Comic books June 1953, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $170.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1230034004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.10) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover by Eric Peters. The classic comedy duo of TV, radio and film starred in this comic at the height of their careers. Their clothes are lost while Bud and Lou are in the jungle, searching for the Fountain of Youth. Book collector Bibly O'Phile hires detectives Bud and Lou to find out who stole a rare book from his collection. Lou volunteers himself and Bud to carry a crate across town for a woman. The Tropics; Crate Adventure; Booked for Larceny; All That Glitters; Gag Bag; Comedy Column; Rhapsody in Black and Blue. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $335.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1297562008

In order of appearance: "The Man Who Could Not Die!"; "Weird Facts"; "Me, Ghost" art by Jack Katz, reprinted in Four Color Fear Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s TPB (2010) #1-1ST; "The Hangman Who Was Hanged"; "Strange Footprints" art by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio; Spooky Stickers, Vampires X-Word, Connect the Dots and Run!" activity page reprinted in Haunted Horror (2012 IDW) #27; "Angkor, City of Mystery"; "The Evil Cornucopia" art by Mike Sekowsky; and "Romance of Death". "The Walking Dead: Sandra Was Sure She Wanted to See a Brazilian Zombie, Until..." illustrated text story by Terry Hendryx. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $129.00 Paper: Off white Label #3758471004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.87) will be charged at checkout.

Stories by Paul Gustavson and unknown. Art by Paul Gustavson, Chuck Cuidera and unknown. Featuring Blackhawk in: "Dungeon of Fear" with inks by Chuck Cuidera; "The City of Mindless Men"; and "The Space Mirror"! Plus: Chop Chop in an untitled back-up story by Paul Gustavson. And: 1-page text story "Diplomatic Courier"! 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $795.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #2105285018 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($23.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Bud Thompson. Stories by Bill Woolfolk, Art Helfant and Howard Boughner. Art by Bud Thompson, Art Helfant, Howard Boughner, and Joe Certa. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Captain Marvel Jr. investigates when a US regiment in Korea is suddenly gripped by inexplicable fear. The world seems topsy-turvy when Captain Marvel Jr. confesses to murdering his cop friend Jim, and is sentenced to the electric chair. Prof. Edgewise thinks he's figured out the location of Atlantis, and with Captain Marvel Jr.'s help, learns that it's still occupied. The Hunted; The Regiment That Was Afraid to Fight; Judge Smudge; Rubbernose Randolph; Kanvasback: The Big Businessman; Guilty of Murder; The Fourth Dimensional Elephant; The City In the Maelstrom. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $650.00 Pedigree: Davis Crippen "D" Copy Davis Crippen ("D" Copy) HAS COA Label #0754739001

Cover by Bud Thompson. Stories by Bill Woolfolk, Art Helfant and Howard Boughner. Art by Bud Thompson, Art Helfant, Howard Boughner, and Joe Certa. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Captain Marvel Jr. investigates when a US regiment in Korea is suddenly gripped by inexplicable fear. The world seems topsy-turvy when Captain Marvel Jr. confesses to murdering his cop friend Jim, and is sentenced to the electric chair. Prof. Edgewise thinks he's figured out the location of Atlantis, and with Captain Marvel Jr.'s help, learns that it's still occupied. The Hunted; The Regiment That Was Afraid to Fight; Judge Smudge; Rubbernose Randolph; Kanvasback: The Big Businessman; Guilty of Murder; The Fourth Dimensional Elephant; The City In the Maelstrom. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $250.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4485887007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Alvin C. Hollingsworth. Edited by Sol Cohen. Art by Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Norman Nodel, Gerald McCann, and Vince Alascia. Tales of horror from the era just before the Comics Code was introduced. A medical anatomy chart of the human body comes to life at night and goes on a killing spree, which has to be a new twist; Dancers incorporate voodoo moves into their act, and incur the wrath of the undead; A robot bodyguard is suspected of murder, but human foul play is at work. Anatomical Monster; Crimson Death; The Steps in the Cellar; The Haunted Murderer; Robot Model L2 - Failure! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $250.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #1996166005

Stories and art by Lee Elias, Jack Sparling, John Sink, Tom Hickey and Bob Powell. Harvey's entry in the romance-comic genre includes love poetry, advice to readers, and occasional pre-Code notoriety. Shary dates a dangerous rebel despite her friends' warnings. Mary loves struggling grocery clerk Ralph, but she really admires a go-getter like Bob. Doris will stop at nothing to keep Mark in her life, but he's turned off by her dishonesty. Tainted Kisses; Your Problem; Marriage Memos!; My Perfect Love; I Loved a Weakling; Shameful Surrender; A Child at Love; I'll Never Let You Go. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $275.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4338111005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.25) will be charged at checkout.

