Comic books October 1944

Add to cart Very Good $26.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

October 1944. Peter Driben cover. Includes pictorial of Movita Castaneda, Marlon Brando's second wife. 8.5" x 11.25". 66 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Dick Sprang. Stories by Joseph Greene, Jack Farr and unknown. Art by Dick Sprang, Jack Farr, Howard Sherman, George Roussos and Louis Cazeneuve. A group of crooks, led by Brainy Bulow, are down on their luck and worried that they can't make an honest dollar. Then they notice a "Wanted" poster, and decide to go into an honest business for once: rounding up wanted felons and cashing in on their rewards in the Batman and Robin tale "Crime's Manhunt" by Joseph Greene and Dick Sprang. Plus: Three-Ring Binks in an untitled story by Jack Farr; Slam Bradley in "Case of the Smoking Sign!" with art by Howard Sherman; Air Wave in "The Hard-Working Hoodlum!" with art by George Roussos; and The Boy Commandos in "Saga of the Northland!" with art by Louis Cazeneuve. Also: 2-page text story "Nobody Knew" by Eddie Bell. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 34, 1st Printing - "Exit Screaming" by Christopher Hale. Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

October 1944. Cover by Modest Stein. "Jiu San" by "Kenneth Robeson"; "Muskets for Skins" by DeWitt Newbury; "River of No Return" by Ray Vicker; "The Square Peg" by Orlando Rigoni; and "Reg'lar Army Man" by Jack Anderson. Digest size, 5-5/8" x 7-3/4"; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $1,650.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Cover Detached. Label #1244377008

Add to cart Coverless $159.95 or Best Offer View scan Brittle, spine splitting to several wraps. Cover and two center wraps detached at single center staple, staining throughout. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Alex Schomburg. Written by John Swenson, Gerald Devers, Walt Wilson and unknown. Art by Ken Battefield, Maurice Gutwirth, Bob Oksner, Max Plaisted, Ed Moritz and unknown. Featuring The Black Terror, Nemesis of Crime, in an untitled story with art by Ken Battefield and Ed Moritz. Plus: The American Eagle in an untitled story with art by Maurice Gutwirth; Crash Carter, Air Cadet, in an untitled story with art by Bob Oksner; 1-page text story "Dust Storm" by John Swenson; The Liberator in an untitled story; 1-page text story "Haunted House" by Gerald Devers; Sergeant Bill King in an untitled story with art by Maurice Gutwirth; 1-page text story "Good Cowpony" by Walt Wilson; and Larry North, U.S. Navy, in and untitled story with art by Max Plaisted. 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; and "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff. "Transport Adventure" text story by Carl C. Hodges. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $130.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $43.00 View scans Paper: Cream Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.

Volume 6, Issue 4 - October 1944. Cover by J. Allen St. John. Science Fiction and Adventures stories. This issue features "The Tanner of Kiev" by Wallace West, and "Cats of Kadenza" by Don Wilcox. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 212 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and Bill Brady. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Hoppy sits in Professor Parrot's Time Chair and meets his future self. When unscrupulous glue makers try to repeal the law against killing wild horses, Billy the Kid goes into action. After a night of gluttony, Willie the Worm and Sammy find themselves in the land where all foods are alive, and angry at being eaten. Plus Paper Packin' Panda in a PSA for wartime paper recycling. Paper Packin' Panda; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Captain Marvel Bunny Meets His Future Self!; Fuzzy Bear Learns a Trade; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Sammy the Skunk; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck; Uncle Don: Monkey Doodles; Willie the Worm and Sammy; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Al Bryant. ""Shawuncas, the Shaman" starring Doll Man; Someone wants the mysterious skull badly enough to kill for it. "Murder, Maestro, Please," script and art by Vernon Henkel; A crooked publisher wants Swing Sisson to be the first to play his new number. Untitled Perky story, script and art by Sid Lazarus. Untitled story; Spin Shaw is taken prisoner by the Japanese. Untitled story, art by Tony DiPreta; Blimpy has to overcome some evil genies. Untitled Mickey Finn story, script and art by Lank Leonard. "The Lady or the...?", art by Bill Quackenbush; Rusty and his brigade rescue a lady on a Pacific island. 60 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 6, Issue 3 - November 1944. Men's pulp magazine featuring western tales featuring "Dead Man's Range" by James C. Lynch, and "Trigger Crazy" by Joe Austell Small! 130 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations) Cover price $0.25.

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Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by M.E. Peacock and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Robert Webb, Alex Blum, Ann Brewster, H.C. Kiefer, Lily Renee and George Tuska. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Tiger Girl must prove a white man stole a precious idol before tribal warfare erupts, in a story with possible art by Matt Baker; More good-girl art as Hooks Devlin investigates the "lamp-post Mata Haris" who are causing US soldiers to desert; Senorita Rio investigates Nazi U-boat attacks on ships near the Panama Canal. Another offbeat bondage cover by Joe Doolin. Rip Carson; Tiger Girl; Hooks Devlin; Kayo Kirby; Silent Cannons; Shark Brodie; Senorita Rio. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Flash stars in "Merman Meets the Flash," written by Gardner Fox, art by Jon Chester Kozlak. Also includes: Ghost Patrol in "What Cooks?" with art by Frank Harry; Johnny Thunder in "Peachy Pet's Job" by John B. Wentworth and Stan Aschmeier; "The Demon Dozen" by Ed Wheelan; Hop Harrigan text story; and Hawkman in "The Voice from the Lake" by Fox and Sheldon Moldoff. Cover art by Martin Naydel. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 48, No. 3. October 1944. Articles in this issue include: "The Challenge of the Rocket" by John Michel and Donald Wollheim; "Where is the Luftwaffe?" by Alexander Kiralty; "Impression of an AAF Artist" by Capt. Raymond Creekmore; and more. This title changes to non-fiction after Nov 1943. 8.5" x 11". 74 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.15.

