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Comic books April 1952, graded by CGC

  • Item #61651055
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    Published Apr 1952 by DC.
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    • Label #4435643004

    Cover art by Win Mortimer. The Machines of Crime starring Superman, pencils by Wayne Boring, inks by Stan Kaye. The Man Who Stopped Space Flight starring Tommy Tomorrow, script by Edmond Hamilton, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by John Fischetti. The King of the Bandits starring Congo Bill, script by Jack Miller, art by Ed Smalle. The Outlaw Editor starring Vigilante. 44 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62176487
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    • Label #4481122001
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    Cover art by Win Mortimer. The Duel of the Superboys!, art by John Sikela. Professor Eureka humor page by Henry Boltinoff. Mystery of the Disappearing Island starring Aquaman, script by George Kashdan, art by Ramona Fradon. The Man With the Magic Fingers starring Johnny Quick, script by Jack Miller, art by Paul Norris. The Rocket's Red Glare article. House ad for The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #2. The Baffling Bullets of Big John Garvin! starring Green Arrow, script by Ed Herron, art by George Papp. 44 pages. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #60051506
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    • Label #3796573006

    Cover art by Win Mortimer. The Duel of the Superboys!, art by John Sikela. Professor Eureka humor page by Henry Boltinoff. Mystery of the Disappearing Island starring Aquaman, script by George Kashdan, art by Ramona Fradon. The Man With the Magic Fingers starring Johnny Quick, script by Jack Miller, art by Paul Norris. The Rocket's Red Glare article. House ad for The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #2. The Baffling Bullets of Big John Garvin! starring Green Arrow, script by Ed Herron, art by George Papp. 44 pages. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #59277999
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    • Label #4275981006
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    Cover by Bud Thompson. Stories by Bill Woolfolk and others. Art by C. C. Beck and Bud Thompson. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Sivana Jr.'s latest invention reduces all language to gibberish, causing worldwide chaos and spurring Captain Marvel Jr. to action. In an educational strip by Shazam co-creator CC Beck, Dr. Science explains rocket science to young Johnny, and predicts future "rocket liners" (not yet) and space stations. A mad scientist's invention removes all the sand from a small community, and deposits it in the city where Captain Marvel Jr. sells his papers. Plus a vintage ad for Paramount Pictures' When Worlds Collide (the movie and the comic). The World of Babel; Mannerly Manners; Kanvasback: The Easy Mark; Faster Than Sound; Painted in Blood; Freddy Freeman's Lost Week End; The Great Sandstorm. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #56935178
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    • Slab: Scuffing on front and back of case; Scuffing to inner well of case
    • Label #0905115002
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    Cover pencils by Bob Brown, inks by Ray Burnley. Be Sure of Your Facts public service announcement starring Buzzy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. "The Dummy Of Death!", art by Bob Brown; Ventriloquist James Lang murders his colleague Wendell and steals his puppet "Blockhead." Half-page filler "The Mysterious Painting!", art by Morris Waldinger; Two painters separately paint the same picture. "She Wakes Up Screaming," art by Ruben Moreira; Mary Stokes suffers from bouts of madness; Her husband and her doctor surprise her with weird tricks to shock her back to sanity. Half-page filler "Ancient Legend!", art by Morris Waldinger. "The Prophecy of Doom," art by Howard Purcell; A party of explorers opens up an Egyptian tomb and is hit by a curse of death and madness. "I Was A Victim of Black Magic!", pencils by Jon Small, inks by George Roussos; A wheat fungus makes a French woman fantasize about demons. "He Hunted Ghosts" text story by David Kahn (as Don King), art by Raymond Perry. "The House Where Evil Lived!", pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Stan Kaye; Paul and Helen Morris win a house on the Mexican border which is said to be haunted; Three men died there, and nightly spooks keep running through the cellar. 44 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #59558796
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    • Label #4301299002
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    Art by Maurice Whitman and others. Western adventure stories told from the perspective of the first Americans. Rogue elements threaten the fragile intertribal peace negotiated by Manzar and Red Cloud; The true story of American explorer Sacajawea; An illustrated text article on the Pontiac tribe. Action-packed cover by an unknown artist. Manzar the White Indian; The Grey Terror / Bull of the Woods; Sacajawea "Bird Woman"; Catfish John; Warriors of the West; Orphan of the Storm; The First Americans; Long Bow. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #60667500
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    Cover by Bill Fraccio. Stories and art by A. C. Hollingsworth and Lou Cameron. Pre-Code tales of horror and the supernatural from Story Comics. While honeymooning in the South Pacific, Patty tries a native potion and soon develops a yen for human flesh. While seeking authentic English ghost stories, Tim encounters the armored zombies of Sleed's Castle. A captain who abandons his foundering ship and crew on the rocks is picked up by the legendary ghost vessel the Flying Dutchman, for a fate far worse than being shipwrecked. The Absent Minded Fiend; The Secret of Sleeds Castle; The Ghost in the Mirror; The Curse of the Flying Dutchman; The Terror of a Tattooed Man! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61363286
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    • Label #4381608011
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    Cover art by Ken Bald. The Vampire's Fate. Drum of Doom, pencils by Al Williamson, inks by King Ward. Army of the Dead Uncanny Mysteries. The Heart of Horror, art by George Wilhelms. Scorpion From the Stars, pencils by Edvard Moritz. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62196310
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    • Canadian Edition.
    • Label #2001430019

