Comic books May 1944

Add to cart CGC 0.1 $200.00 View scan Paper: Off white Coverless. Label #4473347004 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover art by Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye. Superman and the Super-Movers, script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by George Roussos. The Guns of Killer Haines, pencils by Mort Meskin. Super Sleuth McFooey, script and art by Jack Farr. Be A Magician! Turn Waste Paper Into War Weapons public service announcement, art by George Roussos. Choose Your Weapon starring Congo Bill, art by Edwin Smalle. Cargoes of Death starring Americommando, script by Joseph Greene, art by Bernard Baily. Magic Knights starring Zatara. 60 Pages, Full Color. $.10 Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $54.00 View scans Front cover detached 25%. Back cover detached 30%. Staple rust: Slight.

May 1944. 7" x 9.75", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $2,978.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white Small amount of tape on interior front cover. Small hair trapped in slabbed. Label #1266241004 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. In this issue: Boy Heroes in "Fortunes for Four"; Blonde Bomber in untitled tale; "Flight of the Flying Angel"; Shock Gibson in "Bergs of Banzai"; "Fury of the Deep"; and Captain Red Blazer and Sparky in 2-page untitled Story Behind the Cover text story. Plus: untitled Corporal Fooie (introduction) 2-pager (with art by Wood Cowan). Also: untitled Five Princesses of Pompadoonk 2-pager (with art by Marv Levy). 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Poor $2.60 View scans Paper: Dark Tan to Off-White Front cover detached 30%. No Back Cover. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

May 1944. Science fiction stories by Ray bradbury ("I, Rocket"), Edmond Hamilton, David V. Reed, Helmar Lewis, Emil Petaja, and Berkeley Livingston. Illustrations by Hadden, Arnold Kohn, Lew Meyer, Brady, Malcolm Smith, Julian S. Krupa, and Robert Fuqua. Cover by St. John. 7" x 10"; black and white; 210 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $19.00 View scans Water damage: Slight.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $2.65 View scan 2" Spine split from bottom.

Issue 17, 1944 - "Stories by Thomas Wolfe". Squarebound, 5" x 7.5", 136 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $19.00 View scans Spine stress. Spine split from top. Corner Damage. Scuffing. Soiling.

Add to cart Very Good $21.00 View scans

Volume 3, Issue 3 - May, 1944. Painted cover by Billy DeVorss. 8" x 10.5", 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Coverless $120.00 View scan COVERLESS. INCOMPLETE. Centerfold missing, interrupts art and story.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $750.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white 3" crack to lower left edge, small piece of plastic missing from bottom left corner. Label #0230531006 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Siggy’s Comics

Add to cart CGC 1.5 $539.00 View scans Paper: Off white Spine of cover completely split and front cover detached. Label #2099843003 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Edited by Ned L. Pines. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories by Richard Hughes, Capt. Kerry McRoberts, Bob Stanwood, Al Camy, and Drew Coleman. Action-packed tales featuring such characters as Jimmy Cole, Boy Sleuth and the Black Terror, a super strong super-hero. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $32.50 View scans Water saturation. Mold.

Stories by Otto Binder and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck, C.C. Beck Studio and unknown. Mr. Mind and his Nazi allies continue to attack the coast of Scotland from his floating island. He thaws out a woolly mammoth from his frozen island to fight Captain Marvel in "The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 14: Mr. Mind's Blitz!" by Otto Binder, C.C. Beck and C.C. Beck Studio. Captain Marvel also stars in: "Radar, the International Policeman" with art by C.C. Beck and C.C. Beck Studio; "Action In Indianapolis" with art by C.C. Beck; and "The World of Largeness" with story by Otto Binder. Plus: Snortville Sneeze untitled tale. And: 2-page text story "Victory Lumberjack" by Carl G. Hodges. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $1,010.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Cream to off white All 3 edges trimmed. From a bound volume. (Tape on entire spine of cover.) Label #1109574008

Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories and art by Don Rico, Herman C. Browner, Jack Grogan, Jack Alderman, and C. R. Schaare. Sometimes listed as Cat-Man Comics Vol. 3 #13. The adventures of Cat-Man and other early superheroes from the Golden Age of comics. The Hood investigates the wealthy and corrupt Baron of Nazi-occupied Monte Carlo. The Deacon and Mickey encounter ghosts, Nazis and a miracle worker at the haunted Waverly mansion. Blackout faces the female Nazi air ace called Valkyrie (no relation to the Airboy character). Cover by legendary artist Alex Schomburg. Cat-Man & Kitten: Bombs Below!; The Deacon: The Man Who Could Work Miracles!; Tag, - You're It!; Divide by Two; The Hood: The Baron of Monte Carlo; Corny Cobbs: The Lost Suspenders; Blackout: The Valkyrie!; The Odd Job Boys; One-Man Army. 56 pages, Full Color. Note: 4 issues between #23 and #27 were not numbered, except for the Volumes and Numbers. Two issues are numbered 26. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart $19.50 View scans Heavy spine stress with color breaks. 3/4" cumulative spine splits. Multiple light and moderate spine breaks. Staples rusted with migration. Multiple cover creases. Heavy wear to corners and edges with multiple nicks and tears. Heavy denting and scuffing. Heavy soiling and foxing to covers. Mailing label affixed to front. Page edges a bit darkened with some scattered foxing and multiple corner creases.

