Comic books February 1953, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $575.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4087451001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($17.25) will be charged at checkout.

Contains Alex Toth art. In order of appearance: "Mark of Evil" art by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio; "Creepy Crossword Puzzle" activity page; "Death's Bridal Gown"; "The House That Jackdaw Built" art by Alex Toth, reprinted in Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 HC (2011 FB) #1-1ST; "The Fatal Strands"; and "The Twisted Hands" art by Alex Toth, reprinted in Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 HC (2011 FB) #1-1ST. "The Beast Wasn't Hungry: Stolen Diamonds Bring a Strange Reward in the Wilds of Africa!" illustrated text story by R. S. Fenton. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $800.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4700390013 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($24.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Ernest Schroeder. Stories and art by Bob Jenney and Ernest Schroeder. 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 #108. No issue # on cover; Vol. 10, issue #1 in indicia. Airboy helps an aviation pioneer who's being blackmailed over a 30-year-old crash that might have been an accident or murder. In Scandinavia, The Heap helps a man try to save his village from a disastrous civil engineering scheme. The story of circus pioneer Hachaliah Bailey's first elephant. Airboy; The Heap; 10¢ a Look; The Spanish Stab; The Finger of Asia; Bits from the Blue; The Rabbit of the Baselines. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Airboy Comics (1945-1953 Hillman) Vol. 10 #1 CGC 6.5

Paper: Off white

Label #4692677015

Cover by Ernest Schroeder. Stories and art by Bob Jenney and Ernest Schroeder. 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 #108. No issue # on cover; Vol. 10, issue #1 in indicia. Airboy helps an aviation pioneer who's being blackmailed over a 30-year-old crash that might have been an accident or murder. In Scandinavia, The Heap helps a man try to save his village from a disastrous civil engineering scheme. The story of circus pioneer Hachaliah Bailey's first elephant. Airboy; The Heap; 10¢ a Look; The Spanish Stab; The Finger of Asia; Bits from the Blue; The Rabbit of the Baselines. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $450.00 Paper: Off white Label #1995227001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($13.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Russ Heath. "The Iron Head," art by Sid Greene; English soldiers in the Middle Ages are surprised to enter an enemy castle and find that a revolt has slain their opponents for them. "The Brain," art by Sam Kweskin; A polymath who is made aware that he does not have long to live pays off his large debts by selling his brain to several different universities. "The Fly and the Spider" text story. "The Man Who Dug Deep," art by Sol Brodsky. "The Strange Power," pencils by Louis Zansky. "Man Against Werewolf," art by Howie Post; A pack of vampires are living amongst the villagers under the pretense of protecting them from a non-existent werewolf menace. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $149.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4431924007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.47) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Art by Bob Powell, Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Cover by Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache. Teen cowboy adventures set in the 1950s, based on the popular radio program that ran from 1949 to 1955. Bobby and his friends Tex, Windy, and Irish face modern-day rustlers and other challenges of life on the ranch. A millionaire has a castle moved from Scotland to Texas, but a curse comes with it; Bobby suspects a ranchers son is involved with an outlaw gang; Windy tells a tall tale of bears and a cannon. Terror at Doom Castle; The Battling Bartons; Ghost Deaths in the Ghost Town. