Clue Comics (1943) comic books

Cover by Alan Mandel and Dan Barry. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Bob Wood, Alan Mandel, Dan Barry, Tony DiPreta, Al Ulmer, Pierce Rice and John Cassone. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. An exiled teen ruler flees the Nazis with his people and an ancient colossus built by Nostradamus, becoming The Boy King and the Giant. Ex-soldier and private eye Terry Gardner becomes Twilight, a masked hero battling crime with the aid of his parrot, Snoopy. An inventor uses a high-tech mask to avenge his brother's murder by gangsters, becoming the hero Micro-Face. The Boy King and the Giant!; Checking the Checker; Stupid Manny; Micro-Face; Smoke Rings of Death; Zippo; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers; Murder Before the Footlights. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Alan Mandel and Dan Barry. Stories and art by Alan Mandel, Tony DiPreta, Al Ulmer, and John Cassone. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Nightmare and his sidekick Sleepy investigate when Sunnytown's gravity suddenly gets turned off. Zippo uses his powered skates to investigate a doll factory that is smuggling steel to America's enemies during wartime. Twilight and Snoopy investigate suspicious doings at a museum, and encounter the villain known as The Porcupine. The Boy King: A Leader Against Crime!; Nightmare and Sleepy: The Upside-Down Town; Stupid Manny; Micro-Face; Detectives Have Brains; Zippo; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers; Twilight: The Quilled Death!! 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Barry. Stories and art by Dan Barry, Alan Mandel, Tony DiPreta, Pierce Rice, Arturo Cazeneuve and John Cassone. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Nightmare and Sleepy are fearsome in their skeleton-based costumes, but not as terrifying as the Corpse That Steals Men's Faces. The military learns of an Axis plan to destroy Boulder Dam, and luckily, the one man they tell about it is secretly the superhero Zippo. Jackie Law and his pals Buck, Corny, Gorilla and Froggy form a gang that fights crime as the Boy Rangers. The Boy King; Nightmare and Sleepy: The Corpse That Steals Living Men's Faces; Stupid Manny; Micro-Face; The Forgotten Key; Zippo; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers; Twilight. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $149.95 or Best Offer View scan INCOMPLETE. First wrap missing, interrupts art and story. Cover detached. Large cover tear. 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 Dan Barry, Alan Mandel, Tony DiPreta, and John Cassone. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Hitler orders scientists to create a Nazi robot tyrannosaur to battle the Giant and the Boy King. Nightmare and Sleepy battle a villain whose skill is making ultra-realistic silhouettes in a short time. Micro-Face becomes caught up in the deadly hunt for the cursed gem called the Fire of Kenya. The Boy King and the Giant; Nightmare and Sleepy: The Silhouettes of Death!!; Stupid Manny; Micro-Face; The Blind Detective; Zippo; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers; Twilight. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Barry. Stories and art by Dan Barry, Alan Mandel, Tony DiPreta, and John Cassone. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. The Crane, a Nazi agent with telescoping arms, targets the Giant and the Boy King. Nightmare and Sleepy battle a prison baseball team who continue their baseball-themed crimes after being paroled. Micro-Face investigates a murder, but the body is nowhere to be found. The Boy King and the Giant; Nightmare and Sleepy: The Crooked Nine and the Diamond Robberies!!!; Stupid Manny; Micro-Face; The Tall Witness; Zippo; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers; Twilight. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Barry. Stories and art by Harry Kiefer, Maurice Del Bourgo, Dave Curtis, Alan Mandel, Tony DiPreta, Ray Willner and Al Ulmer. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. The Boy King meets Muggsy and the Little Angels, a gang of street kids in the tradition of the Dead End Kids, and learns that Muggsy is his long-lost identical twin brother. In a Wyoming ghost town, Nightmare and Sleepy stumble upon a forgotten gold mine, but a Nazi fifth columnist wants it too. Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers take on "Brains" Briefer, crime's cleverest crook. The Boy King and the Giant: Introducing... Muggsy and the Little Angels; Nightmare and Sleepy; Stupid Manny; Micro-Face; Waterproof Alibi; Zippo; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers; Two-Faced Town. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Tony DiPreta. Stories and art by Art Seymour, Charles Tomsey, Dave Curtis, Tony DiPreta, and John Cassone. