Comic books published by Harry A. Chesler, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $1,200.00 Paper: Off white Label #4465051002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($36.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Jack Cole, Charles Biro, Bob Wood, Fred Schwab, Fred Guardineer, Rafael Astarita, Frank Frollo, Maurice Gutwirth, Jack Romer, Richard Dean, George Nagle, Ken Fitch, Joe Penner, Hal Raynor, Will Harr, Claire Moe, Dick Ryan, and Bob McCay (credited as Winsor McCay, Jr.). An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, as a giveaway for Cocomalt, a powdered-drink company. Cocomalt sponsored a popular radio show featuring comedian Joe Penner, who appears here in short comic strips. Early stories and art by comics legends Jack Cole (creator of Plastic Man) and Will Eisner. featuring radio comedian Joe Penner. A rare Little Nemo in Slumberland strip drawn by Bob McCay, son of original Nemo artist Winsor McCay (credited here as Winsor McCay, Jr.), plus a one-page strip featuring Little Nemo's Impy. Also featuring early stories by Charles Biro and Bob Wood, later the minds behind the notorious Crime Does Not Pay comic. Cover is also by Biro. Little Nemo in Slumberland; Insurance Ike; Officer Skelly; Tommy the Bear Scout; Cowboy Joe Penner; Put On Your Own Radio Show; When the Berry Blossoms; Boodini the Great; The Wild Cat; Lucky Coyne; Impy; Myrth-Parade; Spots; Sky Menace; Senior Symphony; Brain Teasers; Bib and Tucker; Round Table Adventures; Dan Hastings; Adventures In Goobyland; King Kole's Kourt; Animal Crackers; Laughing At Life; Don't Look Now; Nothing But the Truth; Tell Me? Mr. Wise Guy. 48 pages, Full Color.

Add to cart CGC 0.3 $3,250.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Coverless. Label #4551475001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($97.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Gus Ricca. Stories and art by Charles Sultan and Fred Schwab. Issues #4 - #7 were not called Dynamic Comics, but may have been part of another series. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, featuring superhero and adventure stories. Axis wizard the Yellow Spot kills an American scientist, but not before he can activate his greatest creation, the superhero Dynamic Man, who quickly finds the Spot's weakness. A strange force gives playboy Ray Cardell X-ray vision and powerful eyebeams, which he uses to battle crime as Master Key. Voice-throwing superhero The Echo investigates claims of a murderous monster stalking the moors, aided by his sister Cora and his scientist brother named "Dr. Doom." Freaky faces cover by Gus Ricca. Yankee Boy; Lil Arthur; Dynamic Man; The Record Quarter Mile; Lucky Coyne: The Case of the Screaming Idiots; Boss of the Ranch; Introducing the Master Key; Stamp-O-Grams; The Echo; Yankee Doodle Jones: The Case of the Strangling Hair; The Forbidden Fruit; Dan Hastings. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Dynamic Comics (1941 Chesler) 11 CGC 4.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4617012001

Cover by Gus Ricca. Stories and art by Otto Eppers, Joe Beck and Fred Schwab. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, featuring superhero and adventure stories. Transformed by science, Ricky McQuade, younger brother of Dynamic Man, becomes Dynamic Boy. Mr. E hears a dying man's words and learns that a series of tenement fires are actually arson. Dan Hastings battles the underground kingdom of Sub-Earth when their forces steal America's vital radium supplies. Dynamic Man; Jest for Fun; Lucky Coyne; Yankee Boy; The Dead Man Plays; Ima Sleuth; Dan Hastings; Li'l Arthur; The Echo; The Sting of Death; Mr. E. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $1,750.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4668279022 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($52.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Gus Ricca. Untitled story, art by Al Plastino; A masked man orders a tribe of nomads to kidnap children for him. Untitled story starring Mr. E, art by Charles Sultan. Untitled Ima Slooth story, pencils by Joe Beck, inks by Otto Eppers. "The Mystery of the Inlaid Box" text story; Kent's friend George has an inlaid box his father sent him before he died. Untitled story, art by W. J. Madden; A special fluid saves Kent's life and gives him superpowers, which he uses to fight crime. Untitled Dan Hastings story, art by George Tuska. Untitled The Echo story, art by Rafael Astarita. Untitled Lucky Coyne story, art by J. Cavallo; Lucky takes the case of finding a kidnapped painter. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $1,150.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Slab: Chipped/broken bracket Label #4384461003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($34.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Gus Ricca. Untitled story, art by Al Plastino; A masked man orders a tribe of nomads to kidnap children for him. Untitled story starring Mr. E, art by Charles Sultan. Untitled Ima Slooth story, pencils by Joe Beck, inks by Otto Eppers. "The Mystery of the Inlaid Box" text story; Kent's friend George has an inlaid box his father sent him before he died. Untitled story, art by W. J. Madden; A special fluid saves Kent's life and gives him superpowers, which he uses to fight crime. Untitled Dan Hastings story, art by George Tuska. Untitled The Echo story, art by Rafael Astarita. Untitled Lucky Coyne story, art by J. Cavallo; Lucky takes the case of finding a kidnapped painter. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $500.00 Paper: Cream to off white Top edge label strip is coming loose. Label #0062977005

