Comic books January 1947

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Vol. 116, No. 3 - January 1947. 6.75" x 9.75", 146 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Vol. 21, No. 1 - January 1947. 6.75" x 9.75", 178 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,890.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4450622023 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

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Cover by Dick Sprang. "Peril In Greece," script by Edmond Hamilton, art by Jim Mooney; Batman and Robin travel to ancient Greece to see the first Olympic Games; When a group of Persians try to disrupt the games to start a civil war, Batman and the athletes step in. "The Carbon Copy Crimes," script by Bill Finger, art by Jim Mooney; A series of murders are similar to those of Batman's first big case six years previous; People depicted in portraits are murdered. "Memo To a Murderer" text story by Blair Bolton. "The Penguin On Parole!", script by Don Cameron, art by Jim Mooney; The Penguin is paroled into the custody of Batman and Robin after the Penguin saves the life of a prison warden from a fire. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Published by Popular Publications Cover price $0.25.

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Edited by Leon Harvey. Cover by Al Avison. Stories by Lee Elias, Arturo Cazeneuve, George Roussos, Maurice Del Bourgo, and Art Helfant. The Black Cat in "The Buddha's Secret." Block Buster Barton in "The Mystery of the Missing Tenants." Johnny Nebisco in "The Billboard Murder Case!" Swamp Gold in "Dead Pirate's Gold!" Also "Lucifer's Lush!" 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Edited by Ned L. Pines. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories by Charles S. Strong, Donald Bayne Hobart, Cal Howard, Helen Houghton, William B. McClellan, and Al Camy. Action-packed tales featuring such characters as the Crime Crushers, Professor Punchy, Archeologist and the Black Terror, a super strong super-hero. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Wayne Boring (credited as Jack Harmon). Stories and art by Joe Donohoe, Ray Gill, Jim Wilcox, John Graham, E. J. Reeves, Milt Hammer, Jack Warren, Henry Kiefer, and Wayne Boring (credited as Jack Harmon). Sometimes listed as Blue Bolt #74. Blue Bolt has adventures while flying for Glimpses, a photography magazine. Blue Bolt battles spies disguised as astronomers in an observatory, in a story (and cover) by Superman artist Wayne Boring (credited as Jack Harmon). Millionaire adventurer Rick Richards returns from military service to find his right-hand man has been embezzling his fortune. Edison Bell gets mixed up with cheaters and crooks at a soap-box derby. Edison Bell tells young readers how to create a Soap Box racer. Dick Cole; Blue Bolt; Rick Richards; Head Man; Edison Bell; Make Eddie Bell's Soap Box Speeder; Crooked Feint; Old Cap Hawkins' True Tales; Bluebolts & Nuts; Fearless Fellers; Krisko & Jasper. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Text and Cartoons by Bill Morgan - Softcover, 68 Pages, B&W.

Cover by C. C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Stories and art by C. C. Beck, Pete Costanza and Bill Woolfolk. The Captain Marvel Story Book featured an innovative combination of text and comics art, featuring great full-page illustrations by Shazam co-creator C.C. Beck. Captain Marvel helps Dorothy after her scientist father is kidnapped by the menacing Sun People. Their sun-shelter is growing too hot, so they need his invention to cool off the sun, even if that dooms Earth to another Ice Age. Captain Marvel and the Sun People. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1st Printing, Classics Comics. Kiefer cover, contains Hound of the Baskervilles & A Study in Scarlet, 68 pgs. (HRN 33, 1/47). Cover price $0.10.

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 4th Printing, Line Drawing Cover. 15 cent price, 4A has Kiefers name on cover. (HRN 89). Cover price $0.15.

