Comic books March 1944

Cover by John Jordan. Stories and art by Ray Gill, Jim Wilcox, Harold DeLay, and John Jordan. Sometimes listed as 4Most #10. Four different stories featuring clean-cut teen heroes of the 1940s from Novelty Press. Bank robbers capture Dick Cole's friend Velma, and he must dare a flood to rescue her. While seeking the missing B'ar Grease Williams, Danl Flannel and Uncle Dud plunge into an unknown world ruled by a lost Native tribe. Edison Bell and Jerry use a surveyor's tripod to create a miniature town. Edison Bell tells young readers how to make a Backyard Village. Dick Cole; Edison Bell; Eddie Bells Backyard Village; Danl Flannel; The Terror Raiders; The Cadet. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Joe Musial. The Phantom strips, scripts by Lee Falk, art by Ray Moore. Pete the Tramp strips by Clarence D. Russell. Jungle Jim strips, art by Alex Raymond. Katzenjammer Kids strips, art by H.H. Knerr. Tim Tyler's Luck strips, art by Lyman Young. Family Portraits strips, art by Norman Lynd. Blondie strips, art by Chic Young. Prince Valiant strips, art by Hal Foster. Teddy and Sitting Bull strips, art by Joe Musial. Tillie the Toiler strips, art by Russ Westover. Just Kids strips, art by A.D. Carter. Private Breger Abroad strips by Dave Breger. Curley Harper at Lakespur strips, art by Lyman Young. Barney Google strips, art by Billy DeBeck. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Jack Burnley and Stan Kaye. Superman Takes a Holiday, script by Don Cameron (signed as Jerry Siegel), pencils by Sam Citron (signed as Joe Shuster). A Challenge from the Pyramids starring Vigilante, art by Mort Meskin (signed as Mort Morton Jr.). The Forest Primeval starring Congo Bill, art by John Daly. Words are Weapons starring Americommando, script by Joseph Greene, art by Bernard Baily. Clouds of Crime starring Zatara. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby. Sleepy Time Crimes, script and pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon; Sandman must battle a villain who uses a special camera with a wide-angle lens that releases an odorless gas which renders its "subjects" unconscious, all as a pretext for use in robbing large stores and museums with special exhibitions. Fish Are Such Liars starring Genius Jones, script by Alfred Bester, art by Stan Kaye. The Candid Criminal starring the Shining Knight, script by Joe Samachson, art by Louis Cazeneuve. Land Beneath the Fog! starring Starman, pencils by Mort Meskin, inks by George Roussos. Little Clerk--What Now? starring the Manhunter, pencils by Pierce Rice. The Prisoner of the Castle starring Mike Gibbs, Guerilla, script by Joe Samachson, art by Edmond Good. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Edited by Ed Cronin. Cover by Fred Kida. Stories by Fred Kida, Dan Barry, Bill Fraccio, Rudy Palais, and Bob Fujitani. Heroic action stories of war and airborne adventure—these are Air Fighters Comics! Paper drive feature with Skinny McGinty, art by Tony DiPreta. 60 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 3, Issue 6 - Spring, 1944. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $1,450.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #1133743002

