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Comic books August 1944, graded by CGC

  • Item #61261214
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    • Label #4434580002
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    Volume 25, Issue 1 - August, 1944. 6.75" x 9.75", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

  • Item #60428355
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    Published Aug 1944 by DC.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
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    • Inner well not fully sealed, book appears unaffected and secure.
    • Label #0156064018

    Cover pencils by Wayne Boring. Aesop's Modern Fables starring Superman, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Ira Yarbrough (signed as Joe Shuster). The Baseball Barrage starring Hayfoot Henry. Blunderbuss Booty starring Vigilante, art by Mort Meskin. Frame Up in Fur starring Congo Bill, art by Edwin Smalle. The Sting of Death starring Zatara. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61769408
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    • Label #1217466014
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    Includes: Alex Schomburg cover art; The Killer Beasts of Notre Dame, art by Vince Alascia; Berlin's Mistress of Death Human Torch, pencils by Al Bellman; Defense Witness text story; The Murder Brain, Pencils by Alascia; The Case of the Hit and Run Monster--Let's Play Detective, art by Bellman; and The School of Horror, Pencils by Vince Alascia, Inks and Al Gabriele. 60 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61956920
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    • 2nd page married. (Tape on interior cover and interior.)
    • Label #3898365014

    Includes: Alex Schomburg cover art; The Killer Beasts of Notre Dame, art by Vince Alascia; Berlin's Mistress of Death Human Torch, pencils by Al Bellman; Defense Witness text story; The Murder Brain, Pencils by Alascia; The Case of the Hit and Run Monster--Let's Play Detective, art by Bellman; and The School of Horror, Pencils by Vince Alascia, Inks and Al Gabriele. 60 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61710949
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    • Paper: Light tan to off white
    • Label #4060019004

    Includes: Alex Schomburg cover art; The Killer Beasts of Notre Dame, art by Vince Alascia; Berlin's Mistress of Death Human Torch, pencils by Al Bellman; Defense Witness text story; The Murder Brain, Pencils by Alascia; The Case of the Hit and Run Monster--Let's Play Detective, art by Bellman; and The School of Horror, Pencils by Vince Alascia, Inks and Al Gabriele. 60 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #60842842
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    • Label #1273892016

    Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; and "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller. "Cross Currents" text story by Jack M. Greene. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #51069250
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    Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by M.E. Peacock and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Robert Webb, Alex Blum, Ann Brewster and Arnold Hicks. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. The second appearance of Tiger Girl, a redheaded warrior who roams the jungles of India with her pet tigers and Sikh bodyguard; Shark Brodie tracks a gang of drug dealers to a remote island and exacts his revenge; Senorita Rio investigates a South American general suspected of plotting a revolution. Rip Carson; Tiger Girl; Hooks Devlin; Private First Class; Kayo Kirby; The Intruder; Shark Brodie; Senorita Rio. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #51246711
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    $1,000.00
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    • Label #1482220016
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    Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by M.E. Peacock and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Robert Webb, Alex Blum, Ann Brewster and Arnold Hicks. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. The second appearance of Tiger Girl, a redheaded warrior who roams the jungles of India with her pet tigers and Sikh bodyguard; Shark Brodie tracks a gang of drug dealers to a remote island and exacts his revenge; Senorita Rio investigates a South American general suspected of plotting a revolution. Rip Carson; Tiger Girl; Hooks Devlin; Private First Class; Kayo Kirby; The Intruder; Shark Brodie; Senorita Rio. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #60097107
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    • Pedigree: Crowley
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    • Label #0083583014

    Cover by Al Carreno. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Jack Sparling, August Froehlich and Al Carreno. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Captain Marvel Jr., Bulletman and Bulletgirl. Bulletman investigates when phony medium Brother Death causes his subjects to turn to murder. Posing as an archeologist, "international policeman" Radar joins forces with Dwina, a Hindu who is the first international policewoman, when German spies incite unrest among the Zulu nations colonized by the British. Nyoka, the Jungle Girl fears the curse of the Death Rug, but her father doesn't have time for such foolishness. Plus a full-page comics-format ad for Mary Marvel fashions for girls (dresses, not the costume). Radar: The Witch Doctor; Tumbleweed Jr.; Nyoka, the Jungle Girl: The Mystery of Boo Pah Boo; Bulletman: Brother Death; Hoodoo Hannigan, Ch. XXV: Black Reunion; Captain Marvel, Jr.: His Wicked Ward. 40 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61529586
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    Published Aug 1944 by DC.
    • Paper: Off white
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    • Minor side/edge crack(s), less than 1".
    • Label #0064275008

