Comic books May 1949, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $4,500.00 Paper: Cream to off white From the Collection of John Buscema. Label #4703912001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($135.00) will be charged at checkout.

First issue (continues from Sub-Mariner). First Marvel horror comic. Even in 1949, comics were coming under fire for lurid covers and content. This Marvel issue contains a letter to the reader and the reader's parents which addresses the controversy, a controversy that would grow until the advent of Frederick Wortham and the Comics Code. It makes interesting reading along with the stories in this issue. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $2,175.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #2083366005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($65.25) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Win Mortimer. The Man With the Automatic Brain!:, script by Bill Finger, pencils by Bob Kane (Batman and Robin figures only) and Lew Sayre Schwartz, inks by Charles Paris; The Thinker, using a machine he created, pretends to discover Batmans secret identity; To prevent The Thinker from achieving his goal, Bruce stages his death with Alfred's help; Vicki Vale takes a picture of Alfred tossing a dummy of Bruce into the ocean; Alfred is taken to prison for the murder of Wayne. Batman and the Vikings!, pencils by Bob Kane, inks by Charles Paris; When Bruce and Dick visit the Gotham City museum, they note an image of a Viking that looks like Bruce Wayne.....and who is labeled a coward, so they visit Carter Nichols to go back in time to discover the truth. Untitled two-page Peg story by Henry Boltinoff. Fearless Wise Man text story, art by Raymond Perry. Cartoon Flips Starring Batman activity page by Martin Naydel. The Happy Victims!, script by Bill Finger, pencils by Bob Kane (Batman and Robin figures only) and Lew Sayre Schwartz, inks by Charles Paris; The Joker blackmails people into setting up fake robberies; The robberies stop when he tries to blackmail Bruce Wayne. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $250.00 Paper: Off white From The Collection of John Buscema. Label #4703924019 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.50) will be charged at checkout.

36 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $450.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4101868001

Cover by Pete Riss. Stories by William Woolfolk, Harry Sahle, Bernard Dibble and unknown. Art by Pete Riss, Harry Sahle and Bernard Dibble. In this issue: Kid Eternity matches wits with Master Man in an untitled story by William Woolfolk and Pete Riss. Plus: Peachy in an untitled story by Harry Sahle; 1-page Kid Eternity text story "Midas' Touch"; Kid Eternity in "International Peace Conference" with art by Pete Riss; and an untitled Jonesy 1-pager by Bernard Dibble, reprinted from Hit Comics (1940 Quality) #43. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $332.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4424280012 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.96) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Kurt Schaffenberger, Carl Pfeufer, John Jordan, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Captain Marvel Jr., Bulletman and Bulletgirl. Capt. Marvel Jr. visits a suburban town populated by rehabilitated criminals he has captured, but one Anonymous Crook wants to take down Crooks Anonymous. Tom Mix does double duty as a bodyguard when two prospectors hire him to make sure they don't kill each other. Bulletman and Bulletgirl are captured by an arms dealer who is selling stolen bombs to Central American dictatorships. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Anonymous Crook!; Colonel Corn & Korny Kobb: Delirious Dairy Farmers; Nyoka: The Ivory Tusks Murders; Dizzy Daisy; Bulletman: The Vanishing Bombs; Zuzu the Zoo Keeper: Monkey Sees; Spud and Bud; Vacuum Bloobstutter: Pilfered Painting, or, Bloobstutter Boils About His Oils; Muscle Hedd; Tom Mix: Golden Treachery. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $795.00 Paper: Off white Label #4482086002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($23.85) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by TheGoodOlDays

Numbering continues from Zago Jungle Prince (1948) #4. In order of appearance: "My Marriage Was Doomed!"; "Was I Too Young for Love?" art by Al Davoren, retitled and reprinted as "Ungrateful Love!!" in Top Love Stories (1951) #10; and "I Tried to Buy Love" art by Eddie Schwartz. "I Was Blinded by Love" text story reprinted in Cowboy Love (1949) #29. Indicia states "MY STORY TRUE ROMANCES IN PICTURES (formerly ZAGO)". 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $269.95 Paper: Off white to white Label #2033189019 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.10) will be charged at checkout.

"Green at the Game," "Raw Deal," "The Girl of His Dreams," "The Tricks of the Trade," and "Baseball Bum!" Cover price $0.10.