Comic books May 1944

Add to cart CGC 0.1 $250.00 View scan Paper: Off white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Coverless. Label #4473347004 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover art by Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye. Superman and the Super-Movers, script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by George Roussos. The Guns of Killer Haines, pencils by Mort Meskin. Super Sleuth McFooey, script and art by Jack Farr. Be A Magician! Turn Waste Paper Into War Weapons public service announcement, art by George Roussos. Choose Your Weapon starring Congo Bill, art by Edwin Smalle. Cargoes of Death starring Americommando, script by Joseph Greene, art by Bernard Baily. Magic Knights starring Zatara. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Courage a la Carte, pencils by Gil Kane [as Jack Kirby], inks credited to Joe Simon; When Sandman learns that crooks he is unsuccessfully battling are hypnotized into battling far beyond their means, he soon teaches the villains that hypnotism can be a double-edged sword! The Affair of the Unhappy Hercules starring Genius Jones, art by Stan Kaye. Daze of the Knight starring the Shining Knight, art by Louis Cazeneuve. The Rising Star of Johnny Teach starring Starman, script by Don Cameron, pencils by Emil Gershwin, inks by Sam Citron. Treasure Is Where You Take It starring Manhunter, script by Joe Samachson, pencils by Jim Mooney, inks by Charles Paris. The Return of Ghenghis Khan starring Mike Gibbs, Guerilla, script by Joe Samachson, art by Maurice del Burgo. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $44.10 View scans Water damage: Slight. Discounted from $49.00.

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Issue 17, 1944 - "Stories by Thomas Wolfe". Squarebound, 5" x 7.5", 136 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $38.70 View scans Discounted from $43.00.

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Volume 3, Issue 3 - May, 1944. Painted cover by Billy DeVorss. 8" x 10.5", 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $900.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white Slab: See item notes 3" crack to lower left edge, small piece of plastic missing from bottom left corner. Label #0230531006 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Siggy’s Comics

Edited by Ned L. Pines. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories by Richard Hughes, Capt. Kerry McRoberts, Bob Stanwood, Al Camy, and Drew Coleman. Action-packed tales featuring such characters as Jimmy Cole, Boy Sleuth and the Black Terror, a super strong super-hero. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $14.40 View scans Discounted from $16.00.

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

Add to cart Fine $20.70 View scans Staple rust: Slight. Discounted from $23.00.

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

Add to cart Very Good $11.70 View scans Staple rust: Slight. Discounted from $13.00.

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

Add to cart $17.55 View scans Heavy spine stress with color breaks. 3/4" cumulative spine splits. Multiple light and moderate spine breaks. Staples rusted with migration. Multiple cover creases. Heavy wear to corners and edges with multiple nicks and tears. Heavy denting and scuffing. Heavy soiling and foxing to covers. Mailing label affixed to front. Page edges a bit darkened with some scattered foxing and multiple corner creases. Discounted from $19.50.

Volume 116, Issue 5 - May, 1944. Cover by Bradshaw Crandell. Fiction by Dorothy Kilgallen, Alec Rackowe, Vina Delmar, Mary Nowell Frost, Michael Foster, Margaret Cousins, Katherine Albert, and Lt. Wells Lewis. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 188 pages, B&W with spot color and full color ads. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $395.00 View scans INCOMPLETE. Multiple pages missing. Interrupts art and story. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Rudy Palais, Dick Wood, Dick Briefer, Bob Wood, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. A woman is dubbed a "female Bluebeard" after doing away with her husbands, in a story with art by Dick Briefer. The story of Nolan the Notorious features early art by pioneering African-American artist Alvin Hollingsworth. The murderer of Mary Lawson is revealed by a burnt match, in a tale with art by Dick Briefer. Also featuring a vintage PSA for wartime paper drives, an early recycling program. Career of Carrington Hill; Four Crooks and a Coffin; Female Blue Beard; Murder Master; Angel Face of Crime; The Case of the Missing Monster; Nolan the Notorious; Whodunnit? Who Murdered Beautiful Mary Lawson?; A Crimebuster Special. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 29, 1st Printing - "Death Over Hollywood". Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $9.00 View scans Paper: Cream Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight. Discounted from $10.00.