36 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $130.00 Paper: Off white Label #4252668003

36 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $775.00 Restored: A1 Paper: Off white to white Restoration includes: small amount of color touch on cover, tear seal to cover. Label #4359416001

L.B. Cole cover. All stories reprinted from Murder Incorporated (1948 1st Series) #5. In order of appearance: "Terror Castle" retitled and reprinted with alterations from "Carl Rittech, The King of Crime Castle" in Murder Incorporated (1948 1st Series) #5; "James Wayburn Hall, The Arkansas Butcher" art by Alvin C. Hollingsworth; and "The Dead Tell No Tales". Indicia states "THE HORRORS". 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $400.00 Trimmed Paper: Off white Top edge trimmed. Label #4526560018 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($12.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Bill Everett. "The Only Man In the World" (Part 1), art by Jerry Robinson; Aliens from dimension X stop time and then destroy humanity. "I Made a Monster," art by John Forte; When a jilted scientist is building a Frankenstein monster to kill for him, he decides to test it by using the type of lipstick his love interest wears as a kill trigger in order to pay her back for spurning him. "Last Verdict" text story. "The Hungry Animal!," art by Ed Goldfarb; Synopsis: When two robbers murder a retired sea captain in his seashore house, they decide to kill his pet as well, lest it begin to howl before they have time to get far enough away from the scene of the crime. "The Black Box!," art by Mac Pakula; A shoplifter regrets stealing and opening a black box from a "monster sale." "My Brother's Killer!," art by Paul Reinman; A brother decides to murder his brother for an inheritance, but when the train they are traveling crashes, he decides to merely leave him to perish in the fire. When the will is read, it is revealed that the dead man was the only person who knew the location of the mine wherein the fortune was kept. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $900.00 Paper: White Label #4490153005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($27.00) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Ed Goldfarb, Bob Baer, and Jon D'Agostino. Pre-Code tales of horror and the supernatural from Story Comics. A geologist has a narrow escape from a voodoo tribe in the South Pacific...or so he thinks. A sadistic football coach meets an ironic fate, "Foul Play"-style. The owner of a crematorium thinks he has a way of getting rid of his unfaithful wife, but she returns for revenge. The Human Clay; A Dead Ball; Haunted Houses; Money Hungry; Flame Thrower! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $500.00 Paper: Off white Label #3985538007

Stories and art by Ed Goldfarb, Bob Baer, and Jon D'Agostino. Pre-Code tales of horror and the supernatural from Story Comics. A geologist has a narrow escape from a voodoo tribe in the South Pacific...or so he thinks. A sadistic football coach meets an ironic fate, "Foul Play"-style. The owner of a crematorium thinks he has a way of getting rid of his unfaithful wife, but she returns for revenge. The Human Clay; A Dead Ball; Haunted Houses; Money Hungry; Flame Thrower! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $2,000.00 Paper: Off white Label #4268355001

"Ghoulash," art by Bill Savage. "Chef's Delight"; A vile famous chef named Francois Nicole, treats everyone in his life like garbage except his rich girlfriend whom he lavishes money on; Meanwhile his wife and two children are left to suffer in squalid conditions; Francois doesn't care about his family and treats them like animals; After Francois beats his wife and his young son (who dies as a result of appendicitis after the attack), his wife snaps. "Grave Information" text story by Ellen Lynn. "No Noose is Good Noose," art by Charles Nicholas; a demon is a hangman. "Partners in Death"; a tale of a slimy corpse. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $742.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #3917312003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($22.26) will be charged at checkout.

"Ghoulash," art by Bill Savage. "Chef's Delight"; A vile famous chef named Francois Nicole, treats everyone in his life like garbage except his rich girlfriend whom he lavishes money on; Meanwhile his wife and two children are left to suffer in squalid conditions; Francois doesn't care about his family and treats them like animals; After Francois beats his wife and his young son (who dies as a result of appendicitis after the attack), his wife snaps. "Grave Information" text story by Ellen Lynn. "No Noose is Good Noose," art by Charles Nicholas; a demon is a hangman. "Partners in Death"; a tale of a slimy corpse. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $770.00 Paper: White Label #4127413019

