Auctions: comic books March 1949

Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) 59 CGC 4.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #3726553010

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by J. F. Byrne. Stories and art by George Evans, Enrico Bagnoli, Leonard Starr, Frank Fermonetti, and Matt Baker. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. In the Lost World, Hunt and Lyssa suspect a trick when aliens offer to negotiate peace between the Volta and humans; Life On Other Worlds speculates about landing on the moon, 20 years before it actually happened; Mysta battles an insurgency on the planet Xanthia, in a story by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Typically fun good-girl cover by Joe Doolin. The Lost World; Futura; Mysta of the Moon; Auro Lord of Jupiter; Varnog of Venus; Life On Other Worlds: A Trip To the Moon; Space Rangers; The Star Pirate. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1940 Dell/Gold Key/Gladstone) 102 GD 2.0

1/2" spine split from bottom. Cover oxidation. Water spotting.

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Cover by Walt Kelly. Stories and art by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, Bill Walsh, Dick Moores, Bob Karp, Gil Turner, Merrill De Maris, George Waiss, Bill Wright, and Al Taliaferro. Sometimes listed as Vol. 9 #6. The long-running vehicle for Disney character comics featured work by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, and Pogo's Walt Kelly. In a classic story from the Mickey Mouse comic strip, Mickey assumes various disguises while tracking the Phantom Blot. In a story by Barks, Donald is supposed to guard a dude ranch from rustlers, but doesn't notice he keeps buying the same horses over and over again. The Big Bad Wolf tries to put one over on the Blue Fairy. Donald Duck; Bucky Bug; Li'l Bad Wolf; Mickey Mouse; Grandma's Valentine; Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Zago Jungle Prince (1948) 4 CGC 5.5 Okajima

Paper: Off white to white

Okajima.

Label #4613031001

Final issue of the series (becomes My Story with issue # 5). Zago in "The Red Witch," "The Boy Who Didn't Believe," and "Kansas Killer!" Back-up story, "The Girl Who Bribed Death!" Matt Baker cover. Cover price $0.10.