Comic books November 1943

Cover art by Joe Musial. The Phantom strips, scripts by Lee Falk, art by Ray Moore. Pete the Tramp strips by Clarence D. Russell. Jungle Jim strips, art by Alex Raymond. Katzenjammer Kids strips, art by H.H. Knerr. Tim Tyler's Luck strips, art by Lyman Young. Family Portraits strips, art by Norman Lynd. Blondie strips, art by Chic Young. Prince Valiant strips, art by Hal Foster. Teddy and Sitting Bull strips, art by Joe Musial. Tillie the Toiler strips, art by Russ Westover. Just Kids strips, art by A.D. Carter. Private Breger Abroad strips by Dave Breger. Curley Harper at Lakespur strips, art by Lyman Young. Barney Google strips, art by Billy DeBeck. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 7, Issue 3 - November, 1943. 6.75" x 9", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Jack Burnley and Stan Kaye. The Boy Who Came Back starring Superman, script by Don Cameron (signed as Jerry Siegel), pencils by Ed Dobrotka (signed as Joe Shuster), inks by George Roussos. The Sword of Destiny starring Vigilante, script by Alvin Schwartz, pencils by Mort Meskin (as Mort Morton Jr.), inks by Joe Kubert. The Talking Trees starring Congo Bill, script by Joe Samachson, art by John Daly. Burma Remembers starring Americommando, script by Joseph Greene, art by Bernard Baily. Circus Daze starring Zatara, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Joseph Sulman. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Edited by Ed Cronin. Cover by Fred Kida. Stories by Fred Kida, Bill Quackenbush, John Giunta, Tony DiPreta, Carl C. Hodges, Maurice Del Bourgo, John Cassone, and Bob Fujitani. Heroic action stories of war and airborne adventure—these are Air Fighters Comics! 68 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fair $12.00 View scans Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.

8.5" x 11.5", 68 pages, B&W Cover price $0.15.

Vol. 99, No. 3. November 1943. 7" x 9.75". 98 pages. B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Nov 1943. Science fiction stories by David V. Reed, Helmar Lewis, Elroy Arno, A.R. McKenzie, Leroy Yerxa, and Ed Earl Repp. Illustrations by Ronald Clyne, Malcolm Smith, Robert Fuqua, Arnold Kohn, and Hadden. Cover by Robert Gibson Jones. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 208 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $26.00 View scans Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight.

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November, 1943. Volume 33, Issue 3. Cover by William Timmins. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; black and white; 160 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Dick Sprang. "Batman Makes a Deadline!", art by Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane); After witnessing the fatal injuries to a top notch newspaper reporter who was kidnapped by a gang wanting to keep him silent regarding their activities, Batman and Robin decide to take over the story and bring the gang to justice. 'Atlantis Goes to War!', script by Don Cameron, art by Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane); Batman and Robin decide to get involved in a case where a Nazi submarine attacks Allied shipping and then disappears without a trace. One-page Private Pete story by Henry Boltinoff. 'The Case of the Timid Lion!', art by Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane); One Mr. Lyon decides to perpetrate 'jokes' and robberies, using the Joker's calling card to implicate the Jester of Crime... something the Joker doesn't find amusing - nor do Batman and Robin! Jerry the Jitterbug humor page by Henry Boltinoff. "Dramatic Fragment" text story by Ted Allenby. "Collector of Millionaires," script by Joe Samachson, pencils by Dick Sprang, inks by Norm Fallon; After handling a particular heart-rending situation between a friend of his and his wife, Bruce Wayne decides it's time for a vacation; But when "Bruce" returns from that vacation, he literally treats Dick Grayson like dirt. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart Good $32.00 View scans Staple rust. Rust migration. Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.

Volume 2, Issue 6 - November, 1943. 8.5" x 11.5", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Instructional booklet from Bell Aircraft Corporation featuring instructive cartoons on safety and operations. 5.5" x 8.5", B&W w/ Green. NOTE: All copies were 4-hole punched five publisher for binder insertion; this is not a defect.

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Instructional booklet from Bell Aircraft Corporation featuring instructive cartoons on safety and operations. 5.5" x 8.5", B&W w/ Green. NOTE: All copies were 4-hole punched five publisher for binder insertion; this is not a defect.

