Airboy Comics (1945-1953 Hillman) comic books

Auction Item: GD- 1.8 View scans Auction opens February 3 1" Cumulative spine split (chew). Water damage.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $16.75 View scans Cover detached, glued to spine of interior wraps. Full length spine split to cover. Piece missing, slightly interrupts art. Staples added (not manufacturing). Staple rust. Rust migration.

Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk, Tony DiPreta, Ed Young and Maurice Whitman. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Numbering continues from Air Fighters Comics Vol. 2 (1943-1945) #10. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #23. No issue # on cover; Vol. 2, issue #11 in indicia. Airboy volunteers to take the mysterious object called The Spot to Tokyo, even though it's a suicide mission. Sky Wolf seeks a mysterious one-winged bird figurine before the Nazis get it first. The Flying Dutchman braves occupied territory to rescue a friend shot down behind enemy lines. Airboy; Sky Wolf; Skinny McGinty The Loser; Iron Ace; Flying Dutchman. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $59.95 or Best Offer View scan Water damage. Interior tearing. Cover oxidation. Staple rust, rust migration. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Arthur Peddy and Bernard Sachs. Stories and art by Dick Wood, Fred Kida, Arthur Peddy, Bernard Sachs, Frank Bolle and Leonard Starr. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #47. No issue # on cover; Vol. 4, issue #12 in indicia. Airboy seeks the lost fortune stashed by an exiled mobster. Eccentric botanist Dr. Drake and The Heap board a ship for South America, but unfortunately, so do drug smugglers. Flying Fool is invited to the funeral of Shanghai gangster Kilroy by Kilroy himself. Airboy: Racket King Deported Today; The Heap; Model Builders with Airboy; The Prize Was Darkness; Flying Fool: The Card Edged in Black; Big Man's Head: A True Story. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $725.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #3845203009 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Add to cart GD 2.0 $149.95 or Best Offer View scan Water damage. Staple rust, rust migration. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Dan Barry. Stories and art by Arthur Peddy, Bernard Sachs, Frank Giacoia and Fred Kida. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #49. No issue # on cover; Vol. 5, issue #2 in indicia. Airboy hears a raving man's tale of The Wild Horse of Calabra. A Central American prospector tries to kill his partner to claim their find for himself, but he hadn't reckoned on The Heap, or human greed. Flying Fool and his female rival Riot O'Hara race to claim a dangerous job in the wilds of northern China. Eye-catching cover by Flash Gordon's Dan Barry. Airboy: The Wild Horse of Calabra; The Heap; Model Builders with Airboy; Right On Time; Horsethief; Flying Fool; The Golden Altar of Panama. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $540.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #4081487002

Add to cart VG 4.0 $130.00 View scans

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Leonard Starr, Clement Weisbacker and Ernest Schroeder. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #59. No issue # on cover; Vol. 5, issue #12 in indicia. Airboy is captured by an army of intelligent rats, in the second part of a legendary two-parter. A madman plans to flood a refugee camp to claim the land for himself, until The Heap gets involved. The true story of the legendary Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg. Airboy and the Rats, Part 2; The Flying Fool; The Heap; Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg; The Orioles Flew High; Amby, Junior Boogey-Man; Wilderness Victor. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $73.00 View scans 3" Cumulative spine split. Centerfold detached.

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Ken Battefield, John Belfi, and Ernest Schroeder. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #62. No issue # on cover; Vol. 6, issue #3 in indicia. Airboy enters the boxing ring to help a friend and runs afoul of crooked fight promoters. A comics biography of legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley. A Chinese counterfeiting gang abducts Riot O'Hara to lure The Flying Fool into a trap. Also featuring a vintage ad for the "All-Over Rain Cover," basically a tent-shaped two-person umbrella. Cover includes the seal of the ACMP, a precursor of the Comics Code. Airboy; The Flying Fool; The First Buccaneer; Sure-Shot Annie; Cheese-Box On a Raft. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $215.00 View scans Paper: Off white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #4029288009

Cover by Ernest Schroeder. Stories and art by John Prentice and Ernest Schroeder. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #75. No issue # on cover; Vol. 7, issue #4 in indicia. Airboy's old foe Zzed returns from the dead, with a plot to melt the polar icecaps and flood the world. The Heap is drawn into a battle over the oil-rich swamps where he was transformed from a human into a heap. The true story of 1890s baseball legend Willie Keeler. Airboy; The Heap; Sea Gypsies of Borneo; Little "Slug"; A Man Against Mt. Everest; The Sun Dance. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $225.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #4445019009 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Ernest Schroeder. Stories and art by Ernest Schroeder and others. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #79. No issue # on cover; Vol. 7, issue #8 in indicia. Airboy encounters an actual centaur in the shadow of the Great Wall of China. In Sicily, The Heap intervenes when an old friend from his human past is in danger. The little-known true story of the Texas Navy, during the Republic of Texas era of the 1830s. Also featuring a vintage ad for "Lucky Skull Ring," "Lucky Pirate Ring" and other charming mail-order novelties. Epic centaur-meets-plane cover by Ernest Schroeder. Airboy Meets the Centaur; The Heap; The Texas Navy; Swifty Chase; The Men in the Blankets; The Longest Fight; The Black-Browed Pirate; And It's a Fact. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $200.00 View scans Restored (see item notes) RESTORATION. Amateur piece fill and color touch.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $105.00 View scans 3/4" Spine split from bottom. Lateral spine tear. Centerfold detached.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $249.95 or Best Offer View scans Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Ernest Schroeder. Stories and art by Bill Ely, Gerald McCann, Ed Cronin and Ernest Schroeder. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #100. No issue # on cover; Vol. 9, issue #5 in indicia. Airboy goes undercover in a nuclear sub factory to catch a saboteur. A colonial lord in North Africa uses strange moonlight plants to return from the dead, drawing the attention of The Heap. A Balkan couple raises a boy who has been bitten by a werewolf. Airboy; The Heap: The Man of Moonlight; Money Facts; The Wolf Boy of Krakow; The Bag Man; The Crown of Coort. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $16.00 View scan 3.25" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple. Centerfold detached. Margin pieces torn out, slightly interrupts art.

Blackhawk #56 9/1952, with the first ever War Wheel cover, appeared just two months before this issues of Airboy was release.

Cover by Ernest Schroeder. Stories and art by Ernest Schroeder and others. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #106. No issue # on cover; Vol. 9, issue #10 in indicia. The Eboli aliens (from the previous issue) attack Earth with their gigantic wheel-shaped war machines. A survivor of the long-dead Thuggee death cult seeks revenge on the man who brought about its downfall. A murderous English soldier discovers the horrifying truth about toy soldiers from voodoo country. Airboy; The Heap; The Twanging String; The Lead Soldiers of Haiti; Money of Yesterday; The Outlaw Champion; Island Without Exit; The Big Texas Spread. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $240.00 View scans

Cover by Ernest Schroeder. Stories and art by Bob Jenney and Ernest Schroeder. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #108. No issue # on cover; Vol. 10, issue #1 in indicia. Airboy helps an aviation pioneer who's being blackmailed over a 30-year-old crash that might have been an accident or murder. In Scandinavia, The Heap helps a man try to save his village from a disastrous civil engineering scheme. The story of circus pioneer Hachaliah Bailey's first elephant. Airboy; The Heap; 10¢ a Look; The Spanish Stab; The Finger of Asia; Bits from the Blue; The Rabbit of the Baselines. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.