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Master Comics (1940 Fawcett) comic books 1949

  • Issue #103
    Master Comics (1940 Fawcett) 103
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #4424280012
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

    Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Kurt Schaffenberger, Carl Pfeufer, John Jordan, 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. visits a suburban town populated by rehabilitated criminals he has captured, but one Anonymous Crook wants to take down Crooks Anonymous. Tom Mix does double duty as a bodyguard when two prospectors hire him to make sure they don't kill each other. Bulletman and Bulletgirl are captured by an arms dealer who is selling stolen bombs to Central American dictatorships. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Anonymous Crook!; Colonel Corn & Korny Kobb: Delirious Dairy Farmers; Nyoka: The Ivory Tusks Murders; Dizzy Daisy; Bulletman: The Vanishing Bombs; Zuzu the Zoo Keeper: Monkey Sees; Spud and Bud; Vacuum Bloobstutter: Pilfered Painting, or, Bloobstutter Boils About His Oils; Muscle Hedd; Tom Mix: Golden Treachery. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #108
    Master Comics (1940 Fawcett) 108
    • Pedigree: Crowley
    • Crowley Copy.
    • Label #0083590006

    Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Kurt Schaffenberger, Howard Boughner, Carl Pfeufer and John Jordan. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Captain Marvel Jr. Capt. Marvel Jr. runs afoul of a prankster whose jokes are deadly serious. Jungle queen Nyoka gets caught up in the search for onyx statues and must evade a deadly tar pit. After a cyclone destroys City Hall, Western hero Tom Mix helps lead the effort to rebuild, but a crooked contractor plans to swindle the town with shoddy materials and pocket the difference. Plus Comix Cards (like the later Marvel Value Stamps) featuring the original Captain Marvel (Shazam), Captain Marvel, Jr., and Mary Marvel. Capt. Marvel Jr.: Deathly Humor!; Muscle Hedd Hasn't a License!; Nyoka: The Mystery of the Jungle Tar Pit; Dizzy Daisy; Vacuum Bloobstutter in the Lion's Den; Tom Mix: Concrete Death; Bunkhouse Baraby. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.