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  • Item #62118656
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    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 23 #11 GD/VG 3.0

    Starts Apr 5

    Volume 23, Issue 11 - November, 1949. Science fiction stories by Alexander Blade, Rog Phillips, Richard S. Shaver and Chester S. Greier, Berkeley Livingston, and Norma Laxell Easton. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John, Arnold Kohn, Leo Ramon Summers, Julian S. Krupa, and Bill Terry. Cover by Arnold Kohn. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 160 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Item #62061233
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    Published Aug 1949 by DC.

    Blackhawk (1944 1st Series) 26 GD+ 2.5

    3" cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation.

    Starts Feb 24

    Cover art by Reed Crandall. Skagg's Raiders, pencils by Wally Wood; Andre falls victim to a rescue ruse and is kidnapped by the Bandit Skaggs deep in the jungle and forced to teach him how to fly the Blackhawk's plane. Chop Chop's Double Trouble, art by Bill Ward. Only Skin Deep text story. Kauno, Atoll of Mystery starring Blackhawk and Morbius, art by Reed Crandall. The Ghost Host one-page story starring Wun Cloo, script and art by Jack Cole. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62349208
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    Brenda Starr (1948-1949 Superior) 8 CGC 5.5

    Paper: Cream to off white

    Label #4491124021

    Starts Apr 5

    The adventures of Dale Messick's fearless comic strip hero, redheaded reporter Brenda Starr. Brenda faces a terrifying chase on a roller coaster when she tracks supposedly dead gangster Mugs Lawson to an amusement park. Newspaper copy boy Pesky Miller, who looks a lot like classic Jimmy Olsen, is crowned prince for a day to fill column space on a slow news day. Brenda narrates the real-life story of newspaper publisher Carl Magee, who exposed the Teapot Dome Scandal. The Case of the Undead Corpse; Paradise by Proxy!; Trapped by Nothing; Tempest in the Teapot Dome!; Murder in Style. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62323354
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    Captain America Comics (1941 Timely) 71 FR 1.0

    Anti Wertham editorial

    1 1/2" cumulative spine split. Cover detached. Water damage. Staple disintegration. Mold.

    Starts Apr 5

    Includes: cover Pencils by Al Avison; Trapped By the Trickster, art by Avison; Terror Is Blind, Pencils by Ken Bald, Inks by Syd Shores; The Whispering Voice text story; The Mark of Death--Let's Play Detective; and Fate Fixed a Fight. 36 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

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    Crime and Punishment (1948 Lev Gleason) 21 0.3

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    Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Bob Fujitani, Al Bare, Fred Guardineer, Jack Keller and Charles Biro. A companion series to Crime Does Not Pay from the same publisher, slightly less violent and with more emphasis on police work. Convicted cop-killer George Sitts escapes from the Minneapolis city jail with three other men. A cop relies on a dead man to get the goods on the gang that committed a payroll robbery. Danny Kipp confesses to killing a cop, but a police lieutenant suspects there's more to the story. Cover and first page feature endorsements from police Detective Walter Clancy and Mary Sullivan, NYPD Women's Bureau Chief, approving of "this magazine as a good reading for red-blooded American youngsters." John "Greenie" Gosnow, the Hyena of the Sea; Killer Hunt in the Black Hills; On the Level; When Dead Men Told!; Our Police Hall of Fame; Why Did He Want to Die? 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Crime Does Not Pay (1942-1955 Lev Gleason) 82 0.3

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    Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Tony DiPreta, Fred Guardineer, Claude Moore, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. Mr. Crime narrates the tale of Natural Gilbey, a hard-luck hobo who recruits an army of criminals, in a story with possible art by future "Flash Gordon" artist Dan Barry. Burglars discover where wealthy families keep their valuables by listening to the servants on their night off. A sheriff enlists the Feds and the Coast Guard to catch a gang of killers operating from a houseboat off the Gulf Coast. Death in the Hobo Jungle; On the Level; How They Were Trapped!; Laugh These Off; The Case of the Thursday Burglars!; Our Police Hall of Fame; This'll Kill Ya; Savage Houseboat Mob!; Who Dunnit? 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Daredevil Comics (1941 Lev Gleason) 53 GD+ 2.5

    Cover and interior oxidation.

