Comic books March 1948

Robin in "Rajah Robin," Robotman in "Tops in Crime," Handy Andy, the Star-Spangled Kid in "The Pin-Ball Crimes," and Tomahawk in "Secret of the Stockade." Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $999.95 or Best Offer View scans Staple rust/migration. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Add to cart PR 0.5 $379.95 or Best Offer View scans INCOMPLETE. Two center wraps missing, affects Sea Eagle, Tygra (text only), and Lance Lewis stories. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Phalanx of Fear starring Tygra. The Scourge of the Dark Seas! starring Sea Eagle. The White Elephant text story starring Tygra by Charles Strong. The Amoeba Men! starring Lance Lewis, Space Detective. The Joneses story. The Longest Arm text story by Edward Hassett. Jefferson Jones story, art by Hal Sherman. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $15.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Cream Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 17, Issue 1 - March, 1948. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Wesley Long, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, James Blish, Carter Sprague, and R.C. W. Ettinger. Four Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 148 pages. Cover price $0.20.

Children's magazine featuring stories, illustrations, songs and more. 48 pages, PC/PB&W, 7" x 10". Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,950.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #0237110004

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $1,499.00 View scans Paper: Off white Slab: Significant front/back scuff(s); Significant inner well scuff(s); Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #0713456001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover pencils possibly by Mike Sekowsky. Firebrand, the Scourge of the Pacific starring Sub-Mariner, Namora, and Firebrand, art by Ken Bald. One Way Ticket text story. Murder Through the Mind starring Sub-Mariner, Namora, and Dr. Macabre. You Can't Get Away With Murder starring the Blonde Phantom and Miss Armanda. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Vintage magazine featuring stories about, and tips for those interested in the nudist way of life. Softcover Magazine, 8" x 11", 32 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $73.00 View scans Staple rust.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $179.00 or Best Offer View scans Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

#64 in a series of 90. Superman-Tim is a boys' clothing catalog, activity book, and comic book all rolled into one, featuring Superman illustrations throughout. All issues are 16 pages unless a Superman story is inserted (bringing page count to 24 or 36 pages). Every issue encourages boys not to be a "Whoo-Shoo" -- a boy who reads "Superman-Tim" but doesn't buy clothes from the Superman-Tim Store. Copyright 1948 by National Comics Pub., Inc., under license to Tim Promotions, Inc. B&W with a single color, 5 1/2 in. x 8 in.

Stories by Ed Gruskin and George Marcoux. Featuring the adventures of Supersnipe, Ulysses Q. Wacky, and Trouble. Two-page Supersnipe text story. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by L. B. Cole. Cadet story, art by Nina Albright; Kit Carter and Dan Merry go on a scavenger hunt. Target story, art by Ken Battefield. Midnight Fiddler text story. Bull's-Eye Bill western story, art by Joe Certa. The Candy Bar starring Speck, Spot, and Sis, art by Alonzo Vincent; Kids dress as the Shadow and Roy Rogers at a masquerade. Targetoons humor page by Milt Hammer. Candid Charlie story, art by Robert Sale (as Bob Q. Siege). Heathcliff the Hobo story, script and art by Art Helfant. Gary Stark story, art by Don Rico. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $65.00 or Best Offer View scans 1" Cumulative spine split. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

"Tarzan and the Captives of the Thunder Valley." Tarzan battles a lion, a crocodile, and a great ape, and then proceeds to destroy one million dollars owned by a slaver. Includes part two of Jesse Marsh's adaptation of Burroughs' Ape-English Dictionary. Script by Gaylord DuBois, art and cover by Jesse Marsh. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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2nd or later Burroughs printing. Includes dust jacket. Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Dust jacket and illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs. A father enlist the Lord of the Jungle's help to find his missing son. Along the way they will face dangers and perils undreamed of and discover the mysteries surrounding the Forbidden City. Hardcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 315 pages. Cover price $1.00.

1st and only Burroughs, Inc. Printing. Includes dust jacket. Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Tan-Gray binding. 5.5" x 7.75", 301 pages, text. Cover price $1.00.

Cover by Art Bartsch. Art by Art Bartsch and Connie Rasinski. St. John presents the comics adventures of the characters of animator Paul Terry's studio. The Claw discovers that a certain musical chord will kill mice, while leaving cats unharmed, and disguises himself to perform at the Terrytown Opera House. Dimwit sets out for a relaxing afternoon of fishing, but then Heckle and Jeckle come along. Sylvester the Fox needs a cuckoo egg for a recipe, but ironically, the cuckoo egg is occupied by someone else: Dingbat. Dinky: Stubby Finds Himself; Mighty Mouse: The Super-Sonic Chord; Heckle and Jeckle: The Prize Catch; Gandy Goose: Open Season; Sylvester the Fox: Foolish Goulash. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $17.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

March 1948. Jim Hatfield stars in "The Black Gold Secret" written by Jackson Cole. Other western action stories by Joseph Chadwick, Tom Parsons, Allan K. Echols, and Ben Frank. 7" x 9 1/2"; black and white; 114 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $6.50 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%.

Add to cart Poor $2.50 View scans Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 50%.

TAM is legendary for its thorough and insightful coverage of the stage, both in American and England. Less well-known is the fact that TAM also provided some outstanding coverage of motion pictures. Broadway and Hollywood. 8.5-in. x 11-in, 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

British Edition. March 1948. Stories include: Center of the Stage (A Ralph Burnham Novel) by Thomson Burtis, Make Mine Murder by C.S. Montayne, "Nice, Like a Cobra" by Robert Martin, Death Bait by Bill Anson, Death Starts The Year by Johnston McCulley. 6 1/8" X 8 7/8". 68 pages. B&W.