    Cover by Cliff Young (?) (GA & Speedy) and Henry Boltinoff (Dover & Clover). "Cartoons of Crime" starring the Spectre, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Bernard Baily; Percival Popp has to guard the payroll at a cartoon studio. "The Fabulous Fawn," pencils by Cliff Young, inks by Steve Brodie; Green Arrow and Speedy vs. Phineas Trippe. "Tall, Slim and Handsome," script by Don Cameron, art by Mort Meskin (as Mort Morton, Jr.); Johnny Quick vs. Doc Filch. "The Whirlwind Wig Hunt" starring Dover and Clover, script by Whitney Ellsworth, art by Henry Boltinoff. "The Bashful King of Crime," art by Jon Chester Kozlak; Dr. Fate thinks he is seeing double when a young kid, found at the scene of a crime, is instead an exact double for a wanted criminal. "Treasure of the Deep" starring Aquaman, script by Joe Samachson, art by Louis Cazeneuve; Phineas Blodgett tries to extract gold from sea water; Sponsler thinks he can use the method for crime. 60 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #52914295
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    $589.00
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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #1292711016
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    Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by Jean M. Press. Stories and art by Art Saaf, George Tuska, Lily Renee, Fran Hopper, and Lee Elias. Tales of adventure from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Private Elmer has a vegetative mishap when he mistakes pineapples for hand grenades, in his final appearance; Glory Forbes tracks enemy agents on a dude ranch; Nice creepy art by Lily Renee as The Werewolf Hunter meets The Devil's Bride. U.S. Rangers; Commando Ranger; The Werewolf Hunter; The Sea Devil; ABC of Army Chow; Glory Forbes, Vigilante; Private Elmer Pippin and the Colonel's Daughter; The Phantom Falcons. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #60738211
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    Published Aug 1944 by DC.
    $1,349.00
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    • Label #4367054001
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    Cover pencils by Wayne Boring. The Wizard of Wishes! starring Superman, script by Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel], art by Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster]; When the Prankster is accidently hit by an automobile, the owner, a multi-millionaire, offers his fortune to anyone who can make him happy. Grandpa Peters humor two-pager by Tom McNamara [as Lefty O'Grady]. The Tycoon of Crime!, art by Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster]. Untitled Lois Lane, Girl Reporter story; When Lois is given the assignment to write a story on a bake shop, little does she know that that bakery is a front for a lottery racket. The Weakling text story by Ivan Arlen. The Pride of the Kents!, script by Joe Samachson [as Jerry Siegel], art by Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster]; A formerly rich man, whose relatives still think he is loaded, decides to discover just how much his relatives think of him, and holds an unusual "Kent Family Reunion." Casey the Cop humor page by Henry Boltinoff. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61273875
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    Published Aug 1944 by DC.
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    • Label #1109802001
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    Cover pencils by Wayne Boring. The Wizard of Wishes! starring Superman, script by Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel], art by Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster]; When the Prankster is accidently hit by an automobile, the owner, a multi-millionaire, offers his fortune to anyone who can make him happy. Grandpa Peters humor two-pager by Tom McNamara [as Lefty O'Grady]. The Tycoon of Crime!, art by Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster]. Untitled Lois Lane, Girl Reporter story; When Lois is given the assignment to write a story on a bake shop, little does she know that that bakery is a front for a lottery racket. The Weakling text story by Ivan Arlen. The Pride of the Kents!, script by Joe Samachson [as Jerry Siegel], art by Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster]; A formerly rich man, whose relatives still think he is loaded, decides to discover just how much his relatives think of him, and holds an unusual "Kent Family Reunion." Casey the Cop humor page by Henry Boltinoff. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.