May 1944. Western adventure novels "Beyond the Scalp Frontier" by Cliff Farell and "Gun-Angel of Showdown River" by Tom Roan. Novelettes "Last of the Range-War Outcasts" by Walt Coburn and "Greenhorns' Gun-Medicine" by William R. Cox. Short stories by Tom W. Blackburn, Bart Cassidy, and C. Williamson. A few illustrations. 7-in. x 9 1/2-in.; black and white; 82 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $47.70 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight. Discounted from $53.00.

May 1944. Cover by Modest Stein. Stories include "The Three Devils," a book-length novel by "Kenneth Robeson"; "Special Performance" by Thomson Burtis; and "Scarlet Justice" by Robert C. Blackmon. 5.5-in x 7.75-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $7.20 View scans Spine split 25%. Staple rust: Slight. Discounted from $8.00.

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Volume 5, Issue 16 - May 1944. Digest, 5" x 7.5", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf, Joe Oriolo 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 goes fishing and gets caught by Perch the Pirate and taken aboard his underwater pirate ship. In a story told entirely in rhyming verse, Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear are transported to a city on the moon. In a story that is also a wartime PSA, Marvel Bunny explains the importance of recycling paper for the war effort. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny; Millie's Song Page; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Willie the Worm and Sammy; Uncle Don: Railroadiacs; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck Solve the Case of Mr. X!; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny and the Paper Dolls of Victory!; Willie the Worm and Sammy Go to the Front of Their Class; Brain Twisters; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $6.75 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight. Discounted from $7.50.

Bedsheet Format Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $22.50 View scans Cover detached. Mold. Only one staple (manufacturing). Discounted from $25.00.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $38.00 View scans Cover detached at single center staple Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Indicia title is "TERRY AND THE PIRATES, No. 44." Untitled Terry and the Pirates strips, scripts and art by Milton Caniff. Connie and Big Stoop get a $5,000 reward from Mr. Smythe-Heatherstone and hire servants to do their work for Pat and Terry. After a confrontation with Baron De Plexus and his bodyguard, Pat decides to leave Hong Kong and take Terry, Connie, and Big Stoop to see Smythe-Heatherstone. At the plantation, Pat and Terry meet April Kane, the young sister of Dillon Kane, who has disappeared. Pat and Connie find Dillon Kane being held captive in the cave. Sanjak shows up at De Plexus' airstrip with a hypnotized April. De Plexus and his thugs try to get information on Sanjak in Yankuk, but the populace, even the underworld, refuses to give them any information. Reprints Terry and The Pirates (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1938 and 1939. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "RAGGEDY ANN, No. 45." Cover art by George Kerr. Untitled Raggedy Ann stories, art by George Kerr. A cuckoo from a clock falls and lands on Quacky Doodles; The Raggedys fix the cuckoo, while Quacky, miffed because nobody is paying attention to him, goes outside into the meadow. Marcella takes her toys to the beach, but leaves them on the beach overnight. Raggedy Ann falls in a bucket of mop water and the bleach turns her completely white. When food runs low in the middle of winter, the Raggedys take Grampie and Granny Fieldmouse to Cookie Land, where there is an endless supply of sweets. Dr. Stork loses his spectacles and the Raggedys help him make his deliveries of babies. The toys have a pillow fight and a stray pillow knocks open the door to Dicky Bird's cage. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $469.95 or Best Offer View scans Interior is complete. Full length spine split, chipped corner, cover oxidation, centerfold detached at single center staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories and art by Jerry Robinson, Marv Lev, Bob Powell, Art Helfant, and Arturo Cazeneuve. The first comic to feature The Green Hornet, the radio-turned-movie superhero from the creator of the Lone Ranger. Nazi saboteurs enlist American hoboes to target a dam, in GH stories with art by Joker co-creator Jerry Robinson. The Twinkle Twins meet Mike the Muscle's nephew Mikey, a juvenile delinquent in the making, and try to set him straight. The clue to a million-dollar robbery is a crate of oranges, in a story that promotes War Bonds, a WWII fundraising drive. Bondage cover by comics legend Alex Schomburg references the Hornet's success in radio and movie serials. Green Hornet: The Society of the Swastika!; Spirit of 76; Mighty Midgets: Invisible Paint; Youngun and Tagalong; Green Hornet: Dam of Death!; The Story Behind the Cover; Twinkle Twins: The Lad Who was Bad!; Zebra: The Mystery of the Pink Drake Brand; Green Hornet Buzzers. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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May 7, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Allan Vaughan Elston, Richard Sale, William MacHarg, Doris Hume, and Allan F. Herdman. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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May 14, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. "First Officer Sue" by Peggy O'More Blocklinger (as Jeanne Bowman) begins. Other fiction stories by Charles Boeckman (aka Beckman) Jr, Richard Sale, Ellen Newman, Margaret McCulloch, Dorothy Collett, and William MacHarg. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