Volume 116, Issue 5 - May, 1944. Cover by Bradshaw Crandell. Fiction by Dorothy Kilgallen, Alec Rackowe, Vina Delmar, Mary Nowell Frost, Michael Foster, Margaret Cousins, Katherine Albert, and Lt. Wells Lewis. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 188 pages, B&W with spot color and full color ads. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart Coverless $154.00 View scans INCOMPLETE. Missing cover and first wrap (affects "Career of Carrington Hill" and "Who Murdered Beautiful Mary Lawson?" stories).

Add to cart PR 0.5 $395.00 View scans INCOMPLETE. Multiple pages missing. Interrupts art and story. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Rudy Palais, Dick Wood, Dick Briefer, Bob Wood, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. A woman is dubbed a "female Bluebeard" after doing away with her husbands, in a story with art by Dick Briefer. The story of Nolan the Notorious features early art by pioneering African-American artist Alvin Hollingsworth. The murderer of Mary Lawson is revealed by a burnt match, in a tale with art by Dick Briefer. Also featuring a vintage PSA for wartime paper drives, an early recycling program. Career of Carrington Hill; Four Crooks and a Coffin; Female Blue Beard; Murder Master; Angel Face of Crime; The Case of the Missing Monster; Nolan the Notorious; Whodunnit? Who Murdered Beautiful Mary Lawson?; A Crimebuster Special. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $99.00 View scans Front cover detached 10%.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $86.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 20%. Staple rust: Slight.

May 1944. Cover by Modest Stein. Stories include "The Three Devils," a book-length novel by "Kenneth Robeson"; "Special Performance" by Thomson Burtis; and "Scarlet Justice" by Robert C. Blackmon. 5.5-in x 7.75-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Good $3.00 View scans Water damage: Moderate.

Volume 5, Issue 16 - May 1944. Digest, 5" x 7.5", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $17.00 View scans Cover detached. Mold. Only one staple (manufacturing).

Add to cart GD 2.0 $38.00 View scans Cover detached at single center staple Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Indicia title is "TERRY AND THE PIRATES, No. 44." Untitled Terry and the Pirates strips, scripts and art by Milton Caniff. Connie and Big Stoop get a $5,000 reward from Mr. Smythe-Heatherstone and hire servants to do their work for Pat and Terry. After a confrontation with Baron De Plexus and his bodyguard, Pat decides to leave Hong Kong and take Terry, Connie, and Big Stoop to see Smythe-Heatherstone. At the plantation, Pat and Terry meet April Kane, the young sister of Dillon Kane, who has disappeared. Pat and Connie find Dillon Kane being held captive in the cave. Sanjak shows up at De Plexus' airstrip with a hypnotized April. De Plexus and his thugs try to get information on Sanjak in Yankuk, but the populace, even the underworld, refuses to give them any information. Reprints Terry and The Pirates (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1938 and 1939. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $399.00 or Best Offer View scans INCOMPLETE. 2 wraps missing (affects "Invisible Paint" and "Dam of Death" stories). Staple missing (not manufacturing). Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $469.95 or Best Offer View scans Interior is complete. Full length spine split, chipped corner, cover oxidation, centerfold detached at single center staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories and art by Jerry Robinson, Marv Lev, Bob Powell, Art Helfant, and Arturo Cazeneuve. The first comic to feature The Green Hornet, the radio-turned-movie superhero from the creator of the Lone Ranger. Nazi saboteurs enlist American hoboes to target a dam, in GH stories with art by Joker co-creator Jerry Robinson. The Twinkle Twins meet Mike the Muscle's nephew Mikey, a juvenile delinquent in the making, and try to set him straight. The clue to a million-dollar robbery is a crate of oranges, in a story that promotes War Bonds, a WWII fundraising drive. Bondage cover by comics legend Alex Schomburg references the Hornet's success in radio and movie serials. Green Hornet: The Society of the Swastika!; Spirit of 76; Mighty Midgets: Invisible Paint; Youngun and Tagalong; Green Hornet: Dam of Death!; The Story Behind the Cover; Twinkle Twins: The Lad Who was Bad!; Zebra: The Mystery of the Pink Drake Brand; Green Hornet Buzzers. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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May 7, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Allan Vaughan Elston, Richard Sale, William MacHarg, Doris Hume, and Allan F. Herdman. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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May 14, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. "First Officer Sue" by Peggy O'More Blocklinger (as Jeanne Bowman) begins. Other fiction stories by Charles Boeckman (aka Beckman) Jr, Richard Sale, Ellen Newman, Margaret McCulloch, Dorothy Collett, and William MacHarg. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

Add to cart FN 6.0 $9.90

May 21, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Peggy O'More Blocklinger (as Jeanne Bowman), Hope Dahle Jordan, Richard Sale, Cyril Plunkett, Roy Wheeler, and Stanley B. Wilson. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 24 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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May 21, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Richard Sale, Peggy O'More Blocklinger (as Jeanne Bowman), Ora T. Stewart, Louis L. Jacoby, B. N. Richardson, and Robert C. Dennis. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 24 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

Add to cart Very Good $9.00 View scans Water damage: Slight.