October 1, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Clarence Budington Kelland (Scattergood Baines story), Emilie Loring, Ruth Aston, G.G. Partch, Will Ermine, Norah Smaridge, and Richard English. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 32 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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October 8, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. "Grass Means Fight" by Kirk Deming begins. Other fiction stories by Ruth Waara, Arch Whitehouse, Emilie Loring, and Norah Smaridge. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 32 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

October 15, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Kirk Deming, Maurice Beam, Arch Whitehouse, Emilie Loring, W.H. Pears, and Robert Thomas Allen. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 32 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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October 22, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Margaret Tool Meyer, Kirk Deming, Paul Ellerbe, Ada Marie Fairchild, Emilie Loring, and W.T. Bowcott. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 32 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

October 29, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Harold Channing Wire, Kirk Deming, Alma & Paul Ellerbe, Roy Wheeler, Emilie Loring, and Allan Vaughan Elston. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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Cover by Al Gabriele. Stories and art by Henry Kiefer and Roland "Ramona" Patenaude. Headline Comics' first rotating slate featured a slew of Axis-punching super-heroes typical of the early 1940s. Kinker Kinkaid investigates Crime's 3-Ring Circus; Teen inventor Cliff Gordon plays pirate on the high seas; Time-traveling teen Tom Morgan visits the Old West. Junior Rangers; Buck Saunders; Cliff Gordon -- Pirate; Routine Report; Tom Morgan; Kinker Kinkaid. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

One of many vintage supermarket tabloid magazines full of high profile FBI and CIA cases of the era, accompanied by black and white photographs and testimonials from those involved in, and close to the events themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 58 pages, B&W, recommended for 16+. Cover price $0.10.

4-page tabloid newpaper produced by General Mills to promote the Jack Armstrong Tru-Flite Model Planes. Articles and b&w photos. No cover price.

Jack Armstrong Tru-flite News (1944) is a promotional news paper published by General Mill, Inc. This newspaper contains 5 articles about model airplanes and coupons (expired) to send away for the complete series of Jack Armstrong Tru-Flite Model Planes. 4 pages, text with B&W pictures, 10-in. x 11-in., newsprint, with no cover price.

Cover by David Tendlar. Stories and art by George Carlson, Allen Ulmer, Dave Tendlar, Sophie Ferstadt, Ben Levin, Ray Willner, Sid Pillet, and Woody Gelman. Kids' comics featuring the whimsical fables of beloved artist George Carlson, praised by Harlan Ellison as a "comic of the absurd." A Steam-Heated Snowman tracks an Unemployed Ghost to his Aunt Eureka's Unhaunted Castle, thanks to a Tinker and a Friendly Signpost. The Green Witch abducts King Hokum's chef and his recipe for breakfast pretzels, sending The Pie-Faced Prince in pursuit. Also featuring a public service announcement about wartime paper rationing. Bingo and Glum in Fairytale Land; Jingle Jangle Tales: The Steam-Heated Snowman and the Unhaunted Castle; The Fishing Trip; Aunty Spry; Chauncey Chirp and Johnny Jay; The Wedding; Timid Turtle; Waldo; Hortense the Lovable Brat; The Pie-Face Prince of Pretzleburg. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Alex Blum, Gus Schrotter and Robert Webb. An influential anthology starring jungle hero Sheena, featuring early art by legendary comics artists in the Eisner-Iger Shop. A greedy trader tries to frame Sheena for murder; Agent ZX-5 impersonates a scientist and gets help from a leggy spy disguised as a dance-hall girl. The debut of Ginger Maguire, Sky Girl, who is described on her splash page as "A gallon of trouble in a half pint bottle, hair of stop-light red, go-light green in her eyes." They don't write 'em like that anymore. Another Bob-in-jeopardy cover by Joe Doolin. The Hawk; Weird Stories of the Supernatural; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; Ghost Gallery; Convoy Express; ZX-5 Spies In Action; Sky Girl. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Joe Doolin. "Dwellers of the Mist," art by Ruben Moreira; Kaänga, Lance, and Helen's father fly the plane into the Valley of Mist where they find the city of Carthina, a lost Carthaginian outpost; Here they help restore the emperor to his thrown after a coup by his daughter Portia. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Exiled witch doctor, Kraagi, uses music to command the animals of the jungle to attack his village; Wambi uses a flute to counter the witch doctor. "Forbidden Valley," art by Ruth Atkinson; Tabu ventures into the Forbidden Valley in order to find plants to counter crocodile venom and must battle the lizard-men known as dragotyrs. "Death Beats the Drums" text story. Untitled story, art by Richard Case; Simba is captured by hunters but saves them from a rogue elephant and is allowed to go free. Untitled story, art by Richard Case; A jungle siren lures unwary travelers to a slaver, but Terry breaks up the ring. Untitled story, art by Marcia Snyder; The colonial militia prevents the taking of a town by the Wa-kisis, and Camilla rescues a pair of white children kept captive by the tribe. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Comic strip reprints: Blondie (by Chic Young), the Lone Ranger, Barney Baxter, Popeye (Thimble Theatre), Mandrake the Magician, Henry, Flash Gordon (by Alex Raymond), Sport Features (by Burnley), the Phantom, Bringing Up Father (by Geo. McManus), Little Annie Rooney, Sergeant Pat, and Brick Bradford. Cover price $0.10.