Comic books in 'Pulp Adventure'

Add to cart Very Good $15.00 View scans Paper: Off white

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $14.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - October/November, 1939. 6.5" x 9.5", 132 pages, B&W.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $29.00 View scan

Canadian Edition. Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Fred Guardineer, Claude Moore, Tony DiPreta, 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. Mr. Crime narrates the tale of Clarence Reese, who wants to be like the famous gangsters he idolizes. Police investigate a shooting at a circus full of suspects, in a whodunit featuring the line "Who'd have believed that Waldo, the mind-reading midget, would turn out to be a blackmailer?" Killer Wilbur Stiles is undone by his well-known addiction to watching college basketball. Cover and first page feature a photo endorsement from police Captain Felix Lynch, approving of "this magazine as a good reading for red-blooded American youngsters." This endorsement was later cited (negatively) in the text of the classic anti-comics tome Seduction of the Innocent. Clarence Reese the Hero-Worshipper; Wilbur Stiles; Laff It Off; This'll Kill Ya!; On The Level; The Case of the Kidnapper's Pigeon; Who Dunnit. 48 pages, Full Color. 10¢ cover price. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $23.00 View scan

Canadian Edition. Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by George Tuska, Fred Guardineer, Claude Moore, Tony DiPreta, 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. Mr. Crime narrates the tale of Mac Royce, who ran a mob of bootleggers from his grocery store. After their accomplice is killed, two young aspiring criminals are outsmarted by an elderly watchman. A small-town sheriff captures two hoodlums on the run from the big city. Cover and first page feature endorsements from police Captain Felix Lynch and Mary Sullivan, NYPD Women's Bureau Chief, approving of "this magazine as a good reading for red-blooded American youngsters." Mac Royce; Science vs. the Criminal; "Spots" Norton and the Brand Brothers; Police Detection Quiz; On The Level; Our Police Hall of Fame; Sheriff Ted Benton; Who Dunnit. 48 pages, Full Color, 10¢ cover price. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $4.80

Add to cart Fine $4.80

1st printing. Written by S. Arthur Hart. Art and cover by Shane White. Ric Lopez dreams of something more. Something more than his fathers job, working as one of Groom Lakes aircraft mechanics. Something more than the one-room trailer where he attends school every day. Living on this top-secret military base, he dreams of becoming a scientist, an inventor, or maybe one of the local test pilots. But hes never dreamt of the strange and wonderful secrets he will face in discovering the truth behind Groom Lake! Softcover, 100 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations) Cover price $6.95.

Add to cart Very Good $17.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Staple rust. Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.

Volume 10, Issue 2 - May, 1935. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Near Mint $10.00

Add to cart Near Mint $10.00

1st printing. By Ron Fortier. Based on a real historical event during the Roosevelt administration! Guest starring pulp heroes The Green Lama, The Phantom Detective, and The Black Bat! Day of the Destroyers is an all-original linked prose anthology - each story is part of a larger arc wherein Jimmie Flint, Secret Agent X-11 of the Intelligence Service Command, battles to prevent the seditionist Medusa Council from engineering a bloody coup overthrowing our democracy. Agent X-11 fights across the country preventing an aerial assault on Chicago's rail lines, destroying a secret factory of gas meant to enthrall millions in New Mexico, racing to stop a machine of fantastic destruction in Manhattan, and so much more! Written by pulp fictioneers: Ron Fortier, Adam Lance Garcia, Gary Phillips, Paul Bishop, Jeri Westerson, Eric Fein, Tommy Hancock, Aaron Shaps, & Joe Gentile. Edited by Gary Phillips. Introduction by pulp historian and award-winning author Robert Weinberg. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 276 pages, Text Only. Cover price $23.95.

Add to cart Very Good $18.00 View scans Paper: Off white Foxing. Soiling. Tape on inside front cover.

Add to cart Very Good $18.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - April, 1940. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $33.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Foxing. Soiling. Water damage. Tape on inside front cover.

Volume 78, Issue 2 - August 5, 1933. 6.75" x 9.75", 146 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $13.00 View scans Paper: Cream

Volume 89, Issue 2 - November 17, 1934. 6.75" x 9.75", 146 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $72.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

"Spy!" a complete short novel by Max Brand.

Add to cart Fine $20.00 View scans Paper: Off white

Volume 96, Issue 3 - September 14, 1935. 6.75" x 9.75", 146 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $13.00 View scans Paper: Cream

Volume 97, Issue 1 - October 12, 1935. 6.75" x 9.75", 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.