Stories and art by Boody Rogers, Ham Fisher, Gardner Fox, Ogden Whitney, Kermit Jadiker and Charles Zerner (credited as Paine), Elmer Wexler, Frank Tinsley, Alfred Andriola, J. P. McEvoy, John Striebel, Frank Beck and Mart Bailey. Big Shot featured reprints of McNaught Syndicate humor and adventure strips, alongside original characters like Skyman and The Face. Sparky Watts joins the Army Air Corps, in a patriotic WWII story. Koenig comes out of surgery, but Vic Jordan still suspects that he's a Nazi spy. Gen. Douglas MacArthur himself assigns Captain Yank to safeguard a synthetic rubber formula (a big deal in the era before plastics). Vic Jordan; Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Captain Yank; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; The Face; All in a Lifetime; Skyman. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

November, 1943. Cover price $0.15.

Edited by Ned L. Pines. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories by Richard Hughes, Chuck Stanley, Michael O'Brien, and Al Camy. Three untitled Black Terror stories, plus Crime Crushers back-up story. 60 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Untitled Blue Beetle story; a scientist sprays truth gas over the city, inciting a mob. Death in the Sky! featuring Crime Reporter; a Nazi sabotages a new plane, killing the test pilot. Untitled Rod Ripley, Wizard of Science story. Untitled Turkey Joe story, script and art by Sid Lazarus; Joe is a well-dressed turkey with no where to go on the farm, until he gets an invitation to dinner from the Army. Young Norwegian Hero Fools Gestapo article. Igor Sikorsky and His Amazing Helicopter. Double Trouble [Part 1]; The military sends a captured Gestapo agent back into Germany to impersonate the Blue Beetle and help free some captured soldiers. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Fred Bell. Stories and art by Dan Barry, John Giunta, Al Fagaly, Boyden Sparkes, Ray Gill, Harold DeLay, Henry Kiefer, George Kapitan, J. Gill, and Eugene L. Pollock. Sometimes listed as Blue Bolt #40. Former superhero Blue Bolt soars as an aviator hero in WWII. After ditching in the Mediterranean, Blue Bolt joins forces with Greek guerrillas, in a story with early art by future Flash Gordon artist Dan Barry. Military cadet Dick Cole and his pal Simba go to New York when Simba's step-sister is in danger. Sergeant Spook and his sidekick Jerry teach a wartime "Scrooge" the error of his ways by reviving the ghosts of his dead soldier sons, plus George Washington and Abe Lincoln to boot. Dick Cole; I Fly for Vengeance; Edison Bell; Nellie Warnt a Lady; Old Cap Hawkins True Tales; Fearless Fellers: Ghost Meets Ghost!; Blue Bolt the American Meets the Cretan Guerrillas!; Krisko and Jasper; Sergeant Spook: Jerry 'Tags' a Slacker!; Bluebolts and Nuts. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Sam Glankoff, Jack Sparling, Corrine Dillon, Zillah MacDonald, Ruth Kent, Maxine Livingston, Louise Carlisle, Marianne Benjamin, Isabelle Corey, Lettie Gay, Elizabeth Nichols, Elena Chance, Jane Richards, Nancy Pepper, Alice Barr Grayson, and Margaret Sutton. A kids' anthology from the publishers of Parents Magazine, featuring stories, comics and advice aimed at 1940s teen girls. A comics biography of the Hollywood actresses who performed with the USO, entertaining troops stationed overseas. An article by a 15-year-old refugee girl who fled Nazi Germany. An illustrated profile of American high school students aiding the home-front war effort. Also featuring a full-page ad for "Lassie Come Home," the genesis of the long-running dog series, starring child actor Roddy McDowall. Susan Says; Judy Wing; Trouping with the Troops; Trial by Fire; Girls Don't Like Jeeps; The Haunted Apartment; Make That Welcome Sing!; Jabberwocky and Jive; The Mystery of the Thieving Spooks; Lets Talk Things Over; How Deep Is Skin Deep?; Coast-to-Coast Hook-Up; I Am a Refugee; It's Fun to Sew; Dress Up Your Room, Too!; Fall Movies Take a Bow ; Schooled for Victory; Dinner Is Served!; Wish He Were Taking Me!; Maid of Athens; The Victory Club; Girls in the News; Gadgets for Girls. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Quinlan. Stories and art by Herman C. Browner, Sylvan H. Stein, Jack Alderman, C. R. Schaare, Jack Grogan, Mack Borgatta and Charles Quinlan. Sometimes listed as Captain Aero Comics Vol. 3 #10. A patriotic WWII aviator hero whose motto is "Keep 'Em Flyin'!" Captain Aero's Sky Scouts take action when enemy agents attack a helpless old man and his daughter. Alias X tracks kidnappers who are abducting children for Nazi slave labor. Flagman and Rusty protect a French underground newspaper from the Nazis. Captain Aero: The Jerks of Japan; Alias X; Commandos of the Devil Dogs: Shalna of the Islands; The Red Cross: Those Who Never Came Back; Counter Spy; Yellow-Belly; Bongo the Wizard; Captain Aero's Sky Scouts; Miss Victory; Flagman. