Auctions: comic books 1944, graded by CBCS
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Item #60896214
Tags: Justice League/SocietyAll Star Comics (1940-1978) 23 CBCS 6.0
Paper: Off white to white
Label #0008015-AA-009
Ends Jun 17 6:01 PM CST Bid History 22 bids Current Bid $480 Your Secret Max Bid If you'd like to bid, please log in or register. Winter 1945. The Justice Society stars in "The Plunder of the Psycho-Pirate." Plot by Gardner Fox and Shaldon Mayer, script by Fox. Art by Joe Gallagher plus individual chapters featuring Hawkman (art by Sheldon Moldoff), Starman (art by Stan Aschmeier), Dr. Mid-nite (art by Aschmeier), Johnny Thunder (art by Aschmeier), the Spectre (art by Gallagher), and the Atom (art by Gallagher). No Wonder Woman. Two-page text story, "Peruvian Problem." Gallagher cover. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60755950
Published 1944 by Archie Publications.Archie (1943 Archie Comics) 4 CBCS 3.0
Paper: Off white to white
Label #0003625-AC-002
Ends Jun 17 6:04 PM CST Bid History 7 bids Current Bid $250 Your Secret Max Bid If you'd like to bid, please log in or register. Cover by Harry Sahle. Stories by Ed Goggin, Harry Sahle and unknown. Art by Harry Sahle, Joe Edwards, Clem Weisbacker, Zoltan Szenics and Janice Valleau. Archie wreaks havoc on Bingle B. Bungling's circus in "Circus Serenade"! Plus, Mr. Andrews forecasts the weather and Jughead and Archie end up in swimming trunks during a snowstorm in "Spring Fever" (note: first appearance of Souphead, Jughead's younger cousin)! Also, Bumbie stars in "Swing It, Bee-thoven"! Meanwhile, Mr. Andrews wants Archie to sell Oscar because he eats too much in "Oscar the Watch-Dog"! And Jughead plays Cops and Robbers with Souphead and his friends in "Jughead and Souphead"! Plus, Cubby stars in "Cubby Hangs a Picture"! Also, Betty and Veronica take jobs at the same hospital when Archie is there in "Glamour In White"! And Mr. Andrews goes to the department store to find out why his folding chair won't open in "Birthday Blues"! Plus: 2-page text story "Archie the Fixer" by Bob Gorman. Full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #57706563
Published Oct 1944 by Fiction House.Fight Comics (1940) 34 CBCS 4.0
Paper: Off white to white
Label #22-1281DA1-001
Starts Jul 6 Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by M.E. Peacock and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Robert Webb, Alex Blum, Ann Brewster, H.C. Kiefer, Lily Renee and George Tuska. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Tiger Girl must prove a white man stole a precious idol before tribal warfare erupts, in a story with possible art by Matt Baker; More good-girl art as Hooks Devlin investigates the "lamp-post Mata Haris" who are causing US soldiers to desert; Senorita Rio investigates Nazi U-boat attacks on ships near the Panama Canal. Another offbeat bondage cover by Joe Doolin. Rip Carson; Tiger Girl; Hooks Devlin; Kayo Kirby; Silent Cannons; Shark Brodie; Senorita Rio. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #61115223
Published 1944 by William H. Wise.It Really Happened (1944) 5 CBCS 4.5
Paper: Off white
Label #23-4917586-006
Starts Jul 29 Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories and art by Alex Schomburg, Leo Morey, Nat Schachner, and Homer Fleming. Biography, history and real war stories in comics form, part of a trend in non-fiction comics in the 1940s. Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart dares new boundaries and disappears into history; Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll is also a math whiz who creates logic puzzles; Lou Gehrig becomes a baseball legend in his own tragically short life. Monarchs of the Sea the Story of Whaling; Israel Putnam Who Dared Lead Where Any Dared to Follow; John Brashear, Beloved Lens-Maker and Astronomer; Amelia Earhart; Rockets to the Moon; Lou Gehrig, Baseball's Iron Horse; Jean Fabre; James Pattie, Messenger of the Gila Valley; Lewis Carroll; Sir Nathan B. Forrest, Leader of the Daring Forrest Rangers. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #61045371
Miss Fury Comics (1942) 5 CBCS 1.5
Paper: Cream to off white
Cover detached.
Label #24-11A7DFA-008
Ends Jun 17 6:25 PM CST Bid History 15 bids Current Bid $395 Your Secret Max Bid If you'd like to bid, please log in or register. 52 pages. Book-length untitled story by Tarpe Mills. Alex Schomburg cover. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #57823138
Tags: Holyoke One-Shots (part 4)Mr. Miracle (1944) Holyoke One-shot 4 CBCS 4.5
Paper: Cream to off white
Label #21-31C4038-012
Ends Jun 17 6:25 PM CST Bid History 8 bids Current Bid $48 Your Secret Max Bid If you'd like to bid, please log in or register. Stories and art by Irwin Hasen, R. Johnson, Lee Lawrence and George Storm. Sometimes listed as Holyoke One-shot #4. Little is known about the so-called "Holyoke One-Shots," except they include stories reprinted from early Golden Age books by Temerson and other publishers. The Blue Streak battles Nazi agents to free an explorer from an Antarctic avalanche. Cat-Man must elude a series of traps to enter a spy stronghold and discover the identities of enemy agents. Secret Agent Z-2 faces one of the most difficult tasks of his career. The Flying Trio; Blue Streak; Secret Agent Z-2; Bob Preston; Cat Man; Jane Drake; Alec and the Reign of Yang; It's Time You Knew. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60896220
Tags: SupermanSuperman (1939 1st Series) 30 CBCS 5.5
1st app. and origin Mr. Mxyztplk
Paper: Off white to white
Label #23-324100F-014
Ends Jun 17 6:35 PM CST Bid History 11 bids Current Bid $832 Your Secret Max Bid If you'd like to bid, please log in or register. Origin and first appearance of Mr. Mxyztplk (later Mxyzptlk). Superman flies for the first time. Cover art by Jack Burnley. Superman Alias Superman, script by Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel], pencils by Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster]; Lois Lane thinks Clark Kent is trying to trick her into believing he's Superman! Untitled Lois Lane story, script by Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel], pencils by Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster]; Lois is taken prisoner by the Dover gang. The King's Substitute!, script by Bill Finger [as Jerry Siegel], art by Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster]; Unhappy because his father-in-law to be considers him to be a nobody, Johnny Poly goes to Poltavia to bid on a picture of the nation's ancient monarch. Death of a Pirate text story by Eric Carter. The Mysterious Mr. Mxyztplk!, script by Jerry Siegel (signed), pencils by Joe Shuster (?) and Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster]. Handy Andy humor page by Jack Farr. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.