Comic books September 1952, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $165.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4471880002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.95) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Win Mortimer. Rules of Water Safety! public service announcement starring Buzzy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. Lois Lane... Witch starring Superman, art by Al Plastino. Survival In The Snow starring Congo Bill, pencils by Ed Smalle. The Eye of Space starring Tommy Tomorrow, art by Jim Mooney. The Killer Horse of Hollow Hills starring Vigilante, art by Bob Brown. 44 Pages, Full Color. $.10 Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $2,100.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #0962931008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($63.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Edd Ashe, Al Tyler, Bob Forgione and Enrico Bagnoli. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. A comics biography of notorious bank robber Willie Sutton, who supposedly said he robbed banks "because that's where the money is." Also, a short text piece on the forty-year long career of Sutton. Ex-GI McKay, in Paris on the GI Bill, gets involved in a scheme to smuggle stolen diamonds into the US. Cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Willie Suttons Worst Enemy - Himself; Willie Suttons Career in Crime; Diamonds Can Kill! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $999.99 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #0064571019 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($30.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Joe Certa, Warren Kremer, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Vic Donahue and Rudy Palais. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. A witch returns from the grave after 300 years, bent on revenge. A painting made with a murder victim's blood contains evil magic that backfires on the painter. A mad taxidermist creates the world's worst gorilla suit. This issue was mentioned in the text of the anti-comics classic Seduction of the Innocent, pp. 386-388. The Ape Man; Voodoo; The Witch Killer; The Evil Eye; The Stranger; The Body Maker; Hoof Beats of Death; Portrait in Blood. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $189.95 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #0313336014 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.70) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Martian criminals Tarka and Zira fight crime on Earth, as a form of cosmic community service. Commanded to battle evil, Tarka and Zira target a hate group called The Black Hoods. Then they confront the dictator of Uralia. A space cop goes undercover on the Prison Planet. Plus a look at the dangers of meteor strikes, and fun facts about Jupiter, Venus, and Jupiter's moons. Bondage cover by an unknown artist. Night of Terror; Beachhead on Saturn's Ring; Astronomical Oddities!; Meteors: Terrible Missiles from Space; Fun in the Future; Prison Planet; The Space Bums: Venus or Bust. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.8 $169.00 Paper: Off white Label #1624308007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.07) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by John D'Agostino, A. C. Hollingsworth and Hy Fleishman. Pre-Code tales of two-fisted criminals and the scales of justice from Story Comics. By this point, Fight Against Crime was edging away from crime stories to EC-style horror, as these stories demonstrate. Mob boss "Gassy" Webb meets an ironic fate when he stows away on a cargo ship to escape prosecution. In the frozen wastes of northern Canada, Rod murders his partner in an ice-cave that was used for native burials, but meets poetic justice. Rats Die by Gas; Corpse in the Ice; Picture of Death; Death Was the Winner; Shaft of Death. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $474.00 Paper: Off white to white From the top-rated Katy Keene CGC registry set. Label #0345837010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($14.22) will be charged at checkout.

Stories, Art and Cover by Bill Woggon. America's pin-up queen Katy Keene in two untitled stories: Katy can't escape attention from the guys at the beach; and tired of Katy leaving him for dates with K.O. in his jeep and Chubby in his "Chub Tub," Randy converts his new sports car into a hot-rod. Plus: "Heart Gowns" 1-pager (artist unknown; outfits submitted by readers); untitled Sis the Candy Kid story - Sis holds her birthday party, but much to her disappointment, no one brings her candy as a gift because they assumed everyone else would bring candy; untitled K.O. Kelly story - After losing dates with Katy due to his busy training schedule, K.O. dreams that he becomes world champion and finally defeats Randy for Katy's affections; and 2-page Hollywood Gossip article. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $179.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4276005022 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.37) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. In an issue-length, multi-part adventure, The Marvel Family travels to the future year of 1960. There they find atomic-powered rocketships, a force of space cops, and space conquerors seeking an interstellar empire - just like the real 1960s. The Great Space Struggle, Chapter One: Peril Over Planet Prep; Yellow Kid; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Chapter Two: The Sivana Sabotage; Headline Harry: The Worm Turns; Podges and the Pill Roller; Chapter Three: Battle in Space. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $1,599.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #1996126007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($47.97) will be charged at checkout.

