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Master Comics (1940 Fawcett) comic books 1947

  • Issue #79
    Master Comics (1940 Fawcett) 79
    • Cover detached. Water damage. Staple rust, rust migration. Cover and interior oxidation.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    Cover by Bud Thompson. Stories and art by Stan Kaye, Ken Champin, Bill Brady and Dick MacKay. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Captain Marvel Jr., Bulletman and Bulletgirl. When Uncle Safar needs a penicillin shipment that has crashed in the jungle, Nyoka braves cannibal territory to find it and bring it to him. Richard Richard, Private Dick (detective) stumbles on a 3-cent stamp scam, in whimsical spoof of private eye stories. "International policeman" Radar is assigned to protect a Salibian diplomat, unaware that he diplomat has already been kidnapped and replaced. Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Captures the Red Terror!, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Black Shroud; Giggle Gags; Lumber Jack; Nyoka: Headhunters' Haven; Trader Tom; For the Master Mind; Bulletman: The Daffy Desperadoes; Tumbleweed Jr.; For the Master Mind; Hear Some Evil, See Some Evil; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: The Big Sale; Richard Richard, Private Dick: The Case of the Missing Stamps; Radar: The Death-Dealing Playboy. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #80
    Master Comics (1940 Fawcett) 80
    • Pedigree: Crowley
    • Crowley Copy/ File Copy
    • Label #0083588001

    Cover by Bud Thompson. Stories and art by Bud Thompson and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Captain Marvel Jr., Bulletman and Bulletgirl. Capt. Marvel Jr. follows a backwards-walking giant to the Land of Backwards, where everything is reversed, and doesn't know whether he's coming or going. Kidnappers think they can hide their hostages in the jungle and no one will be able to find them, but they don't know Nyoka. When a former vaudeville performing dog is trained for robbery, Bulletman's flying dog Bulletdog pounces into action. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade, and a Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie's Counter-Spook, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Land of Backwards; High Strung; Lumber Jack; Nyoka: Ransom Double Cross; Trader Tom; Lumber Jack; Bulletman: Bulletdog Takes Over!; Tumbleweed Jr.; For the Master Mind; Giggle Gags; He Caught a Dictator Singlehanded; Whipper-Snappers; Radar: The Mission to Calcutta. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.