Comic books June 1944

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Aviation magazine featuring pictorials of featured designs; model and hobby information. 10.25" x 13", 104 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $1,049.95 or Best Offer View scans Slight professional restoration Paper: Off white Restoration includes: cover cleaned and pressed. Label #0028249001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Summer 1944. The Justice Society of America star in "The Man Who Relived His Life!" Plot by Gardner Fox and Sheldon Mayer, script by Fox. Art by Joe Gallagher plus individual chapters featuring Hawkman (art by Shaldon Moldoff), the Sandman (art by Gallagher), Starman (art by Aschmeier), Dr. Mid-nite (art by Aschmeier), Doctor Fate (art by Joe Kubert), and Johnny Thunder (art by Aschmeier). Wonder Woman appearance. Two-page Hop Harrigan text story, "Express to Berlin." Tootsie Roll back cover ad, "Captain Tootsie and the Bumbershoot Jump" by Rod Reed and C.C. Beck. Gallagher cover. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $265.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white From the Collection of Ruben Blades Label #4477850011 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover art by Paul Reinman. The Mystery of Marvelous Marvyn!, script by Alfred Bester, art by Paul Reinman; Mervyn was a genius and how he hated that so, so one night he decided to rebel against his parent's wishes and join up with a mob to plan some heists; Unfortunately for Mervyn, he scared the crooks more than Green Lantern did. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]. The Bully starring Scribbly and the Red Tornado, script and art by Sheldon Mayer. Gangsters, Guns and Girls starring The Atom, script by Joseph Greene, art by Joe Gallagher. Limerick vs. Larceny starring Dr. Mid-Nite, script by Joseph Greene, art by Stan Aschmeier. Blooey Blows His Horn starring Red, White and Blue, art by Joe Gallagher. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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UK weekly men's interest magazine with humor and pin-ups. 8" x 11.25", 28 pages, B&W

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $525.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4369590002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

The Adventure of the Crumbling Skyscraper, art by E. C. Stoner; German saboteurs blow up a building and leave evidence that the Beetle is responsible. Peril In the Pacific; Dan Garrett is given the assignment of protecting Col. Denton who is delivering information of the utmost importance. They Came to Destroy America text story. The Whistling Death; Joan Mason solves the mystery of a Broadway booking agent's murder. The Very Salty Tale of the O'Brine Twins, script and art by Jack Farr; after being declared 4-F by the draft board, the O'Brine twins join the Merchant Marine. Coxwell and Glaisher fact page. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Bill Allison, Harold Delay, Jack Warren, and Henry Kiefer. Masked heroes face Axis forces in this WWII-era adventure series. A wave of hijackings is investigated by costumed hero Blue Circle, who is advised by a secret council of seven reformed criminals, in an innovative twist. Redheaded journalist Gail Porter talks a suicidal man down from a bridge, and helps the handsome stranger investigate gangsters in the city government, in an early action-girl story. Maureen Marine has Little Nemo-like adventures and becomes the new Queen of the kingdom under the sea, in a story with some lovely fantasy art by Harold Delay. Blue Circle: What Is the Blue Circle?; Gail Porter, Girl Photographer; The Toreador; Maureen Marine; Driftwood Davey; The Steel Fist; Black Killer; Slaphappy Grandpappy; Wacky Cracks. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $30.00 View scans Paper: Cream Water damage: Moderate.

Add to cart Very Good $41.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 54, Issue 12 - June, 1944. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $3,900.00 View scans Paper: Off white Centerfold detached. Label #1256110012 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Includes: Alex Schomburg cover art; Terror of the Ghost Harpoon, Pencils by Syd Shores, Inks by Vince Alascia; The Murder of Cyrus Crane--Let's Play Detective, art by Al Bellman; Riders of Death, Script by Otto Binder, Pencils by Jimmy Thompson; On the Square text story; Rockets of Doom; The Case of the Talking Crystal Ball—Let's Play Detective, art by Bellman; and Tarbu's Mission of Death, Pencils by Jimmy Thompson, Inks by Allen Simon. 60 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mac Raboy. Stories by Sid Lazarus and Art Helfant. Art by Mac Raboy, Sid Lazarus, and Art Helfant. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Native Americans retake Manhattan after finding an ancient deed allowing them rights to the island, in a story featuring a cameo by then-NYC mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Captain Marvel Jr. looks for a pilot whose plane vanished in the canyons of the Southwest US, and finds the Lost Chasm. Mad scientist I.C. Frostbite has a device that can freeze anything solid, even Jr. himself. Plus a PSA about wartime paper rationing. The Indian Braves on Wall Street!; The Snortville Sneeze: The Case of the Talking Spirits; The Adventure of the Lost Chasm!; Rubbernose Randolph Upsets the Apple Cart!; The Tale of Lashs Tail; The Freezing Asset!; Punkinhead. 40 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. After crashing in a swamp, Captain Midnight and Joyce discover that Frau von Sade is alive, creating deadly plants in the center of her bizarre labyrinth. Captain Midnight's scientific research is questioned by Congress, in a sort of political-satire story. Young pilot Johnny Blair trains to fly with the Civil Air Patrol, in a series that features real-life flight education. Plus readers submit their own inventions for illustration. Enemies of America!; Death in the Dismal Swamp; Capt. Midnight Goes Fishing; Red Skye: All Cats Are Black; Johnny Blair, in the Air; The Manchurian Plebiscite. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 16, Issue 1 - June 1944. Features creative stories, poems, rebuses, recipes, activities, crafts, science experiments, and health articles for children. 6-in. x 9-in. 52 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.15.

