Auctions: comic books November 1944

Crime Does Not Pay (1942-1955 Lev Gleason) 36 VG- 3.5

"Kill Crazy Keast" (script by Dick Wood, art by Rudy Palais), "Landru the Terrible" (script by Wood, art by Bob Q. Siege), "Twin Idols of Evil," "Phantom in the Fire" (art by Gates), "Mr. Crime Finds Mike Casalino" (script by Wood, art by Siege), "The Case of the White Eyed Butcher" (script by Wood), and "Who Dunnit?" (art by Dick Briefer). Cover price $0.10.

Jungle Comics (1940 Fiction House) 59 CGC 8.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4361812002

Cover art by Joe Doolin. Untitled story, art by Marcia Snyder; Kaänga is tricked by the leader of a band of pearl thieves into freeing two of her accomplices from the lake dwellers. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Wambi's friend, Lari, is expelled from his tribe because he will not participate in a ritual devised by the witch doctor Gwanda, in which an elephant is tortured to death; Wambi helps him return to his village and exposes the witch doctor as a coward. Untitled story, art by Howard Larsen; A witch resurrects the body of the recently dead chief Ma Wali and sends him on a murderous rampage through the village. Untitled story, art by Richard Case; During a drought, Simba drinks all the contents of a small pool of water in order to have the strength to defeat the rhinoceros that has claimed a larger pool. "The Tribes from Nowhere" text story. "The Antelope"; Brief natural histories of the waterbuck, the white tailed gnu, the klipspringer, the red fronted gazelle, the sable antelope, Grant's antelope, the beisa oryx, and the kudu. Untitled story, art by Richard Case; Terry rescues the kidnapped daughter of a sultan. Untitled Camilla, Queen of the Jungle Empire story, art by Marcia Snyder; Trader Swartz's nephew, von Weil, plots to murder him in order to inherit his trading station. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1940 Dell/Gold Key/Gladstone) 50 PR 0.5

INCOMPLETE. Half a page torn out, interrupts art and story.

Cover by Walt Kelly. Stories and art by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, Dick Moores, Bill Walsh, Bob Karp, Hubie Karp, Carl Buettner, George Waiss, Manuel Gonzales, Sylvia Holland, Bill Wright, and Al Taliaferro. Sometimes listed as Vol. 5 #2. 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, Mickey helps refugee children escape WWII. In a story by Barks, Donald accidentally gives the kids a rare dime worth five hundred dollars, and after they buy ice cream with it, he has a hard time getting it back. In another story, Jose Carioca and Panchito visit Donald Duck for a Caballeros reunion, but a police officer is watching them. Donald Duck; Bucky Bug; Mickey Mouse; The Three Caballeros; Dog Watch; The Strange Catch; Sporting Blood; Hush Money; The Wearing of the Grin; Quack Doctor; High But Not Dry; Mickey Mouse and the War Orphans. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Whiz Comics (1940 Fawcett) 60 GD 2.0

Cover-to-cover puncture damage.

Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C.C. Beck, Charlie Tomsey and Harry Parkhurst. The Fawcett comic that introduced the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) to the world. Professor Staunchheart's latest invention is supposed to find missing people, but all it does is find trouble for Captain Marvel. Golden Arrow wants to help Katy find out who's turning loose the animals in her father's traveling circus. Spy Smasher investigates when scientists suspect they've found fabled Atlantis. Captain Marvel Tangles with the Missing Persons Machine; Boy Underground; Golden Arrow: Under the Big Top; Wicky and O'Shawnessy; Spy Smasher: The Lost Land; Ibis the Invincible: The Case of Too Many Ibisticks. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.