Comic books October 1944, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $780.00 Paper: Off white Label #1969414016 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($23.40) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by R.W. Hall, Radcliffe, Alan Mandel, Dick Briefer, Dick Wood and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. Crimebuster tracks the murderous thug known as Johnny-on-the-Spot, in a particularly violent pre-Code story. Yankee Longago has a Groundhog Day-style time-loop adventure that teaches the importance of war bonds, a wartime fundraising effort, featuring art by Dick Briefer. Swoop Storm uses his new Gull Plane, a flap-winged plane like Airboy's Birdie, to take on Axis forces during WWII, featuring art possibly by Archie creator Bob Montana. Crimebuster; Swoop Storm; True Story of Jan Smudek; Daredevils Greatest Battle; Little Dynamite; Young Robinhood and his Band; Yankee Longago. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $1,275.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #1462522021 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($38.25) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by M.E. Peacock and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Robert Webb, Alex Blum, Ann Brewster, H.C. Kiefer, Lily Renee and George Tuska. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Tiger Girl must prove a white man stole a precious idol before tribal warfare erupts, in a story with possible art by Matt Baker; More good-girl art as Hooks Devlin investigates the "lamp-post Mata Haris" who are causing US soldiers to desert; Senorita Rio investigates Nazi U-boat attacks on ships near the Panama Canal. Another offbeat bondage cover by Joe Doolin. Rip Carson; Tiger Girl; Hooks Devlin; Kayo Kirby; Silent Cannons; Shark Brodie; Senorita Rio. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $549.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4671561020 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by M.E. Peacock and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Robert Webb, Alex Blum, Ann Brewster, H.C. Kiefer, Lily Renee and George Tuska. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Tiger Girl must prove a white man stole a precious idol before tribal warfare erupts, in a story with possible art by Matt Baker; More good-girl art as Hooks Devlin investigates the "lamp-post Mata Haris" who are causing US soldiers to desert; Senorita Rio investigates Nazi U-boat attacks on ships near the Panama Canal. Another offbeat bondage cover by Joe Doolin. Rip Carson; Tiger Girl; Hooks Devlin; Kayo Kirby; Silent Cannons; Shark Brodie; Senorita Rio. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $349.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #1488672022 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Al Gabriele. Stories and art by Henry Kiefer and Roland "Ramona" Patenaude. Headline Comics' first rotating slate featured a slew of Axis-punching super-heroes typical of the early 1940s. Kinker Kinkaid investigates Crime's 3-Ring Circus; Teen inventor Cliff Gordon plays pirate on the high seas; Time-traveling teen Tom Morgan visits the Old West. Junior Rangers; Buck Saunders; Cliff Gordon -- Pirate; Routine Report; Tom Morgan; Kinker Kinkaid. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Marvel Mystery Comics (1939) 59 CGC 4.0

Paper: Off white

Significant front/back scuff(s).

Label #0199354014

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Madman of Terror Mountain starring Human Torch, art by Jimmy Thompson. Case of the Electric Killers starring Sub-Mariner, art by Allen Simon. The Horror of the Secret Weapon starring Miss America, script by Otto Binder, art by Charles Nicholas. Escape to Freedom text story. The Case of the Vanishing Head starring Patriot, art by Al Bellman. The Talking Corpse starring Angel, art by Gustav Schrotter. 52 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $3,299.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #4387095002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($98.97) will be charged at checkout.

World War II era bondage art cover by Syd Shores. The Angel is cover featured in a battle with Nazis. The Angel stars in "The Legend of the Murderous Falcon!" Untitled Human Torch story. The Destroyer in "Jap Juggernaut." Tommy Tyme and His Wonderful Clock of the Ages by Charles Tomsey. Terry Vance, the School Boy Sleuth in an untitled story. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,600.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #4613271001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($48.00) will be charged at checkout.

World War II era bondage art cover by Syd Shores. The Angel is cover featured in a battle with Nazis. The Angel stars in "The Legend of the Murderous Falcon!" Untitled Human Torch story. The Destroyer in "Jap Juggernaut." Tommy Tyme and His Wonderful Clock of the Ages by Charles Tomsey. Terry Vance, the School Boy Sleuth in an untitled story. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $1,499.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Very minor amount of glue on centerfold. Label #4153289014 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($44.97) will be charged at checkout.

World War II era bondage art cover by Syd Shores. The Angel is cover featured in a battle with Nazis. The Angel stars in "The Legend of the Murderous Falcon!" Untitled Human Torch story. The Destroyer in "Jap Juggernaut." Tommy Tyme and His Wonderful Clock of the Ages by Charles Tomsey. Terry Vance, the School Boy Sleuth in an untitled story. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $795.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4715061016 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($23.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Burne Hogarth. Stories and art by Burne Hogarth, Paul Berdanier, Fred Methot, Bernard Dibble, Ernie Bushmiller, Jack Sparling, Drew Pearson, Bob Allen, Milburn Rosser, Rudolph Dirks, Charlie Plumb, Bill Conselman, Harry O'Neill, Raeburn Van Buren and Abner Dean. United's anthology featured reprints of early comic strips, plus patriotic WWII heroes The Spark Man and Race Riley. The Spark Man struggles to escape after being sealed up behind the wall in gangster Martoni's house. Heartbroken Hap Hopper and Holly pass each other in the Washington train station without even realizing it. Bathless Groggins is masquerading as Princess Groggynska while the real princess organizes the Resistance, but that puts Bathless in the hot seat. Plus a Tarzan adventure by Burne Hogarth. Aquatic Tarzan cover by Hogarth. Spark Man; Hap Hopper; Nancy; Captain and the Kids; Ella Cinders; Tarzan; Abbie an Slats; Broncho Bill; Race Riley and the Commandos; Sparkler Salutes; El Bombo. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $4,490.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #0288402006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($134.70) will be charged at checkout.

Origin and first appearance of Mr. Mxyztplk (later Mxyzptlk). Superman flies for the first time. Cover art by Jack Burnley. Superman Alias Superman, script by Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel], pencils by Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster]; Lois Lane thinks Clark Kent is trying to trick her into believing he's Superman! Untitled Lois Lane story, script by Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel], pencils by Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster]; Lois is taken prisoner by the Dover gang. The King's Substitute!, script by Bill Finger [as Jerry Siegel], art by Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster]; Unhappy because his father-in-law to be considers him to be a nobody, Johnny Poly goes to Poltavia to bid on a picture of the nation's ancient monarch. Death of a Pirate text story by Eric Carter. The Mysterious Mr. Mxyztplk!, script by Jerry Siegel (signed), pencils by Joe Shuster (?) and Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster]. Handy Andy humor page by Jack Farr. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $2,299.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #1624601006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($68.97) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Origin and first appearance of Mr. Mxyztplk (later Mxyzptlk). Superman flies for the first time. Cover art by Jack Burnley. Superman Alias Superman, script by Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel], pencils by Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster]; Lois Lane thinks Clark Kent is trying to trick her into believing he's Superman! Untitled Lois Lane story, script by Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel], pencils by Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster]; Lois is taken prisoner by the Dover gang. The King's Substitute!, script by Bill Finger [as Jerry Siegel], art by Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster]; Unhappy because his father-in-law to be considers him to be a nobody, Johnny Poly goes to Poltavia to bid on a picture of the nation's ancient monarch. Death of a Pirate text story by Eric Carter. The Mysterious Mr. Mxyztplk!, script by Jerry Siegel (signed), pencils by Joe Shuster (?) and Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster]. Handy Andy humor page by Jack Farr. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.