Comic books March 1948, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $745.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #3845203009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($22.35) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover by Dan Barry. Stories and art by Arthur Peddy, Bernard Sachs, Frank Giacoia and Fred Kida. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #49. No issue # on cover; Vol. 5, issue #2 in indicia. Airboy hears a raving man's tale of The Wild Horse of Calabra. A Central American prospector tries to kill his partner to claim their find for himself, but he hadn't reckoned on The Heap, or human greed. Flying Fool and his female rival Riot O'Hara race to claim a dangerous job in the wilds of northern China. Eye-catching cover by Flash Gordon's Dan Barry. Airboy: The Wild Horse of Calabra; The Heap; Model Builders with Airboy; Right On Time; Horsethief; Flying Fool; The Golden Altar of Panama. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $1,040.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #2065514001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($31.20) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Western Tales of action and adventure starring the famous female sharpshooter, Annie Oakley: "Just Love That Cowhand"; Annie is hired on the Barr-X Ranch after capturing a wild steer. "The Grecian Wiggle" text story. "She's My Gal, Pa"; A lawyer comes looking for a blonde girl who ran away from home and everybody thinks it's Annie. "Heart Havoc," pencils by Ed Winiarski; Gabby thinks he's finally going to get a date with Hedy but it doesn't quite turn out that way. "Wrong Steer," inks by Chris Rule; Sally arranges a rodeo so that Slim can defeat Annie in tests of skill. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $2,750.00 Paper: White Pedigree: Ohio Ohio Label #0083201016 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($82.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Bob Kane and Charles Paris. Stories by Edmond Hamilton and unknown. Art by Bob Kane, Charles Paris, Howard Sherman, Lee Harris, Curt Swan and George Klein. A clairvoyant successfully predicts the death of two men, but when he predicts Batman will die aboard an ocean liner, the Caped Crusader is willing to gamble that the prediction is wrong. Don't miss Batman and Robin in "The Man Who Could See the Future!" by Edmond Hamilton, Bob Kane and Charles Paris. Plus: Slam Bradley in "Rockabye Rogues!" with art by Howard Sherman; Air Wave in "Radio 'Hams' to the Rescue!" with art by Lee Harris; and The Boy Commandos in "The Man Who Brought 'em Back Dead!" with art by Curt Swan and George Klein. Also: Shorty 2-pager by Henry Boltinoff, and 2-page text story "Payment in Kind" by Art Long. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $1,440.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4257043002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($43.20) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Treasure of Lobengula starring Judy of the Jungle, art by Ralph Mayo; vs. Homer Wendt. Dig It, Gates! starring Roger Dodger, script and art by Al Hartley; vs. Horace and Roscoe. The Double Disguise starring the Black Terror; vs. "Careful Mike" Hargan. Bullets For Black-Jack starring Rick Howard, the Mystery Rider, art by Charles Quinlan. The Marchand Meteor Case starring Strut Simmons, art by Ed Good; vs. Caldwell. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $323.00 Paper: Off white Label #4369208001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.69) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Ken Battefield. Stories and art by Bill Fraccio, George Gregg, Marcia Snyder, Pete Tumlinson and Tex Blaisdell. Starting as a brutal pre-Code true-crime comic in its early issues, Gangsters Cant Win later evolved into a standard mystery-detective title. The true stories of 1920s gangster Dutch Anderson and his protege Gerald Chapman, the first Public Enemy Number One. Holdup woman Irene Schroeder kills a cop, later earning the nicknames "the blonde bandit" and "Tiger Girl" while on trial for murder. A profile of real-life gunslinger John Wesley Hardin. Gerald Chapman: The Evil Genius of Crime; John Wesley Hardin: Killer of the Southwest; The Little Augie--Kid Dropper Feud; Irene Schroeder, The Original Bobbed-Hair Bandit: The Girl, The Gun, and the Grave!; Tip Off ; Wanted: Ned Kelly, Australia's Public Enemy #1, Dead or Alive; Larry Fay, Racketeer. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $600.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4206315001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($18.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by thegeneral

