Comic books April 1944

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Dick Wood, Bob Wood, Dick Hall, Jack Warren and Dick Briefer. 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 face the deadly millionaire called Pshyco on the ski slopes. Teen inventor Dickie Dean creates a Thought Transmitter, in a story with art possibly by Archie creator Bob Montana. The Pirate Prince's pal Droopy meets his dad, in a naval reunion in the tradition of Popeye and Poopdeck Pappy, with art by Dick Briefer. Also featuring a vintage ad for wartime "Victory Glasses": a set of tumblers featuring members of each branch of the US armed services smooching a cute civilian. Daredevil; Sniffer: The Strange Case of the Coded Pickles; Dickie Dean; Helpful Hank; The Pirate Prince; Crimebuster: Monkey Maneuvers; The Claw. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Batman and Robin star in "Danger Strikes Three," Air Wave stars in "Mr. Smith Gets the Bird" (art by George Roussos), the Crimson Avenger stars in "School For Scoops," Slam Bradley stars in "General Lee Comes to Town," the Boy Commandos in "Log of a Lifeboat" (not by Simon and Kirby, despite the credits on the splash page), and Three-Ring Binks in an untitled story. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 28, 1st Printing - "Dead Men Leave No Fingerprints" by Whitman Chambers. Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $37.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 38, Issue 4 - April, 1944. 6.5" x 9", 82 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

"The Whiskers of Hercules" by Kenneth Robeson.

April 1944. Cover by Modest Stein. Stories include "The Whisker of Hercules," a book-length novel by "Kenneth Robeson"; "Wapiti Terror" by Conrad G. Feige; "Marowijne Floodwater" by Stuart Friedman; "The Straw" by Ted Stratton; and "Storm Over Tiger Tail" by Peter Reed. 5.5-in x 7.75-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

April 1944 - Long Running News and current magazine. 10-in. x 13-in., 184 pages, Text (with B&W and Full color images) Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $3,299.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white Label #4490659001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Untitled Black Terror story; someone steals Black Terrors uniform. Untitled The American Eagle story, art by Maurice Gutwirth; vs. the Japanese. Untitled Crime Crushers story, art by Al Camy. Untitled Sgt. Bill King story, art by Maurice Gutwirth. Untitled Crash Carter story, art by Bob Oksner. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; and "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier. "Three Problems Solved" text story by Emanuel Denby. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $145.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $27.00 View scans 1.5" Spine split from bottom.

Volume 6, Issue 2 - April 1944. Cover by J. Allen St. John. Science Fiction and Adventures stories. This issue features "Time on Your Hands" by John York Cabot, and "The Return of Jongor" by Robert Moore Williams. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 212 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and Bill Brady. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Hoppy hides in an Easter egg and gets mistaken for a hatchling by Mrs. Roc, a giant bird with maternal instincts. Sherlock Monk finds out how to get free coal from the rail yard, but Chuck's method doesn't work for him. Billy the Kid and Sheriff Oscar go camping and immediately get lost, because Oscar forgot the compass. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Oscar's Song Page: Ten Little Indians; Fuzzy Bear and the Eskimo Kayak; Willie the Worm; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck; Uncle Don: Criticizer!; Billy the Kid and Oscar's Substitute Compass; Benny Beaver: Benny's Guardian Angel Tells Him Off!; Sherlock Monk Solves the Heat Question; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: The Paper Pig; Willie the Worm and Sammy; Brain Twisters; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Al Bryant. Untitled Doll Man story; Secretly, both Darrel and Martha wish to partner up in the tiny mite's adventures, and, somehow, the simultaneous wishing unlocks a shared super-power which shrinks both of them; Both of them read a news article about three members of the Bramber family dying mysteriously in the garden of their ancestral home, and decide to investigate. Untitled Mickey Finn story, script and art by Lank Leonard. Untitled Blimpy story, art by Jack Cole. Untitled detective-mystery Swing Sisson story, script and art by Vernon Henkel. Untitled Spin Shaw story. Untitled Perky story, script and art by Sid Lazarus. "Sunken Treasure!!", art by Mort Leav; Rusty gets half a map of a sunken treasure from a dying sea captain that shows the latitude and longitude of the Black Pirate Treasure, but not the location; Rusty has to beat a group of pirates to the Captain's daughter who may be able to tell where the location of the treasure is. 60 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Flash stars in "The Machine That Thinks Like a Man," written by Gardner Fox, art by Martin Naydel. Also includes: Ghost Patrol in "An Open Letter to Dictators" with art by Frank Harry; Johnny Thunder in "Peachy Pet in Berlin" by John B. Wentworth and Stan Aschmeier; The Whip in "Recipe for Righteousness" with art by Homer Fleming; "A Fiend for Fame" by Ed Wheelan; Flash scrap paper salvage drive public service announcement; and Hawkman in "The Feathers Fly" by Fox and Sheldon Moldoff. Cover art by Naydel. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Bedsheet Format Cover price $0.15.

