Never Bet on a Corpse" by J. Lane Linklater and "The Witness From Hell" by Arthur Leo Zagat. Crime-fighting article by Moran Tudury. Illustrations by J. Fleming Gould. 7" x 10", black and white; 112 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.