Comic books September 1946

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $44.00 View scans 2.5" Cumulative spine split (partially taped). Cover, first wrap, and two center wraps detached.

Cover by Al Bryant. Featuring: 12 page Blackhawk story "The Winged Death"; 11 page Blackhawk story "Babylon, The Mighty City"; 8 page Chop Chop story; 14 page Blackhawk story "The Evil of Kobar." 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Tom Gill. Stories and art by Joe Donohoe, Ray Gill, Jim Wilcox, Don Rico, Milt Hammer, Jack Warren, Henry Kiefer and Tom Gill. Sometimes listed as Blue Bolt #70. Blue Bolt has adventures while flying for Glimpses, a photography magazine. Sergeant Spook and Jerry try to help an aspiring reporter get a story, and Jerry winds up trapped in a slowly flooding basement. Aviator hero Blue Bolt joins the airborne forest rangers who fight forest fires in the Northwest. Delivery men Krisko & Jasper deliver cans of motion picture film, and get mixed up with a movie crew. Dick Cole; Edison Bell; Air Race; Love Match; Blue Bolt: Fire; Krisko & Jasper; Sergeant Spook; Bluebolts & Nuts; Fearless Fellers; Dink. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 83, Issue 5 - September, 1946. 8" x 11", 146 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Dan Barry. Stories and art by Otto Binder and others. High-tech, bullet-shaped helmets allow Jim and Susan to become the soaring superheroes Bulletman and Bulletgirl. Bulletman discovers the truth behind that old joke about where you hide an elephant. Bulletman and Bulletgirl investigate "accidents" in the construction of an underwater tunnel, and almost get trapped in a watery grave. Bulletgirl is captured by diamond thieves and tied to a diamond cutter, in one last bondage scene for this series. Plus an early Smokey the Bear PSA, featuring his second slogan, "Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires." Cover by future Flash Gordon artist Dan Barry. The Tunnel of Terror; All Wet; Mickey the Monitor: Trouble Shooter; Case of the Vanishing Elephant; People Are Funny; Opportunity Knoxx; Rubbernose Randolph; The Underworld Night Club; Candidate for the Fourth Reich; Richard Richard, Private Dick: The Vanity Case; The Diamond Dilemma; Some Dew. Final issue of the series. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $6.50 View scans Spine split 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Photo cover. Stories, fashions, good looks, movies, things to do. This issue contains only text and illustrations (no comics). 7 1/2" x 10 1/2", B&W, 100 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $2,999.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Slab: See item notes Significant front/back scuff(s). Label #3878245002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Includes: Alex Schomburg cover art; Crime On Cue; Dead Man Talks--Let's Play Detective; The Sportsman of Crime, art by Al Avison; Melody For Murder text story; The Wax Doctor starring Human Torch, art by Carmine Infantino; and The House of Hate. 52 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck, Al Liederman and unknown. The Captain Marvel/Oggar serial continues with..."The Cult of the Curse Chapter 5: Slaves of the Sea" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck. Captain Marvel also stars in: "The Invasion from Outer Space" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck (appearances by Mary Marvel and Sivana); "The Mechanix Illustrated Adventure" with story by Otto Binder; and "The Sword in the Stone" with story by Otto Binder. Plus: Captain Kid in "A Dangerous Assignment" with art by Al Liederman. And: 2-page text story "Fear Goes Deep Down" by Joseph Millard. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bud Thompson. Stories by Otto Binder, Art Helfant and Sid Lazarus. Art by Art Helfant, Sid Lazarus and Bud Thompson. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Captain Marvel Jr. tracks a killer who brings common sayings like "look before you leap" to deadly new heights. Sivana Jr. escapes prison with help from Sivana Sr., and terrorizes the city with his gigantic robot dog. Freddy Freeman angers the Spirit of Superstition, who then curses him and Captain Marvel Jr. with bad luck. The Mysterious Axioms; Rubbernose Randolph; Boxcar Benny; Giggle Gags; Sivana, Jr. Strikes Again; Whitey Whiskers and Daniel Boone, Jr.; The Amazing Zugqumps; Snortville Sneeze: Ghost Story; Whipper-Snappers; The Silver Satan; Seven Years of Bad Luck; The Brutal Truth. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and others. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Midnight's latest invention is the "Automatic Fisherman," but evil Ivan Shark wants it for criminal purposes. Richard Richard, Private Dick investigates after pencil leads disappear from all the pencils. Could the sinister pencil-sharpener salesman be behind it? A rival inventor who uses his talents for evil challenges Red Albright to a duel of inventions...to the death. Return of the Shark!; Pilot Pete; Impending Doom; Richard Richard, Private Dick: The Pencil Case; Sgt. Twilight Cooks a Mess of Trouble; Red Skye: Courage in Command; Strato-Facts; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Your Invention Page; Invention Duel to the Death!; Captain Midnight's Air Quiz. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 18, Issue 4 - September 1946. 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.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $19.50 View scan Cover loose at staples. Tape. Oxidation. Missing edge piece of back cover.

