Due to a distributor shipping error, some product will not be available with the New Releases on November 26th. We expect the delayed items to be available with next week's New Releases on Tuesday, December 3rd.

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Brenda Starr (1948-1949 Superior) comic books 1955 or before

  • Issue #5
    Brenda Starr (1948-1949 Superior) 5
    • Trimmed
    • TRIMMED. Water damage. Tape. Staple rust with migration.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
      Other items consigned by Bud Plant

    Cover by Jack Kamen. Stories and art by Jack Kamen, Jerry Betts and Dale Messick. The adventures of Dale Messick's fearless comic strip hero, redheaded reporter Brenda Starr. Brenda investigates when an imposter masquerades as Inspector Traverts. Blonde reporter Daphne puts herself in harm's way while trying to scoop her rival Brenda. Gambler Frank Stillwell runs afoul of an angry gunslinger, in a Western story with early art by EC legend Jack Kamen. The Washington Story; Decision Deferred; Lovely Night; Saint or Sinner; Dopey Don: Arithmetic Lesson; True Western Justice: His Deal Was Death. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #6
    Brenda Starr (1948-1949 Superior) 6
    • Margin piece missing from several pages, interior oxidation with some spline splitting, 2" cumulative spine split.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
      Other items consigned by humble cow

    Cover by Jack Kamen. Stories and art by Lee Diamond and Dale Messick. The adventures of Dale Messick's fearless comic strip hero, redheaded reporter Brenda Starr. Brenda changes clothes and puts on a brunette wig to go undercover as her alter ego Vera de Verve, in a story featuring plentiful good-girl art by Messick. Gunfighter and gambler Dick Lloyd gets drunk and makes trouble in a violent pre-Code Western. Plus paper dolls of Brenda with different outfits. "Dual" In The Night; Brenda's "Big" Surprise; Better Late Than Never; She's Too Fat For "He"!; The Trigger-Happy Stranger; Cut-Outs. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #7
    Brenda Starr (1948-1949 Superior) 7
    • 2" Cumulative spine split.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
  • Issue #8
    Brenda Starr (1948-1949 Superior) 8
    • 5" Cumulative spine split (partially taped). Cover detached at one staple.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    The adventures of Dale Messick's fearless comic strip hero, redheaded reporter Brenda Starr. Brenda faces a terrifying chase on a roller coaster when she tracks supposedly dead gangster Mugs Lawson to an amusement park. Newspaper copy boy Pesky Miller, who looks a lot like classic Jimmy Olsen, is crowned prince for a day to fill column space on a slow news day. Brenda narrates the real-life story of newspaper publisher Carl Magee, who exposed the Teapot Dome Scandal. The Case of the Undead Corpse; Paradise by Proxy!; Trapped by Nothing; Tempest in the Teapot Dome!; Murder in Style. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #11
    Brenda Starr (1948-1949 Superior) 11
    • Centerfold detached. Water damage.
    • Cover and centerfold detached, severe staple rust/migration, 3" cumulative spine split.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
      Other items consigned by humble cow

    Stories and art by Lee Diamond and others. The adventures of Dale Messick's fearless comic strip hero, redheaded reporter Brenda Starr. Brenda finds romance unexpectedly while investigating a mystery. Brenda narrates the real-life story of pioneering American journalist John Peter Zenger. The Thief Who Stole Tuesday; The Hazard and the Hermit; Stop the Press!; A Diamond In the Rough. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #12
    Brenda Starr (1948-1949 Superior) 12
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Stories and art by Lee Diamond and others. The adventures of Dale Messick's fearless comic strip hero, redheaded reporter Brenda Starr. Brenda consoles her friends Elsa, who loves celebrity Rex Riley but tires of sharing him with the world. Brenda narrates the real-life history of journalists and journalism. Copy By Cupid; Revenge; Torpedoed; And the Waltz Came Tumbling Down. Final issue of the series; numbering continues with Brenda Starr (1955 Charlton) #13. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.