Comic books October 1954, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $2,185.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4298298002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($65.55) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Siggy’s Comics

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Everett Raymond Kinstler, Ed Goldfarb, and Robert Baer. Numbering continues from Nightmare (1953 St. John) #13. Classic pre-Code horror from St. John. Edgar Allan Poe's tale of torture and madness, The Pit and the Pendulum, is adapted by comics legend Everett Raymond Kinstler. A mermaid rescued from the ocean has a taste for human flesh. In two separate stories, dolls and a statue come to horrific life. Plus an article about poltergeists. Cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. The Death Dolls; The Devil from the Deep; Ghosts with a Sense of Humor; An Eye for an Eye; Dream Girl; The Pit and the Pendulum. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Captain Steve Savage (1954-1956 2nd Series) 5 CGC 5.0

Paper: Off white

Label #1350616005

NOTE: For #1-4 see Sensational Police Cases (1954). Art by Louis Ravielli and others. Numbering continues from Sensational Police Cases (1954) #4. Tales of adventure and espionage from the Cold War featuring ace pilot Steve Savage. Outnumbered and outgunned, Savage tries to lead an infantry company to safety; The true stories of 1920s gangster Dutch Anderson and his protege Gerald Chapman, the first Public Enemy Number One. Perilous Mission over Korea; The Plunderer. 32 pages, Full Color. NOTE: For #1-4 see Sensational Police Cases (1954). Cover price $0.10.

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"The Man Who Went Back!," art by Pete Tumlinson; A man is pursued through time by tax collectors. "Hate Is the Master" text story. "The Hidden Man!," art by Ed Moline; A mysterious sniper who has shot seven people in the city park turns out to be a monkey in the nearby zoo who somehow acquired a gun. "He Wouldn't Stay Dead!," art by Bill Walton; A man conducts rites that reincarnate his shrewish wife's spirit into a figurine, but the new person, whom he names 'Jolie', is a kind and supportive ideal wife. "The Swami!," art by Mort Lawrence; A crook forces his stepson to commit crimes for him but one victim is a swami who turns the man's greed against him. "The Worst Thirst," art by Ed Winiarski; Two brothers are incensed that their neighbors have put down a well that has dried up the well on their property so they lay pipe to divert the water back down to the well on their property. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Harvey Kurtzman. "The Hound of The Basketballs!", art by Bill Elder; Shermlock captures the hound that has cursed the Basketball family; Parody of Sherlock Holmes mystery. "Newspapers!", art by Jack Davis; Various fake newspaper stories and ads. Ad for Piracy comic book. "Restaurant!", art by Bill Elder; The deprivations the Sturdleys suffer at a "typical" Sunday restaurant outing. "Wreck of The Hesperus," script by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, art by Wallace Wood; Relates the wreck of the ship Hesperus on the reef at Norman's Woe; Text of the famous poem accompanied by humorous illustrations. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $137.75 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4611097012 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.13) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Harvey Kurtzman. "The Hound of The Basketballs!", art by Bill Elder; Shermlock captures the hound that has cursed the Basketball family; Parody of Sherlock Holmes mystery. "Newspapers!", art by Jack Davis; Various fake newspaper stories and ads. Ad for Piracy comic book. "Restaurant!", art by Bill Elder; The deprivations the Sturdleys suffer at a "typical" Sunday restaurant outing. "Wreck of The Hesperus," script by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, art by Wallace Wood; Relates the wreck of the ship Hesperus on the reef at Norman's Woe; Text of the famous poem accompanied by humorous illustrations. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $430.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4373827005

Cover by Eugene E. Hughes. Stories and art by Ed Robbins, John Bulthuis, and Ed Smalle. Pre-Code horror tales from Aragon, an imprint of Stanley Morse Publications. A man who loves all forest creatures is befriended by the spirits of the wood, but his boss, a hunter, isn't so lucky. A killer swears that he'll never go to the chair and escapes prison, but the cops aren't the only ones looking for him. A scientist creates a formula that gives him plant-like capabilities and battles a gangster, 20 years before Dr. Alec Holland created his bio-restorative formula. The Man with the Green Thumb; The Killer; What's in a Name?; The Man Who Beat the Chair; The Wedding Eve. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $540.00 Paper: White Label #4256879020 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.20) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Cover by Eugene E. Hughes. Stories and art by Ed Robbins, John Bulthuis, and Ed Smalle. Pre-Code horror tales from Aragon, an imprint of Stanley Morse Publications. A man who loves all forest creatures is befriended by the spirits of the wood, but his boss, a hunter, isn't so lucky. A killer swears that he'll never go to the chair and escapes prison, but the cops aren't the only ones looking for him. A scientist creates a formula that gives him plant-like capabilities and battles a gangster, 20 years before Dr. Alec Holland created his bio-restorative formula. The Man with the Green Thumb; The Killer; What's in a Name?; The Man Who Beat the Chair; The Wedding Eve. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Space Adventures (1952 1st series) 13 CGC 9.2

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4639938002

Cover by Al Fago. Stories and art by Carl Memling, Vince Alascia, Joe Shuster, John Belfi, Seymour Moskowitz and Dick Giordano. Ahead of the Comics Code, Space Adventures switches from horrific tales of sci-fi to super-heroics, reviving 1940s hero Blue Beetle, in what proved to be a long and influential series for both Charlton and the Blue Beetle himself. In the far-off future year of 1988, Blast Baker and Astra Adams of the Planet Police battle a tentacled monster from outer space. Someone tries to frame reporter Joan Mason by planting a bag of cocaine in her purse. Blue Beetle: Murder in the Ring; The Thing in Outer Space; From Planet Rathe to Planet Earth; The Beauty Parlor Murders; Minit Mystery; Heritage. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Harry Anderson. Man Or Beast, art by Paul Reinman. The Ticket text story. The Dreadful Disguise, art by Al Eadeh. Harley's Friend, art by Bob McCarty. The Wrong Man, art by Jim McLaughlin. The Horrible Years, art by Joe Maneely. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $899.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4510663021 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($26.97) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Stan Kaye. Work Can Be Fun! public service announcement starring Buzzy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. The Boy of 100 Faces!, script by Otto Binder, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Ray Burnley; Jimmy solves the mystery of the Vickers jewelry robbery. Supergram - the Superman Puzzle Game. Case of the Lumberjack Jinx!, script by Otto Binder, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Ray Burnley; Jimmy Olsen is sent to the Meredith Lumber Camp by Perry White to determine the source of a "jinx" that is preventing paper from being delivered to the Daily Planet. The Man of Steel's Substitute!, script by Otto Binder, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Ray Burnley; When Superman is to busy to honor a commitment to a group of homeless, Jimmy tries to stand in for him. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $699.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4583828006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($20.97) will be charged at checkout.

Volume 11, Issue 2 - October 1954. Painted cover by Peter Driben. Vintage men's interest magazine focused entirely on amateur lingerie pin-up pictorials. 8" x 11.5", 50 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.25.