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The Moonstone, 1st Printing. Rico cover and art, Classics Comics. (HRN 30, 9/46). Moonstone by William Wilkie Collins (1 page bio after story). Adaptation by Dan Levin, cover and interior story penciled by Don Rico, back cover ad for Classic Comics Gift Boxes. Cover price $0.10.

Written by Alan Fraser - Fortnightly tabloid - 8 Pages

Cover art by Everett E. Hibbard. The Battle of Desires, script by William Moulton Marston (signed as Charles Moulton), art by Harry G. Peter; Badly beaten by his father for destroying public property, delinquent Don Elliot is taken by Wonder Woman to Paula's lab to confront the wrong desires within him, and decides to make the change to control those desires in the future. Oswald the Ogre--Foney Fairy Tales, script and art by Ed Wheelan. Pound the Ivories, Pal, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Martin Naydel; Curt Ronald had a powerful ambition: to play the piano in the Barry Brown Band. For a while, his ambition seemed pretty tough to satisfy, until the Flash stepped in. The Tale of Timothy Wiggins--Just a Story, script and art by Howard Purcell. The Black Dragoons starring Hop Harrigan, script and art by Jon L. Blummer. The Headstrong Heads starring Green Lantern, art by Paul Reinman. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith (signed as Bud Fisher). 76 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Stories and art by Basil Wolverton, Victor Pazmino, and George Marko. Humor comics from Fawcett, featuring characters like Richard Richard, Private Dick (detective) and the cape-wearing rapscallion Captain Kid. Captain Kid claims to be a drum major, but the trouble begins when the kids ask him to prove it. Mystic Moot uses the power of his magic snoot when a lumber camp's star lumberjack refuses to work, in a story by comics legend Basil Wolverton. Richard Richard searches for short and tall robbers, neglecting to notice that his clients fit the bill. Captain Kid: A Minor Drum Major; Judge Smudge; Mystic Moot and His Magic Snoot; The Tragedy of Joe Miller; Jetsam Joe: The Great Athletic Contest; Dopey Danny Dee; Kanvasback: Head's Up!; Trader Tom; The Snortville Sneeze: When a Rival Paper Tries To Hire Gloria; Vacuum Bloobstutter; Sam the Sheriff: A Branded Man; Freddy Freshman: Invisible Trouble; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: Ill at Ease; Richard Richard, Private Dick: The Watch Case; Pee Wee Pete. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Al Bryant. The Evil of Silvertip; Captain Triumph must engage Silvertip, a clever con man who called upon ghosts to do his bidding. The Model Motor Boat Pilot starring Inkie, script and art by Al Stahl. The Class Reunion Murder starring Hack O'Hara. Squeezed By Squeeze Tepley starring Pen Miller, script and art by Klaus Nordling. The Fuzzy-Floogy Feud starring Floogy the Fiji. The Ghost of Lake Fansipinkpants starring Beezy, script and art by Bernard Dibble. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Fall 1946. Cheesecake and leg-art pictorials. 8.5" x 11.25", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Richard French, Morris Weiss, Virginia Hubbell and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Daredevil reveals his true origin to the Little Wise Guys: he mastered the boomerang while being raised by a tribe of aborigines in Australia. Boxer Go-Along Gallagher finally hits the big time, but someone wants him to throw a fight. Teen inventor Dickie Dean is testing his "mechanical whale" when it gets hijacked by smugglers. Also featuring a vintage ad for Pepsi-Cola starring "Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop," and illustrated profiles of writer Charles Biro, publisher Lev Gleason and artist Bob Wood. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Daredevil; Sniffer; We'll Never Forget; Twiddle; Crimebuster: Too Many Clues; Go-Along Gallagher; Dickie Dean. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by Don C. Cameron, Jack Farr and unknown. Art by Win Mortimer, Jack Farr, John Daly, Lee Harris, Curt Swan and Steve Brodie. An architect invents a super strong glass that he plans to construct homes from, but his partner, noting that this man refuses an offer of $1 million from a steel company official to push for steel homes instead, parts company with the architect and swears revenge. Don't miss Batman and Robin in "The Man Who Lived in a Glass House!" by Don C. Cameron and Win Mortimer. Plus: Three-Ring Binks in an untitled story by Jack Farr; Slam Bradley in "Molar Mobsters!" with art by John Daly; Air Wave in "Dead Men Can Tell Tales!" with art by Lee Harris; and The Boy Commandos in "Brooklyn Wants a Kingdom!" with art by Curt Swan and Steve Brodie. Also: Daffy & Doodle half-pager by Lit-Win, and 2-page text story "A Game of Checkers" by Randolph Allen. 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $7.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white