Spring 1944. The Justice Society of America star in "The Movie That Changed a Man's Life." Plot by Gardner Fox and Sheldon Mayer, script by Fox. Art by Joe Gallagher plus individual chapters featuring Hawkman (art by Sheldon Moldoff), the Spectre (art by Bernard Baily), the Atom (art by Joe Gallagher), Dr. Mid-nite (art by Aschmeier), Starman (art by Aschmeier), and Johnny Thunder (art by Gallagher). Wonder Woman cameo. Two-page Hop Harrigan text story, "Ghost Plane." Tootsie Roll back cover ad, "Captain Tootsie and the Secret Weapon" by Rod Reed and C.C. Beck. Gallagher cover. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Horror of the Ghost Fiend starring The Human Torch, art by Alex Schomburg; The Flaming Duo must deal with Nazi treachery that slightly alters a message of America's help to protect Mecca to an order for the U.S. to destroy the holy city. The Four Trials of Justice starring Captain America, pencils by Al Fagaly; The four freedoms come under attack when the Red Skull, deciding that the war in Germany is lost, has post-war plans to Nazify America! Smash the Tunnel of Terror starring the Sub-Mariner, art by Carl Pfeufer. Urgent! Sentinels of Liberty!--Paper Salvage w/Captain America public service announcement. The Beachhead Blitz starring The Destroyer, pencils by Don Rico. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Paul Reinman. The Reforming of Elegant Esmond, script by Alfred Bester, art by Paul Reinman; A former underworld hood decides to retire from crime. In fact, he decides to try to undo all of his crimes and it is all that Green lantern can handle to keep one of his former victims from taking his place in crime! The Friendship Dance starring The Atom, script by Joseph Greene, art by Joe Gallagher. The Tale of the Black Rain starring Dr. Mid-Nite, script by Joseph Greene, art by Stan Aschmeier. Ma Hunkel's Singing starring Scribbly and the Red Tornado, script and art by Sheldon Mayer. It's Tough to Be a Hero starring Red, White and Blue, art by Joe Gallagher. Bombs Away starring Hop Harrigan, script and art by Jon L. Blummer. The JSA for the March of Dimes public service announcement. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $800.00 View scans Paper: White Label #4164488008

Written by Gardner F. Fox. Art and cover by Everett E. Hibbard. The Three Dimwits enter the drawing room of All-Flash Comics, and, after looking over the story already drawn for issue #14, decide to re-do it themselves. The Three Dimwits try tio find a suitable villain for the Flash to tangle with, and decide on a Professor Feend. Little do they know that it is actually the Thinker, who has invented a time machine and is bringing back ancient dinosaurs to cause havoc while his gang commits robberies! Hop Harrigan text story by Evelyn Gaines. Fat and Slat humor page by Ed Wheelan. Simp O'dill humor page by Sol Hess. The Red Cross War Fund public service announcement with the Justice Society of America, script by Sheldon Mayer, art by Joe Gallagher. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories by unknown. Art by Bob Powell, Joe Kubert, Ernie Schroeder and unknown. In this issue: Boy Heroes in "The Glamourous Guerilla"; Blonde Bomber in "Frau Doktor"; Zebra in "Hijacking Jackal"; Boy Heroes, Captain Red Blazer and Sparky in 2-page untitled Story Behind the Cover text story; The Flyin' Fool tale "Big Doings" with art by Bob Powell; "Murder on the Stage" with art by Joe Kubert; and "Satan Rides the Waves" with art by Ernie Schroeder. 56 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $1,900.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Cover detached. Label #1051835008

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Keeper of the Monsters, pencils by Vince Alascia, inks by Al Bellman; Prince Suli uses trained gorillas to help him steal jewels and kidnap a woman as a hostage until defeated by Captain America and Bucky. Vanishing Oil Tank Cars starring Human Torch, pencils by Bob Powell, inks by Al Bellman. Speed To Spare starring Whizzer, pencils by Jack Binder, inks by Al Gabriele. Satan Pulls the Strings starring Sub-Mariner, art by Allen Simon. The Missing Ace--Let's Play Detective, art by Al Bellman. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Letter-to-editor by 15-year-old Philip K. Dick.