Add to cart FN 6.0 $8.91 Discounted from $9.90.

May 21, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Peggy O'More Blocklinger (as Jeanne Bowman), Hope Dahle Jordan, Richard Sale, Cyril Plunkett, Roy Wheeler, and Stanley B. Wilson. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 24 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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May 21, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Richard Sale, Peggy O'More Blocklinger (as Jeanne Bowman), Ora T. Stewart, Louis L. Jacoby, B. N. Richardson, and Robert C. Dennis. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 24 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

Add to cart Very Good $17.10 View scans Water damage: Slight. Discounted from $19.00.

Volume 2, Issue 7 - May, 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; "Passage to Marseilles" starring Humphrey Bogart and Michele Morgan, "Minstrel Man" starring Benny Fields, "The Hour Before Dawn" starring Veronica lake and Franchot Tone, and many more. 8.5" x 11", 18 pages, B&W Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $27.90 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight. Discounted from $31.00.

One of many vintage supermarket tabloid magazines full of high profile FBI and CIA cases of the era, accompanied by black and white photographs and testimonials from those involved in, and close to the events themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 58 pages, B&W, recommended for 16+. Cover price $0.10.

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May 27, 1944. Vol 21, No 22. Clown photo cover. Articles by Alfred Toombs, Betty Milton Gaskill, Lieut. Max Miller, Stacey Hicks, and Mort Wesinger. Fiction by Ronald G. Sercombe, Charles Banner, Virginia Eiseman, Edwin Lanham, and Niven Busch ("Duel in the Sun" pt2). Illustrations by Carl Mueller, John Collins, and Tom Atwell . Boris Karloff shaving cream ad. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 52 pages, black and white with spot color. Cover price $0.05.

Add to cart Fair $18.00 View scans Spine split 90%. Cover Detached. Staple rust: Slight. Discounted from $20.00.

May 29, 1944. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Gen. "Tooey" Spaatz; air intelligence photographic essay; Oscar Hammerstein II; and more. Half-page Cream of Wheat ad with a Li'l Abner comic strip by Al Capp. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 124 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $13.50 View scans Paper: Cream to off white 2" Cumulative spine split. Foxing. Soiling. Water damage. Tape damage on inside front cover. Discounted from $15.00.

Add to cart Good $13.50 View scans 4" Spine split from base of book. Foxing. Soiling. Moisture spotting. Discounted from $15.00.

Volume 3, Issue 2 - May, 1944. 6.75" x 9.75", 276 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $2.70 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight. Discounted from $3.00.

