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  • Item #60728969
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    America's Greatest Comics (1941 Fawcett) 4 VG- 3.5

    1" Spine split from bottom.

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover by Ray Harford. Stories and art by C.C. Beck, Otto Binder, Phil Bard, Tom McNamara, and Charles Sultan. Fawcett's first squarebound comic is an anthology of its greatest superheroes, including Bulletman, Spy Smasher, and of course the original Captain Marvel (Shazam). Dr. Sivana decides to use his daughter Beautia's infatuation with Captain Marvel to create a fake wedding as a trap for the Big Red Cheese. Minute Man debuts his new, masked outfit as he investigates the strange power that turns beautiful women into old crones in minutes. Spy Smasher aids native Pacific Islanders in resisting invading Axis forces. Plus the poor man's Captain America, Commando Yank, joins the America's Greatest Comics lineup. Captain Marvel: The Bumble-Brained Bridegroom; Spy Smasher: Who Said the Pacific Islands Are Conquered?; Chubby; Bulletman: The Case of the Purple Blackout; Minute Man: The Sands of Time; Commando Yank; Mr. Scarlet: The Crime College; Destroyer Gob. 96 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

  • Item #61272711
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    Captain Marvel Adventures (1941-1953 Fawcett) 37 VG- 3.5

    Tape on interior of cover.

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder. Art by C.C. Beck, Pete Costanza and unknown. After Captain Marvel finds a way to plug the lava flow, he pursues Mr. Mind and Jeepers underground, where he meets a race of small people called the Sub-Americans, who have planned to use dynamite to split the western hemisphere from the eastern hemisphere if the Allied forces are endangered by the Nazis. Mr. Mind finds out about the dynamite and plans to use it for his own purposes in "The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 16: Earth Must Die" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck. Captain Marvel also stars in: "His Battle of the Bubbles" by Otto Binder, C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza (Cincinnati, Ohio city story); "The Visitors from Space" with story by Otto Binder (Mary Marvel appearance); and "Trouble with Mr. Double" with story by Otto Binder. Plus: Captain Marvel "Missing Face Contest No. 2" 1-pager. And: 2-page text story "Pattern for Victory" by Carl G. Hodges. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62239228
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    Captain Marvel Adventures (1941-1953 Fawcett) 132 VG- 3.5

    Cover coming detached at one staple.

    Starts Feb 17

    Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder, Frank Bolle and Al Liederman. Art by Pete Costanza, C.C. Beck, Frank Bolle and Al Liederman. Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) stars in: "Captain Marvel Battles Flood" by Otto Binder and Pete Costanza; "The Man Who Never Saw Captain Marvel" by Otto Binder and Pete Costanza; and "Captain Marvel and the Dizzy Dervish Day" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck. Plus: "Freddy Freshman and the Excuse" by Frank Bolle; Captain Kid in "Two Tickets to Nowhere!" by Al Liederman; and Jon Jarl in the 2-page text story "The Ancient Secret" with script by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder). 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62323381
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    Captain Marvel Adventures (1941-1953 Fawcett) 150 GD+ 2.5 (R)

    Restored (see item notes)

    RESTORATION. Top staple replaced. Tape on interior cover and under staples.

    Ends Feb 17 7:18 PM CST
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    Final issue. Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Al Liederman and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck and Al Liederman. Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) takes on Sivana (in the villain's last Golden Age appearance) in a 4-part tale with art by C.C. Beck: "The World of Too Many Sivanas Chapter 1: I Conquer Africa"; "The World of Too Many Sivanas Chapter 2: I Conquer Billy Batson"; "The World of Too Many Sivanas Chapter 3: I Conquer Captain Marvel!"; and "The World of Too Many Sivanas Chapter 4: I Conquer the World!" Also: You are invited to..."Captain Marvel's Wedding" with art by C.C. Beck. Plus: Captain Kid in "The Escaped Lunatic" by Al Liederman. And: Jon Jarl in the 2-page text story "Interplanetary Jailbreak" with script by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder). 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62239229
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    Captain Marvel Jr. (1942-1953 Fawcett) 20 GD+ 2.5

    Cover coming detached at single center staple. Cover oxidation.

    Starts Feb 17

    Cover by Mac Raboy. Stories by Sid Lazarus and Art Helfant. Art by Mac Raboy, Sid Lazarus, and Art Helfant. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Native Americans retake Manhattan after finding an ancient deed allowing them rights to the island, in a story featuring a cameo by then-NYC mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Captain Marvel Jr. looks for a pilot whose plane vanished in the canyons of the Southwest US, and finds the Lost Chasm. Mad scientist I.C. Frostbite has a device that can freeze anything solid, even Jr. himself. Plus a PSA about wartime paper rationing. The Indian Braves on Wall Street!; The Snortville Sneeze: The Case of the Talking Spirits; The Adventure of the Lost Chasm!; Rubbernose Randolph Upsets the Apple Cart!; The Tale of Lashs Tail; The Freezing Asset!; Punkinhead. 40 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62141019
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    Captain Marvel Jr. (1942-1953 Fawcett) 48 CBCS 2.5

    Paper: Cream to off white

    Slab: Significant front/back scuff(s); Minor side/edge crack(s)

    Small pieces missing from 2 pages, affects story.