"Ghoulash," art by Bill Savage. "Chef's Delight"; A vile famous chef named Francois Nicole, treats everyone in his life like garbage except his rich girlfriend whom he lavishes money on; Meanwhile his wife and two children are left to suffer in squalid conditions; Francois doesn't care about his family and treats them like animals; After Francois beats his wife and his young son (who dies as a result of appendicitis after the attack), his wife snaps. "Grave Information" text story by Ellen Lynn. "No Noose is Good Noose," art by Charles Nicholas; a demon is a hangman. "Partners in Death"; a tale of a slimy corpse. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $550.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Slab: Significant side/edge cracks 1" or more Label #4354894004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Albert B. Feldstein. The October Game, script by Ray Bradbury (original story) and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by Jack Kamen; A madman who hates his wife dismembers his daughter and passes around her body parts to children in a darkened cellar on Halloween. Came The Dawn!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Wally Wood; A man thinks that the girl he has met in the woods may be a dangerous escaped lunatic because she matches the description, but his girlfriend ends up meeting a grim fate as the latest victim of the true escapee. Surgery! text story, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Marie Severin; In a Police Hospital room, criminal Bat Parker, seriously wounded in a gunfight with the Police, needs a gangrene-laden leg amputated before he dies. The Meddlers!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; The folk of a small town attempt to drive away a doctor who is attempting to create life in a test tube. Carrion Death!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Reed Crandall (his first story for EC); A man handcuffed to policeman is trying to make his way through the desert on foot; He realizes that he has to separate himself from the body but has nothing sharp to cut off the dead man's hand with. One-page bio (with photo) of Ray Bradbury. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $399.95 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4249631007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($12.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover art by Albert B. Feldstein. The October Game, script by Ray Bradbury (original story) and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by Jack Kamen; A madman who hates his wife dismembers his daughter and passes around her body parts to children in a darkened cellar on Halloween. Came The Dawn!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Wally Wood; A man thinks that the girl he has met in the woods may be a dangerous escaped lunatic because she matches the description, but his girlfriend ends up meeting a grim fate as the latest victim of the true escapee. Surgery! text story, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Marie Severin; In a Police Hospital room, criminal Bat Parker, seriously wounded in a gunfight with the Police, needs a gangrene-laden leg amputated before he dies. The Meddlers!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; The folk of a small town attempt to drive away a doctor who is attempting to create life in a test tube. Carrion Death!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Reed Crandall (his first story for EC); A man handcuffed to policeman is trying to make his way through the desert on foot; He realizes that he has to separate himself from the body but has nothing sharp to cut off the dead man's hand with. One-page bio (with photo) of Ray Bradbury. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $1,499.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4487780001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($44.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Stan Campbell. "The Madman of Mars," script by Walter Gibson, art by Stan Campbell; Rockets bearing hydrogen bombs and originating from Mars are destroying major cities on Earth; Spurs Jackson is called in by General Carpenter to go discover the source of the Martian bombs; Nazis who travelled to Mars in 1935 are discovered to be sending the bombs. "Spurs Sees Red!", script by Walter Gibson, art by John Belfi; When a flying saucer lands at the McLeod farm, Pop McLeod leaves his daughter Jane in the house while goes out to investigate; He is shot by a sniper, so Jane goes to Spurs for help; Spurs investigates, discovering the saucer is of Soviet design. "Visit in Spaceman's Gulch!" one-page story. "Spurs Jackson and the Selenites!" text story. "The Stone Men From Space," script by Walter Gibson, art by John Belfi; Queen Thuvia is talking to Spurs, the Mayans Strong Bow, Rapid Fox about desert petrified logs; She gives Strong Bow a thuvia flower she says will grow in the desert then goes Mars; Strong Bow says the flower won't grow in desert and discards it. "The Menace of Comet 'X'", script by Walter Gibson, art by John Belfi; Spurs and his Space Vigilantes are contacted to investigate a dangerous comet; Spurs takes along Queen Thula of Mars; Spurs and the other vigilantes are captured, only to discover Spurs's old enemies, Korok, ex-Prime Minister of Mars, and Vodor from Venus are piloting the deadly comet toward Earth to devastate the planet. Mars is next. "SPACE WESTERN COMICS." 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $385.00 Paper: Cream to off white Small amount of dried glue on spine. Label #4224156017

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Lee Elias, and Jack Sparling. A showcase for Harvey's distinctive brand of pre-Code horror. An aged scientist sells his soul to the devil in exchange for a year and a day of youth. A glutton and his mother disparage his wife's cooking abilities - until she makes him a meal he'll never forget. A murderous rubber prospector makes a deal with the local natives to help him kill his way to a fortune, but they haven't forgotten how he abused them. The Pact; The Tiger; Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes; Jungle; Honeymoon; Repayment; Strange Superstitions; A Matter of Taste. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.