Comic books February 1943

Cover by Gene Fawcette. Edited by Larabie Cunningham and Gene Fawcette. Stories and art by George Appel, Bob Lubbers, Joe Doolin, Gene Fawcette, Saul Rosen, Art Saaf and Al Walker. Aviation-themed adventure, combat and history tales from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Nazi spies steal a plane design, unaware it was dreamed up by Greasemonkey Griffin; The Skull Squad tests a flying fortress against an experimental Nazi super-bomber; Agent Jane Martin tries to convince a captured Nazi air ace that he's in a German hospital so he'll spill his secrets. Also featuring model airplane tips and aircraft drawings submitted by readers. Skull Squad; Jane Martin; Clipper Kirk; Captain Wings; Suicide Smith; Wing Tips; Crash Dive for the Jackpot; Graveyard Flight; Yank Aces of World War II; Greasemonkey Griffin. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Harry G. Peter. Untitled story, script by William Moulton Marston (as Charles Moulton), art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman flies to Paradise Island to celebrate Diana's Day, unaware she's brought a stowaway - one of Paula von Gunther's slave girls, intent on killing Wonder Woman and guiding a Japanese destroyer to the Amazon homeland. Untitled story, script by William Moulton Marston (as Charles Moulton), art by Harry G. Peter; Paula enslaves Steve and Wonder Woman and leads them into an underground deathtrap. "Nurse Edith Cavell," script by Alice Marble, art by Sheldon Moldoff; story of Nurse Edith Cavell (1865-1915), who helped allied soldiers escape German custody so they could rejoin the war effort. Untitled story, script by William Moulton Marston (as Charles Moulton), art by Harry G. Peter; Learning the cause of Paula's villainy, Wonder Woman travels to Nazi Germany to retrieve the Baroness' daughter from a concentration camp. "Ordeal of Fire," script by William Moulton Marston (as Charles Moulton), art by Harry G. Peter; In preventing a Nazi plot to destroy a munitions factory and saving Wonder Woman's life, Paula von Gunther is redeemed and accepted into Aphrodite's service as a neophyte. Two-page Hop Harrigan text story, "The Furlough." Full-page ad for the Junior Justice Society of America fan club. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Marc Swayze. Stories and art by Otto Binder and Marc Swayze. A Fawcett anthology with an emphasis on superhero adventure. Mary Marvel and her wealthy mother buy an old abandoned school to create an orphanage, unaware that gangsters are using it as a criminal training camp. Commando Yank encounters a French "holdout" from World War I who is still killing German soldiers in World War II. Crash-landing on a remote island after battling Axis forces, Phantom Eagle meets a modern-day Robinson Crusoe. Mary Marvel: Gangsterdom in Retirement!; Whipper-Snappers; Phantom Eagle: The Airman Robinson Crusoe; Commando Yank: Ghosts of the Maginot Line; Padlock Jones: The Episode of the Absent-Minded Fox; Mr. Scarlet: Crime a la Carte! 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $45.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white

Add to cart Very Good $45.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Foxing. Soiling. Moisture damage.

Volume 66, Issue 10 - February, 1943. 6.75" x 9.75", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $2,300.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white RIGHT EDGE TRIMMED. Label #4339886023

Edited by Harry Shorten. "The Disappearing Diamonds," art by Irv Novick; Diamonds used in the cutting of precision instruments have been stolen from one of the airplane factories, and Looney is set on the job to deliver the next transfer. "The Vikings," art by Sam Burlockoff; Germans disguised as vikngs plans to blow up an American base in Alaska. "Murder!" text story starring Web by Flynn Livingston. Untitled Black Jack story, art by Sam Cooper; The KBC radio station used their power facilities to send secret messages to Japanese submarines lying off the coast. "The Costume Ball"; Wilbur and friends are going to a masquerade, and sis' silk stockings are missing. "Black Binder" Black Witch story, art by Joe Kubert; A slave trader captain is saved by his slave after a shipwreck and taken to his village and beheaded. "The Old Soldier"; In Serbia, an old woman of 72 years has shown the world that one is never too old to fight. "Trojan Rock" one-page World Wonders story by Mary Goss. "Enemies Within" starring Zambini; The country is badly in need of rubber, but Throckmorton is wasting tires and buying them from black market operators. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.