Auctions: comic books published by Magazine Enterprises

Best of the West (1951 A-1 Comics) 1 CGC 7.0

Paper: White

Label #4697726014

(A-1 Comics #42) Cover by Fred Meagher, Joe Certa, Bob Powell and Frank Frazetta. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Art by Fred Meagher, Joe Certa, Bob Powell and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #42. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured tales of Old West heroes. Straight Arrow faces gigantic Crow champion Pow-Tah-Kan in single combat; Durango Kid seeks outlaws targeting buffalo hunters; Bobby Bensons B-Bar-B Riders investigate missing logs at a lumber camp. Straight Arrow: Giant-Killer; Durango Kid: Death on the Buffalo Trail; Bobby Bensons B-Bar-B Riders: The Timber Rustlers!; The Ghost Rider Holds the Fort! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cave Girl (1953 ME) 13 CGC 4.0 Conserved

Conserved

Paper: Off white to white

Conservation includes: Staples Replaced.

Label #4632435003

(A-1 No. 116) Stories by Gardner Fox. Art by Bob Powell. Cover by Bob Powell. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #116. Classic good-girl art by Bob Powell, as a girl raised by wolves becomes the jungle hero Cave Girl. Cave Girl saves a lost baby from vengeful natives; Jungle lord Thun'da investigates a murder in the French Foreign Legion; Cave Girl fights to save a village from an Amazon raid. Featuring early stories by future comics legend Gardner Fox. The Mau Mau Killers!; Thunda: The Price of Murder!; Altar of the Axe; The Jungle Badman! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Funnyman (1947) 2 0.3

Comic is complete other than being coverless.

Stories by Jerry Siegel, plus a text story by Ray Krank and Gardner Fox. Art by Joe Shuster, John Sikela and Dick Ayers. Cover by Creig Flessel. Famous as the "other" superhero created by Siegel and Shuster, who started the whole phenomenon with Superman. TV comedian Larry Davis uses vaudeville-style shenanigans to fight bad guys. When a mad scientist creates a bank-robbing car, Funnyman counters with his Jet-Jalopy; Jailbreak master Slippery Sam switches places with Funnyman, and only Larry's gal June guesses the truth; A mad scientist invents a robot woman who ambushes people, in a Looney Toons-style scenario. The Giant in the Doll House; Funnyman; A Fool's Duel; Slippery Slim; The Kute Knockout! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Pride of the Yankees, The (1949) 0 VG- 3.5

Stories by Gardner Fox and others. Art by Bob Jenney and Ogden Whitney. The life of baseball legend Lou Gehrig (which also inspired the award-winning film of the same title). Lou Gehrig becomes a champion baseball player for the New York Yankees, before his life is tragically cut short by the nerve disease ALS. A PSA on the Lou Gehrig Memorial Fund. The story of how one player made it to the big leagues. The Pride of the Yankees; A Living Memorial to Lou Gehrig; The Rise of Dave Hudson. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Straight Arrow (1950 Magazine Enterprises) 4 CGC 5.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4697724019

Stories by Gardner Fox and others. Art by Bob Powell and Fred Meagher. Cover by Fred Meagher. Rancher Steve Adams, a Comanche raised by white settlers, has a secret identity as the warrior Straight Arrow, a hero who first appeared on a popular radio show. Straight Arrow meets his nemesis Black Feather, who also has a dual identity. Red Hawk, banished by his tribe, battles both The Antelope and the Skidi-Pawnee tribe to discover the secret of the All-Seeing Eye. Straight Arrow must escape a desert deathtrap. Plus non-fiction features on tribal tools and The Plains tribes. Indian Tools; The Battle of the Giants; The Man Who Held the Lightning!; Red Hawk: The All-Seeing Eye!; The Plains Indian; The Buffalo Hide of Peace! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Straight Arrow (1950 Magazine Enterprises) 22 CGC 4.0 Restored

Restored: A1

Paper: Cream to off white

Restoration includes: small amount of color touch on cover, cover reinforced, staples replaced. RIGHT EDGE TRIMMED.

Label #4666735002

Art by Bob Powell and Fred Meagher. Cover by Frank Frazetta. Rancher Steve Adams, a Comanche raised by white settlers, has a secret identity as the warrior Straight Arrow, a hero who first appeared on a popular radio show. Steve's efforts to impress new neighbor Nan only get worse when Packy and Molly try to help. Red Hawk and Bigfoot are taken as legendary figures of prophecy by a neighboring tribe. Straight Arrow, mistaken for part of a raiding party, risks capture to save his horse Fury. Cover by legendary artist Frank Frazetta. Steve Adams - Badman!; The Luck of Loud Calf!; Red Hawk: Beast of the Bayous!!; Trial by Fury! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Undercover Girl, Starr Flagg (1952) 5 VG- 3.5

A-1 Comics #62. Stories by Gardner Fox. Art by Ogden Whitney. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #62. Female secret agent Starr Flagg debuted in Manhunt! (1947) before graduating to her own title. A reporter is murdered seconds before he could go on the air with a scoop about a hostile foreign country. Starr must find a ring that can trigger a nuclear holocaust. Madam Darkova's gorilla servant captures Starr and a scientist with a deadly steel-melting formula. The Mystery of the Stolen Secrets; The Riddle of the Radio-Death; The House That Hate Built; Jeopardy in Jade; Beauty and the Beast. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.