    Label #18-3C0F46D-008

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover by Bud Thompson. Stories by Otto Binder, Art Helfant¸ Bill Woolfolk and Sid Lazarus. Art by Kurt Schaffenberger¸ Sid Lazarus, and Art Helfant. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Freddy tries to teach spoiled, wealthy snob Gilbert Tisdale that people are equal in America. Captain Marvel Jr. meets Jumbo the Whale. None Came Back; Rubbernose Randolph: You Can Bank On Him; The Un-American Way; Boxcar Benny: No Butts About It; Captain Marvel Jr. Meets Jumbo the Whale; For the Love of Baseball; Snortville Sneeze: Nautical but Nice; The Drive That Kills; Giggle Gags. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61272691
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    Destination Moon (1950) Fawcett Movie Comic 1 GD/VG 3.0

    Water spotting.

    Starts Apr 5

    Story by Otto Binder , from the screenplay by Robert Heinlein, Rip Van Ronkel and James O'Hanlon. Art by Dick Rockwell and Sam Burlockoff. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on George Pal's 1950 science fiction film Destination Moon, written by legendary science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein. When government efforts fail to send an astronaut to the moon, a scientist and a military man find private funding for their own rocket to the moon. The first adaptation of a Robert Heinlein work to comics. Like the movie itself, the comic contains a cameo by Woody Woodpecker, of all people. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61807527
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    Published Oct 1950 by Fawcett.

    Love Mystery (1950) 3 FN 6.0

    Starts Apr 5

    Stories and art by George Evans, Bob Powell and Dodo Meyers. Fawcett combines romance comics with detective stories in this short-lived series. Kenny meets Margo when he visits the carnival where she works, and quickly falls for her, in a story with art by EC legend George Evans. But soon he learns that carnival owner Clive has a strange hold on Margo and others who work his fair. Sports reporter Don tries to help beautiful racehorse owner Norma after he stumbles on sinister doings at the track, in a story with art by Bob Powell. Fatal Fascination; The Cupid Bank; Death Take All. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62239233
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    Marvel Family (1945 Fawcett) 19 GD/VG 3.0

    Cover oxidation.

    Starts Feb 17

    Cover by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Bill Woolfolk, and Jack Binder. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel family faces a giant that has been slumbering under the Old Man of the Mountain rock formation for generations. Construction on a tunnel under the West River awakens a sleeping triton that attacks the workers, and Mary Marvel dives into action. The original Captain Marvel gets involved in the cutthroat world of midget auto racing when he offers to help a boy win the race for his elderly inventor father. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Saves the School Party, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck. Classic cover by C. C. Beck and Pete Costanza. The Monster Menace; Judge Smudge; Lazy Lee; Peewee Pete; Captain Marvel, Jr.: The Correspondence School Genius; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Mary Marvel: The Triton and the Tunnel; Coffin of Concrete; Ice-Capades; Captain Marvel: The Midget Auto Race. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61802559
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    Motion Picture Comics (1950) 110 GD+ 2.5

    2" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple and coming loose at the other. Water damage.

    Ends Feb 17 8:51 PM CST
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    Photo cover features Richard Derr and Barbara Rush. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Sydney Boehm. Art by George Evans and Al Williamson. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on George Pal's 1951 science fiction epic When Worlds Collide. When scientists discover that a "rogue star" is on a collision course with Earth, humanity faces the coming destruction with blind panic. However, an experimental rocket ship may be able to carry a select group of survivors to a new world. This adaptation features art by comics and science-fiction legends George Evans and Al Williamson, who even provide themselves a cameo in the comic. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #60046485
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    Rocky Lane Western (1949) 2 CGC 6.0

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #1073903032

    Ends Feb 17 9:15 PM CST
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    Stories and art by Ralph Carlson and Howard Boughner. Movie cowboy Allan "Rocky" Lane roams the West with a yen for justice. In an issue-length story, Rocky gets to the bottom of a especially clever cattle rustlers' trick. Gopherface tells his friends why he's worried. Plus photo pinups of Rocky and his equine movie co-star, Black Jack. Rustlers Round-Up!; Sagebrush; Red Rock Robber; Gopherface; Slim Pickens: The Chicken-Hearted Villain. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61808311
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    Romantic Secrets (1949 Fawcett) 20 FN/VF 7.0

    Ends Feb 17 9:16 PM CST
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    Stories and art by Bob Powell and John Martin. This early romance comic from Fawcett had particularly complex plots to go with the tears and kisses. Craig loves Amy, but since she rejected him as "a common street laborer," he's trying to get back at her through her sister Cora, or at least that's how Amy sees it. This story features early art by Bob Powell. Teresa must run the family farm after her father's passing, and handsome farmhand Jim can help, but he sees Teresa's workaholic nature as a minus. Redheaded Helen is still mourning her sister's death, and tries to sabotage her widowed brother-in-law's new relationship with Mildred as a result. With All My Heart; Belated Tears; Love Trap; Covetous. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62277508
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    Strange Suspense Stories (1952 Fawcett/Charlton) 21 GD/VG 3.0

    Water spotting.

