Comic books April 1955, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $1,200.00 Paper: Off white Label #4372377005

Cover art by Win Mortimer. Batman, Junior and Robin, Senior, script by Bill Finger, pencils by Sheldon Moldoff (as Bob Kane), inks by Stan Kaye. Captain Compass story, script by Otto Binder, art by Joe Certa. Roy Raymond TV Detective story, art by Ruben Moreira. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $105.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #2076940004

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Colin Dawkins and Johnny Craig. Art by John Severin, Johnny Craig, and Reed Crandall. One of EC Comics' late New Direction titles, a response to the new Comics Code, featuring reporters finding danger while pursuing stories. Reporter Keith Michaels finds danger in the tropics when an ex-Nazi munitions dealer is selling weapons to Costa Rican revolutionaries. Photographer Steve Rampart sees suspicious doings while covering a peace conference in Geneva. Reporters find shady business while vacationing in sunny Key West. Dateline: Cayo Romano, Cuba!; Camera!; Holiday for Macduff; Thirty; Dateline: Key West! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $375.25 Paper: Off white to white Label #0076391007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.26) will be charged at checkout.

"The Child!", art by Bill Elder; A humorous look at Bill's early life with some supposed early scribblings of his. "The Boy!", art by Bill Elder; Humorous bio of Bill's childhood, through photos supposedly showing his early artwork. "The Young Artist!", art by Bill Elder; Humorous look at Bill's early career, with photos of various items he supposedly painted. "The Commercial Artist!", art by Bill Elder; Humorous look at Bill's commercial art career, with samples of fake advertisements. "The Old Pro!", script by Harvey Kurtzman, art by Bill Elder; Melvin is captured during a bank robbery and continually digs his way out of jail. "Senility!", art by Bill Elder; A few of Bill's most recent drawings, showing a regression to his earliest form. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $650.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white The Bobby Blue Collection. Label #4353790025 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($19.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Sol Brodsky. Meet Maggie, art by Sid Greene; A woman has fantastic luck because she is married to an angel. The Radio text story. The Lonely Little Boy!, art by Vince Colletta; A couple get a robot child as a companion for their son, but over time they lose their ability to distinguish between the two of them. Inside the Box, art by Ed Winiarski; A man inherits a fortune and a mystical glass which displays a man's inner self; When he goes down to the pub to choose one of his friends to share his fortune with he is dismayed to see that through the glass, they are all scoundrels. The Talking Dog, art by Bob Powell; A dog lets his master in on the secret that dogs can talk, they just choose not to. The Coward, art by Mac Pakula; A nightwatchman who lets a thief escape with the loot because he fears assault is branded a coward and exiled from his city. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $335.00 Paper: Off white to white Pedigree: River City River City. Label #2123891013

"Station Mars on the Air," "The First Interplanetary Fair," "Rescue Squad of Tomorrow" (pencils by Gil Kane), and "The Explosive Man" (art by Carmine Infantino). Murphy Anderson cover. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $299.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4234316002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Jack Kamen. Stories by Dan Keyes and Robert Bernstein. Art by Marie Severin and Jack Kamen. One of EC Comics' late New Direction titles, a response to the new Comics Code. Perhaps the strangest comic of that line, if not of all time, this features ordinary people Freddy, Ellen and Mark as they undergo Freudian analysis to find the root of their neuroses. Definitely one of a kind. Featuring some stories by Daniel Keyes, later the author of the science fiction classic Flowers for Algernon. Classic cover by Jack Kamen. Case No. 101 Male Session 1: Freddy Carter; Case No. 102 Female Session 1: Ellen Lyman; The Man From Vienna; Case No. 103 Male Session 1: Mark Stone. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $105.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4373038004

Stories and art by Ken Battefield and others. Numbering continues from Fantastic Comics (1954 Ajax) #11. Ajax-Farrell revives the strongman superhero from Fox Features. The industrialists behind a vast new tower want to get rid of Samson before he figures out what they're up to. Captain Burke seeks the secret of the lost Isle of Missing Men. Wonder Boy investigates mysterious attacks on toy stores, featuring art possibly by Matt Baker. Samson is captured by a sinister circus, in a story featuring the line "I'll teach you to make a fool out of Bozo!" The Electric Curtain; The Isle of the Lost; Wonder Boy: Dangerous Desperadoes; Veldt Mystery; Trouble Under the Big Tent. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $445.00 Paper: White Slab: Significant inner well scuff(s) Label #0078163006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($13.35) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Al Feldstein. Ad for Mad and Panic. "The Inferiors," script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Wallace Wood; An expedition to find inhabited worlds finds nothing but destruction on planet after planet; The populations of all these worlds were of the same space-faring race, but the populations are now extinct, and the explorers don't know why; Then, they find an old recording that explains that the aliens had achieved their evolutionary peak and were now slowly devolving into violent beasts. "Lost In Space," script by Otto Binder, pencils by Al Williamson, inks by Al Williamson, Angelo Torres, and Roy Krenkel; Myra tells her father that she doesn't wish to remain on Mars any longer, but return to Earth to her Jim; One day, she makes the trip by herself...but Earth is not there! Ad for Piracy comic. "Round Trip," script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Al Feldstein (co-plot and script), art by Jack Kamen; All of his life, Henry was a dreamer, and his big dream was to be the Captain of a spaceship, or at least be able to travel into the depths of space. "The Trial of Adam Link," script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; Tom just inherited his uncle's estate, along with the robot, Adam Link; Despite the fact he is reasonable and polite, Adam continues to face persecution from humans; He even saves the lives of people trapped in a burning building, but nobody sees him do it; Finally, he is brought to "trial" to decide if he should be allowed to exist. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.