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Cover art by Everett E. Hibbard. The Menace of the Rebel Manlings, script by Joyce Murchison, art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman and Octavis are taken prisoner aboard a submarine controlled by Manilus, a former lab assistant who was exposed to Vitamin Z gas, which enlarged his brain; He has taken over Atlantis and now plans to conquer the world. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith (signed as Bud Fisher). The Galloping Greenbacks starring The Flash, art by Everett E. Hibbard. Foney Fairy Tales, script and art by Ed Wheelan. Detour--Just a Story, script and art by Howard Purcell. Seek and Hide, or, The Airmail Trail starring Hop Harrigan, script and art by Jon L. Blummer. The Meaning of 'D' starring Green Lantern, art by Paul Reinman. 76 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 2, Issue 11 - January, 1947. Magic Periodical put out by Walter B. Gibson with help from Harry Houdini's brother, Hardeen that showcases the talent of magicians as well as teaching tricks to readers. 8.5" x 11", 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

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Stories by E. J. Bellin and others. Art by Joe Kubert, E. Balter, Howard Larsen, Jon Small (credited as and Jack Ross), and Gus Schrotter. Gunfights, outlaws and frontier justice in the Old West. Clint Cortland, The Texas Ranger, goes "undercover" in a Comanche tribe; How Alabam became the sheriff of Broken Creek; The Fighting Parson must learn to use a gun when fate sets him against the Piper Brothers. The White Comanche!; The Arctic Assassin!; Split-Second Stand In!; Throwing the Bull!; The Jealous Lover!; Kit West: Spitting Snake's Revenge!!; Poisoned Pipers!! 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories by unknown. Art by Art Gates, Bob Oksner and unknown. In this issue: "Exciting Headliners" table of contents page; The Black Terror in "The Case of the Chinese Casket"; untitled Roger Dodger story with art by Art Gates; untitled Miss Masque story; untitled Crash Carter, Air Cadet story (vs. Svenson) with art by Bob Oksner; and untitled The Crime Crushers story. Plus: 2-page text story "Engineering Project" (by Charles S. Strong); 1-page text story "Giraffe Hunt" (by Frank Roslyn); and half-pager "The Face" (with art by Dan Gordon). 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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New Years cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "Chief Wahoo and Steve Roper" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; and "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller. "Greedy Grab" text story. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Charles Nicholas. Trapping the Masked Monster starring the Human Torch, art by Jimmy Thompson; A bookie tries to eliminate snoops getting too close to his racket and throw suspicion onto a seer by putting records into her chair that play predictions of death. Torch and Toro send him to the chair. Death By Prophecy starring the Human Torch and Futura. Curse of the Black Devil text story. The Lost Son Fraud starring the Human Torch, art by Carmine Infantino. Ghost Hangman starring the Sub-Mariner, art by Allen Simon. $0.10. 52 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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In order of appearance: "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle" art by Robert Webb, reprinted in Sheena Queen of the Jungle (1942 Fiction House) #16; "ZX-5" art by Jack Kamen; "Patsy Pinup"; "The Hawk" art by Robert Webb; "Sky Girl" art by Matt Baker, reprinted in Sky Gal (1994) #3; "Hateful Herman"; and "Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural" and "The Ghost Gallery" art by Jack Kamen. "Sheena and the Snake Princess" text story. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Untitled story, art by John Celardo; Mad scientist Roho takes N'Tito's brain and places it in ape. He then kidnaps Ann and plans to allow the ape inhabiting N'Titi's body to kill her; Kaänga and N'Tito arrive in time to save Ann but N'Tito and Roho are both killed. Untitled story, art by August Froehlich; Simba protects a lost white child from buffalo stampede and mandrill attack until the boy's parents find him. Untitled story, art by Bob Lubbers; Terry rides to rescue the sultan's daughter from her kidnapper, Ali Khan. Keeeto, disguised as the Desert Whip, a notorious criminal, manages to get the better of Ali Khan and the girl is rescued. Cecil Rhodes bio, art by George Evans. Untitled story, pencils by Alex Blum; Two hunters trick Wambi into letting them record his voice while he is giving animals commands; Using the recording, they manage to capture dozens of animals with no effort. Brief descriptions of several jungle traps. Untitled story, art by Howard Larsen; The witch doctor Sikulu convinces his people that white men have killed their chief; He takes the tribe to the camp of innocent scientists with the intent of murder; Tabu arrives, tells the men the truth—that Sikulu had attempted to kill the chief. Untitled story, pencils by Fran Hopper; A pair of jewel thieves kidnap Trader Tom and hope to torture him into revealing the location of his cache of pearls; Camilla rescues Tom, but not before one of the thieves has been killed by a viper. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Funny-animal comics featuring a pair of cute critters who are pals. Human boy Raymond and his animal pals Koko and Kola seek a fairy prince; Koko, Kola, and Raymond meet Old King Cole from the nursery rhyme; The gang visits a museum. Muggsy Mouse; Fairy Prince; Famous Statues; Cross-Pic Puzzle; Tricycle Trouble. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $39.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 15, Issue 5 - January, 1947. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"treachery in Tenochtitlan" a novelette by Richard S. Shaver.