    Starts Mar 3

    Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Al Borth, Virginia Hubbell and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys are chosen to lead an archaeological expedition to an Egyptian tomb that has never been located. Sniffer and the Deadly Dozen stow away aboard a gambling ship that turns out to be a gangster's elaborate kidnapping scheme. The Little Wise Guys have to let inept player Lawrence join their junior football league, so his father will give them land for a clubhouse. Also featuring a vintage ad for the Buck Rogers Sonic Ray gun. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; This'll Kill Ya!; Daredevil; Crimebuster: The Case of the Death-Dealing Statuette; Sniffer. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62106745
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    Exciting Comics (1940) 69 CGC 5.0

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #4085197003

    Starts Mar 3

    The Deadly Dude, art by John Celardo; A dude riding a huge bicycle comes to town, and shortly after a masked bandit begins to rob and kill. The King of the Toys starring Judy of the Jungle, art by Ralph Mayo. Clean Up Your City! starring Speedy Hopper. The Kid Plays a Lone Hand starring the Black Terror, art by George Tuska. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61054288
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    Famous Fantastic Mysteries (1939-1953 Frank A. Munsey/Popular/Altus) Pulp Vol. 10 #3 GD/VG 3.0 (R)

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    Cover TRIMMED.

    Starts Feb 24

    "The Scarlet Plague" a novelette by Jack London.

    Volume 10, Issue 3 - February, 1949. 7" x 9.5". 130 pages. Cover by Lawrence (Sterne Stevens). Text with occasional B&W illustrations. Cover price $0.25.

  • Item #61804927
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    Junie Prom (1947) 5 VG- 3.5

    Cover coming loose at one staple. Interior pencil markings and staple rust/migration.

    Starts Apr 5

    Stories and art by Paula Giokaris and others. Teen-humor comics featuring the misadventures of Junie and her gal-pals. While rehearsing for a flight attendant role in costume, Junie mistakenly gets to be the real thing, even though she's never flown before. Junie's visiting cousin, a Southern belle from Atlanta, immediately charms all the boys in school, but the girls have a problem with that. Dexter and his dad try to make dinner for his mother's birthday, and the kitchen will never be the same. Plus fashion pin-ups starring Junie and her pals. Not So High Flyer!; Dance Time with Junie; Runway Starlet; Lamb in the House!; A Weigh with Women!; Junie's Teen Tips; Dexter: Many Happy Returns. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62179004
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    My Experience (1949) 20 CGC 5.5 Restored

    Restored: B1

    Paper: Off white

    Restoration includes: small amount of color touch on cover.

    Label #4481827002

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    Starts Apr 5

    One of many romance comics from Fox Feature Syndicate. A woman rushes into romance; A terrible secret threatens to drive a couple apart; A gal with a taste for danger dates a bad boy who's a little too bad. Plus love advice to readers. I Loved Thoughtlessly; My Sin Was A Secret; Are You In Love; Between Us Girls; I Courted Danger. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62348735
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    Phantom Lady (1947 Fox) 22 CGC 5.0 Qualified

    Paper: White

    Page 10, 12, 15, 16 missing.

    Label #4491124003

    Starts Apr 5

    Two Phantom Lady stories by Gregory Page. In The Case of the Robbing Robot, Phantom Lady tackles a deadly robot monster which elicits this choice dialogue as she encounters the robot, "EEK" I didn't expect you, Frankenstein! If my black ray fails me this time, I'm a goner!" Fortunately, Phantom Lady survives to take on sport criminals in Olympic Saboteurs! Phantom Lady then catches her breath by narrating the True Crime Story, The Crime of Roger Caseman. There's also a back-up story, Joe Noon--Killer, a True Crime Story. Full color Captain Marvel wrist watch ad. Two page text story, The Roundabout Justice. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61909421
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    Planet Stories (1939-1955 Fiction House) Pulp Vol. 4 #4 CGC 5.0 Qualified

    Paper: Off white

    Piece Missing From Page 39.

    Label #4398838010

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    "Enchantress of Venus" a novel by Leigh Brackett.

    Volume 4, Issue 4 - Fall, 1949. Stories by Leigh Brackett, Richardson Osborne, Robert Abernathy, Ralph Sloan, Alfred Coppel Jr., Henry Guth, and Roger Dee.. Illustration by Al McWilliams. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 112 pages. Cover price $0.20.

  • Item #60998830
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    Teen-Age Diary Secrets (1949 St. John Publishing) 6 FR 1.0

    5.5" Cumulative spine split to cover with spine splitting to several interior wraps. Cover detached.