Cover by Joe Beck. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Bob Wood, Dick Ryan, Joe Beck, Otto Eppers, Russell Keaton, Rick Yager, Cal Cagno, Fred Schwab and Fred Guardineer. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler. Happy Landing accidentally gets an adrenaline shot instead of a tetanus shot, and becomes a super-soldier for an exactly one enemy engagement. Short comedy strips, sometimes just one panel, with titles like Wise Crackers and Shinanigans. Historical and educational strips, including little-known facts about animals, and the adventures of King Arthur. Also featuring early humor strips by Charles Biro and Bob Wood, later the minds behind the notorious Crime Does Not Pay comic. Tenderfoot Joe; Tenderfoot Mary; Wild West Junior; Happy Landing; Gooby-Land; Animal Wise Crackers; Cowboy Jake; Lyin' Lou; Pokey Forgets to Remember; The Age of Animals; Bright and Early; Tom, Dick, and Mary; Dot and Dash; Land o' Nod; Red Starr; Professor McScrewy; Ima Sphinx; Court of Inhuman Relations; Jest the Type; Joe McGee; G-Whizz; Round Table Adventures; Foxy Grandpa; Runt and Tuffy; Shinanigans; Cheerio Minstrels; King Kole's Kourt. 48 pages, Full Color. Note: #10 is the only issue (#1 on inside indicia). Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $1,490.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #3894363001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($44.70) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Paul Gattuso. Stories and art by E. G. Letkeman and Albert Monn. Superior takes over publishing of the humor and adventure anthology from Chesler / Dynamic. This issue features unpublished stories left over from the Chesler era. Jungle hero Zor is captured while searching for Dela Parker in the subterranean world of Koz, but luckily his pet saber-toothed tiger Nu comes to his rescue. The Robin Hood-like El Tigre discovers a plot to murder a banker among the loot from a stagecoach robbery, and sets out to save him. Zor the Mighty; Sir Guy; Doctor Justice; Impy; Space Nomads; El Tigre, Robin Hood of the Desert; Ace Atkins; The Clue. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $6,499.00 or Best Offer Paper: Light tan to off white Label #4313682001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($194.97) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by George Tuska, Ken Battefield, Ernie Hart, Charles Sultan, Richard Speed, Bill Madden and Art Pinajian. A catch-all anthology from Chesler / Dynamic, featuring adventure, superheroes and comedy. Rocketman investigates after an atomic scientist is murdered and his daughter is kidnapped. Rocket Boy takes his flying suit to Africa to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance, but first he must find a lost diamond mine and battle a lion. In a macabre, unusual story, heroic witch Mother Hubbard battles a band of ogres that are stealing children's eyes; if she beats them, she can magically restore the eyes. Mother Hubbard was listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Fun cover by an unknown artist. Master Key; Rocketman; Plenty of Noise for a Penny; Mother Hubbard; Scoop Daily: Sacrifice; Rocketboy; Globe Trotter; Dan Hastings: The Return of Dr. Strange; Corporal Grant. Title changes to Yankee Comics (1941 Armed Service Edition) for issues #4-7. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $1,995.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #2050381019 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($59.85) will be charged at checkout.

Yankee Doodle Jones and Dandy in "The Case of the Strangling Hair," the Echo (with Dr. Doom--not the Marvel villain), the Firebrand, Scarlet Sentry, Black Satan, the Enchanted Dagger, Nemo in Slumberland, and Sergeant Steele. Packaged by Harry A. Chesler Features Syndicate; no art credits are listed, but the work is similar to that produced by the Eisner & Iger Studio (Lou Fine, Will Eisner, et al.). Cover price $0.10.