Volume 31, Issue 7 - May, 1944. Mechanical science and technology magazine. This issue's articles include; "The Can-Do Boys" by E.H. Kelly, "Magnetic Current" Willy Ley, "An Adventure in Jungle Photography" by Attilio Gatti, "Hornets of Death" by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, "Hobby Healing" by Louis Hochman, "Content of Tomorrow" by Henry Albert Phillips, and others . 6.75-in. x 9.5-in. 162 pages, BW/spot color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $2.25 View scans Spine split 20%. Discounted from $2.50.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $2.43 View scans Spine split 10%. Discounted from $2.70.

8.5" x 11", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Very Fine $216.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight. Discounted from $240.00.

Add to cart Fine $23.40 View scans Discounted from $26.00.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $4.50 View scans Front cover detached 60%. Back cover detached 10%. Discounted from $5.00.

Volume 17, Issue 121 - May, 1944. 8.5" x 10.5", 124 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $175.00 View scan Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $89.00 View scan Cover coming loose at one staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.0 $900.00 View scans Conserved Paper: Off white to white Amateur Conservation Includes: Cover Reattached With Glue. 4 Center Wraps Detached. Label #17-0DA35DB-034 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover art by Harry Sahle. Shield G-Man Club ad. "The Curse of the Black Monkey"; The Jinx is a blind black monkey, surviving owner after owner managing to survive until it comes to Dusty, the Shields kid partner; The Shield discovers through an anthropologist friend that the monkey is an idol of sorts to the Thuggi cult of India and represents all evil and bad luck to all but the Thuggi. "The Corpse on the Checkerboard"; The Black Hood uses the pieces left on a checker board to solve a murder that's meant to look like a suicide. "Camera Bugs," script by Ed Goggin, pencils by Harry Sahle, inks by Virginia Drury (as Ginger); Archie gets a new camera and starts taking pictures that get him in trouble. "Special Communique #14," pencils by Clem Weisbecker, inks by Pen Shumaker; Alastair Morganbilt joins the army as a prissy gentleman but leaves in a body bag as a fighting man. Pep's Puzzle Page maze. Untitled story, art by Larry Harris; Two mad scientists give Catfish Joe pills that make him able to jump really far. "The Great Genghis Khan," art by Carl Hubbell; Marco Loco meets Genghis Khan and tries to stop his wedding. 60 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Issue 60 - May 12, 1944. Early magic enthusiast fanzine with reader submitted homemade tricks for other readers to try at home complete with step-by-step instructions and illustrations where needed. 8.5" x 11", 4 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $299.95 or Best Offer View scans Restored (see item notes) RESTORATION. Color touch, piece-fill, spine rebuild. Cover glued to first wrap. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by Paul Payne. Stories and art by Graham Ingels, Joe Doolin, Lily Renee, Fran Hopper, George Tuska, and Lee Elias. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. Good-girl art aplenty as Gale and her team are captured by the beautiful but deadly Butterfly Men of space; The Star Pirate refuses to join a pirate coalition on their next job, but now he knows too much about them; Hunt and Lyssa escape from an airborne Volta ship, only to find themselves in the ruins of Paris. Featuring art by pioneering female artists Fran Deitrick/Hopper and Lily Renee. The Lost World; Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron; Mars, God of War; Space Rangers; Life on Venus?; Norge Benson; The Star Pirate. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $35.10 View scans Discounted from $39.00.

Add to cart Very Good $21.60 View scans Discounted from $24.00.

Add to cart Very Good $21.60 View scans Staple rust. Rust migration. Spine stress. Corner Damage. Edge damage. Residue. Scuffing. Soiling. Discounted from $24.00.

Volume 3, Issue 1 - May, 1944. Pin-up magazine featuring non-nude photos of pin-up models. Cover by George Janes. 8.25-in. x 11-in., 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $5.40 View scans Paper: Off white to white Discounted from $6.00.

Vol. 81 #5 - May 1944. Mechanical science and technology magazine. Features include painting the military vehicles, aircraft and weapons, pilots versus the weather, sea-going smoke eaters and much more. 6 3/4-in x 9 1/2-in., 192 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.25.