Comic books October 1939, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $4,800.00 Paper: Off white to white Slab: Scuffing on front and back of case; Scuffing to inner well of case Two small pieces of tape on cover. Label #4036813002

Cover by Bill Everett.# ## Stories by Bill Everett, Lew Glanzman, Carl Burgos, Paul Gustavson, John F. Kolb, Frank Thomas, Tarpe Mills, and Martin Filchock. Super-hero and adventure tales featuring such characters as Amazing-Man, The Shark, Iron Skull, The Miniature Man, and Mighty Man. Ad for Keen Detective Funnies. 68 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $330.00 Paper: White Label #4429181007

Cover by Al Capp. Stories and art by Rex Maxon, R. W. Palmer, Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Bill Conselman, Charlie Plumb, Bernard Dibble, Rudolph Dirks, John Paul Frederics, Paul Berdanier, Becky Sharp, Harry O'Neill, H. E. Homan, Dudley T. Fisher Jr., Olive Ray Scott, Edward Daniel Kuekes, R. M. Brinkerhoff, Dick Moores, George Lichty, Frank Owen, and Raeburn Van Buren. Sometimes listed as Comics on Parade Vol. 2 #7. Early in the transformation of comic strips to comic books, United Features Syndicate published Comics on Parade as a showcase for its most popular strips, including Tarzan, Li'l Abner and Nancy. Rokoff and his cronies learn it's not wise to underestimate Tarzan... or Jane, in the adaptation of The Beasts of Tarzan with art by Rex Maxon. Alice learns that even books in the looking-glass can hold another magical world. Slats tricks Becky into agreeing to marry Twytch, but high society isn't ready for Becky's father, "Bathless" Groggins. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Abbie an' Slats; The Captain and the Kids; Tarzan of the Apes; Wayne Webster's Problem; Cynical Susie; Broncho Bill; Looy Dot Dope; Dynamite Dunn; How to Make It; Stampin' Around; For Junior Readers; Nancy; Billy Make Believe; Alice in Wonderland; The Boomers; The Pet's Club; Grin and Bear It; Little Mary Mixup; Ella Cinders; Danny Dingle; Li'l Abner. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $5,600.00 CGC Signature Series Paper: Brittle Signed by Jerry Robinson on 11/01/2009 on 1st page. From the Collection of Jerry Robinson. Label #0168463002

Cover art by Fred Guardineer. Batman story, script by Gardner F. Fox, pencils by Bob Kane and Sheldon Moldoff, inks by Bob Kane. Spy story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Mart Bailey. The Last Act starring Buck Marshall, Range Detective, art by Homer Fleming. Larry Steele, Private Detective story, art by Ken Ernst. Vanishing Gems text story by Gardner F. Fox (as Paul Dean). The Skull-Face Cult starring Speed Saunders, Ace Investigator, art by Fred Guardineer. Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise story, art by Sven Elven. Bruce Nelson story, script and art by Tom Hickey. Slam Bradley story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. 64 pgs. $0.10. First appearance of Dala (Monk's Assistant), Batman uses a gun for the 1st time (1st time a costumed hero used a gun in comic books). Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $240.00 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Significant front/back scuff(s); Significant inner well scuff(s) Label #4429181006

Victor E. Pazmiño cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Nipper" and "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Life's Like That" by Fred Neher; "Lightnin' and the Lone Rider" by Jack Kirby (as Lance Kirby); "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Big Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "There's A Town" by M. E. Brady; "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Punky" by Fred Balk; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher; "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; and "Spunky Dory" by M. E. Brady. "Compass Rule" text story by V. Ostergaard. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $335.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4392532012

Cover by John Coleman Burroughs. Stories and art by John Coleman Burroughs, Roy Crane, V. T. Hamlin, Chester Gould, Gaylord Du Bois, Al Micale, J. R. Williams, Al McWilliams, Walt Spouse, C. D. Small, Hugh Harman, and Win Smith. The Funnies presented reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Captain Easy, alongside original material. Searching for the canal that leads to Helium, John Carter, Dejah Thoris and Sola are spotted by the savage green Martians, in the official comic-strip adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars. John Carter provides a distraction so the women can get away, but he is captured by the green Martians for use in their gladiatorial games. Bosko loses his overcoat that has $8 in it, so he goes around cutting the tails off of every overcoat in town until he finds it. Plus a text story featuring Dick Tracy. Cover and John Carter art by John Coleman Burroughs, son of Edgar Rice Burroughs. John Carter Warlord of Mars; The Sky Ranger; Salesman Sam; Alley Oop; Bosko; Tom Beatty: The Hand of Horror; Lightning Jim; Out Our Way; Dick Tracy: The Famon Gang; Find the Errors; Our Boarding House; The Crime Busters; This Curious World; Oz; Captain Easy; Mr. District Attorney. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $6,000.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #4434557015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($180.00) will be charged at checkout.

"Beware of Purple Flesh!" A short story by Ray Cummings.

Vol. 9, Issue 1, October, 1939. "Meat for Satan's Icebox" by Ray Francis, "I Steal Your Blood!" by Dane Gregory, and more. 112 pages. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $599.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #4426080019 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($17.97) will be charged at checkout.

October 1939. Cover by Harold DeLay. Edited by Farnsworth Wright. Stories by H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Illustrations Joseph Eberle, Hannes Bok, and Virgil Finlay. 6 3/4" x 10"; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.