Volume 2, Issue 7 - May, 1944. Goldwyn Girls photo cover. Long running magazine that features song lyrics, celebrity gossip, articles, and fan letters. This issue features songs from motion pictures such as; "Passage to Marseilles" starring Humphrey Bogart and Michele Morgan, "Minstrel Man" starring Benny Fields, "The Hour Before Dawn" starring Veronica lake and Franchot Tone, and many more. 8.5" x 11", 18 pages, B&W Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $15.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

One of many vintage supermarket tabloid magazines full of high profile FBI and CIA cases of the era, accompanied by black and white photographs and testimonials from those involved in, and close to the events themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 58 pages, B&W, recommended for 16+. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $299.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4634534011 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Cover art by Joe Doolin. "Slaves for Horror's Harem," art by Ruben Moreira; The Ouangas are operating a supposedly closed gold mine and, fearing interference when Kaänga leads the new colonial commissioner into their jungle, attack Kaänga and company. Untitled story, art by Richard Case; For many years a pygmy tribe has worshiped Simba and left him offerings of food; Now they are being attacked by another tribe and he comes to their defense. Untitled story, art by Ruth Atkinson; A tribe prepares to sacrifice a maiden to a water demon, but Tabu offers to slay the demon. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; A group of European refugees, building a town in Wambi's jungle, are being plagued by disappearances that they blame on the natives; Wambi proves that the natives are not to blame and proves that a crocodile is responsible. Untitled story, art by Richard Case; Terry battles a band of Arab bandits. "Blood--and Water" text story. "White Gorilla!", pencils by George Tuska; Escorting two hunters into gorilla country, Camilla encounters a jungle man living with the gorillas; The hunters agree to leave him in the jungle. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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May 27, 1944. Vol 21, No 22. Clown photo cover. Articles by Alfred Toombs, Betty Milton Gaskill, Lieut. Max Miller, Stacey Hicks, and Mort Wesinger. Fiction by Ronald G. Sercombe, Charles Banner, Virginia Eiseman, Edwin Lanham, and Niven Busch ("Duel in the Sun" pt2). Illustrations by Carl Mueller, John Collins, and Tom Atwell . Boris Karloff shaving cream ad. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 52 pages, black and white with spot color. Cover price $0.05.

Add to cart Fair $9.00 View scans Spine split 90%. Cover Detached. Staple rust: Slight.

May 29, 1944. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Gen. "Tooey" Spaatz; air intelligence photographic essay; Oscar Hammerstein II; and more. Half-page Cream of Wheat ad with a Li'l Abner comic strip by Al Capp. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 124 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Fine $77.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Fine $8.00 View scans

Volume 17, Issue 121 - May, 1944. 8.5" x 10.5", 124 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $165.00 View scan Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Issue 60 - May 12, 1944. Early magic enthusiast fanzine with reader submitted homemade tricks for other readers to try at home complete with step-by-step instructions and illustrations where needed. 8.5" x 11", 4 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Good $11.00 View scans Spine split 5%.

Vintage photo magazine featuring Reader submitted photographs, and pictorials focusing on Sports, Celebrities, Controversies, and Fashions of the time. 10-in. x 13 1/2-in., 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart Very Good $12.00 View scans Staple rust. Rust migration. Spine stress. Corner Damage. Edge damage. Residue. Scuffing. Soiling.

Volume 3, Issue 1 - May, 1944. Pin-up magazine featuring non-nude photos of pin-up models. Cover by George Janes. 8.25-in. x 11-in., 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Vol. 22, No. 1. May 1944. Barbara Joyce cover by Tom Kelley. Radio and television gossip magazine that also included fiction and radio adaptations. 8.5" x 11.25". 100 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Fair $2.65 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Back cover detached 50%. Front Cover Detached. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 35, Issue 6 - May, 1944. 6.5" x 9", 148 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $18.00 View scans Spine split 15%.

Vol. 9, No.5 - May 1944. Collects articles and photos pertaining to actors, movies, and television. 10 1/2" x 13", 60 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Good $27.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white 2 1/2" Spine split from top of book. 2 1/2" Spine split from base of book. Foxing. Soiling.

FEATURE: "The Dawn Tide" a short story by Lou Merrill.

Volume 2, Issue 4 - May, 1944. 6.75" x 9.75", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Very Good $35.00 View scans Paper: Cream Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 3, Issue 1 - May, 1944. 6.75" x 9.75", 102 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $22.00

Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Wellman/Woolfolk/Jack Cole scripts, Cole, Fine, Robin King - A.

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Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Wellman/Woolfolk/Jack Cole scripts, Cole, Fine, Robin King - A. Last Mr. Mystic.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $43.00 View scan

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Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Wellman/Woolfolk/Jack Cole scripts, Cole, Fine, Robin King - A.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $12.00

Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Wellman/Woolfolk/Jack Cole scripts, Cole, Fine, Robin King - A.