Auctions: comic books published by Fox

All Great Comics (1947 Fox Features) 13 FR/GD 1.5

5" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached.

Stories and art by Dale Messick, Richard Fletcher, Bill Perry, J. L. Keene, J. J. Olson, Jack Ryan, Ferd Johnson, Edmond Good and George Merkle. Cover by Jack Kamen. A collection of adventure comic strips originally from the Chicago Tribune syndicate's stable of characters. Reporter Brenda Starr finds trouble when she covers a fashion show; The first adventure of Dagar the Desert Hawk, aka Bart Benson, a white man who lives and fights in the Arabian desert. Brenda Starr Reporter: The Fashion Show; Surgeon Stone: Frogs Daughter; Ned Handy: Tied Up in Trouble; Frame Up; John West: The Case of the Dead Pigeons; Streamer Kelly: The Frame-Up; Texas Slim and Dirty Dalton: Daltons Weakness; Mighty OMalley, Ex-Marine: The Leap for Life; Dagar the Desert Hawk. This issue was actually published after issue #14; it became Dagar the Desert Hawk with the next issue. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Mystery Men Comics (1939) 17 FR 1.0

Full length spine split (taped). Cover detached. Staples added (not manufacturing). Interior tearing due to oxidation. Staple rust.

Cover by Charles Nicholas. Stories by Dick Briefer, Al Weine and Nathaniel Nitkin. Art by Dick Briefer, Charles Nicholas, Walter Frame, Klaus Nordling, Norton Kingsley, Al Weine, Bob Powell, and George Tuska. An anthology of Golden Age adventure comics from Fox Feature, including the original Blue Beetle. The spaceship is menaced by Cranians, who have hands where their heads should be and two heads where their hands should be, in a Rex Dexter story by Dick Briefer; The Blue Beetle and his girlfriend, reporter Joan Mason, investigate the Muck Gang's spree of waterfront sabotage; Green Mask learns about a plan to hijack a gold shipment. The Muck Gang; The Cranians; New Gang in Town; The Warning; Son the Ace; Foreign Agents; The Naval Secrets; Mrs. Uppersnoots Party; The Port of Rio Grande; The Crooked Politician; Mystery Men Model Page: Aircraft Carrier. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.