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    Starts Apr 5

    Cover photo by Bruno Bernard. Stories and art by Matt Baker, Vic Herman, and Dana Dutch. Young love with a whiff of scandal, in early romance comics from St. John that featured frequent art by Matt Baker. Joyce toys with the affections of boys like Jackie to increase her popularity, in a story with art by celebrated good-girl artist Matt Baker. In another Baker story, Sybil sets her sights on handsome new student Fred, even though he has a reputation as a "woman-hater." Lucy gets a job at the drugstore so she can earn the money for a prom dress, but that doesn't leave her much time for dating Jim. I Played Kiss and Run; Prom Trouble; Dusty Dawn; A Lie Nearly Ruined My Romance; My Wrong Approach for Romance. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61557797
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    Published Aug 1949 by St. John.

    Texan (1948 St. John) 5 GD/VG 3.0

    1/2" Spine split from bottom. Water damage.

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Matt Baker, Howard Larsen, Bert N. Dean, and Bill Walsh. "The Texan" and other heroes battle owlhoots and rustlers in the Old West. Female rancher and action girl Buckskin Belle offers to teach her handsome but clueless neighbor the ways of the West, in a story with art by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. A Texas Ranger battles outlaws who are trying to drive homesteaders off their land. Mustang Jack helps Linda when rustlers target her ranch. Also featuring a vintage full-color comics ad for "The Margaret O'Brien Candy Kitchen" including images of the young movie star. Cover by Baker. Winner's Draw; Buckskin Belle: Peril on the Prairie; The Bold Buckeroo; The Texan; Mustang Jack: High Stakes-Low Bid; Shot in the Dark. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62361982
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    Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1940 Dell/Gold Key/Gladstone) 108 CGC 8.0

    Paper: Off white

    Label #4495153004

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover by Carl Barks. Stories and art by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, Bill Walsh, Dick Moores, Bob Karp, Gil Turner, George Waiss, Bill Wright, Manuel Gonzales, and Al Taliaferro. Sometimes listed as Vol. 9 #12. The long-running vehicle for Disney character comics featured work by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, and Pogo's Walt Kelly. In a classic story from the Mickey Mouse comic strip, Mickey, Goofy and Donald meet the seven ghosts that haunt Colonel Bassett's house. In a story by Barks, Donald enters a frog in a jumping contest against Snake Eyes McViper. Bucky Bug and Bo search for the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Donald Duck; Bucky Bug; Li'l Bad Wolf; Mickey Mouse; Bongo's Best Show; Mickey Mouse in the House of Seven Haunts. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 41 #3 VG 4.0

    Cover oxidation.

    Starts Apr 5

    March 1949. Cover by Matt Fox. Horror and supernatural stories by August Derleth "The Testament of Claiborne Boyd", Theodore Sturgeon "The Martian and the Moron", Robert Bloch "The Strange Island of Dr. Nork", Allison V. Harding, Arthur J. Burks, Stanton A. Coblentz, and Thorp McClusky. Illustrations by Fred Humiston, Vincent Napoli, Boris Dolgov, and Lee Brown Coye. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

  • Item #62168027
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    Published Oct 1949 by DC.

    Western Comics (1948) 11 0.3

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    Cover art by Howard Sherman. Deadlines and Danger starring the Wyoming Kid, art by Howard Sherman. The Terror at Tumble-Down Ranch starring Nighthawk, art by Charles Paris. The Indian Sign starring Rodeo Rick, art by Jimmy Thompson. Return from the Owlhoot Trail starring Cowboy Marshal, art by Ed Smalle Jr. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    Youthful Romances (1949 Pix-Parade) 4 VG/FN 5.0

    This item's 5.0 grade equals the top CGC census grade.

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    Starts Apr 5

    Cover art by Walter Johnson. "Miss Stardust," art by Walter Johnson; Star, assistant to "Saturday Night Hit Parade" producer Al Pearce, is upset when her press agent boyfriend Tim flirts with aspiring singer Laura; Al and singer Bill Harrington give Star a makeover and promote her as a singing star to make Tim jealous; Tim gives Bill and Star incorrect directions to a private party where they are booked to perform, but proves he loves Star when she is in danger of drowning as a result. "Second Fiddle," pencils by Walter Johnson; Star college football player Dick dumps Babs for "campus coquette" Connie; After his shoulder is injured in an auto accident, Dick is off the team and Connie drops him. "Sammy Kaye" Star of the Month article. "Model Perfect," pencils by Walter Johnson; Model agency owner Harry Conover "discovers" Carol working in a store and hires her as a model; She begins to date middle-aged actor Darryl, unaware hes using her to restart his waning career; Carol breaks up with her fiancé Fred as a result, and he goes to Conover for help. "One-Sided Love," art by Walter Johnson; Tommy loves Karen but he tells her "marriage is not for me," and hints at something in his past; Karen later overhears Tommy being pressured into helping rob her fathers bank, where Tommy now works, and discovers Tommy is an ex-convict. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.