Comic books July 1942

Add to cart VG 4.0 $150.00 View scans Water spotting. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Gus Mager, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Reg Greenwood, Hal Forrest, Bernard Dibble, Ed Dodd and John Hix. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 7 #3. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. The Mirror Man finds a surefire way to get Winnie and Slim out of Nazi-occupied Norway: by hiding in the coffins prepared for dead Nazi generals! Fritzi and her friends try to outdo each other's evening gowns, in a strip showcasing Ernie Bushmiller's fashion designs and good-girl art. The Triple Terror, now with the Army Air Corps, goes behind Axis lines to hunt for a fortune in jade. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; The Mirror Man; The Triple Terror; Jim Hardy; Stamp Tips; Looy Dot Dope; Tailspin Tommy; Iron Vic; Phil Fumble; Fritzi Ritz; Back Home Again; Strange as It Seems. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Series change from Top Notch Comics to Top Notch Laugh, meaning many of the stories are now humor-based. Cover by Bob Montana. Edited by Harry Shorten. Stories by Don Dean, Al Camy, Carl Hubbell, Pen Shumaker, Mary Goss, Dale Goss, and Jim Phillips. Super-heroic and humorous tales, many of them filled with action and adventure—these are Top Notch Laugh comics! 68 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Lawrence Dresser and Natalie Purvin Prager. Biography and history stories in comics form, part of a trend in non-fiction comics in the 1940s. Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen becomes a superstar of radio, film and TV with his alter ego, Charlie McCarthy; Nazis in retreat use ocarinas, small flute-like instruments, to signal each other; Michelangelo's sculptures and paintings include some of the most famous artworks of Western history. What Do You Think?; Meet Charlie McCarthy!; Jungle Trail Blazer; Canadian Mounties Go To Sea; Knight of the Airmail; Retreat from Moscow; Australia, War Base of the Pacific; Ship Models You Can Make; Is It True?; True's Movie Guide; Buffalo Bulldogger; Charter Oak: How a Hollow Tree Helped Connecticut to Safeguard Her Liberties; U.S.S. Heron; Michelangelo, Maker of Giants; What Do You Think on These Questions?; Truly Comic!; Queen of the Arabs; How Good is Your Memory? 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian series. Contents are exactly the same as True Comics (1941 Parents' Magazine Press). Cover price $0.10.

July, 1942. Cover price $0.15.

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68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 47, Issue 12 - July 1942. "A Magazine for Boys and Girls." Stories, poems, and activities designed for kids. 7-in. x 10-in., 36 pages, PC,PB&W Cover price $0.20.

Volume 36, Issue 6 - July, 1942. Edited by Dorothy McIlwraith. Horror and Fantasy stories in the pulp style. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover pencils by C.C. Beck. Written by unknown. Art by C.C. Beck, Harry Anderson, Bob Hebberd and unknown. Captain Marvel must contend with Adolf-Puss and Blabbermouth Musso in "The War of the Trolls" with art by C.C. Beck. Plus: Golden Arrow in "Ring Fighting Made Easy"; "Spy Smasher Goes to Chinatown"; Lance O'Casey in "Private Blitz" with art by Harry Anderson; 2-page text story "The Clue on the Clue" by Elmer Wexler; "Dr. Voodoo Routs the Huns"; and Ibis the Invincible tale "The Wishing Fool" with art by Bob Hebberd. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Gene Fawcette. Edited by Gene Fawcette. Stories and art by Nick Cardy, George Appel, Joe Doolin, Arthur Peddy, Maxwell Elkan, Gene Fawcette, Art Saaf and Al Walker. Aviation-themed adventure, combat and history tales from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. After crash-landing in the sea, the crew of a bomber must survive 34 days adrift in the shark-filled waters of the Pacific; The final adventure of the Parachute Patrol; Action nurse Jane Martin finds danger in Crimea at the Black Sea port of Batum. Skull Squad; Parachute Patrol; Jane Martin; Clipper Kirk; Captain Wings; Suicide Smith; Wing Tips; Prey for the Eagles Talons; The Devil's Double; Yank Aces of World War II; Greasemonkey Griffin. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Dave Berg, Otto Binder, Clem Weisbecker, and Phil Bard. A Fawcett anthology with an emphasis on superhero adventure. Mr. Scarlet and Pinky seek the mysterious figure known only as The Voice, a villain who resembles The Shadow. War correspondent Chase Yale dons a Captain America-like costume and fights for the Allied cause as Commando Yank. In the debut of another long-running Wow Comics hero, teen Mickey Malone is too young to join the RAF, so he secretly becomes the air ace Phantom Eagle. Plus an early story by future Mad "Lighter Side" artist Dave Berg. Mr. Scarlet: The Voice; Commando Yank: We Dare Death; Phantom Eagle; Murder at the Hazing; Spooks; Mr. Scarlet: Murder Without Clues. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Issue 6 - July, 1942. 5" x 7", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.5 $800.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4354934004

Edited by Harry Shorten. Cover art by Irv Novick. "The Black Dragon of Death!", art by John Cassone; A dead man found in a burned car, identified by John Raymond as the missing General Mason, has been murdered by The Black Dragon; Raymond changes into the Web to track down the villain, but in the process inadvertently leaves clues that Rose Wayne has found, through which she discovers that John Raymond is the Web. "The Stars Drip Blood," art by Al Camy; The Black Seven is born as seventh son of a seventh son, and that is a bad sign; He becomes a symbol for fiendish cunning and murder; When he is out to steal secret documents from the Turkish ambassador, he meets up with Black Jack. "The Swastika of Death," script by Joe Blair, art by Irv Novick; The Germans are after a Polish immigrant, but the attempt fails when Steel interferes; On his back is written the secret whereabouts of the gold of the Polish government in exile. "A-Hunting We Will Go," script by Joe Blair, art by Lin Streeter; Wilbur and his dad are on a hunting trip with Mr. Phillips. "Vengeance from the Grave" Stories of the Black Witch tale, art by Jim Phillips; The pirate captain was a practical man, wise in the ways of sailing ships, but he knew nothing about ghosts or the curses from a murdered lighthouse keeper. "Wings of Doom," script by Joe Blair, art by Ed Smalle; The Eagles are on their way to New York on an American Clipper when attacked by a German plane. "The Fiddle and the Prize-Fighter," art by Jim Phillips; Zambini helps a chagrined mother, whose violinist son has turned to prize fighting. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.