Auctions: comic books September 1941

Catman Comics (1941) 4 Coverless

COVERLESS/INCOMPLETE. Multiple pages missing, interrupts art and story. Lateral spine tears. Water spotting.

Cover by Charles Quinlan. Stories and art by Charles Quinlan, Ray Willner, Edward Lipowski, Saul Rosen and Al Ulmer. Sometimes listed as Cat-Man Comics Vol. 1 #9. The adventures of Cat-Man and other early superheroes from the Golden Age of comics Cat-Man's alter ego David Merryweather is marked for death after he threatens to reveal the names of the Nazi-affiliated Swastika Council. Dr. Diamond tracks a mysterious zeppelin that is destroying buildings with artificial lightning. Dean Denton is a reformed burglar who becomes the crime-fighting Deacon to make up for his past misdeeds. Working out of a church, he tries to prevent ex-con Johnny from resuming his life of crime and corrupting his young brother. Cat-Man; Blaze Baylor and the Arson Ring; The Deacon; Dr. Diamond; Lucky Landers; Freddie's Match; Hurricane Harrigan; Rag Man; Devil Dogs; Pied Piper; Lance Rand. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Green Lantern (1941 1st Series DC) 1 CGC 3.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4764899008

Fall 1941 issue. Cover art by Howard Purcell. Green Lantern: His Personal History, script by Bill Finger, art by Mart Nodell; Engineer Alan Scott survives an explosion during a test crossing of a trestle bridge and learns he was saved by the green lantern he carried; The lantern tells how long ago a meteor was formed into a lamp by a Chinese lamp maker and how it protected him from his murderous neighbors; Later the lamp was found by an asylum inmate, who re-formed it into a lantern and was cured of his insanity by the lantern; Now it brings power to Scott, who forms a ring out of part of it and uses his new abilities as Green Lantern. Masquerading Mare!, script by Bill Finger, art by Mart Nodell. Article extolling the virtue of will power featuring General George Washington and General Ulysses S. Grant. Disease!! starring Green Lantern, script by Bill Finger, art by Mart Nodell. Introducing Bill Finger and Marty Nodell Creators of Green Lantern! Arson in the Slums starring Green Lantern, script by Bill Finger, art by Mart Nodell. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.