    Canadian Edition. Cover by Wally Wood and Joe Orlando. "Kenton of Space Control - Sirens of Space" - Art by Wally Wood and Joe Orlando; "End of His Service" - Art by Norman Nodel, John Rosenberger, and Werner Roth; "Shining Sands of Death" - Art by Ed Goldfarb and Bob Baer; "The Abduction of Earth" - Art by Gene Fawcette and Steve Kirkel.

  • Item #59048800
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    Published Apr 1952 by DC.
    • Paper: White
    • Slab: Plastic debris between case and inner well; See item notes
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    • Label #4121700005

    Cover art by Al Plastino. The Prankster's Star Pupil starring Superman and The Prankster, script by Edmond Hamilton, pencils by Wayne Boring, inks by Stan Kaye. Superman--Thrill Salesman, script by Edmond Hamilton, art by Al Plastino. So You Want To Be a G-Man? text story. The Man Who Stole Memories starring Superman, Moose Collins, and Professor Higgins, script by Bill Woolfolk; Lois Lane suffers temporary amnesia. Full-page ad for the feature film "Superman and the Mole Men." 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #60593944
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    Cover by Bob Forgione. "The Red Death," art by Bob Forgione; A terrible and deadly plague ravages a medieval king's land; While his peasants die, the king holds a masquerade ball. 'El Toro Diablo,' pencils by Albert Tyler, inks by Bob Forgione; A boy with the looks and the horns of a bull becomes famed matador Tomas Hernandez. "The Witch's House" text story. "The Creature," pencils by Albert Tyler, inks by Bob Forgione; The earth is befallen by mysterious cancerous growths. "The White Rat"; A doctor is bullied by his strong assistant; He invents a muscle growth serum and goes for payback. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #60304539
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    $3,400.00
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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #0958273004
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    Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Charles Schulz, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Dick Van Buren, and Bob Lubbers. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. This issue is noteworthy as being the first comic book (along with United Comics (1940/1950) #21, published the same month) to reprint Charles Schulz's beloved Peanuts comic strip, then only in its third year. Tarzan battles a lioness and leads natives on a hunting expedition. Nancy tries to build a swing in her backyard, but none of the trees are right. Plus a vintage ad for a "15 Piece Texas Ranger Cowboy Outfit." Nancy; Peanuts; Strange as It Seems; How it Began!; The Captain and the Kids; Stamp Tips; Tarzan. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #52890464
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    $2,595.00
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    • Label #2051229001
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    Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller, Charles Schulz, Russell Patterson, and Raeburn van Buren. The comic-strip adventures of aspiring model Fritzi Ritz and her boyfriend, the bumbling Phil Fumble. Fritzi wants Phil to lose some weight. This issue is noteworthy as being the first comic book (along with Tip Top Comics (1936) #173, published the same month) to reprint Charles Schulz's beloved Peanuts comic strip, then only in its third year. Bathless Groggins is mistaken for his wealthy cousin and loses a poker game with millionaires, in an Abbie an' Slats strip with art by Raeburn van Buren. Fritzi Ritz; Peanuts; Mamie; Stamp Tips; Abbie an' Slats. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61952200
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    Published Apr 1952 by Marvel.
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    "The Kiss of Death!" Venus takes a back seat in this macabre, WWI-era tale of love between ghosts and skeletons. "Demons from the Deep!" Venus shows a murderer his own corpse, giving him the realization that he is now a ghost. Also includes: "The Box of Doom!"; "The Madman's Music"; and "Death to the Hairy Monsters!" Pencils, inks, and cover by Bill Everett. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61646482
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    Cover by Lou Cameron. Stories by Jim McLaughlin, Lou Cameron, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Louis Zansky, and Mike Sekowsky. Suspense-filled horror tales that weave a Web of Mystery for the reader! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61255406
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    • Label #3846523002
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    Cover by Lou Cameron. Stories by Jim McLaughlin, Lou Cameron, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Louis Zansky, and Mike Sekowsky. Suspense-filled horror tales that weave a Web of Mystery for the reader! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.