Comic books August 1945

Cover art by Joe Musial. The Phantom strips, script by Lee Falk, art by Ray Moore. Tim Tyler's Luck strips, art by Lyman Young. Daffy Doodles strips, art by Doc Winner. Katzenjammer Kids strips, art by H.H. Knerr. Jungle Jim strips, art by Alex Raymond. Barney Google strips, art by Billy DeBeck. Blondie strips, art by Chic Young. Teddy and Sitting Bull strips, art by Joe Musial. Tillie the Toiler strips, art by Russ Westover. Prince Valiant strips, art by Hal Foster. They'll Do It Every Time strips, art by Jimmy Hatlo. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $249.95 or Best Offer View scans Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Cover detached. Cover oxidation. Water damage. Chew. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover pencils by Wayne Boring. Danger Highway starring Superman, pencils by Ira Yarbrough. A Winter Idyl starring Hayfoot Henry, art by Stan Kaye. The Dummy Art Expert starring The Vigilante, art by Mort Meskin (signed as Mort Morton Jr.). Dead Men's Falls starring Congo Bill, art by John Daly. The Show Goes On starring Zatara, art by William F. White. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $9.00 View scans Spine split 5%.

UK bi-weekly magazine focusing primarily on WWII era aircraft, but covering the whole history of flight. 8" x 11.5", 12 pages, B&W

Add to cart Good $9.00 View scans Spine split 5%.

UK bi-weekly magazine focusing primarily on WWII era aircraft, but covering the whole history of flight. 8" x 11.5", 12 pages, B&W

Add to cart Very Fine $13.00 View scans

Add to cart Poor $2.50 View scans Spine split 20%.

Add to cart Poor $2.50 View scans Centerfold missing. Staple rust: Slight.

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

Cover art by Paul Reinman. Death Unavoidably Detained starring Green Lantern, art by Paul Reinman; A death-row killer, King Shark, returns from the dead for 24 hours in an attempt to convince his former partners in crime to go straight. Excursion to Excitement starring Dr. Mid-Nite, script by Joseph Greene, art by Stan Aschmeier. Blooey Is Discovered starring Red, White and Blue, script by John B. Wentworth, art by Dennis Neville. Battle for a Free Press--Picture Stories from American History, script by M. C. Gaines, art by Don Cameron. Hippity Talks starring Hop Harrigan, script and art by Jon L. Blummer. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Hirschfield. Cover price $0.25.

Auction Item: VG+ 4.5 View scans Auction opens January 4 Creasing across back cover, store stamp on front cover.	Add to cart CGC 7.0 $455.00 View scans Paper: Light tan to off white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #0906377005	Add to cart CBCS 8.5 $1,855.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #0011389-AA-003 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics	Add to cart CGC 3.5 $272.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white Slab: Minor side edge crack Label #0231518006 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Add to cart CGC 3.0 $235.00 View scans Paper: Off white Slab: Minor side edge crack Label #0207862001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.	Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $119.95 or Best Offer View scans Water damage. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow	Add to cart CGC 2.0 $142.50 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Tape on 1st and 2nd page. Label #1221140002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.	Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $86.00 View scans 2" Cumulative spline split with heavy cover tearing. Cover detached at one staple and centerfold detached. Water damage with staple rust/migration. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Bill Vigoda. Stories by unknown. Art by Bill Vigoda, Bill Woggon, Bob Montana, Al McLean and Terry Szenics. Archie goes to a masquerade as a knight and Jughead goes as his horse. Archie causes choas at the masquerade, and particularly upsets his English teacher Mr. Squeegee in "A Horse's Tale"! Plus: A hypochondriac tells Mr. Andrews that he appears to be very sick in "The Physical Wreck"; Betty and Veronica make life masks in "The Plastic Mask"; Archie is cooking pancakes when the air raid siren goes off -- he has to turn off all the lights in the house and keep his pancakes from burning at the same time in the Archie Short "Blitzed By the Blackout"; a tale starring Dotty and Ditto; and Archie caddies for Mr. Andrews and does more harm than good in "The Caddy"! Plus: When Archie breaks Mr. Weatherbee's typewriter, it's up to Archie and Jughead to fix it in the 2-page text story "You Can't Kill a Guy For Trying"! Also: "Match Wits With Archie" activity page! 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $17.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $4.00

Volume 35, Issue 6 - August, 1945. Cover by William Timmins. Science Fiction and adventure stories, this issue features "World of A: Part 1" by A.E. Van Vogt. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $17.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Published by Popular Publications Cover price $0.15.

Stories and art by Ray Krank, Ham Fisher, Frank Tinsley, Alfred Andriola, J. P. McEvoy, John Striebel, Frank Beck and Mart Bailey. Big Shot featured reprints of McNaught Syndicate humor and adventure strips, alongside original characters like Skyman and The Face. When Fawn is abducted by Nazi spies, Skyman gets out his new jet-powered plane, Feather, which can hover in midair. Sparky, Hedy and Slap Happy vacation at Mr. Hodgers' ranch in Texas, and try to help him raise the money for his mortgage before Mr. Gold seizes the property. Charlie Chan tells the story of when he went after The Gentleman Thief. Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Captain Yank; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; The Face; Skyman; Brass Knuckles; Skyman Rides the Whirlwind. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $105.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Slight. Foreign edition: Canada.

