Auctions: comic books June 1943

Captain Marvel Jr. (1942-1953 Fawcett) 8 GD 2.0

Cover and first wrap glued together at spine and detached. Includes Winters Collection certificate of authenticity.

Cover by Mac Raboy. Stories by Otto Binder and others. Art by Al Carreno and others. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. When Dr. Witz creates evil "Nazi Monkeys," Captain Marvel Jr. responds by creating duplicates of himself. Marvel Jr. is surprised when his old foe Captain Nazi repents, but he's not sure he believes it. Nazi scientist Dr. Brane uses "Television of Past Centuries" (TV being a new idea at the time) to resurrect Napoleon, Genghis Khan and an evil George Washington impersonator for his own designs. His Dangerous Doubles; The Predictions of Peril; Tunisian Adventures; The Snortville Sneeze; When Captain Nazi Repents; The Conquerors From The Grave. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Plastic Man (1943 Vital/Quality) 1 0.3

INCOMPLETE. First two wraps missing (affects "The Game of Death" and "Go West, Young Plastic Man, Go West" stories). Two center wraps detached.

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#1 does not have an issue number. Cover art by Jack Cole. The Game of Death; Plas and Woozy break up The Chance Club. Now You See It, Now You Don't; Plas and Woozy must stop the Japanese from stealing a camouflage machine. Willie McGoon, Dope; Professor Goodman takes advantage of a man's disfigurement. Plastic Nemesis text story. Go West, Young Plastic Man, Go West; Woozy gets conned into buying a map to a goldmine, and heads out West to find his fortune. Scripts and art by Jack Cole. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Tip Top Comics (1936) 85 PR 0.5

INCOMPLETE. Multiple pages missing, interrupts art and story.

Cover by Rudolph Dirks. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Gus Mager, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Reg Greenwood, Hal Forrest, Bernard Dibble, Gus Arriola and John Hix. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 8 #1. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Phil Fumble's dinner is distracted by a floor show of brightly arrayed dancing girls, in a strip that that showcases Ernie Bushmiller's good-girl art. Home on leave, Iron Vic tells a gung ho tale of the WWII Marine Corps. Mammy Yokum faces the final showdown with her arch-nemesis, Mother Ratfield, in a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. . Plus Impossible Brown, a U.S. Treasury Department PSA for War Bonds by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; The Mirror Man; The Triple Terror; Jim Hardy; Stamp Tips; Gordo; Looy Dot Dope; Tailspin Tommy; Iron Vic; Phil Fumble; Fritzi Ritz; Gordo; Impossible Brown. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.