Comic books May 1945, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 1.5 $539.00 Paper: Off white Spine of cover completely split and front cover detached. Label #2099843003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.17) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Edited by Ned L. Pines. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories by Richard Hughes, Capt. Kerry McRoberts, Bob Stanwood, Al Camy, and Drew Coleman. Action-packed tales featuring such characters as Jimmy Cole, Boy Sleuth and the Black Terror, a super strong super-hero. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Detective Comics (1937 1st Series) 99 CGC 4.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4735800005

Cover by Dick Sprang. Stories by Don C. Cameron, Jack Farr and unknown. Art by Dick Sprang, Jack Farr, Howard Sherman, George Roussos and Louis Cazeneuve. The Penguin, operating out of a hideout he considers fool proof, police proof and Batman proof, concocts a scheme in which he freezes a person, then sends a box with the body to relatives for the payment of a certain sum of money to safely have them restored to life in the Batman and Robin tale "The Temporary Murders!" by Don C. Cameron and Dick Sprang. Plus: Three-Ring Binks in an untitled story by Jack Farr; Slam Bradley in "Veteran in Villainy!" with art by Howard Sherman; Air Wave in "Caution...Handle without Care!" with art by George Roussos; and The Boy Commandos in "The Locusts of Lohan!" with art by Louis Cazeneuve (not by Simon and Kirby, despite the listed credits). Also: Billy Brand 1-pager; 2-page text story "The Refugees" by Stan Carter; and The Boners 1-pager by Lit-Win. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $94.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #0774215001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.82) will be charged at checkout.

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; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; and "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff. "Clutch Hitter" text story by Carl C. Hodges. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $369.00 or Best Offer Restored: C1 Paper: Off white to white Restoration Includes: tear seals to cover. (Tape on interior cover.) Label #0290076008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.07) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Bob Powell, Art Helfant, A. W. Nugent and Bob Fujitani. The first comic to feature The Green Hornet, the radio-turned-movie superhero from the creator of the Lone Ranger. Green Hornet's old foe Baron Satakai returns from the dead, in a story with art possibly by Joker co-creator Jerry Robinson. The Blonde Bomber discovers that Axis agents disguised as Eskimos are sabotaging the US salmon supply. Circus performers are targeted by the disturbing figure called The Creeper, who slightly resembles the later Steve Ditko character of that name. Green Hornet: Satakais Ghost Craves Blood!; Spirit of 76: The Black Samurai; Blonde Bomber: Fiends of the Blizzard; Mighty Midgets are Taken Prisoner!; The Story Behind the Cover; Green Hornet Twisters; Crackpot Cornelius; Twinkle Twins: Kids for Sale; Zebra: The Creeping Freak. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Jumbo Comics (1938) 75 CGC 8.0

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #1021324002

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Matt Baker, Alex Blum, and Robert Webb. An influential anthology starring jungle hero Sheena, featuring early art by legendary comics artists in the Eisner-Iger Shop. A woman runs afoul of hostile natives while tracking her father's killer; Pirate queen Velvet thinks she's found the lost heir to the throne of France; Time-traveler Stuart Taylor meets legendary French swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac. Another classic Sheena cover by Joe Doolin. The Hawk; Weird Stories of the Supernatural; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; Ghost Gallery; Dutch Courage; ZX-5 Spies In Action; Sky Girl. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $549.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white File Copy. Label #1618478023 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Fred Harman. Red Ryder, script and art by Fred Harman. Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted strip starring King and Shark, art by Jim Gary. Captain Easy story starring Hitler. Biff Baker, script and art by Henry Lee. Takes a Short-Cut text story starring Little Beaver, art by Fred Harman. The Fighting Yanks. Freckles and His Friends. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $650.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4160333005

Cover art by Rudy Palais. Captain Freedom story with Joe the Blow and his gang. Steel-Killing Germs starring Shock Gibson and Ludwig Von Achriever. Biff Bannon's Best Friend , script and art by Art Helfant. Ouanga--Savage Rite of Death starring Black Cat and Dabal, pencils by Jill Elgin, inks by Joe Kubert. The Story Behind the Cover featuring Captain Freedom and Black Cat. Padlock Homes story, script and art by Ed Wheelan. Murder and the Masquerade of Mei-Ling starring the Girl Commandoes, art by Jill Elgin. 52 pages, four color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,350.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #2083365007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($40.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Pyroman story with Professor Clark. Fighting Yank story. Captain Future story. Four Comrades story, art by Maurice Gutwirth. Don Davis story, art by Leonard Sansone. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $150.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4679104011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Pete Kuhlhoff. "The Man Who Cried Wolf!" by Robert Bloch, "The Watchers" by Ray Bradbury, and "The Lost Day" by August Derleth, plus other horror and supernatural tales by Edmond Hamilton, Harold Lawlor, Thorp McClusky, Emil Petaja, Manly Wade Wellman, and Charles King. Illustrations by Hannes Bok, Boris Dolgov, Dwight Boyce, Andrew Brosnatch, Irwin J. Weill, A. R. Tilburne. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in., 96 newsprint pages, black and white (text with illustrations). Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $425.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #0258630007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($12.75) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by C. C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Basil Wolverton, Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, and Harry Parkhurst. The Fawcett comic that introduced the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) to the world. Billy Batson meets Diogenes Dinkle, whose magic lamp shows if people are crooked or honest, and gets him a job as the radio WHIZ night watchman. Ibis finds his magical powers may be useless when a scientist creates a giant amoeba. Plus the debut of the long-running "Culture Corner" strip by legendary cartoonist Basil Wolverton. This issue features useless but hilarious advice on "How to Cut Your Own Hair." Captain Marvel: The Lamp of Diogenes; Golden Arrow: Deep Rooted Trouble; Little Albert; The Culture Corner; Spy Smasher: The Code in the Head; Hard Way -- Sky Way; Ibis the Invincible: The Unhappy Amoeba. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.