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The Corsican Brothers, 1st Printing, Classics Comics, Gilberton edition. (HRN 20). Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 30, 1st Printing - "The Affair at the Boat Landing" by A.B. Cunningham. Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 7, Issue 3 - June, 1944. 6.75" x 9.75", 84 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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True Crime Cases. Photo cover. 8.5" x 11.5", 68 pages, B&W Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Fine $89.00 View scans Only one staple (manufacturing). Staple rust. Rust migration. 1/4" Spine split from top of comic. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Foxing. Residue. Scuffing. Soiling.

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Add to cart VG 4.0 $83.00 View scans Cover oxidation. Staple rust.

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Volume 1, Issue 5 - June, 1944. Vintage men's interest magazine full of adult humor comics and tasteful pin-up pictorials. 8.5" x 11.5", 68 pages, B&W. -MATURE CONTENT- Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Fair $17.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Back cover detached 50%. Front Cover Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 6, Issue 3 - June 1944. Cover by Robert Gibson Jones. Science Fiction and Adventures stories. This issue features "Bury Me Deep" by Leroy Yerxa, and "The Strange Mission of Arthur Pendran" by John X. Pollard. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 212 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $495.00 View scans Restored: C2 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Significant inner well scuff(s) Restoration includes: color touch on cover, pieces added to cover, tear seals, reinforced. Label #2126381007 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by M.E. Peacock and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Robert Webb, Alex Blum, and Arnold Hicks. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. The debut of Tiger Girl, an Indian princess who roams the jungles with her pet tigers, features a rare lion-tiger fight; Senorita Rio suspects a German missionary on a Brazilian island is actually a Nazi spy; While working in a lumber camp, Kayo Kirby gets in a fight with the foreman and wins a date with the beautiful owner. Rip Carson; Tiger Girl; Hooks Devlin; Kayo Kirby; ...Pass the Ammunition; Shark Brodie; Senorita Rio. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $799.95 or Best Offer View scans Cover and centerfold detached. Cover oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Bondage/torture cover. Scarce Alex Schomburg cover.

Alex Schomburg cover. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $6.00 View scans Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Bedsheet Format Cover price $0.15.

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Indicia title is Felix the Cat and the Haunted Castle, No. 46. Just a Little Squirt, art by Otto Mesmer. Felix the Cat and the Haunted Castle, art by Otto Mesmer; Felix enters a spooky mansion; Blue Betty, Cinderella, Little Bo Peep, Red Riding Hood, Magic Midgets, Beanstalk Jack, and Bruto guest-star. Felix has Spring Fever, art by Otto Mesmer. Reprinted from the Felix the Cat newspaper strip (King Features Syndicate, Inc.). 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Sheldon Mayer. Contents page art by Sheldon Mayer. "The Making of a Mouseketeer," art by Ronald Santi; Young D'Artagmouse joins up with the Mouseketeers when King Louis sends them to put down a revolt by the Duke de Maltese. "Introducing J. Rufus Lion," script and art by Sheldon Mayer; Rufus gets tangled up in a bank robbery on his way to get ration points. Untitled story; After Bulldog Drumhead puts Oliver's father in jail he has to take care of the cute little tyke (not). Ol' Judge Owl text by Martin Naydel (as Martin Nadle). "The Great Fur Robbery," pencils by Saul Kessler; Lee Lion runs a crooked hotel and makes his guests hock their fur to pay the bills. "The Terrific Whatzit!", art by Martin Naydel; Prince Highness and Prince Lowness search for one honest soul to give super powers to, to see if they he will be corrupted; But Prince Highness sneaks an Automatic Conscience into McSnurtle the Turtles shell to keep him on the path of righteousness...or at least awake. Back cover Tootsie Roll ad, "Captain Tootsie and the Bumbershoot Jump" by Rod Reed and C.C. Beck. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart Very Good $41.00 View scans Spine split 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Summer, 1944. Glamour and pinup magazine. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 68 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $410.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white The DC Universe Collection. Label #4441055018