Ernie Bache cover (signed with his penname, 'Bachelor'), which features Radix the Man of Hate and the International Crime Patrol. The International Crime Patrol star in "The Tide of Terror!", Igor the Archer in "The Phantom of the Factory," the Chessmen in "The Adventure of the Misplaced Vial," and Madelon, Slick Chick of the Camera, in "Peril Over Paris." Also features Moon Girl in "Moon Girl and the Prince." Two full page Moon Girl and the Prince ads (one in black and white, the other in color). Two page text story, "The Mysterious Pencil Sharpener!" This pre-code gem features bondage panels in almost every story, plus a scantily clad Moon Girl! Va-va-va-voom! Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $570.00 Paper: Off white Label #4397472005

Cover by Jack Kamen. Jungle adventure in the tradition of Tarzan from Fox Feature Syndicate. Jo-Jo and Tanee are captured and tortured by the chieftain of the Valley of Jade, who is building a giant statue of himself; The Mozambii tribe attacks, in a story with a bathing scene that was somewhat risque for 1948; A mad priest demands sacrifices to his gigantic multi-armed idol. Fun gorilla-girl cover, probably by Jack Kamen. The Jade Juggernaut; The Death Moat of the Mozambii; Mask of the Swahili Terror; Eyeless Idol of Gaza. There was no issue #13. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $950.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #1488657010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($28.50) will be charged at checkout.

Millie the Model cover and story "Beauty and the Boss", Basil Wolverton's Powerhouse Pepper in a "A Scare in the Air". 36pg. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,525.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4107255002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($45.75) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Art and cover by Al Feldstein. Teen comedy typical of the time, with art by EC legend Al Feldstein. Deena ill-advisedly enlists Junior to help redecorate her mother's kitchen; The gang tries to help Goofy replace a broken window before his parents find out; Deena and Gwenny get jobs as models, in a story featuring some tame Betty & Veronica-style cheesecake art by Feldstein. Blowing-skirt cover predates the famous Marilyn Monroe picture by several years. Inferior Decorating; Glass Pains; The Crime Shall Be Nameless; Chemical Action; A Model Story. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $180.00 or Best Offer Restored: C1 Paper: Off white to white Restoration Includes: Small Amount of Color Touch on Cover. Label #4399661017 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.40) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by thegeneral

Syd Shores cover. "Adam and Eve--Crime Incorporated," "Scourge of the Wast--the Story of Jesse James," "The Clue of the Left-Handed Killer," and "Joe Kratz, Killer!" Two page text story, "Murder - On Stage!" Two pages "Giggles 'n Grins" cartoons by Harvey Kurtzman. (The mugshot photo on the cover is one Florence Kovianek, a 19 year old wanted by the F.B.I. at the time on kidnapping charges). Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $600.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #3707642015

Cover art by Ogden Whitney. "Maid in the Morgue" text story by Gardner Fox. "The School for Spies," art by Ogden Whitney; Fallon uncovers a hidden school for communist agents. "The Land of Lost Lumber," art by L B Cole; Red Fox helps a lumberjack stop a surveyor from stealing his claim. "The Men from Deep Space," art by Fred Guardineer; Space Ace and Jak Tal, with the help of a handshake-buzzer, defeat an alien invasion. "The Stone of the Dying Druid," art by Paul Parker; Eddie Bishop finds a cursed stone that compels him to commit robberies and murder. "The Mystery of the Stolen Secrets," art by Odgen Whitney; Starr Flagg must determine how Black Dan is unknowingly sending secrets to enemy spies. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $1,100.00 Paper: Off white Label #3923648012

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by J. F. Byrne. Stories and art by George Evans, Matt Baker, Joe Doolin, Frank Doyle, Walter Palais, and Maurice Whitman. 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, Hunt and Lyssa discover the hideous truth about the ominously-named Project Monster; Mysta goes on vacation in disguise, but finds trouble anyway, in a story by good-girl art legend Matt Baker; Futura prepares to return to Earth, unaware that Mentor and the Brainmen have survived and crave revenge. Bondage cover by Joe Doolin. The Lost World; Futura; Mysta of the Moon; Auro Lord of Jupiter; Holiday on Venus; Space Rangers; The Star Pirate. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $400.00 Paper: Off white to white Slab: See item notes Major side/edge crack(s), 1" to 5". Major front/back crack(s), over 1". Label #3786568007