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Includes: Syd Shores cover art; The Menace of the Murderous Mole-Man, Script by Otto Binder, Pencils by Jimmy Thompson; Ali Baba and His Forty Nazis, Pencils by Ken Bald, Inks by Vince Alascia; The Tomb of Death text story; The Talons of the Vulture, Pencils by Syd Shores, Inks by Vince Alascia; and Mind Smasher starring Human Torch. 60 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 6, Issue 1 - Winter, 1943. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Brett Sterling ("Magic Moon"), William Morrison, and Henry Kuttner. 6.75" x 9.75", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder, Robert Kanigher, Bert Whitman and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck, Bert Whitman and unknown. After Captain Marvel defeats Mr. Mind's monsters, the villain escapes to China where his Japanese allies Doctors Hashi, Smashi, and Peeyu animate the Great Wall and turn it against the Chinese army. Billy is captured again and Mr. Mind spins a cocoon around him which prevents him from speaking his magic word in "The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 8: Battle at the China Wall!" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck. Captain Marvel also stars in: "Knighthood Flowers Again" with story by Otto Binder (Portland, Oregon city story); "The Reform of Roughneck Ryan!"; and "The Beautiful Baby Contest" with story by Robert Kanigher. Plus: Little Sneezer 2-pager "Fresh Air!" by Bert Whitman; 2-page text story "Send Me in, Coach!" by Tod Shaw; and Captain Kid in an untitled 2-pager. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mac Raboy. Stories by Otto Binder and Art Helfant. Art by Mac Raboy, Tom McNamara, Phil Bard, Marc Swayze and Al Carreno. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Freddy Freeman is adopted and sent to school by a well-meaning couple who don't know that he is secretly Captain Marvel Jr. Someone wants a mysterious briefcase so badly, they've sent Captain Nazi to go get it, but luckily he runs across Freddy Freeman along the way. Sivana's latest invention is a holographic projector that can create "mirages" of anything. Captain Marvel Jr. Goes to School; Rubbernose Randolph; The Case of the Missing Briefcase; Demlins; The Mirage Projector of Crime!; King of the Rhubarbs; Sam the Sheriff; The Case of the Poison Press! 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Stories and art by Jack Keller and Joseph J. Millard. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Captain Midnight faces "the king of villains, Count Storm Von Kloud, in air battles over Singapore, Chungking, and the Alps. Johnny Blair goes on a rescue mission in part 5 of his serial, which combines adventure with real-life flight education and engineering schematics. Red Skye faces the Wailing Werewolf. The Wave of Terror; Red Skye: The Wailing Werewolf; The Sorcerer of Singapore; Von Kloud Over Chungking; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Last Stand in the Alps. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Quinlan. Stories and art by Charles Quinlan, Herman C. Browner, Jack Grogan, Jack Alderman, and C. R. Schaare. Sometimes listed as Cat-Man Comics Vol. 2 #8. The adventures of Cat-Man and other early superheroes from the Golden Age of comics. Cat-Man and Kitten battle their arch-enemy, the porcine Mr. Peccary, after he escapes prison. The Deacon goes after black marketers who deal in ration books, designed to conserve national resources during World War II. American soldiers in Nazi-occupied Europe encounter Blackout, leader of the Berlin underground, and learn the secret of the old windmill. Cat-Man & Kitten; The Deacon: The Ration Book Racket; Ragman; Little Leaders; The Hood: The Mystery Sharks Nest Point; In Twenty-Five Years; Blackout: The Windmill of Betrayal!; Murders for Profit; Los Banditos; Black Market Butcher; Death Roams the Deep. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 15, Issue 6 - November 1943. Features creative stories, poems, rebuses, recipes, activities, crafts, science experiments, and health articles for children. 6-in. x 9-in. 52 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1st Printing, Classics Comics. (HRN 14, 11/43). 60 pages, full color.