Comic books published by Toby Press, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $225.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4495519004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.75) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Milt Story and others. The strange little creatures from the classic Li'l Abner comic strip get their own comic book. Washable Jones and his friends the shmoos try to figure out how to extinguish a forest fire on Ol' Timber Top mountain. Washable dares to take on a giant who is trampling the town. The debut of Super Shmoo (with appearances by Sweet Shmoo, Fu Manshmoo and Frankenshmoo's Monster. Plus a vintage ad for US savings bonds featuring the Shmoos and signed by Al Capp. How Shmoos Play Football...; Shmooldering Embers; The Family Life of the Shmoo...; Washable Jones, the Shmoos and the Mysterious Shadow!!; The Wonderful Attic; Super Shmoo. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $139.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4495519005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.17) will be charged at checkout.

The strange little creatures from the classic Li'l Abner comic strip get their own comic book. Super Shmoo shmoos into action when a shipment of rare Shmooranium-235 goes missing. Meanwhile, Washable Jones and his friends the shmoos find themselves on the Moon. Super Shmoo: The Case of the Missing Shmooranium-235; Washable Jones and the Shmoos: Trip to the Moon; What Cheer; Two-Bit the Wacky Woodpecker; Stop the Shmoosic! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Al Capp's Shmoo (1949) 3 CGC 6.0

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #4745717007

The strange little creatures from the classic Li'l Abner comic strip get their own comic book. Super Shmoo shmoos into action when a shipment of rare Shmooranium-235 goes missing. Meanwhile, Washable Jones and his friends the shmoos find themselves on the Moon. Super Shmoo: The Case of the Missing Shmooranium-235; Washable Jones and the Shmoos: Trip to the Moon; What Cheer; Two-Bit the Wacky Woodpecker; Stop the Shmoosic! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Al Capp's Shmoo (1949) 5 CGC 6.0

Paper: Off white

Label #4745717006

The strange little creatures from the classic Li'l Abner comic strip get their own comic book. In his civilian identity as Hugh Shmoo, Super Shmoo discovers the existence of microscopic Shmoos, otherwise known as Shmoo-Mee-Bas. Washable Jones and his friends the shmoos encounter the Sleeping Beauties and the Valley of the Golden Shmoos. Plus a vintage "Strengthen Liberty" PSA celebrating the 40th anniversary (1950) of the Boy Scouts of America. Super Shmoo: The Souse Sea Shmoo-Mee-Bas; Washable Jones: The Sleeping Beauties; Philo and Mr. OLearys Bird Whistle; Two-Bit the Wacky Woodpecker: Super Modern Cab; Washable Jones: The Valley of the Golden Shmoos; Leroy Lunkhead. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $1,400.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4688928009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($42.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Ernest Schroeder. Stories and art by Mell Lazarus, Robert Bernstein and Ernest Schroeder. Medieval adventure featuring the wandering knight errant known as the Black Knight. The Black Knight battles an army to prevent a woman from being burned at the stake as a human sacrifice. The Black Knight searches for his missing friend, the Sheriff of Blisford, but he's vanished as if he never existed. Plus an early cartoon by Mell Lazarus, creator of the Momma and Miss Peach comic strips. Human Sacrifice; Old Liz; The Invitation. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $234.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #3932451010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.02) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

John Wayne photo cover. Genius humor page by Harvey Kurtzman. Cavern of Doom; it was a nightmare being trapped in an ice cave; Waynes horror was tripled when he turned and saw that there were creatures from a pre-historic past. The Lion's Den starring Wayne. Taxi! text story starring Memphis Smith by Donald George. Pot-Shot Pete vs. The Apache Indians, script and art by Harvey Kurtzman; Pot-Shot tries to halt arms sales to the Apaches. Murder Will Out starring John Wayne, art by Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta. Ad for Lone Ranger pen set with cowboys belt. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Tales of Horror (1952 Toby/Minoan) 4 CGC 1.8

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #4440265025

Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Ernest Schroeder, Ben Brown, David Gantz and Myron Fass. Pre-Code horror comics from Toby Press. For sinister reasons, a man slips his niece and her husband a magic potion that shrinks them down to four inches tall. A monster created for a hoax turns out to be real. A scientist's super intellect-booster works too well on the test rats. The Curse of King Kala; Death from the Sea; The Man Who Imagined a Monster; Who Shall Inherit the Earth?; Li'l Pepp. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $279.95 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #2062413001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.40) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Ellis Eringer, Sal Trapani, Medio Iorio and Myron Fass. Pre-Code horror comics from Toby Press. Professor Lenox's charm school for girls turns out to be abducting women and replacing them with slaves of Satan. Tuscan peasant Alberto betrays the witch who aided him, but he forgot that witches often have covens. The corpse at a funeral thinks back on how each of his pallbearers led him to his untimely death. Welcome to My School; Fate of Alberto; Highway Rubout; The Pallbearers; Poison-Quill at Midnight. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $191.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4153934014 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.73) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Ellis Eringer, Sal Trapani, Medio Iorio and Myron Fass. Pre-Code horror comics from Toby Press. Professor Lenox's charm school for girls turns out to be abducting women and replacing them with slaves of Satan. Tuscan peasant Alberto betrays the witch who aided him, but he forgot that witches often have covens. The corpse at a funeral thinks back on how each of his pallbearers led him to his untimely death. Welcome to My School; Fate of Alberto; Highway Rubout; The Pallbearers; Poison-Quill at Midnight. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $229.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4000363022 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.87) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Gene Fawcette. Stories and art by Louis Ravielli and Gene Fawcette. Pre-Code horror comics set in exotic lands form this one-shot from Toby Press. A man visiting France sees the image of a long-dead woman in a mirror. Dan finds love and horror while visiting New Orleans during Mardi Gras. While visiting England, Marion gets lost in an old castle and finds herself 500 years in the past. The Mirror of Cagliostro; Murder At the Mardi Gras; Strange Romance: Love of Roger Hardin; Time Is Running Out; Death Ship. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Tell It to the Marines (1952 Toby Press) 1 CGC 7.0

Paper: White

Label #4742164006

"Operation Petticoat," art by Jack Sparling; Spike and Bat, two brawny, lusty, best-buddy Marines on the Korean front, are sent behind enemy lines to retrieve valuable information from an elderly, wounded Korean acting as an agent for the United States. Before dying, the agent tells the boys the information is sewn into the dress hem of his lovely granddaughter, Lotus Blossom. "Arabian Nightmare," script by Charles Spain Verral, art by Jack Sparling; A big mistake is made in Washington and the boys are sent to the Middle East to secure oil concessions for the western powers; Boris, a Russian emissary, is trying to do the same for his country; The Shah of Ariq, a boxing fan, decides the issue will be settled via a boxing match between Boris and Spike, a renowned Corps heavyweight champion celebrated for a punch of his own devising called the Double Reverse Pretzel Bolo. "Blue Plate Blossom"; Lover O'Leary is the "pre-eminent gal-hound" of the United States Marine Corps and agrees to take two nerdy, young "chowderheads" out on the town; The three pass their time ogling busty, leggy Good Girls in little clothing. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.