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover pencils by Steve Kirkel, inks by Ray Osrin. Edited by Al Fago. "Who Will He Be?", art by Bill Molno; An Arabian tyrant uses sleep-deprivation to torture his opponents and find out about assassination plots about him. "The Well of Fear!", pencils by Bill Molno (as Joe Shuster), inks by Ray Osrin; Bankrobbers Logan and Sellis get trapped in an old well and can't get out; They mistrust each other and won't help the other to escape. "Surprise Package," script by Carl Memling, art by Dick Giordano; Gustav Perrin steals a miniature atom bomb, but loses it to a suicidal stranger who jumps off a building with it. "Sam the Seer" text story. "This Bite is Sweet!", pencils by Bill Molno; Peter North is a vampire; He settles down in a village in the Pyrenees and terrorizes the good people; When he meets the lovely Monique, North is torn between love and blood lust. "The Mark of the Ripper!", art by Sy Moskowitz; Police detective Baird has to bring down the "Ripper," a knife-wielding maniac on the loose. "No Questions Asked"; Dr. Hurtt needs fresh cadavers for his anatomy sessions; When he gets blackmailed he decides to commit a murder and thus kill two birds with one stone. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62176468
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    Whiz Comics (1940 Fawcett) 20 CGC 2.5

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #4158452020

    Starts Apr 5

    Cover pencils by C.C. Beck. "Crusher of Crime," pencils by C. C. Beck; Sivana has a surprise in store for Captain Marvel, when he creates a new alloy stronger than steel and an electric motor more delicate than jewelry, all of which give him very strong powers; But he still needs human blood in his formula and Billy Batson is to supply that! "The Devil's Cave Deathtrap" starring Golden Arrow. "Monkey Mission" starring Lance O'Casey. "The Blitzys Strike" starring Spy Smasher, art by Charles Sultan. "The Missing Mummy" starring Dan Dare. "Trapper's Revenge" text story, art by Carl Formes (LaRac Semrof). "The Queen of the Giants" starring Dr. Voodoo, art by Mac Raboy. Deal with the "Devil" starring Ibis the Invincible; vs. Trug. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61806228
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    Whiz Comics (1940 Fawcett) 23 PR 0.5 (R)

    Trimmed

    TRIMMED. Spine severely damaged (book removed from a bound volume).

    Ends Feb 17 10:38 PM CST
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    Cover pencils by C. C. Beck. "The Bal Masque," art by C. C. Beck; Billy and Whitey return from their adventure in Guatemala (where they battled the Mayan monkey-god) and receive a note from Mr. Morris to meet him in Washington D.C. in regards to a secret mission; They are instructed to meet the radio station owner at a masked ball, and he introduces the pair to the ambassador and his daughter. "The Man Who Bet the Ranch on Golden Arrow." "Crack Shot" text story, art by Joseph J. Millard. "Hunt for the Sea Raider," art by Lance O'Casey. "Schtinker's Mosquito Murders" starring Spy Smasher, art by Charles Sultan. Untitled Chubby story, script and art by Tom McNamara. "Battle on the Sea" staring Dr. Voodoo, art by George Tuska; Hal and Nero catch up to and board Svenson's ship; They make their way to the cabin where Anita is being held and then are set upon by the pirates. "Sacrifice to the Angry God," art by Ibis the Invincible. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62323390
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    Whiz Comics (1940 Fawcett) 155 GD- 1.8

    Centerfold detached at one staple. Water damage.

    Starts Feb 17

    Cover by C. C. Beck. Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk, Otto Binder, Pete Morisi and Kurt Schaffenberger. The Fawcett comic that introduced the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) to the world. In his final adventure in Whiz Comics, Billy Batson investigates mysterious disappearances and discovers the "human deep-freeze" maintained by the intelligent, many-tentacled Kraken of legend. Like any Lovecraftian hero, a temporarily Shazam-less Billy responds, "No - No! I'll go gibbering mad!" In another horror-themed tale, war hero Jaspar's spirit pursues his murderer. When archaeologists unleash evil spirits from the tomb of Pharaoh En-Tep, only Ibis knows how to contain them. Captain Marvel: The Legend Horror; Doc Sorebones; Lance O'Casey: Undercover Warfare; Dr. Death: The Heros Spirit; Wicky and O'Shawnessy; Sacrifice Play; Wilbur the Waiter; Ibis the Invincible: The Guardians of the Tomb. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.