Comic books December 1943

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Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $4.80 View scans Water damage: Slight.

Aviation magazine featuring pictorials of featured designs; model and hobby information. 10.25" x 13", 104 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $550.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Light tan to off white Label #4448210007 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Mark'sBatcave

Winter 1943. The Justice Society of America star in "The Crimes Set to Music!" Plot by Gardner Fox and Sheldom Mayer, script by Fox. Art by Joe Gallagher plus individual chapters featuring Starman (art by Stan Aschmeier), Johnny Thunder (art by Aschmeier), Doctor Fate (art by Aschmeier), the Atom (art by Gallagher), the Sandman and Sandy (art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby), Dr. Mid-nite (art by Aschmeier), the Spectre (art by Bernard Baily), and Hawkman (art by Sheldon Moldoff). Wonder Woman appearance. Tootsie Roll back cover ad, "Captain Tootsie and the Great Jewel Robbery" by Rod Reed and C.C. Beck. 1+ page text story, "Hop Harrigan Over Torres Strait." Gallagher cover. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $26.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Canadian Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Very Good $21.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Good $9.00 View scans Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

December, 1943. Volume 33, Issue 4. Cover by William Timmins. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; black and white; 160 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

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Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $2.50 View scan 1/2" Cumulative spine split. Water damage.

"Where There is a Will" by Rex Stout. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $43.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight. Foreign edition: Canada.

Canadian Reprint Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Very Good $11.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

UK weekly men's interest magazine with humor and pin-ups. 8" x 11.25", 28 pages, B&W

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Cover by Chu F. Hing. Stories and art by Dan Barry, John Giunta, Al Fagaly, Clarence E. Dickinson, Boyden Sparkes, Ray Gill, John Jordan, George Kapitan, Jim Wilcox, Henry C. Kiefer, Fred Bell, Harold DeLay, Jack A. Warren, and Eugene L. Pollock. Sometimes listed as Blue Bolt #41. Former superhero Blue Bolt soars as an aviator hero in WWII. Blue Bolt is trapped by the Nazis on Crete and aided by Greek guerrillas, in a story with early art by future Flash Gordon artist Dan Barry. Old Cap Hawkins tells the true story of the Doolittle Raid, aka "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo." Sergeant Spook inhabits a Santa Claus dummy to help save Christmas from gangsters. Dick Cole; I Fly For Vengeance, Part 2; Fearless Fellers; Sergeant Spook: Santas No Dummy; Old Cap Hawkins True Tales: The Billy Mitchell; Fast Away From Tripoli; Edison Bell; Edison Bells Victory X-Mas Tree; Blue Bolt: Trapped by the Nazis on Crete!; Krisko & Jasper. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $18.00 View scan Centerfold detached at one staple.

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Add to cart Fair $5.49 View scans Spine split 10%. Cover Detached. Staple rust: Slight.

Stories and art by Sam Glankoff, Jack Sparling, Corrine Dillon, Frank Godwin, Helen Ciancimino, Maxine Livingston, Eva-Lis Wuorio, Ruth Gagliardo, Stephanie O'Brien, Mary Wieand, Isabelle Corey, Lettie Gay, Elizabeth Nichols, Elena Chance, Jane Richards, Nancy Pepper, Alice Barr Grayson, and Margaret Sutton. A kids' anthology from the publishers of Parents Magazine, featuring stories, comics and advice aimed at 1940s teen girls. A comics biography of Betty Wason, war correspondent during WWII; A profile of child performer Twinkle Watts; A variety of fun vintage ads, including one for a collar that can be monogrammed with hip "jive" slang phrases like all the kids were using in 1943. Susan Says; Judy Wing; Reporter at War; Melting Pot Blues; All for One; The Haunted Apartment; New Books for You; Patterns for Parties; The Mystery of the Thieving Spooks; Lets Talk Things Over; Gifts from the Kitchen; When You're a Guest; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; It's Fun to Sew; Gifts With and for Glamour; Thanks to the Movies; Date Dreaming with Donald O'Connor; Your Christmas Wish-Come-True; Wish He Were Taking Me!; Sergeant Little Bawk; The Victory Club; Girls in the News; Gadgets for Girls. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $225.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4137702005

Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder, Henry Perkins and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck, C.C. Beck staff and unknown. Billy is rescued by some Chinese boys and Captain Marvel flies off after Mr. Mind, who is attacking the Australian army with a spider-plane that shoots webs. The villain and his allies capture an Australian general, and force Captain Marvel to choose between saving the general or catching them in "The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 9: The Webs of Destruction!" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck. Captain Marvel also stars in: "The $40,000,000 Denver Plot!" (Denver, Colo. city story); "The Modern Robinson Crusoe!" by Henry Perkins (plot), Otto Binder (script) and C.C. Beck staff; and "The Baron of Barracuda Bay!" Plus: Captain Kid in an untitled 2-pager. And: 2-page text story "You'll Know Me by My Smile!" by William Cole. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $95.00 View scans 1/2" Spine split from top. Water spotting.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $58.99 or Best Offer View scan Interior is complete. Remaindered copy. Water damage. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $59.95 or Best Offer View scan INCOMPLETE. Multiple pieces missing, interrupts art and story. Cover and centerfold detached at the staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Joseph J. Millard. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Captain Midnight combats a Nazi incursion into South Africa, still part of the "Commonwealth" at that point. In a superhero story that's a mini-lesson in economics, Ichabod learns that Axis saboteurs are behind the wartime inflation rate. When his plane is hijacked by men wearing bandages over their faces, CM learns the truth about The Legion of the Lost. The Kimberly Killer; Red Skye: Rat Trap; The Imps of Inflation; Johnny Blair, in the Air; The Legion of the Lost. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $519.95 or Best Offer View scans INCOMPLETE. Centerfold missing, affects Blackout story. Cover and two center wraps detached at single center staple. Mold. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Charles Quinlan. Stories and art by Charles Quinlan, Herman C. Browner, Jack Grogan, Jack Alderman, and C. R. Schaare. Sometimes listed as Cat-Man Comics Vol. 2 #9. The adventures of Cat-Man and other early superheroes from the Golden Age of comics. Kitten and Mickey, the sidekicks of Cat-Man and the Deacon also known as the Little Leaders, battle Japanese saboteurs. The Deacon and Mickey investigate a bank-robbing gang dressed as demons, and trace them back to the bank owners themselves. Blackout battles the Son of the Red Baron. Cat-Man & Kitten: Hands of Destiny; The Deacon: The Demons of Death; Ragman; Little Leaders; The Hood: The Cry of the Killer-Beasts; Blackout; Costly Curiosity; Venture into Rebellion. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Gulliver's Travels, 1st Printing, Classics Comics. Script adaptation by Daniel Kushner, art by Lillian Chestney. (HRN 15, 12/43). Cover price $0.10.

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Official organ of the International Society of Junior Magicians, containing news and tips. 16 pages on newsprint.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $41.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart Very Good $15.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white	Add to cart Very Good $19.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $17.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white
Add to cart Good $13.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart VG 4.0 $20.00 View scans Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Volume 5, Issue 5 - December, 1943. Cover by Lawrence Stevens. "King of the Gray Spaces" by Ray Bradbury, and other stories by J. Leslie Mitchell, William Hope Hodgson, and Robert W. Chambers. Illustrations by Hannes Bok. 7-in. x 9 1/2-in.; black and white; 148 newsprint pages. Published by Popular Publications Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $36.50 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $41.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 5, Issue 10 - December 1943. Cover by Robert Gibson Jones. Science Fiction and Adventures stories. This issue features "Witch of Blackfen Moor" by Lee Francis, and "Spawn of the Glacier" by Leroy Yerxa. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 212 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $550.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #2008168001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $120.00 View scan INCOMPLETE. Multiple pages missing, interrupts art and story. Centerfold detached. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by Claude Lapham and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by George Tuska, Rafael Astarita and John Cassone. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Good-girl art aplenty as Senorita Rio tries to discover what a box of crimson capsules has to do with missing men; The true story of the pilot who watched the Normandy invasion from an inflatable dinghy; A beautiful native woman rescued by Chip Collins sets out to return the favor. Cover by Joe Doolin defines the term "Gung ho." Shark Brodie; Dusty Rhodes; Senorita Rio; Rip Carson; Grandstand Seat; Bombs Away; Kayo Kirby; Hooks Devlin; Chip Collins. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $17.00 View scans

Bedsheet Format Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $19.00 View scan Cover coming loose at one staple. Staple rust/migration.

Illustrated text pieces. Cover price $0.10.

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Winter 1943. Glamour and pinup magazine. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 66 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $440.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #3796574020

Stories and art by Al Zere, Maurice del Bourgo, and H. C. Kiefer. Headline Comics' first rotating slate featured a slew of Axis-punching super-heroes typical of the early 1940s. The Junior Rangers try to find out how the Nazis are getting supplies into Italy; Teen inventor Cliff Gordon uses his three-way plane to protect the Merchant Marine; Time-traveling teen Tom Morgan encounters Vikings. Junior Rangers; Buck Saunders; Cliff Gordon the Wonder Boy; Invisible Boy; Blood Check; Perry Allen; Tom Morgan. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $80.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $29.00

