Auctions: comic books 1944

Army Laughs (1941-1948 Crestwood) 1st Series Vol. 4 #9 FN+ 6.5

Blue Beetle (1939 Fox/Holyoke) 30 PR 0.5

Interior is complete. Full length spine split with back cover missing. Only one staple (manufacturing). Centerfold detached. Water damage.

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Spider Joe; while on leave from Military Intelligence, Dan helps the Chicago police with a Nazi-related case. Bean Shooter starring Petey and Pop, art by Morris Weiss. Magic Tricks for Young and Old, five pages of activity. The Case of the Escaped Suspect starring Durrand Draw, script by Montgomery Mulford, art by George Tukel. Untitled Ali Baba story, script by Charles Loeb, art by Sid Lazarus. Untitled Drop Towers story, script by Ed Forre, art by Robert Webster. Untitled Boxie Weaver story, script by Ink Higgins, art by Morris Weiss. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Candy (1944 Wise) 1 GD 2.0

Water damage. Staple rust.

Cover by Art Moore. Stories and art by Art Moore, Jabey, Dave Abel, Dick Wood, R. W. Hall, Jack Warren and Basil Wolverton. Kids' comics featuring early work by Basil Wolverton. Noble muskrats answer a call to arms and become the Three Muskrateers; Ferdinando Fox goes riding; Two Scoop Scuttle stories by legendary cartoonist Basil Wolverton. Circus Life is a continuing text feature about the workers in King Brothers Circus. Chile the Bullthrower; Little Bo Pig; Mopey Moose; Scoop Scuttle; Circus Life; Dumb Like a Fox; Helpful Hank; The Three Muskrateers. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Don Winslow of the Navy (1943 Fawcett) 12 GD+ 2.5

Centerfold detached. 1 1/2" cumulative spine split. Water damage.

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Stories and art by Tom McNamara and John Jordan. During the 1940s, military hero Don Winslow was the star of a comic strip, a movie serial and a popular radio show in addition to this Fawcett comic. Don and Red face a cunning criminal foe in the remote reaches of Basra. The pair investigates how Axis forces are getting re-supplied on a remote island surrounded by Allied forces. Don and Red try to figure out how Axis mines are targeting American ships. Plus an activity page, and an illustration of the U.S. Sturgeon submarine. Sealed Orders; Eaglebeak Spruder; Warriors of the Sea: Assault on the Mole; The Malalonga Mine Mystery!; U.S. Sturgeon No. 187; Hitler's Strange Sea Weapon!; Don Winslow Puzzle Page; Jetsam Joe; Tuned for Death! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 45 CGC 8.5

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #4745717003

Indicia title is "RAGGEDY ANN, No. 45." Cover art by George Kerr. Untitled Raggedy Ann stories, art by George Kerr. A cuckoo from a clock falls and lands on Quacky Doodles; The Raggedys fix the cuckoo, while Quacky, miffed because nobody is paying attention to him, goes outside into the meadow. Marcella takes her toys to the beach, but leaves them on the beach overnight. Raggedy Ann falls in a bucket of mop water and the bleach turns her completely white. When food runs low in the middle of winter, the Raggedys take Grampie and Granny Fieldmouse to Cookie Land, where there is an endless supply of sweets. Dr. Stork loses his spectacles and the Raggedys help him make his deliveries of babies. The toys have a pillow fight and a stray pillow knocks open the door to Dicky Bird's cage. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 53 VG- 3.5

Interior tearing.

Indicia title is "WASH TUBBS, No. 53." Cover art by Roy Crane. Untitled Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy stories, scripts and art by Roy Crane. Wash and Easy are sent by McKee Industries to the remote South Seas island of Hippa-Hula, to find out the secret of how the women there preserve their beauty. The ship makes its way to Hippa-Hula, where the mysterious Mr. Squeege demands they land at night. Wash and Easy try to find the secret of the island's women's beauty. After shooting Squeege, Ruby demands that Van Scamp get the Hippa-Hula beauty secret from his wife. Ruby gets the hotel proprietor to admit the beauty secret he sold them was a fake. Ruby and Van Scamp follow the disguised Wash and Easy before discovering they've been tricked. After being scared by a classmate, Fauntly Gilroy bets he can make any man in town run just as easily--even if the man is Captain Easy. Reprinted from from Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips 1939 and 1940. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Picture Stories from the Bible (1944 DC/All American/EC) New Testament 1 CGC 4.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4734893009

