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  • Item #65225403
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    Published 1949 by Quality.

    Candy (1947 Quality) 9 GD 2.0

    Cover and centerfold detached at one staple. Moisture damage. Staple rust with migration.

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    Cover by Harry Sahle. Stories by unknown. Art by Harry Sahle and unknown. Candy stars in three untitled stories. Plus: Rims in an untitled story co-starring Rims' mother, Emerson Griggs and Mr. Bulgo. And: Candy in 1-page text story "Skiing is Believing" co-starring Ted Dawson, Tim O'Connor, Cuthbert Bagatelle and Sonia Jorgesen. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #65044651
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    Published 1949 by Nedor.

    Coo Coo Comics (1942) 47 GD/VG 3.0 (R)

    Restored (see item notes)

    RESTORATION. Piece fill. 1/2" spine split from bottom. Tape inside back cover. Water spotting. Staple rust.

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    Contains Frank Frazetta comic story art and two Frank Frazetta illustrations. Frazetta illustrations appear in seventeen consecutive issues of Coo Coo Comics (1942) (#34-50). Contains funny animal stories. In order of appearance: "Supermouse in 'The Days of the Knights!'"; "Coo Coo, 'Rocket to Mars'"; "Butch and Buttercup, 'The Biggest Dumbbell in the World!'"; "Munchy the Squirrel in 'Spare That Tree'" art by Frank Frazetta, reprinted in Small Wonders (1991) #1; "Fisty, 'The Three Wishes'" art by Jack Bradbury; "Butch and Buttercup"; and "Barney Rooster". Illustrated text stories: "Unsociable Turtle: Bertle Learns It's Never Too Late to Be Friendly!" by Betty Cummings, illustration by Frank Frazetta; and "Kitten and the Mitten: Little Tippy Gets the Surprise of His Life!" by Elizabeth Starr, illustration by Frank Frazetta. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #65224730
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    Exposed (1948 D.S. Publishing) 6 VG- 3.5

    Water damage.

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    Cover by Ed Waldman. Stories and art by Graham Ingels, Ed Waldman, John Rosenberger, Art Gates, Valerie Barclay and Myron Fass. Violent, offbeat pre-Code crime comics from D.S. Publishing Company. This issue was cited in the illustrations (#28, "How to prepare an alibi") of the famous anti-comics classic, Seduction of the Innocent. A daredevil tries to use his skills for crime, in a story that features a guy in a Humpty Dumpty costume jumping off a high wall. A gambler thinks he's found the perfect system, in an early story by future EC legend Graham Ingels. An ex-con sets out for revenge on the partner who set him up. The Fatal Masquerade; The Fighter Who Sang Tenor; The Perfect Alibi; Take It or Else!; Lure of the City; Airtight Alibi. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #65118845
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    Exposed (1948 D.S. Publishing) 7 PR 0.5

    INCOMPLETE. Page missing, interrupts art and story. Centerfold detached.

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    Cover by Al Camy. Stories and art by Bob Jenney, Alden McWilliams, Richard Case and Al Camy. Violent, offbeat pre-Code crime comics from D.S. Publishing Company. This issue was cited in the illustrations (#29, " Diagram for Housebreakers") of the famous anti-comics classic, Seduction of the Innocent. A spiteful old woman invites her family to the reading of her new will, practically inviting one of them to murder her. The Fatal Reflex, a Crime-O-Graph story about a faked suicide, features the art that later appeared in Seduction of the Innocent. Private eye Malcolm Starr is seemingly aided by a ghost while seeking the killer of a famous explorer in an old dark house. The Midnight Guest; The Spiteful Will of Sybil MacPherson; The Fatal Reflex; 50-Fathom Fortune; The Price of Greed; Dynamite; Framed for Prison; The Guilty Ghost. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #65291350
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    Firehair Comics (Canadian c.1949 Publication Services Limited) 2 VG+ 4.5

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    Canadian reprint series. Reprints Firehair Comics (1948 Fiction House) #3. Stories by John Mitchell, credited as John Starr. Art by Robert Webb and David Heames. Cover by Jack Kamen. Adventures of the Western hero Firehair, a white woman raised by the Dakota tribe. Firehair discovers that Casco, the wagon-train king, is secretly behind the raids on stages and wagon trains; She seeks justice after renegade white raiders make off with the Dakotas' horses and winter food; A stagecoach robbery results in the death of one of Firehair's friends. Bride of the Outlaw Guns; Heartbreak Range; Beware the Renegade Raiders; The Ballad of Cowboy Lou; Siren of the Silver Sage. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.