Daredevil Comics (1941 Lev Gleason) comic books 1947-1949

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $42.00 View scans Cover detached at single center staple. Cover oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Bob Wood, Chic Stone, Fred Guardineer, Virginia Hubbell, Dan Barry and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys star in a topical story of alcoholism, child neglect and murder (that also features Daredevil acting as a defense lawyer in court, in full costume), with early art by Flash Gordon's Dan Barry. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys encounter a juvenile delinquent (then a new concept) while at summer camp. Teen inventor Dickie Dean heads out West and encounters outlaws who are trying to swindle a rancher out of his uranium-rich land. Also featuring an illustrated profile of artist Charles Biro, and an early strip by future Marvel legend Chic Stone. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Daredevil: The American Crime!; Table Tennis; Sniffer: Inheritance Trouble; We'll Never Forget; Inside Dope; Crimebuster: Extra Evidence; Dickie Dean. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Bob Wood, Dan Barry and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Street kids mug an auto thief, but soon his gang comes looking for them, in a story with early art by Flash Gordon's Dan Barry. The Little Wise Guys try to raise $15,000 to keep a community center open. Teen inventor Dickie Dean investigates disappearing automobiles and encounters a hot-car gang. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Daredevil; Sniffer; Crimebuster: Hurry-Up Alibi; Dickie Dean. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Bob Wood, Dan Barry and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Daredevil must reset his whole life after his secret identity is exposed, in a story with early art by Flash Gordon's Dan Barry. Bart Hill abandons the Daredevil costume to become a boxer. Sniffer is mistaken for a ballet star's replacement, but he thinks he's performing a muscleman act. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys: Evidence #1 and Evidence #2; Fatal Ignorance; Sniffer: The Body Beautiful. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Dick French, Dan Barry and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Daredevil's alter ego Bart Hill tries to help street kids from turning to crime, but when one of them finds a gun, tragedy looms. Bart tries to intervene in a kidnapping, inspiring him to resume his Daredevil identity, in a story with early art by Flash Gordon's Dan Barry. Sniffer travels to Mexico, where he is mistaken for an ancient Aztec statue because of his oddly shaped head. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Inside Dope; Crimebuster: Ten Little Fingers; Sniffer. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Bob Wood and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Daredevil resumes his costumed identity, but with gangsters gunning for him, he is forced to fake his own death. Daredevil pursues a sadistic killer, in a particularly violent pre-Code story. Featuring a page of letters from prisoners in praise of the sister publication Crime Does Not Pay. Also featuring a vintage ad for an "Authentic Dick Tracy Tommy Gun and Detective Badge." Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Daredevil; If I Knew Then What I Know Now; Crimebuster: Killers Are Always Stupid; Baseball Test; Sniffer. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Bob Wood, Dan Barry and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Daredevil tales on the new alter ego of Professor Bill Hart, and a crooked patent attorney puts the Little Wise Guys in danger when they join a test flight. Sniffer falls for an elaborate practical joke. The Little Wise Guys take on a bully. The backup historical strip "Famous Eccentrics" includes the Marquis de Sade, a strange choice even for a pre-Code 1940s comic book. Also featuring a vintage ad for an "Authentic Dick Tracy Tommy Gun and Detective Badge." Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Daredevil; Famous Eccentrics; Crimebuster: Case of the Careful Suicide; Sniffer. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Virginia Hubbell and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. At a fancy-dress ball, Scarecrow runs afoul of a spoiled rich bully. Daredevil goes after a crook who targets poor people. Sniffer becomes the latest victim of the famous "falling barrel of bricks" urban legend. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Daredevil; Famous Eccentrics; Crimebuster: A Touch Too Much; Sniffer: What Goes Up Must Come Down! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Virginia Hubbell, Jerry Robinson and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Football introduces the Little Wise Guys to cheerleaders Anita and Amy, as well as their abusive father. Daredevil gives a speech on juvenile delinquency, a topic under much discussion at the time, in a story with art by legendary Batman artist Jerry Robinson. Sniffer becomes the fall Dude when a rich man's wife decides to kidnap herself. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Daredevil; This'll Kill You!; Crimebuster: One For the Record; Sniffer. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Virginia Hubbell, and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Daredevil tries to prevent a mad doctor from operating on himself. The Little Wise Guys befriend a homeless runaway boy who's been framed and sent to reform school. Sniffer gets mixed up with a Betty Page-type in fishnets, whose gangster boyfriend looks just like Sniffer. Also featuring a vintage ad spoofing the many imitators of "Crime Does Not Pay," similar to a famous MAD ad a few years later. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Daredevil; This'll Kill You!; Crimebuster: Dagger of Death; Sniffer. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Mike Roy, John Belfi and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Curly gets caught up in a secret society of hooded kids with a subterranean base and a mob mentality right out of Lord of the Flies. Daredevil tries to find out the truth behind a murder in broad daylight, and hears a sad tale from the killer. The origin of Sniffer's super-smelling powers, involving a limburger-cheese factory and the toughest neighborhood in America. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Daredevil; Crimebuster: Fourteen Carat Heels; Sniffer: Who Is Sniffer? 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Virginia Hubbell and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Promising athlete Petey stars in two alternate-timeline stories, Sliding Doors-style: in one, he becomes an Olympic athlete; in the other, he starts hanging out with a bad crowd and becomes the dreaded juvenile delinquent. Sniffer dons an Irving Forbush-like disguise to elude a gangster and return stolen money to an impoverished widow. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Crimebuster: Overdone Alibi; Sniffer. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Mike Roy, John Belfi and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. The Little Wise Guys get involved when Pee Wee enters a soap-box derby. A double-page promotional spread from the publisher offers comics as a remedy to juvenile delinquency, a hot topic in that era. The Little Wise Guys film a boxing movie with themselves as stars, and Daredevil watches it from start to finish. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; A Force for Good in Your Community!; Daredevil; Daredevil: The Carnival Murder; Sniffer. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, and Sidney M. Elias. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. A mysterious old man gives unlucky Scarecrow all the luck he needs, and he puts it to work in the junior football league. The Little Wise Guys start their own detective agency and help the FBI chase down a counterfeiter. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Crackpot Constructors Inc.; Daredevil; Crimebuster: Death in the Barn; The Great Wall of China; This'll Kill Ya! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Al Borth, Virginia Hubbell and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys are chosen to lead an archaeological expedition to an Egyptian tomb that has never been located. Sniffer and the Deadly Dozen stow away aboard a gambling ship that turns out to be a gangster's elaborate kidnapping scheme. The Little Wise Guys have to let inept player Lawrence join their junior football league, so his father will give them land for a clubhouse. Also featuring a vintage ad for the Buck Rogers Sonic Ray gun. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; This'll Kill Ya!; Daredevil; Crimebuster: The Case of the Death-Dealing Statuette; Sniffer. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Claude Moore, Virginia Hubbell and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Daredevil and the Wise Guys race to rescue a boy who is trapped in an airborne glider when his controls fail. The backup historical strip "Famous Eccentrics" includes royalty such as Cleopatra, Henry VIII, Montezuma and Madame DuBarry. The Little Wise Guys help an off-duty cop tackle the ringleaders of a gambling ring. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Famous Eccentrics; Aero-Quiz; Daredevil; Crimebuster: Murder in Public; Sniffer; Goofy Gadgets; Rags to Riches. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Claude Moore, and Albert Tyler. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Pee Wee befriends a strange bear cub-like creature out in the woods, but soon the world's scientists are clamoring to study this new beast. A comics biography of Robert Fulton, who pioneered steam travel. The Little Wise Guys and Daredevil intervene when a bitter old woman tries to blame a young boy for vandalizing her property. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Sportsquiz; Daredevil; Crimebuster: The Clue in the Camera; Rags to Riches. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Virginia Hubbell, and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. The Little Wise Guys decide to put on their own circus to raise funds for a medical charity, but a crooked carny tries to rob the till. Hitchhiking Sniffer offers to help an ailing trucker get his shipment delivered, not knowing it's a rare dinosaur skeleton. The Little Wise Guys befriend a simple-minded, super-strong giant known only as The Goop, and try to protect him from an uncomprehending world. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Daredevil; Crimebuster: C. B. Proves a Point; Sniffer. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Virginia Hubbell, and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. The Little Wise Guys get trapped in the house of the world's greatest practical joker. A band of gypsies swindles Sniffer out of his car, but he gets the last laugh. The Little Wise Guys help a scientist who's trying to remember the formula for the ultimate truth serum. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys: The Mystery of the Practical Joker!; The Know-How on Place Kicking; Daredevil: The Truth Serum and Its Missing Formula!; Crimebuster: The Crimebuster Clubs First Case; Famous Eccentrics; Sniffer. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.