John Broome story. Sy Barry art. Carmine Infantino cover and art. 1st appearance of the Phantom Stranger (though without an origin or any "introduction" to speak of). In "The Haunters From Beyond," the Phantom Stranger appears to confront ghosts from the Salem Witch trials! In "When Dead Men Walk," a plane crash inspires one man murder a woman who knows of his thievery--until the Phantom Stranger interfers with his devious plans. And in "The House of Stranger Secrets," a magician's stage tricks are no match for the Stranger! The back-up mystery story is "Goblin in the Bottle" with art by Murphy Anderson. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $314.00 Paper: White Label #4346141013 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.42) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Cover art by Bill Everett. The Boy Who Was Afraid, art by Bernie Krigstein; A boy doesn't want to play outside because if he steps on the cracks in the pavement the ground will swallow him up. Dream of Death text story. The Monster's Son, art by Jim Mooney; Frankenstein's monster creates an heir. The Frightful Feet, art by Bill Benulis; A rabbit hunter who hacks off their feet to sell as good luck charms has the tables turned on him. The Hidden Head, art by Ed Winiarski. Keep Out, pencils by Dick Ayers, inks by Ernie Bache. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $189.00 Paper: Off white Label #4257436009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.67) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Reed Crandall. Stories by unknown. Art by Dan Zolnerowich and unknown. In this issue: T-Man in "Mr. Murder of the Black Hand" with pencils by Dan Zolnerowich - Trask poses as manager for the ex-girlfriend of Mafia boss Racelli to get to the killer of a fellow T-Man; T-Man Tom Roccola in "The Dope Ring and Revolution"; T-Man in "Narcotics from Nobody" with pencils by Dan Zolnerowich - Stores had been smashed and citizens assaulted in Germany by American soldiers drugged by Russian cigarettes; 1-page T-Man Ray Brady text story "Intercepted Peril"; and T-Man in "Torture of the Brass Bowl" with pencils by Dan Zolnerowich - Somewhere in Hong Kong, Chinese Reds held the daughter of a wealthy San Francisco merchant, threatening her with death unless they collected blood money. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $2,750.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4593915003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($82.50) will be charged at checkout.

Ajax-Farrell's horror series Voodoo managed to stand out in the crowded field of pre-Code horror comics by dint of its sheer weirdness. A murderous treasure hunter with a fortune in blood diamonds is pursued by a severed hand. Deadly mandrake roots attack the human residents of a tea plantation. A pilot and a female detective track an embezzler into the jungle. The Game Called Dying; Plantation of Fear; Jewels of Death; Congo Terror; There's Peril in Perfection! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $1,950.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4337190001

Cover art by Don Heck. Cover with bullet hole in forehead. Exact same hole-in-head was reused by Heck on Horrific #1. "The Unconquered," art by Don Heck; Sgt. Norman Kaney and his raw recruits head to Korea. "River Crossing!", pencils by Don Perlin, inks by Abe Simon; World War II story set in Germany where Lieutenant Stacy uses his athletic skills to hold his breath underwater and sneak up on a Nazi gun post. "The Sniper" text story. "The Runt," art by Rudy Palais; World War II story in the South Pacific in 1943 where a soldier named Pete gets the nickname "Runt." "True Hero"; A North Korean who fights on the American side of the Korean war proves himself to be a loyal American. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $255.00 Paper: Off white Label #4277686019

Stories and art by Sheldon Moldoff, Bob McCarty and John Martin. Pre-Code tales of horror from Fawcett, a publisher not normally noted for grue. Entomologist Dr. Jarrat develops "Metamorphosis syndrome" and finds himself turning into a different insect every night. An actor rebuilds the stage of his greatest performance, but also revives the ghost of his greatest enemy. An antiques dealer finds himself going backwards in time. An artist learns too much about the technique of a tortured master painter. A Death for a Death; The Stage Is Set for Murder; The Man Who Was Monday; The Locked Door. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.