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $298.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4091493019 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.94) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Fran Matera, Allen Saunders, Elmer Woggon, Matt Christopher, and Ed Moore. The long-running series that introduced "comic books" to the world, featuring reprints of comic strips. Tom Terriss, the Vagabond Adventurer, encounters the Queen of Tuareg. Dickie Dare and Dan reach Lolanda, the isolated island where Captain John Henry's wife was stranded. A series of short "True Heroic Stories," featuring real-life tales of wartime action. Tom Terriss the Vagabond Adventurer; Dickie Dare; Steve Roper; 500 Yen Reward; He Took Command; Volunteer Valor; Keep Advancing!; Operation Underground; With the First Marine Division: Korea. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $250.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1021498025 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.50) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Comic book featuring the famous singing cowboy hero Gene Autry. Gene Autry photo cover. Peter Pan comic ad. "Medicine Road," art by Nicholas Firfires; Flappjack has been doped by knockout drops in the saloon, and robbed of five hundred dollars worth of gold; Now Gene is going to find out if and how it is done. "Backfire"; Gene Autry vs. Cabe Regan. "The Unsolved Murder" text story. Sheriff Rex Tompkins vs. Flint Weston. "The Lechuza Silver Cashe," art by Tony Sgroi; Panhandle Pete is back from the search for the Rock Pens, and the kids are eager to hear his story. The Brave Battle of Buckshot Roberts article, art by Till Goodan. Wheaties ad featuring George Mikan. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,185.00 Paper: Off white Label #1615603001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($35.55) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover art by Bill Everett. "The Madman!", script by Stan Lee, art by Tony DiPreta; A serious actor, portraying Hamlet, sees his star begin to lose some lustre when nepotism rears its head and the producer's cousin is made his understudy; The understudy proceeds to sabotage the actor to the point where he accidentally kills the actor's wife by mistake. "Danger - Quicksand!" text story. "A Killer in the Street," pencils by Paul Reinman , inks by Art Wallace; A police detective is obsessed with a serial killer whose victims are all young pretty women in red dresses; When his wife buys a red dress, he insists that she take it back and she reluctantly agrees; Working late on the case, he has no time to go home and they agree to meet downtown for dinner; He sees she's wearing the red dress after all and flies into a rage. "This House Is Haunted!", art by Ed Winiarski; Josiah Benson's son Adam inherits his dilapidated property where four squatters play poker; Adam gives them notice, to no avail, because they know the place is haunted and unrentable. "The Wooden Man"; Chick Black is a midget who looks like a wooden dummy; His modus operandi is to let people find him and take him in, whereupon he robs them, using his unique appearance and size to elude capture; On his latest heist, Chick shoots and kills a guard. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $485.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1615603007

