Treasury of Comics (1948 St. John) 1948
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Issue #1948
- INCOMPLETE due to significant damage to interior. Brittle pages. NOTE: Due to the damages and fragility of this item, we are unable to make an accurate page count.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
Stories and art by Lily Renee, Gladys Parker, Rudolph Dirks, Charlie Plumb, Raeburn Van Buren and Eric Peters. A collection of 16 coverless St. John comics, rebound in hardcover and containing a variety of kid-friendly stories. After surviving a train wreck and a tiger attack, Abbott and Costello join a traveling circus. They try to help the beautiful ringmaster save her circus from sabotage by minions of the Big Boss, in a story with art by pioneering female comics artist Lily Renee. When Bathless Groggins comes into a small fortune, the fortune-hunters come out of the woodwork. Mopsy's new "super-grow" gardening seeds have a strange effect on a passing rooster. Little Annie Rooney; Ella Cinders; The Captain and the Kids; Little Audrey; Abbie an' Slats; Bill Bumlin; Jim Hardy; Mopsy; Abbott and Costello: Cut the Clowning! Other variants may exist. 516 pages, Full Color. Cover price $1.00.