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Illustrated text pieces. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "MOTHER GOOSE and NURSERY RHYME COMICS, No. 41." Cover art by Walt Kelly. Various nursery rhyme text/illustrations, including Rock-a-Bye Baby, There Was an Old Woman, Ding Dong Bell, Ride, Baby, Ride, Old King Cole, A Little Cockerel, Three Little Kittens, Little Boy Blue, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Little Sparrow, The North Wind, Sing a Song of Sixpence, A Dillar, A Dollar, Pussy Cat, Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, and Hickory, Dickory, Dock. Art possibly by Arthur E. Jameson. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "TINY TIM, No. 42." Untitled Tiny Tim strips, scripts and art by Stanley Link. Tim and Dotty are working in a circus; The owner gives them a toy wind-up auto that's just their size. The circus hires a snake-charmer, but his snake escapes and chases Jitters the monkey. The circus is closing for the season and Tim, Dotty, and Jitters make the long trip back to their old home with Farmer Brown. Tim and Dotty expect to surprise the Browns when they arrive, but find they are waiting for them. Tim has a toothache; Tim and Dotty play hide 'n seek; Tim decides to put on a circus. Tim shows off his circus to Dotty. Prince cures Tim of telling tall tales. Tim and Dotty's toy car breaks down in the snow; Tim plays Santa Claus. Reprinted from Tiny Tim (News Syndicate Co.) newspaper strips from the 1930s. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "POPEYE, No. 43." Untitled Popeye/ Thimble Theatre strips. Poopdeck Pappy breaks a vase and tries to blame Swee'pea. Popeye has Wimpy write a love poem to Olive for him. Wimpy comes to mooch some food from Popeye's refrigerator. Swee'pea scares him off. Wimpy gets kicked out of a restaurant, but keeps going back in. Swee'pea is depressed, so Popeye has an artist paint "pitchers" for him. Popeye criticizes Olive's dancing. Popeye is jealous of Olive's dancing teacher. Popeye tries to make Wimpy think he's become dizzy after eating a huge mound of hamburgers. Wimpy tries to trick Popeye with a stuffed duck. Olive and Popeye sit on opposite sides of the room since they've both been eating onions. Reprints Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips from the late 1930s and early 1940s. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 3 #4 - April 1944. Mostly single-panel cartoons and some text jokes. 10 1/4-in. x 13 1/2-in., 44 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 6, No. 2. April 1943. Men's interest magazine containing fiction stories, cartoons, non-nude pictorials, and other variety. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

68 pages of old-fashioned cartoons and gags ranging from family-friendly to a little racy. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2", B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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April 2, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Howard Rigsby, Doris Hume, John G. Mills, Paul Ellerbe, W.H.B. Kent, and Jay Marsh. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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April 9, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. "Destination Unknown" by Richard Sale begins. Other fiction stories by Sgt. Herbert E. Smith, Ruth Aston, Doris Hume, Allen F. Herdman, Alma & Paul Ellerbe, and Madeline Corse. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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April 16, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. "Destination Unknown" by Richard Sale. Other fiction stories by Jane Bunker Lumley, Martha McMillen, Ruth Ayers, Doris Hume, and Jayne Bruce. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 32 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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April 23, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Clarence Budington Kelland (a Scattergood Baines story), Richard Sale, Vonceil McLendon, Allen F. Herdman, and Doris Hume. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 24 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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April 30, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Arch Whitehouse, Richard Sale, Charles Boeckman (aka Beckman) Jr, Maxine Curtis, and Doris Hume. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 24 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

Stories by Martin W. Smith, Roy Donath and Lloyd Hartman. Art by Lynn Karp, Jim Tyer, Victor Pazmino, Ben Levin, Carl Wessler and Dan Gordon. Funny-animal mayhem from Creston, an imprint of independent publisher ACG. Bobby Braggs pals scheme to put an end to his insufferable boasting; Boogie Beaver doesnt believe a fortune-tellers warning to watch out for an accident; Goopie goes on a shopping spree after finding a winning lottery ticket, but Soupie has some bad news for him. Bobby Bragg; Pete Parrot, Rookie Policeman; Boogie Beaver; The Adventure of the Vitamin That Wasn't!; Tommy Tiger Learns a Lesson; Horatio the Sleuth; Two-Gun Gilly; Mickey Becomes a Giant; Jerry the Jeep; Goopie and Soupie; Ralph Rooster Crows Again; Whitey Weasel. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 3, Issue 5 - April, 1944. Halt is a sincere attempt to bring humor and cheer to our vast Armed Forces and those on the home front whose efforts are pledged to win the war, and to present the humorous sides of the serious phases of our national war effort. 5.5" x 7.5", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 2, Issue 6 - April, 1944. Goldwyn Girls photo cover. Long running magazine that features song lyrics, celebrity gossip, articles, and fan letters. This issue features songs from motion pictures such as; "Uncertain Glory" starring Jean Sullivan and Errol Flynn, "See Here, Private Hargrove" starring Robert Walker and Donna Reed, "Swing Fever" starring Kay Kyser, and many more. 8.5" x 11", 18 pages, B&W Cover price $0.10.