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. The Boy King, Giant and Muggsy battle Dr. Plasma, a sinister Nazi tattoo artist who uses the backs of spies to transmit secret data. Micro-Face investigates why thugs are stealing lampshades from various places around town. Twilight goes into action when wild animals stalk the city streets. The Boy King and the Giant; Nightmare and Sleepy; Stupid Manny's One-Man Gym; Micro-Face; The Fussy Killer; Zippo: The Goblin's Playground; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers: The Underground Gold Factory; Two-Faced Town. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Rudy Palais. Stories and art by Art Seymour, Charles Tomsey, Tony DiPreta, David Huntley and Rudy Palais. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. The Boy King battles a circus of crime that wants a golden statue containing his country's treasure. Nightmare and Sleepy investigate a hearse that mysteriously appears right before someone dies. Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers go after a criminal who has stolen a helicopter, then a relatively new device. The Boy King and the Giant; Nightmare and Sleepy; Stupid Manny: One-Man Paper Drive; Micro-Face; The Perfect Crime; Zippo: The Goblin's Playground; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers: The Underground Gold Factory; Two-Faced Town. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Art Seymour, Ed Cronin, Tony DiPreta, and Maurice del Bourgo. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Nightmare and Sleepy were listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Boy King and Giant face Paris, a chess-playing android altered by a criminal into using its high-tech powers for crime and murder. Nightmare and Sleepy battle a baron obsessed with recreating the lifestyle and crimes of his medieval ancestors. Twilght and Snoopy (his trained parrot) pursue counterfeiters who are burning their money for some sinister reason. The Boy King and the Giant: That Paris Should Know the Boy King!!; Nightmare and Sleepy; Stupid Manny; Their Strangest Case; Twilight: Money to Burn!; Skinny McGinty; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Fred Kida. Stories and art by Fred Kida, John Belfi, Charles W. Winter, Tony DiPreta, and Carmine Infantino. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Nightmare and Sleepy were listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Dumas Poe, descendant of the inventor of the gun, is recruited by a secret order dedicated to ending crimes of the gun, becoming the sharpshooting Gun Master. Rival gangs threaten all-out gang warfare, and only Micro-Face and his high-tech mask can stop them. Wrestler heroes Nightmare and Sleepy trace missing athletes to a madman's modern-day gladiatorial games. Gun Master: The Birth of the Gun!; Micro-Face: The Man Who Lost His Face; Stupid Manny; The Trap; Nightmare and Sleepy: Wanted for Murder; Pass to the Present: Nero; The Story of Caleb Scott. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Fred Kida. Stories and art by Fred Kida, Art Helfant, Ray Houlihan, Tony DiPreta, Dick Hall and Maurice del Bourgo. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Nightmare and Sleepy were listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Gun Master seeks a new radar-controlled bullet, but blonde femme fatale Velvet Silver is smuggling the plans away, in a story with nice bad-girl art by Fred Kida. The eccentric Dr. Royce bets a railroad magnate $1 million that he can steal an entire train. Hired killers seek a Thai idol that can grant wishes, but soon wish they hadn't found it. Gun Master; Nightmare and Sleepy; Fetlock Groans the Detective; Stupid Manny; Cedric the Sissy; Trouble at Mickey's: A Gunmaster Story; Cornie Corner; The Secret of Krishnu; Swifty; Micro-Face. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Fred Guardineer, Art Helfant, Bernard Sachs, Alden McWilliams, and Jack Keller. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Nightmare and Sleepy were listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Gun Master infiltrates a secret club of gangsters and killers, The Gat Frat, and meets blonde femme fatale Velvet Silver again. Little person Craig Mansfield invents telescopic stilts to make himself tall, and uses them to fight crime as the superhero Rackman. Nightmare and Sleepy battle The Scorpion, who enslaves his victims, in their last appearance together in the Golden Age. Gun Master; Rackman; Nightmare and Sleepy; Fetlock Groans the Detective; Phantom of the River; A Cop Is Born; Boy King; Cornie Corner; The Secret of Krishnu; Swifty; Micro-Face. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.