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Comic books published by Hillman, graded by CBCS

  • Item #62081174
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    Published Feb 1940 by Hillman.

    Miracle Comics (1940) 1 CBCS 5.0

    1st app. Sky Wizard, Dusty Doyle, K-7, Scorpion, Masked Angel, Dash Dixon

    Paper: Cream to off white

    FROM THE OXFORD COLLECTION.

    Label #21-26027AF-012

    Starts Jan 4

    Cover by Ed Kressy. Stories and art by Emile C. Schurmacher, Ed Kressy, Norman Fallon and Jack Alderman. The very first comic book from publisher Hillman, featuring Sky Wizard, Dash Dixon and other embryonic superheroes. Sky Wizard, the world's greatest inventor, creates an enormous flying island, but when his pilot Captain Dare is kidnapped by the Tibetan supervillain the Unholy One, he uses his inventions to gain superhuman strength and set out in pursuit. Experimental "perpetual life rays" give Dash Dixon superpowers, which he uses to fight crime. Steve Oakes becomes the Masked Angel to catch the gangsters who killed his father, and winds up hunted by crooks and cops alike. Sky Wizard; K-7; Dusty Doyle; Dash Dixon: The Triangle Murders; Scorpion; Blanda; Masked Angel; Pinkie Parker: Kid Sherlock. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Published Mar 1940 by Hillman.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s)
    • From The Oxford Collection.
    • Label #21-2601C8E-015

    Cover by Ed Kressy and Norman Fallon. Stories and art by Emile C. Schurmacher, Ed Kressy, Norman Fallon and Jack Alderman. An early science fiction comic book from publisher Hillman, featuring Rocket Riley, the Phantom Ranger and other embryonic superheroes. Rocket Riley tries to keep Professor Sterling's atomic rocket from falling into enemy hands, and is captured by the Octopus Men from space. The Phantom Ranger rides for justice in the Old West, like that other famous masked Ranger. Lt. Dick Jones must rescue Jane Wells, daughter of the governor of Monongo, after she is abducted by the modern-day pirate called The Steel Shark. Rocket Riley: The Runaway Rocket; Hurricane Hart: Treasure of Death; Red Roberts; The Phantom Ranger; The Steel Shark; Facts You May Not Know; Buzzard Barnes: Hell in the Heavens; Lefty Larsen: Traitors Must Die. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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