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Clue Comics (1943) comic books 1947

  • Issue #12
    Clue Comics (1943) 12
    Published Feb 1947 by Hillman.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #1199733005
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

    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.