December 13, 1943. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Sinkiang; psychological warfare; Harvard's Eateria; artificial breeding; rationing and price control; Alexis Smith; Miss London 1943; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 132 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $36.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

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December 20, 1943. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: kids in trouble; pilot's wife; Archbishop of Santa Fe; scrap sculpture; Irish Publican; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 12 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $3,799.95 or Best Offer View scans Pencil, indentations, and eraser marks across cover, chew, residue. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $2,499.95 or Best Offer View scans 3.75" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Battling the Nazi Vultures starring Human Torch, inks by Harry Sahle. Eerie Owl of the Wolf Pack starring Sub-Mariner, art by Allen Simon. Deadline Dawson's Pay-Off starring Terry Vance, art by Bob Oskner. The First Time text story. Miss America untitled story, script by Otto Binder, art by Charles Nicholas. Introducing Miss Patriot. Angel untitled story, art by Gustav Schrotter. 60 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $8.00

Vol. 6, No. 1. December 1943. Digest size magazine that offered abridgements of current bestselling books. This issue includes: "Burma Surgeon" by Gordon S. Seagrave; "Yankee Lawyer" by Ephraim Tutt; "Journey Into America" by Donald Culross Peattie; and "The Battle Is the Pay-Off" by Ralph Ingersoll. Lynd Ward Cover. 5.25" x 7.5". 192 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart Coverless $275.00 or Best Offer View scan Several center wraps detached. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover art by Bob Montana. The Ghost Goes East starring the Shield, art by Irv Novick. The Hangman and the Snail, art by Bob Fujitani. Li'l Chief Bugaboo story, art by Higgins. Catfish Joe story, script and art by Larry Harris. Archie the Pug, script by Ed Goggin, art by Harry Sahle. Marco Loco story, script by Ed Goggin, art by Harry Sahle. Heroes Never Die starring Captain Commando, art by Irv Novick. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $140.00 View scans 1" spine split from bottom. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

"Crypt-City of the Deathless Ones" a novel by Henry Kuttner.

Volume 2, Issue 5 - Winter, 1943. Cover by George Gross. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Nelson S. Bond, Albert dePina, James MacCreigh, Wilbur S. Peacock, Joseph Farrell and Guy Gifford. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 132 pages. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $9.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

December 1943. Mechanical science and technology magazine. Includes: "Sleep Like a Baby" techniques used for better sleep. 6.75" x 9.5". 248 pages. PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $5.00 View scans Front cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight.

Volume 143, Issue 6 - December 1943. Featured article on "The Mosquito, Britain's Wooden Wonder Bomber", and "How the Bombsight Solves Problems!" Also includes articles on automobile, home, and workshop upkeep projects. 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 224 pages, PC/PB&W Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $1,099.95 or Best Offer View scans Restored (see item notes) INCOMPLETE. Three center wraps missing, affects Frankenstein and Worldbeater stories. RESTORATION. Color touch. Tape on interior cover/spine and on a few wraps. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Untitled stories starring Yank & Doodle & Black Owl, Worldbeater (script and art by Fred Morgan), and Flying Fist and Bingo (script and art by Fred Morgan). Dick Briefer? starring Who-Zoo. Dead Do Not Die starring Ted O'Neil. That Midget Returns starring Frankenstein, script and art by Dick Briefer. Carnival of Crime featuring Airmale, script and art by Fred Morgan. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 21, No. 2. December 1943. Nan Grey cover by Tom Kelley. Radio and television gossip magazine that also included fiction and radio adaptations. 8.5" x 11.25". 102 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Very Good $5.00 View scans Paper: Off white

Volume 35, Issue 1 - December, 1943. 6.5" x 9", 164 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Good $11.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 50%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Cover by ?. Western fiction stories by Marian O'Hearn, Art Lawson, Thelma Knoles, Isabel Stewart Way, Thomas Calvert, and Jane Hardey. 7-in. x 9 1/2-in., 98 pages, black and white (text with illustrations). Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $33.00 View scan Only one staple (manufacturing). Centerfold detached. Water damage. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by TheGoodOlDays

Cover by Arthur Jameson. Stories and art by Walt Kelly, Arthur Jameson, George Kerr, Bill Brady and A. W. Nugent. Christmas stories featuring art from former Disney animator Walt Kelly, creator of beloved comic strip Pogo. Kelly tells the fable of Santa's Christmas Gift. In another Christmas story, Santa Claus falls asleep and dreams he goes to Wonderland with Alice. Plus the lyrics to O Little Town of Bethlehem, O Come, All Ye Faithful, and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. Santa in Wonderland; O Little Town of Bethlehem; The Christmas Chimes; O Come All Ye Faithful; The Night Before Christmas; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; Santas Christmas Gift; Two Christmas Limericks. 56 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.