Cover by Don Cameron. Stories and art by Montgomery Mulford, Edward L. Wertheim and Don Cameron. A very early religious book from EC, back when the company was still run by Max Gaines and called "Educational Comics." The early life of Jesus and the beginning of his ministry. The Story of Jesus Part One; Palestine in the Time of Christ; Chronological Index of the Principal Events in the Story of Jesus, Part One. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Skyrocket (1944) 0 CGC 3.5

Paper: Brittle

Label #4141834002

Cover by Ken Battefield. Stories and art by Joe Beck, Maurice Whitman, Al Plastino, Richard Speed, and Ken Battefield. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler. Dedicated to wiping out the blood-sucking scourge of humanity, Dr. Rogers becomes known as Dr. Vampire. (Dr. Vampire was listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes.) Historical and educational strips, including a comics biography of Daniel Boone and little-known fun facts. Police scientist Sgt Bill Norton uses his handy flamethrower to battle crime outside the law as Alias the Dragon. When an escaped convict vows to kill the judge and district attorney who put him away, the crime-fighter called the Desperado sets out to protect them. Oddities; Skyrocket; Punch and Cutey; Alias the Dragon; Inspector Pratt; Dr. Vampire; Ghost-Hunter; The Desperado; Is It True?; Daniel Boone. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Thrilling Comics (1940-51 Better/Nedor/Standard) 44 CGC 4.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4550671013

Cover by Alex Schomburg. Edited by Ned Pines. Stories by Richard Hughes, Bob Oksner, William McClellan, Maurice Gutwirth, Buck Barton, Johnston Craig, and August Froehlich. Chock full of action and adventure, these are Thrilling Comics! 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1940 Dell/Gold Key/Gladstone) 47 GD/VG 3.0

Cover by Walt Kelly. Stories and art by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, Dick Moores, Bill Walsh, Bob Karp, Carl Buettner, George Waiss, Veve Risto, Roger Armstrong, Manuel Gonzales, Sylvia Holland, Bill Wright, and Al Taliaferro. Sometimes listed as Vol. 4 #11. The long-running vehicle for Disney character comics featured work by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, and Pogo's Walt Kelly. In a classic Floyd Gottfredson story from the Mickey Mouse comic strip, Pete and Von Weasel conspire to get photos of Mickey's top-secret experimental plane. In a story by Barks, Donald inherits a pet falcon that wreaks havoc on the neighborhood. Grumpy of the Seven Dwarfs is kidnapped by the Wicked Witch, who impersonates him. Donald Duck; Bucky Bug; The Seven Dwarfs and the Wicked Witch; Mickey Mouse; Dog Days; A Copper Accommodates; Victory Vacation; Slightly Bull-Dozed!; Enough to Give a Fella Hives!; Not Good But LOUD!; Mickey Mouse: On a Secret Mission; Table D'Hobo; Lawn Party; A Catchy Tune; The Biggest Drip; Flowery Food. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Wow Comics (1940-1948 Fawcett) 31 CGC 3.0 Restored

Restored: C3

Paper: Off white

Restoration includes: color touch, pieces added.

Label #4348396012

Cover by Jack Binder. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Jack Binder, Marc Swayze, and Harry Fiskshe. A Fawcett anthology with an emphasis on superhero adventure. Mary Marvel is taking a transcontinental flight when a fellow passenger's tall tales start coming true, and affecting the airplane's flight. Phantom Eagle follows the trail of the mystical Black Mace to the lost Arabian kingdom of Princess Mojud. Mr. Scarlet and Pinky face the sinister Dr. Promise, whose promise is that he will kill them within eleven hours. Plus a PSA for wartime paper drives featuring Mary Marvel. Mary Marvel; Commando Yank; Phantom Eagle: In the Hills of Araby; Penny Graves: The Mysterious Gunshot; Mr. Scarlet and Pinky. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.