Cover art by Bill Everett. "The Madman!", script by Stan Lee, art by Tony DiPreta; A serious actor, portraying Hamlet, sees his star begin to lose some lustre when nepotism rears its head and the producer's cousin is made his understudy; The understudy proceeds to sabotage the actor to the point where he accidentally kills the actor's wife by mistake. "Danger - Quicksand!" text story. "A Killer in the Street," pencils by Paul Reinman , inks by Art Wallace; A police detective is obsessed with a serial killer whose victims are all young pretty women in red dresses; When his wife buys a red dress, he insists that she take it back and she reluctantly agrees; Working late on the case, he has no time to go home and they agree to meet downtown for dinner; He sees she's wearing the red dress after all and flies into a rage. "This House Is Haunted!", art by Ed Winiarski; Josiah Benson's son Adam inherits his dilapidated property where four squatters play poker; Adam gives them notice, to no avail, because they know the place is haunted and unrentable. "The Wooden Man"; Chick Black is a midget who looks like a wooden dummy; His modus operandi is to let people find him and take him in, whereupon he robs them, using his unique appearance and size to elude capture; On his latest heist, Chick shoots and kills a guard. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $300.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #0086453009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.00) will be charged at checkout.

Photo cover of the famous singing cowboy, plus interior photos. The Rustler of Goblin Hill starring Roy Rogers, Trigger, and Bullet, art by Al McKimson team; Roy takes a job as undercover deputy and finds out that the cattle rustlers use a helicopter. The Clue of the Spur, art by Albert Micale; to keep Charley away from his daughter, Mr Voorhees tries to frame him for cattle rustling. Little Eric text story. Chuckwagon Charley's Tales story, art by Ray Thayer. Buffalo Skinners fact page. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $1,000.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #4467309006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($30.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Albert B. Feldstein. Beauty And The Beach!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen; Two men are frustrated by the vanity of their attractive wives and the fact that they have offers to do some modeling and to participate in four beauty contests. The Bribe!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Wally Wood; A fire inspector commits suicide when a fire breaks out in a night club where he took a bribe to overlook code violations; He thinks his daughter was killed in the fire with the other patrons because of a photo taken of her earlier that evening. The Mountain Jackal text story by Albert B. Feldstein. Infiltration, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; This story postulates that a small government agency responsible for ferreting out Martian infiltrators is completely infested with Martian infiltrators except for a sole human whom they gun down. The Small Assassin!, script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by George Evans; a mother is paranoid that her newborn baby is attempting to kill her. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $795.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #3764489003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($23.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Albert B. Feldstein. Beauty And The Beach!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen; Two men are frustrated by the vanity of their attractive wives and the fact that they have offers to do some modeling and to participate in four beauty contests. The Bribe!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Wally Wood; A fire inspector commits suicide when a fire breaks out in a night club where he took a bribe to overlook code violations; He thinks his daughter was killed in the fire with the other patrons because of a photo taken of her earlier that evening. The Mountain Jackal text story by Albert B. Feldstein. Infiltration, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; This story postulates that a small government agency responsible for ferreting out Martian infiltrators is completely infested with Martian infiltrators except for a sole human whom they gun down. The Small Assassin!, script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by George Evans; a mother is paranoid that her newborn baby is attempting to kill her. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $1,299.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #0028161002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($38.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Albert B. Feldstein. Beauty And The Beach!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen; Two men are frustrated by the vanity of their attractive wives and the fact that they have offers to do some modeling and to participate in four beauty contests. The Bribe!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Wally Wood; A fire inspector commits suicide when a fire breaks out in a night club where he took a bribe to overlook code violations; He thinks his daughter was killed in the fire with the other patrons because of a photo taken of her earlier that evening. The Mountain Jackal text story by Albert B. Feldstein. Infiltration, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; This story postulates that a small government agency responsible for ferreting out Martian infiltrators is completely infested with Martian infiltrators except for a sole human whom they gun down. The Small Assassin!, script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by George Evans; a mother is paranoid that her newborn baby is attempting to kill her. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $475.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4496436007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($14.25) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Albert B. Feldstein. Beauty And The Beach!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen; Two men are frustrated by the vanity of their attractive wives and the fact that they have offers to do some modeling and to participate in four beauty contests. The Bribe!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Wally Wood; A fire inspector commits suicide when a fire breaks out in a night club where he took a bribe to overlook code violations; He thinks his daughter was killed in the fire with the other patrons because of a photo taken of her earlier that evening. The Mountain Jackal text story by Albert B. Feldstein. Infiltration, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; This story postulates that a small government agency responsible for ferreting out Martian infiltrators is completely infested with Martian infiltrators except for a sole human whom they gun down. The Small Assassin!, script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by George Evans; a mother is paranoid that her newborn baby is attempting to kill her. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $500.00 Paper: Off white Label #2023163011

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Jay Disbrow and others. Pre-Code horror and crime comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. Prohibition-era Chicago hoods think they're being arrested, but the cops turn out to be the architects of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. Teen hood Jack Hammer graduates to truck hijacking, but a scheme for revenge proves his undoing. Trapped by the Color of Blood; The Man Died; The Shocking Massacre; The Bloody Era...!; The "Lone Wolf" of Fear. Final issue of the series; followed by Startling Terror Tales (1953-54 2nd Series) #4. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $1,139.99 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #4384462014 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($34.20) will be charged at checkout.