Canadian Reprint Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $10.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

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

Add to cart Very Good $15.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

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

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $500.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4288327005 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Tom Gill. Stories and art by Joe Donohoe, Ray Gill, Jim Wilcox, Robert Pious, Jack Hearne, Harold DeLay, Pam Robinson, Milt Hammer and Tom Gill. Sometimes listed as Blue Bolt #58. Former superhero Blue Bolt soars as an aviator hero in WWII. Cap Hawkins tells the true story of the B-29 Super Fortress bomber. Sergeant Spook helps Jerry when he gets mixed up with an eccentric portrait painter and a rich kid who looks just like him. Also featuring an ad for Tootsie Rolls, "Captain Tootsie Battles Monster Man!" Cover (a War Bonds promotion) features portraits of various American WWII generals and admirals, including future President Dwight Eisenhower. Inside front cover features a message from those same military figures, again promoting War Bonds, a WWII funding drive. Dick Cole; Old Cap Hawkins True Tales; Edison Bell: The Disappearing Act; Make Edison Bell's Professional Magician's Magic Box; Thorns of the Devil; Blue Bolt; Krisko and Jasper; Fearless Fellers; Sgt. Spook; Bluebolts and Nuts. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $99.00 View scans Centerfold detached. Cover oxidation. Staple rust. Water damage and staining. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Rudy Palais, Dick Briefer, Bob Montana, Alan Mandel, Dick Wood and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. Gangsters invade a country club, forcing Crimebuster to intervene, in a pre-Code story (and cover) of Murder on the Golf Course. Yankee Longago encounters Ponce De Leon and The Fountain of Youth, in a different story from the one in issue #14, featuring art by Dick Briefer. Swoop Storm's rocket plane ditches him in the wilds of Alaska, where he meets hillbillies and one last cadre of Japanese soldiers, featuring art by Archie creator Bob Montana. Crimebuster; Swoop Storm; Boy Comics Hero of the Month; Daredevil and the Crying Killer; Little Dynamite Plays Cupid; Young Robinhood; Yankee Longago. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $80.00 View scan

Add to cart Fair $2.50

Part text articles, part comics. Photo cover. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $94.95 or Best Offer View scan Interior is complete, but brittle. Full length spine split through cover and all wraps, heavy chipping. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Carmine Infantino, Nina Albright, Rudy Palais, A. Culverwell, Maurice del Bourgo, Al Hollingsworth, and Paul Parker. A patriotic WWII aviator hero whose motto is "Keep 'Em Flyin'!" Miss Victory must stop Axis scientist Fujo and his last-ditch weapon against the Allies, the Globe of Death. Fact-based stories about the war blimps of the US Navy Coastal Patrol (with art by Al Hollingsworth) and wartime air-traffic control (with art by Carmine Infantino). Plus non-fiction stories about the Budd RB-1 Conestoga "flying boxcar," B-25 Bomber, Curtis Commando plane and Douglass SBD Dauntless. Cover by legendary artist L. B. Cole. Captain Aero - Traitor!; Miss Victory; Curtis Commando; Flying Arsenal; The Mighty Mite: Movie Menace Is Malarkey; Pacific Pandemonium; Blimp Blitz; Interceptor Command; Douglass SBD Dauntless; Captain Aeros Sky Scouts: The Old Man of the Air; The Red Cross. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Includes: Alex Schomburg cover art; The League of Hate, art by Vince Alascia; The Gem of Destruction starring Human Torch, Pencils by Carmine Infantino; Symphony of Death, art by Alascia; Shipwreck text story; Murder By Proxy, and art by Alascia. 52 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $599.95 or Best Offer View scans Restored (see item notes) RESTORATION. Spine rebuild, piece fill, color touch. INCOMPLETE. First page missing (affects Cat-Man story). Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Add to cart PR 0.5 $799.95 or Best Offer View scans Interior is complete. Extensive accumulation of defects. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Leo Morey, Bob Fujitani, Nina Albright, Ed Wheelan and Rudy Palais. The adventures of Cat-Man and other early superheroes from the Golden Age of comics. Cat-Man's arch-foe Dr. Macabre steals the Z-Ray, which gives him the ability to kill by touch. An art professor plays a key role in stealing a painting from a gallery, in The Hood's final Golden Age appearance. Reporters Molly O'Moore and Scoop Scanlon are invited to cover a man's murder while it happens. Another offbeat cover by L. B. Cole. Cat-Man: The Man Who Conquered Death!; The Deacon: The Zombie Master; Molly O'Moore and Scoop Scanlon; The Cat Came Back; Hypnosis In Reverse; Little Leaders: Carnival of Crime; The Hood: Portraits of Plunder; The Reckoner: Corpses Don't Stay Cold. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $2.50 View scans Spine split 5%. Cover Detached. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 17, Issue 3 - August 1945. Features creative stories, poems, rebuses, recipes, activities, crafts, science experiments, and health articles for children. 6-in. x 9-in. 52 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $1,800.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4390430013 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $699.95 or Best Offer View scans 1.5" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Dick Sprang. Stories by Alvin Schwartz, Jack Farr and unknown. Art by Dick Sprang, Jack Farr, Howard Sherman, George Roussos and Louis Cazeneuve. The Joker turns the tables on logic, holding a home for ransom instead of people. And to top it off, it all is one giant trap in the Batman and Robin tale "The House That Was Held for Ransom!" by Alvin Schwartz and Dick Sprang. Plus: Three-Ring Binks in an untitled story by Jack Farr; Slam Bradley in "Smash Your Baggage!" with art by Howard Sherman; Air Wave in "Of Mice and Muggs!" with art by George Roussos; and The Boy Commandos in "The Floating Evil!" with art by Louis Cazeneuve (not by Simon and Kirby, despite the listed credits). Also: 2-page text story "Crime's Henchman" by Ted Udall (as Ted Loury). 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $19.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%.

Volume 44, 1st Printing - "The Evil Star" by John Spain. Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $19.00 View scans

Aug. 7, 1945. Weekly movie magazine published in Chile. Cover of Glenn Ford, back cover of June Allyson. 8-in. x 11-in., 30 pages, B&W. NOTE: Spanish language.