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Master Comics (1940 Fawcett) comic books

  • Item #61161251
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    Master Comics (1940 Fawcett) 8 CGC 3.5 Restored

    Restored: C2

    Paper: White

    Restoration includes: small amount of glue on cover, tear seals to cover, spine split sealed.

    Label #4426522010

    Starts Jul 6

    The Alliance of Boss Garlow, art by Jon Smalle; Bulletman explodes a spy plot. The Munitions Plant Robbery featuring Devil's Dagger, art by Ken Battefield. Grimmac and the Gold Map starring Lee Granger, Jungle King. The Invasion of the Scanlos starring Captain Venture and the Planet Princess. Tim's Red Sweater text story. Battle In Belravia starring War Bird. The Twister starring El Carim, art by Sven Elven. The Oil War starring Red Gaucho, art by Harry Anderson. The Trial of Cantrell, pencils by Ken Battefield; Buck manages to disarm his captor before they arrive at the gang's hideout; Soon the possse arrives and the outlaws are captured; A new adventure begins with a threat for Buck to leave the town, signed The White Arrow. The Pearl of Porra starring Zoro, The Mystery Man, art by Jack Binder. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Master Comics (1940 Fawcett) 16 CGC 7.0 Restored

    Restored: B1

    Paper: Off white

    Restoration includes: spine split sealed to cover.

    Label #4426522009

    Starts Jul 6

    Cover by Charles Sultan. Stories and art by Mac Raboy, George Tuska, Ken Battefield, Charles Sultan, and Ralph Carlson. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Bulletman and Bulletgirl. Minute Man must prevent super-spy Illyria from carrying out her Doom Plot on the Fourth of July. Buck Jones, "the hard ridin', two-gun totin', rope-slinginest marshal of the whole west," tries to get to the bottom of a shady real-estate deal involving Sam's ranch and a fake autograph book. Zoro, the Mystery Man (not the masked swordsman Zorro) investigates when rubber-plantation workers are led to revolt by the jungle god Mumbo Jumbo, in a story with art by Mac Raboy. Classic Minute Man cover by Charles Sultan. Bulletman; Captain Venture and the Planet Princess; Amazing Oddities; Larry Dean, the Flyin' Fool; Devil's Dagger; Minute Man; Companions Three; El Carim; Buck Jones; Zoro, the Mystery Man. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Master Comics (1940 Fawcett) 132 PR 0.5

    INCOMPLETE. Centerfold missing. Interrupts art and story.

    Starts Jul 22

    Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Howard Boughner, Carl Pfeufer and John Jordan. Master Comics was one of the cornerstones of the Fawcett lineup during the 1940s. When Freddy Freeman finds a US Army canteen in the river containing maps of Korea, he realizes it has something to do with the War then going on in Korea. Nyoka helps police track a killer into the jungle, but he manages to trick them and strand them all on Whirlpool Island. The corrupt boss of a gambling casino wants to get rid of Western hero Tom Mix, but first he must discredit him, and a visiting virtuoso gives him just the thing. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Note from Nowhere; Dizzy Daisy; Muscle Hedd; Vacuum Bloobstutter: Death Ray Gun; Nyoka: Whirlpool Island; College Boy Baxter; Ozzie: The Dirty White Lie; Tom Mix: The Command Performance. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.