Auctions: comic books published by Magazine Enterprises

Durango Kid (1949 Magazine Enterprises) 8 GD/VG 3.0

Cover detached at one staple.

Art by Joe Certa, Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta. Cover by Joe Certa. Sometimes listed as Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid #8. Western adventure based on the popular masked hero played in the movies by Charles Starrett. Durango Kid finds danger in the wilderness when he acts as scout for a party of fur trappers; DK seeks the culprits behind the very first Pony Express robbery; Dan teaches George Washington fighting tactics during the French and Indian War, in a "White Indian" story by legendary artist Frazetta. Wolves of the Wilderness!; Peril of the Pony Express!; Massacre!; The Gun Gamble; A Final Reckoning? 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Durango Kid (1949 Magazine Enterprises) 11 CGC 2.5 Mohawk Valley

Paper: Off white to white

Mohawk Valley.

Label #4348117014

Stories by Gardner Fox and others. Art by Joe Certa, John Belfi and Frank Frazetta. Cover by John Belfi. Sometimes listed as Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid #11. Western adventure based on the popular masked hero played in the movies by Charles Starrett. Durango Kid helps the very first oil well in Oklahoma stave off attacks by the greedy; When Steve Brand can't help ranchers battle a dangerous land baron, the Durango Kid takes up the fight; Dan and Tipi bring supplies through British lines to Valley Forge, in a "White Indian" story by legendary artist Frazetta. Blood and Oil!; A Busy Day in Red Hook!; White Indian: The Blood of Valley Forge!; The Terrible Mr. Slade; The Big Frame-Up!; Charles Starrett, Star of Columbia's "Durango Kid" Western Movies. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Durango Kid (1949 Magazine Enterprises) 21 PR 0.5

INCOMPLETE. Piece missing, interrupts art and story. 5" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple.

Art by Fred Guardineer and others. Cover by Fred Guardineer. Sometimes listed as Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid #21. Western adventure based on the popular masked hero played in the movies by Charles Starrett. An outlaw tries to create an organized crime gang, using a Pueblo cliff fortress as his hideout; Circus performers are questioned in a strange mystery that turns out to be a Western remake of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"; British agents capture The Fox and use her to lure Dan Brand into a deathtrap aboard a ship. The Crime Fortress!; The Death That Walked Like a Man!; Rustlin' Rails!; The Kid Brother; The Death Ship! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Guns of Fact and Fiction (1948) 13 GD 2.0

Cover by Fred Guardineer. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Stories and art by Graham Ingels, Frank Bolle and Johnny Craig. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #13. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured tales of guns and gunplay. The story of Western legend Bat Masterson is told by his guns themselves; A cold-blooded hit man isn't afraid of anything, except cats; The story of notorious gunman Pretty Boy Floyd. Featuring early art by EC legends Graham Ingels and Johnny Craig. Flame of the Frontier; Gunman!; The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre; Guns West and Nuggets; Jail-Fear! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Undercover Girl, Starr Flagg (1952) 6 CGC 3.5

Paper: Off white to white

Slab: See item notes

Significant front/back scuff(s).

Label #4322552005

A-1 Comics #98. Stories by Gardner Fox. Art by Ogden Whitney. Cover by Bob Powell. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #98. Female secret agent Starr Flagg debuted in Manhunt! (1947) before graduating to her own title. Starr must keep Russian agents from finding a statue that pinpoints uranium deposits. Jim's friend Bill rescues a woman lost in the woods, but is she really a vampire? Siva Dey plans to use her power to animate stone to turn all the statues in India into her private army. Terrific action-girl cover by Bob Powell. The Secret of the Statue; Fallon of the FBI: Terror From the Tomb; The Kidnapping of Major Amersley; The Doom of Siva Dey. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.