Cover art by Harry G. Peter. The Return of "Shaggy", the Leprechaun starring Wonder Woman, script by William Moulton Marston (as Charles Moulton), art by Harry G. Peter. The Flying Men starring Little Boy Blue, art by Frank Harry. Whispering Doom starring Sargon the Sorcerer, art by Paul Reinman. Willy Nilly story, art by Frank Harry. Rosa Bonheur--Wonder Women of History. Mission Accomplished text story. The Snare That Backfired starring Wildcat, pencils by Arthur Peddy. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $275.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4397038006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.25) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by thegeneral

"Her Black Wings" a short story by John D. MacDonald.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - March, 1948. Featuring "Her Black Wings" written by John D. MacDonald; "Death Is A Dame" written by Frederick C. Davis and D. L. Champion. 6.75" x 9", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,950.00 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #0237110004

Cover pencils possibly by Mike Sekowsky. Firebrand, the Scourge of the Pacific starring Sub-Mariner, Namora, and Firebrand, art by Ken Bald. One Way Ticket text story. Murder Through the Mind starring Sub-Mariner, Namora, and Dr. Macabre. You Can't Get Away With Murder starring the Blonde Phantom and Miss Armanda. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $1,499.00 Paper: Off white Slab: Significant front/back scuff(s); Significant inner well scuff(s); Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #0713456001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($44.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils possibly by Mike Sekowsky. Firebrand, the Scourge of the Pacific starring Sub-Mariner, Namora, and Firebrand, art by Ken Bald. One Way Ticket text story. Murder Through the Mind starring Sub-Mariner, Namora, and Dr. Macabre. You Can't Get Away With Murder starring the Blonde Phantom and Miss Armanda. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $1,225.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4102699001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($36.75) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils possibly by Mike Sekowsky. Firebrand, the Scourge of the Pacific starring Sub-Mariner, Namora, and Firebrand, art by Ken Bald. One Way Ticket text story. Murder Through the Mind starring Sub-Mariner, Namora, and Dr. Macabre. You Can't Get Away With Murder starring the Blonde Phantom and Miss Armanda. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $435.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Tape on interior cover. Label #1482221025 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($13.05) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Syd Shores. First appearance of Two Gun Kid in "Introducing the Two Gun Kid," art by Syd Shores; The Two-Gun Kid and his horse Cyclone ride into the town of Sundown, Arizona; There a stray bullet zips by knocking off the cowboy's had; Suspecting trouble, Two-Gun rushes to the saloon where the shot rang out from and finds a man shot in the arm for refusing to take a drink with another. First appearance of Blaze Carson (unnamed) in "The Sheriff"; The Sheriff is spending his quiet day playing checkers with one of the locals when he hears someone beating up on a horse. "Two Hungry Hikers" text story. "The Code of the West," art by Syd Shores; Dry Gultch, Nevada has been plagued with a series of bank robberies that has kept the town living in fear, and the sheriff unable to catch the gang responsible; 20 minutes after the most recent robbery, Sheriff Winn gathers a posse to go out looking for the thieves and bring them to justice. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $340.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4379647001

Cover art by Win Mortimer. Superman Press, Inc. starring Superman, script by Don Cameron, pencils by Ira Yarbrough; The Daily Globe and the Daily Planet compete to see which would be the best paper if Superman helped them equally. The Archer From Sherwood Forest starring Green Arrow, art by George Papp. Neat Tricks starring Zatara, script by Joe Samachson, art by William F. White. The Weapon of Doom starring Tomahawk, script by George Kashdan, art by Fred Ray. The Battle of Brooklyn starring Boy Commandos, script by George Kashdan, pencils by Curt Swan. The Five Jewels of Doom starring Batman, script by Bill Finger, pencils by Bob Kane, inks by Ray Burnley. 76 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $4,999.99 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #1206430004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($150.00) will be charged at checkout.

Art by Matt Baker and others. Cover by Matt Baker. Tales of adventure featuring Rulah, Jungle Goddess, and art by legendary good-girl artist Matt Baker. This, the March 1948 issue, is technically the fourteenth issue, but the May issue was also erroneously numbered #14. Treasure hunters seek sacred precious stones that Rulah has sworn to protect; Hagga tries to have Rulah made into a jungle outcast; Renegade Jacque Legreed tries to frame Rulah for a safari's fatal journey. The Pearls of Patmos; Condemned; The Trek of Danger. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.