Volume 18, Issue 2 - March, 1944. Science fiction stories by Robert Bloch, Mort Weisinger (of DC Comics fame), Don Wilcox, Leroy Yerxa, Robert Moore Williams, Helmar Lewis, Ed Earl Repp, and Berkeley Livingston. This issue also contains a story, "The Superman," by Meyer Friedenson; it was the winning entry of a contest sponsored by the magazine. (One of the runner-ups was Eando Binder.) Letter-to-editor by 15-year-old Philip K. Dick. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John, Virgil Finlay, Hadden, Malcolm Smith, Magarian, and Robert Fuqua. Cover by St. John. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 214 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 317, Issue 4 - March, 1944. 8" x 11", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

March, 1944. Volume 34, Issue 1. Cover by William Timmins. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; black and white; 160 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

Issue 4 - "The Corpse and the 3 Ex-Husbands". Softcover Digest, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Coverless $199.95 or Best Offer View scan COVERLESS. INCOMPLETE. Multiple pages missing (missing page 2 of "Brother" and page 1-9 of "His Lordship's Double!"). Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Dick Sprang. "The Streamlined Rustlers!", script by Jack Schiff, art by Dick Sprang; Batman and Robin head west to see if they can stem the tide of cattle rustling, which has been caused by war-time rationing, and is the source of black market beef. "Blitzkrieg Bandits!", script by Don Cameron, art by Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane); The Caped Crusaders must stop a criminal mastermind who uses a genius in military science to actually plan crimes for gems and other loot, thinking the crook is writing a series of newspaper articles on him. 2-page Brother story by Paul Fung. "His Lordship's Double!", script by Alvin Schwartz, art by Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane); The Caped Crusaders have to outwit a criminal element which targets a Lord Burleigh, a man who has come to America to interest an American oil company in his discovery of a cheaper process for obtaining rubber from petroleum. "Hero's Mission" text story by George Brandon. 1-page Jerry the Jitterbug story by Henry Boltinoff. "The Three Eccentrics!", script by Joseph Greene, pencils by Ed Kressy (layouts) and Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane), inks by Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane); Batman must outwit the Penguin, who has invented a small motion picture camera with telescopic lenses, which is precise enough to see combinations to wall safes as they are being opened. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 6, No. 5 - March 1944. Cover by Frederick Blakeslee. "Airborne!" by Robert S. Bowen and "Death Rides These Wings!" Orlando Rigoni. Other stories by David Goodis, Lance Kermit, Sam Carson, Ray P. Shotwell, and Logan C. Claybourne. 7-in. x 9 1/2-in., 98 pages, black and white (text with illustrations). Cover price $0.10.

Instructional booklet from Bell Aircraft Corporation featuring instructive cartoons on safety and operations. 5.5" x 8.5", B&W w/ Green. NOTE: All copies were 4-hole punched five publisher for binder insertion; this is not a defect.

Instructional booklet from Bell Aircraft Corporation featuring instructive cartoons on safety and operations. 5.5" x 8.5", B&W w/ Green. NOTE: All copies were 4-hole punched five publisher for binder insertion; this is not a defect.

Best True Fact Detective Cases Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Tom DeAngelo. Stories and art by Tom De Angelo, Jeff MacHamer, Ham Fisher, Gardner Fox, Ogden Whitney, Kermit Jadiker and Charles Zerner (credited as Paine), Elmer Wexler, Frank Tinsley, Alfred Andriola, J. P. McEvoy, John Striebel, Frank Beck and Mart Bailey. Big Shot featured reprints of McNaught Syndicate humor and adventure strips, alongside original characters like Skyman and The Face. Sparky Watts must escort officials to a secret military conference, which seems like no problem for a man with cosmic-ray superpowers. Vic Jordan is captured by Nazi agent Major Koenig, leading to a rescue by Adrienne and a battle to the death. Skyman's plane barely survives an encounter with a mechanic named "Gremlin," in an early use of the "gremlin" legend that originated just before WWII. Vic Jordan; Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Captain Yank; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; The Face; Skyman; All in a Lifetime; Hollywood Husband; Return to Mindanao. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $45.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Cream to off white

Spring 1944. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. The Black Bat in "The White Witch" by "G. Wayman Jones" (Norman Daniels); "The Amesbury Case" by John L. Benton; and "Spy Aboard" by Frank Johnson. Pulp magazine format; black and white; 80 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.