Auctions: comic books March 1954

Adventure Comics (1938 1st Series) 198 PR 0.5

Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Missing back cover. Brittle.

Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Sy Barry. The Super-Carnival from Space starring Superboy, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Sy Barry; An alien circus tries to force Superboy to join. The Daredevil of the Seven Seas starring Aquaman, art by Ramona Fradon. Little Pete humor page by Henry Boltinoff. The Mechanical Fortune Teller starring Johnny Quick, art by Ralph Mayo. Wanted for Murder: Green Arrow, art by George Papp; Green Arrow goes to the backward European nation of Entonia to rescue a girl. Full page ad for DC comic Hopalong Cassidy. 44 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Mad (1952 EC) 9 CGC 5.5

Paper: White

Label #4728829007

Cover by Harvey Kurtzman. E.C. Fan-Addict Club ad. "Little Orphan Melvin!", script by Harvey Kurtzman, art by Wally Wood; Daddy is continually too late to save Melvin from danger, and also cannot save himself from Mommy; Little Orphan Annie comic strip parody. "The Raven," script by Edgar Allan Poe, art by Bill Elder; An adaptation of Poe's poem "The Raven." Ad for Panic magazine. "Bop Jokes!", script by Harvey Kurtzman, art by John Severin; Five gags using Bop terms. "Operation Under-the-Ground" (Chapter 3) text story. "Hah! Noon!", script by Harvey Kurtzman, art by Jack Davis; Marshall Kane dithers about leaving town, beats up another marshall, and kills some accomplices of Miller before subduing Miller without violence; Parody of the Gary Cooper film "High Noon." 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Mad (1952 EC) 9 CGC 3.5

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #4340843005

Cover by Harvey Kurtzman. E.C. Fan-Addict Club ad. "Little Orphan Melvin!", script by Harvey Kurtzman, art by Wally Wood; Daddy is continually too late to save Melvin from danger, and also cannot save himself from Mommy; Little Orphan Annie comic strip parody. "The Raven," script by Edgar Allan Poe, art by Bill Elder; An adaptation of Poe's poem "The Raven." Ad for Panic magazine. "Bop Jokes!", script by Harvey Kurtzman, art by John Severin; Five gags using Bop terms. "Operation Under-the-Ground" (Chapter 3) text story. "Hah! Noon!", script by Harvey Kurtzman, art by Jack Davis; Marshall Kane dithers about leaving town, beats up another marshall, and kills some accomplices of Miller before subduing Miller without violence; Parody of the Gary Cooper film "High Noon." 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Modern Romances (1930-1997 Dell Publishing) Magazine Vol. 46 #4 VG/FN 5.0

Staple rust.

Pogo Possum (1949-1954 Dell) 15 VG+ 4.5

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Cover art by Walt Kelly. Scripts and art by Walt Kelly. "The Magic of the HooDoo Man" text story. "Teeth For Two"; Albert gets inspired by "The Three Musketeers" to rescue beautiful maidens in distress, and expects Pogo to be his valet; He ends up saving Miz Beaver from Beauregard brushing flour off her. "The Deaf Trail"; Bun Rabbit, Beauregard, Pogo and Churchy go visiting Bun's hard-of-hearing uncle. Beauregard tries to entertain the uncle with a tall tale from the seven seas. "The Semi-Mental Gentlemints"; Howland wants to enter Churchy in a stupidity contest at the county fair. Untitled story; Pogo receives a letter from Walt Kelly advising the cast to act more refined...of course to no avail. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Strange Tales (1951 1st Series) 26 CGC 4.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #1198533024

The Last Stop, art by Gene Colan; When a gangster carries out a mob hit, he unintentionally catches his wife and children in the crossfire. Guinea Pig, art by Jack Katz; When a scientist rockets his assistant into space, aliens capture the craft and inject the man with a serum that increases his strength and drives him mad. The Busybody text story. A Grave Mistake, art by Tony DiPreta. To the Stars, pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Sy Barry; In 1980, men build a colony on the moon. It Could Be You, art by Vic Carrabotta. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Three Dimensional Tales from the Crypt (1954) 2 FR 1.0

Full length spine split with covers detached. Includes 3D glasses (one pair detached).

Series continued from Three Dimensional E.C. Classics. Unless otherwise noted, this comic will not come with the original 3-D glasses. "The Trophy" (art by Jack Davis, story from Tales From the Crypt # 25), "The Strange Couple" (art by Bill Elder, story from Vault of Horror # 14), "Bats in My Belfry" (art by Johnny Craig, story from Tales From the Crypt # 24), and "The Thing From the Grave" (art by Joe Orlando, story from Tales From the Crypt # 22). Stories redrawn to 3-D format. Original stories not necessarily by the artists here. Al Feldstein cover. 36 pages. Cover price $0.25.

Uncle Scrooge (1954-2008 Dell/Gold Key/Gladstone/Gemstone) 5 GD/VG 3.0

1" Spine split from bottom. Interior tearing.

Cover by Carl Barks. Stories and art by Carl Barks. Comics legend Carl Barks creates his masterpiece, featuring the adventures of Donald Duck's Uncle Scrooge, the richest duck in the world. After accidentally giving Donald a rare coin, Scrooge tries to make an ordinary quarter the rarest in the world by buying all the other quarters and dumping them in the ocean. When his rare quarter is flattened by a steamroller, he takes Donald and the nephews to the bottom of the ocean to get another. But they are captured by the fish-like citizens of Atlantis, who want to keep their underwater city a secret. In another story, Scrooge joins native boys who dive for pennies. Hospitality Week; The Secret of Atlantis; McDuck Takes a Dive; Slippery Sipper. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Young Men (1950-1954 Marvel/Atlas) 26 PSA 3.5

Paper: Cream to off white

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Cover by Carl Burgos. Written by Joe Gill, Don Rico and unknown. Art by Carl Burgos, John Romita, Sr. and Bill Everett. In this issue: The Human Torch (Jim Hammond), Toro (Thomas Raymond) and the Vulture (Isidoro Scarlotti) in a story by Joe Gill and Carl Burgos; Captain America and Bucky in "Captain America Turns Traitor!" by Don Rico and John Romita, Sr.; the Sub-Mariner in a story with art by Bill Everett; and "Pursuit" text story. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.