Cover art by Paul Reinman. It's Bad For Business starring Green Lantern, script by Alfred Bester, art by Martin Nodell; Two spinsters attempt to teach the world better manners and they decide that Doiby is a prime candidate for their uplift society. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]. Doiby Dickles Enters High Sassiety starring Green Lantern, script by Henry Kuttner, art by Martin Nodell; Doiby decides to go into the cab business and hires a fleet of drivers; Little does he know that they are all former members of the underworld who use their routes to carry out armed robberies! The Gambler starring Green Lantern, script by Henry Kuttner, art by Martin Nodell. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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June 4, 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), Edna Faith Connell, and Allen F. Herdman. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 24 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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June 11, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. "Colt Lightnin'" by Kirk Deming begins. Other fiction stories by Jane Flower Philpy, Peggy O'More Blocklinger (as Jeanne Bowman), William MacHarg, Saidee L. Slover, and Ruth P. Jorgensen. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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Volume 2, Issue 8 - June, 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; "Meet the People" starring Lucille Ball and Dick Powell, "Going My Way?" starring Bing Crosby, James Brown, Rise Stevens, Jean Heather, and Barry Fitzgerald, "Shine on Harvest Moon" starring Ann Sheridan and Dennis Morgan, and many more. 8.5" x 11", 18 pages, B&W Cover price $0.10.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 23, Issue 1 - June, 1944. 6.75" x 9", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $2.50 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 40%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 31, Issue 5 - March, 1944. Mechanical science and technology magazine. This issue's articles include; "Cycles Predict the Future" by Donald G. Cooley, "A Guy Called Ed" by J.A. Greenberg, "Secret Weapons" by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, "Sweating it Out" by Arch Whitehouse, "Sons of Martha" by W.D. Anderson, "The Squirt" by Willy Ley, and others . 6.75-in. x 9.5-in. 162 pages, BW/spot color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $1,099.00 or Best Offer View scans CGC Qualified Paper: Off white Centerfold Missing. Label #4355722001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

52 pages. Book-length untitled story by Tarpe Mills. Cover price $0.10.

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8.5" x 11", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $1,425.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4311777001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

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Cover art by Harry Sahle. Shield G-Man Club ad. Untitled story, script by Ed Goggin, pencils by Harry Sahle, inks by Janice Valleau; Archie is caught trying to play a prank on Reggie and is sent to the principal's office; Mr. Weatherbee uses his latest readings in child psychology and gives Archie responsibility for a school picnic aboard a boat. "Special Communique #15: Father Scarface, pencils by Clem Weisbecker; Father Scarface, a Buddhist monk, defends his Monastery from the Japanese with the help of Captain Commando. "Crime Is Always Careless" text story starring Black Hood by Roger Conway. "The House That Crime Built, pencils by Clem Weisbecker, inks by Pen Shumaker; Narrated by "the house that crime built," this is the story of Black Hood solving a crime at a house built in 1821 with a history of crimes being committed in it. "The Rajah's Silver Idol, " pencils by Clem Weisbecker, inks by Pen Shumaker; The Rajah's silver idol goes missing and it's up to the Shield to find out where it went. "America - First, Last, and Always" text story starring Black Hood by Scott Feldman. Untitled story, art by Carl Hubbell; Marco Loco meets pearl-diving headhunters. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Issue 62 - June 9, 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.

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Vol. 22, No. 2. June 1944. Sharon Douglas cover by Tom Kelley. Radio and television gossip magazine that also included fiction and radio adaptations. 8.5" x 11.25". 94 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 28 #181 - June 1944. Ann Sheridan cover. Movie magazine with a twist: current movies are retold in text and movie stills. In this issue: "Shine on Harvest Moon", "Address Unknown", "Sensations of 1944", "The White Cliffs of Dover", "The Purple Heart", "Pardon My Rhythm", "You Can't Ration Love", "Tucson Raiders", and "Minstrel Man". Plus news, gossip and previews. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 110 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.