Comic books May 1945, graded by CGC

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 $515.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4403348003

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by J. F. Byrne. Stories and art by Lily Renee, Joe Doolin, August Froehlich, Murphy Anderson, Fran Hopper, and Joey Cavallo. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. In the Lost World, the Voltamen brainwash a human to strike at Hunt and Lyssa's rebellion from the inside; A look at possible sports of the future, including remote-control robot fights on "televisor screen"; The Star Pirate meets his match in a female space pirate. Featuring art by pioneering female artists Fran Deitrick/Hopper and Lily Renee. Good-girl/space-alien cover by Joe Doolin. Sports of Tomorrow; The Lost World; Gale Allen; Mysta of the Moon; Auro Lord of Jupiter; The Mental Monsters of Havoc; Space Rangers; The Star Pirate. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,450.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #2083365007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($43.50) 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 7.5 $475.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #0258630007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($14.25) 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.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $520.00 Paper: Off white Label #4286332009

Cover by Jack Binder. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Jack Binder, Carl Pfeufer and Marc Swayze. A Fawcett anthology with an emphasis on superhero adventure. Mary Marvel meets her and Billy's ancestor, Daniel Batson, as well as the pirate Black Patch, trapped in suspended animation for centuries by an earthquake. Phantom Eagle is captured by Axis forces in Australia who, lacking modern munitions, are instead building giant boomerangs. Mr. Scarlet and Pinky face Incarno, the killer who can die and return from the dead, in a horror-tinged tale. Mary Marvel; Commando Yank; Phantom Eagle; Penny Graves; Mr. Scarlet and Pinky. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $370.00 Paper: Light tan to off white Label #2044983025

Cover by Jack Binder. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Jack Binder, Carl Pfeufer and Marc Swayze. A Fawcett anthology with an emphasis on superhero adventure. Mary Marvel meets her and Billy's ancestor, Daniel Batson, as well as the pirate Black Patch, trapped in suspended animation for centuries by an earthquake. Phantom Eagle is captured by Axis forces in Australia who, lacking modern munitions, are instead building giant boomerangs. Mr. Scarlet and Pinky face Incarno, the killer who can die and return from the dead, in a horror-tinged tale. Mary Marvel; Commando Yank; Phantom Eagle; Penny Graves; Mr. Scarlet and Pinky. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.