Offbeat pre-Code horror stories from Ajax-Farrell, with art by the Iger Shop staff. A modern-day French chateau becomes the site of an ancient plague. A disfigured female mobster has an unusual admirer. A man visits the castle that's still haunted by his ancestor's murder victim. Debt of Fear; Death Is No Stranger; Ashes of Gold; Solar Disaster (The Black Satan of Doomsday); Demon in the Dungeon. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Tales from the Crypt (1950 E.C. Comics) 34 CGC 8.0

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #1108110002

Cover by Jack Davis. "Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; A first person narrative where a man fashions a monster together out of artificial parts ala Frankenstein and transfers your brain into it. "Oil's Well That Ends Well!", script by Al Feldstein, art by George Evans; Two swindlers run a racket where they visit a small town and convince them there is oil present and get them to issue stock in order to come up with the check to begin drilling. "Love Story" text story. "Attacks of Horror!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen; This grim fairy tale tells the story of king Moneymad's tax scheme. "There Was an Old Woman!", script by Ray Bradbury (original story) and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by Graham Ingels (as Ghastly); The employees of a mortuary are haunted by the spirit of an old woman who refuses to leave until they return her body to her. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $38.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4659527001

Photo cover. In order of appearance: "Not Worthy of His Love"; "Afraid to Tell Him"; "Indiscreet"; and "She Knew All the Answers". Text articles: "Beauty is a Habit, Tips From Abroad, Do You Have Telltale Lips? Colors That Flatter, For Prettier Smiles, Home Skin Treatments..." reprinted from "Help Yourself to Allure..." in Love Experiences (1949) #3 and from "Glamorizing Yourself..." in Glamorous Romances (1949) #50, and reprinted as "Help Yourself to Allure..." in Love Experiences (1949) #24. Indicia states "TEN-STORY LOVE". 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Wanted Comics (1947 Orbit / Toytown) 52 CGC 4.0 Buscema Collection

Paper: Off white

From The Collection of John Buscema.

Label #4703913001

Cover by John Buscema. Stories and art by John Buscema, Mort Leav, Harry Anderson, Rafael Astarita, and Bill Woolfolk. Bloody pre-Code crime comics, in imitation of Crime Does Not Pay - including a top-hatted, otherworldly narrator. The twist is that the publisher offers wanted posters (and rewards) for real-life criminals. A temple cult has a strange connection to a band of masked killers, in a story with some atmospheric (and violent) art by Harry Anderson. Gangsters hijack trucks carrying valuable silk shipments. The Great Unsolved Mysteries contest invites readers to ponder an elderly woman poisoned before she could change her will, in an early story (and cover) by future Marvel and Conan legend John Buscema. Payment In Blood; Cult of the Killers; Great Unsolved Mysteries: Murder for Aunt Martha; Wanted: Ralph Jackson; Hot Silk. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $1,000.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4656799004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($30.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by William Ekgren. Stories and art by Bob Forgione, Edd Ashe, and Jim McLaughlin. Classic pre-Code horror from St. John. Soldiers investigating a crashed UFO find themselves trapped inside the craft. An ex-convict has a plan of revenge against those who sent him to prison, but they have plans of their own. An artist can't believe the great deal he got on a supposedly cursed house. Unusual cover art by William Ekgren. From Outer Space; The Phantom Guillotine; Vengeance Trail; Out of the Unknown; Gag Bag; The Place on the Hill. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $427.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4035473023 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($12.81) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Petrizza, Sal Trapani and Gerald Altman. Pre-Code tales of horror from Stanley Morse Publications. A man is captured and tormented by a bizarre cult. Ghosts rise to reveal their living secrets in epitaphs, giving Edgar an unpleasant surprise about his late wife. A struggling author discovers that a mysterious doppelganger is writing the same book he's writing. Dream; The Garcon; The Plan!; Out of Focus; Epitaph; Destiny's Double Deal. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $439.00 Paper: Off white to white Tape on cover and interior cover. Label #2009404008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($13.17) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Petrizza, Sal Trapani and Gerald Altman. Pre-Code tales of horror from Stanley Morse Publications. A man is captured and tormented by a bizarre cult. Ghosts rise to reveal their living secrets in epitaphs, giving Edgar an unpleasant surprise about his late wife. A struggling author discovers that a mysterious doppelganger is writing the same book he's writing. Dream; The Garcon; The Plan!; Out of Focus; Epitaph; Destiny's Double Deal. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $130.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4467464022 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.90) will be charged at checkout.

Katy Keene by Bill Woggon. Cover price $0.10.