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Add to cart GD- 1.8 $16.00 View scans Paper: Light tan to Cream Front cover detached 40%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 37, Issue 1 - March, 1948. 6.75" x 9", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Art by Phil De Lara and others. Funny-animal antics from Magazine Enterprises. A rival circus owner steals Little Tops' animals and sells them to the zoo; A sleepwalking Tom-Tom falls into a plot to steal a sacred jewel; Catchy and Scrapps accidentally stow away on a freighter. The Pixie Flyer; Flying Freddy the Model Pilot; Little Tops of the Big Top; Koko and Kola; Tom-Tom the Jungle Boy; Catchy and Scrapps; Goofus the Gopher; The Pixies. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Sam Leff, Bernard Dibble, Ernest Hix, Raeburn Van Buren and Gustavo Arriola. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 12 #8. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Famed conductor Mischa Bassoon arrives in Crabtree Corners and brings scandal with him, in an Abbie an' Slats strip with nice art by Raeburn van Buren. Bombo and Biltybux visit Bombo's uncle, who lives deep in the South American jungle. After she agrees to become a model to advertise pills, Daisy Mae is held prisoner, in a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; Stamp Tips; Curly Kayoe; Abbie an' Slats; El Bombo; Gordo; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; Strange as It Seems; How It Began. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Al Liederman and Carl Pfeufer. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. Before Tom can stop an outlaw, he must rescue a trapped Ranger from a raging forest fire. To prevent a fight over a water source from erupting into bloodshed, Tom shoots the guns out of five men's hands in one panel. Tom meets Celia, who has tracked her father's killer from all the way Back East. The Blaze of Death; Cowboy Cal; Saddlehead; Doc Greene's Dilemma; The Badman Wins; Tumbleweed Jr.: School Daze; Round Up Time with Tom Mix; The Whip; Whipper-Snappers; Scales of Justice. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Spring 1948. Cover by Dreany. Three detective novels: "Tickets for Death" by Brett Halliday, "The Night before Murder" by Steve Fisher, and "Find my Killer" by Manly Wade Wellman. 7" x 10"; black and white; 194 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

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Stories based on actual people and events: The Case of the Seven Hunted Men. He Laughed at Rain; introduction of umbrellas to England. The Radio Industry [VI]--American Adventures in Industry. My Most Interesting True Experience article by Gary Cooper. A Lost World starring the Minoans. Scholar with a Punch about a boxer. Abraham Lincoln's Fighting about balloonist. The Last Stand of a Sea Wolf; German battleship Scharnhorst. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $435.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white Tape on interior cover. Label #1482221025 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Syd Shores. First appearance of Two Gun Kid in "Introducing the Two Gun Kid," art by Syd Shores; The Two-Gun Kid and his horse Cyclone ride into the town of Sundown, Arizona; There a stray bullet zips by knocking off the cowboy's had; Suspecting trouble, Two-Gun rushes to the saloon where the shot rang out from and finds a man shot in the arm for refusing to take a drink with another. First appearance of Blaze Carson (unnamed) in "The Sheriff"; The Sheriff is spending his quiet day playing checkers with one of the locals when he hears someone beating up on a horse. "Two Hungry Hikers" text story. "The Code of the West," art by Syd Shores; Dry Gultch, Nevada has been plagued with a series of bank robberies that has kept the town living in fear, and the sheriff unable to catch the gang responsible; 20 minutes after the most recent robbery, Sheriff Winn gathers a posse to go out looking for the thieves and bring them to justice. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Sheldon Moldoff. Stories and art by Walter T. Johnson, Frank Bolle and Leonard Starr. Violent pre-Code tales of crime and the law from DS Publishing. Bill Batlen may be a crook and a killer, but his younger brother Andy wants to be just like him. Eddie Bendix may look like a kid, but he's a deadly menace. Marge Morrow escapes from prison, in a story with some Chester Gould-style bad-girl art. Extra-violent cover at least gives the law the upper hand, unlike some other covers of the crime-comics era. The Mad Dog Murderers; The Baby-Face Killer; Killers Inc.; Crime Curtain; The Female Menace; Murder for Millions. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Walt Kelly. Stories and art by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, Merrill De Maris, Dick Moores, Bob Karp, Dick Shaw, Ralph Heimdahl, Don Gunn, George Waiss, Bill Wright, Sylvia Holland, and Al Taliaferro. Sometimes listed as Vol. 8 #6. The long-running vehicle for Disney character comics featured work by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, and Pogo's Walt Kelly. In a classic story from the Mickey Mouse comic strip, Goofy acquires a pet lion named Agnes. In a story by Barks, Donald competes with his nephews when they get jobs as telegram messengers. Bucky Bug battles a squirrel. Donald Duck; Bucky Bug; Li'l Bad Wolf; Mickey Mouse; Have a Heart; Daddy Duck; Pluto: The Bone Bandit; Mickey Mouse: Goofy and Agnes. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $399.95 or Best Offer View scans Restored (see item notes) RESTORATION. Color touch, spine split seal, tear seal and piece fill. 4.75" Cumulative spine split. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories and art by Ed Moore, Graham Ingels, Lee J. Ames, and Johnny Craig. E.C.'s Pre-Trend early crime title featured gangsters, gunplay and femmes fatale. The "true" story of Prohibition-era gangster Machine-Gun Kelly. A mastermind of crime seeks the secret evidence the police have against him, in a story by Johnny Craig. Modern-day train robbers become killers, in Graham Ingel's first story for EC Comics. Public Enemy…the Story of Machine-Gun Kelley!; Portfolio of Death!; The Ruby Stickpin!; Smokin Six-Guns! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.