Add to cart Good $7.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

September 1946. Western adventure novels "Decoys of the Diablito Death-Watch'" by Walt Coburn and "B-Bar Baker's Gun-Bluff" by Marvin De Vries. Novelettes "The Outcast Rides Back" by Van Cort. Short story "Hundred-Dollar Epitaph" by William Benton Johnston. A few illustrations. 7-in. x 9 1/2-in.; black and white; 98 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Art by Ted Miller and others. Classic postwar kids' comics from Magazine Enterprises. Little girl Gertie gets in trouble for bringing her pet gorilla Gabe to the beach; Nightmare Noonan dreams himself into the desert, the Arctic, and underwater; Robert Robot visits a hardware store for the first time and drives the shopkeeper crazy. Little Leo; Travelin' Toughy; Gertie and Gabe; Pengy Penguin; Jack-in-the-Box; Nightmare Noonan; Robert Robot; The Duke. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

September 1946. "The Exploding Lake" by Kenneth Robeson; "Meat" by James Goldthwaite; and "The Name is Murder" by Ken Kessler. Digest size, 5-5/8" x 7-3/4"; black and white; 130 pages. Cover price $0.15.

Murder Marionettes, art by Max Elkan; Doll Man must overcome the sinister Bolini, a modern-day Gepetto, who has made marionettes who kill! The Man Called Grim; Mr. Grim tries to put Martha and her friend Luther into suspended animation coffins, the reason being that, in one hundred years, they could easily conquer the weaklings who would surely have proliferated by then. The Riddle of the Missing Ears starring Martha (Roberts), script by Bill Woolfolk. The Good Sport; Mr. Ferris is acting odd lately and he spends every night at the Sport Club Place gambling. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk, Carl Pfeufer, John Jordan, Tom McNamara and Victor Pazmino. During the 1940s, military hero Don Winslow was the star of a comic strip, a movie serial and a popular radio show in addition to this Fawcett comic. Don takes part in an expedition to climb Mount Everest. In a three-part story from WWII, Don's old enemy the American returns. As the cover advises, these issues feature "official war stories from Don Winslow's Log Book," as he, like other wartime heroes, had to explain the continued reliance on WWII stories after the war was over. When Don is placed in charge of the Navy's newest, biggest battleship, the American plots to capture both Don and the ship. Plus facts about the military and semaphore. Don Winslow Climbs Mount Everest; Don Winslows Crossword Puzzle; The American Returns, Part I: Toguchi's Revenge; Curious Facts About the Sea; Jetsam Joe; Eaglebeak Spruder; Part II: Jungle Trap; Military Shorthand; Warriors of the Sea: The President Strikes Back; Semaphore Alphabet, Part 2; Bell Bottom Bill; Part III: Bomby Day! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 8, Issue 34 - September 1946. Digest, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Untitled Black Terror story. Untitled Roger Dodger story, script and art by Al Hartley. Untitled Miss Masque story, art by Lin Streeter; Lily Belle, after coming north to the big city, wants badly to become a torch singer, but her boyfriend, Homer, tells her instead to marry him and he'll provide for her. She refuses and Homer is heartbroken, is later kidnapped and when his uncle, a wealthy businessman, is killed (by the kidnappers), he is blamed for it. Untitled Crime Crushers story. Untitled Crash Carter story, art by Bob Oksner. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "Chief Wahoo and Steve Roper" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; and "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller. "The Canyon Trap" text story. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $32.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $17.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart Very Good $16.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart Very Good $16.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
Add to cart VG- 3.5 $9.00 View scans Paper: Cream Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $9.00 View scans Water damage.	Add to cart Good $4.00 View scans Paper: Cream Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.	Add to cart Good $8.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Staple rust. Rust migration. Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.
Add to cart Good $9.00 View scans Paper: Off white	Add to cart Good $9.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 20%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart GD 2.0 $7.00 View scan Cover and spine glued along spine to first page.

Volume 8, Issue 4 - September, 1946. Cover by Arnold Kohn. Stories by Chester S. Geier "Minions of the Tiger", Lawrence Hamling, John P. Lenahan, Berkeley Livingston "I'll Take the Subway", Leroy Yerxa, and Rog Phillips. Illustrations by Henry Sharp, Clifford McClish, Julian Krupa, Rod Ruth, Virgil Finlay, and William A. Gray. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 178 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

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Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Fuzzy Bear wants to learn how to play the violin. Willipus Wallipus learns a lesson about laziness, courtesy of Uncle Don. Plus a guest appearance by Tuck Sedo the Penguin Playboy, previously seen in the Fawcett's Animal Fair. Tuck Sedo uses his fortune to play an elaborate practical joke. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Friendly Spirit; Willie the Worm: Acid Test; Fuzzy Bear: Fuzzy Fiddles Around; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: On Their Toes; Colonel Walrus and Snazzy the Snail: Finder's Instinct; Willipus Wallipus: Lazy Boners; Tuck Sedo the Penguin Playboy Fires Away!; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Wide Awake. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.