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  • Item #64719624
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    Blue Bolt (1940-1949) Vol. 5 #2 CGC 7.0

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #4698990005

    Starts Jul 4

    Cover by Walter Johnson. Stories and art by Joe Donohoe, Ray Gill, John Jordan, Jim Wilcox, Pam Robinson, Robert Pious, Milt Hammer and Tom Gill. Sometimes listed as Blue Bolt #50. Former superhero Blue Bolt soars as an aviator hero in WWII. Sergeant Spook and Jerry investigate the killing of Old Man Bleaker at the dilapidated Bleaker Mansion. Cap Hawkins tells the true story of the USS O'Bannon, the US Navy's most decorated destroyer during World War II. To catch a traitor in the ranks, Blue Bolt's sidekick Charlie must go undercover at a WAC camp by dressing in drag. Dick Cole; Fearless Fellers; Cap Hawkins Tales; Edison Bell; Edison Bell's Home Skreeno; Sergeant Spook; Dead Duck; Krisko & Jasper; Blue Bolt; Since Pearl Harbor. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #64211858
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    Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic (1940-1952) Nov 19 1944

    Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic (1940-1952) Nov 19 1944 PR 0.5

    INCOMPLETE. Pieces missing, interrupts art or story.

    Starts May 25

    Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Wellman/Woolfolk scripts, Fine art with unknown staff assists.

  • Item #64723951
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    Published Nov 1944 by E. Levy.

    Yellowjacket Comics (1944) 3 GD/VG 3.0

    Archival tape around staple, staple rust/migration, water damage.

    Starts Jul 4

    Cover by Ken Battefield. Stories and art by Ken Battefield, Leo Morey, Jack Warren, Gus Schrotter, George Gregg and Rudy Palais. An early comics anthology focusing on Yellowjacket and other little-known superheroes of the Golden Age. Yellowjacket investigates when a doctor experiments on amputee soldiers to see if crab serum will regenerate their limbs, or just turn them into crab monsters. The moon goddess Diana leads a contingent of gods against a Nazi armada approaching Greece, including Hercules, Jupiter, Mercury and Discordia. The Filipino Kid leads his guerrillas into battle against the so-called "murder master of Manila." Plus, the early horror feature Tales of Terror adapts Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. Yellowjacket: The Curse of the Broken Claw; Diana the Huntress; Killer; Famous Tales of Terror: The Pit and the Pendulum; Debunker; King of the Beasts; Harbor Lights; Bee Lines; Filipino Kid. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.