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Volume 6, Issue 1 - January, 1947. 6.75" x 9.75", 180 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover art by Charles Nichols. Murder Melodies starring Human Torch, art by Jimmy Thompson. The Mad Hatter Mystery starring Sub-Mariner, pencils by Al Gabriele. Flaming Death starring Miss America, art by Ken Bald. Death Rides the Slope text story. Murder for a Laugh starring Young Allies, art by Gustav Schrotter. The Howling Mummy starring Captain America, script by Stan Lee, pencils by Syd Shores, inks by Al Avison. 52 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 74, No. 4 - January 1947. 10.5" x 14", 148 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 34, Issue 134 - January, 1947. Digest-size UK men's magazine. Articles, humor, and pin-up photos. 5" x 7.25", 116 pages, B&W with color.

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Stories, Art and Cover by Ken Bald. Millie the Model in: "The Best Man Won!"; "Peach on the Beach"; "A Duffer Must Suffer!"; "Mayor for a Day!"; and "Pity the Poor Model!" Plus: 2-page text story "Stand-In" (by unknown). And: Willie in "Ain't Paint Quaint!" 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart Very Good $18.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 13, Issue 2 - January, 1947. 6.75" x 9.75", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover by Walt Kelly. Stories and art by Walt Kelly, Carl Barks, H. R. McBride and Vive Risto. Based on the popular movie shorts also known as Little Rascals, Dell's Our Gang Comics featured early work by Pogo's Walt Kelly and other cartooning greats. In a story by Kelly, the rival Gashouse Gang tries to sabotage star pitcher Froggie before the big baseball game. Barney attempts to retrieve golf balls from the lake, in an early story by legendary Uncle Scrooge creator Carl Barks. But first he must elude the golf-course manager. Timothy's Good Deed; Our Gang; Flip 'n' Dip; Tom and Jerry; Barney Bear and Benny Burro; Wuff the Prairie Dog. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $234.95 or Best Offer View scans Heavy tearing with tape. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by J. F. Byrne. Stories and art by Lily Renee, George Evans, Bob Lubbers, Murphy Anderson and Chester Martin. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. In the Lost World, Hunt and Lyssa free alien prisoners and try to lead a revolt against the Volta; Murphy Anderson's Life on Other Worlds strip speculates about what life on Mercury might look like, as well as a Space Pirates' Hideout; The Star Pirate and a rival pirate captain vie for an heiress's ransom. Space-girl-to-the-rescue cover by Joe Doolin. The Lost World; Futura; Life on Other Worlds: Mercury; Mysta of the Moon; Auro Lord of Jupiter; Message from the Dead; Space Pirates' Hideout; Space Rangers; The Star Pirate. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $9.90

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $9.30 View scan 3.5" Cumulative spine split. Centerfold detached at one staple. Chew.

No. 12 - January 1947. 7.5" x 10.5", 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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January 1947. Mechanical science and technology magazine. Cover (signed John Howard) features two supersonic jet rocket planes. Featured articles in this issue include Electric Tools Aid Medicine, Dangerous Business Farming, European Auto Show, Racing the Hot Rods, and lots more. 6 3/4-in. x 9 1/2-in. 300 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Poor $2.65 View scans Front cover detached 90%. Back cover detached 90%. Front and Back Cover Detached. Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 31, No. 1 - January 1947. 6.5" x 9.5", 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by George Kerr. Stories and art by Walt Kelly, George Kerr (credited as Johnny Gruelle), W.J. Enright, Bud Haley, L. Bing, Frank Jupo and Dan Noonan. Johnny Gruelle's famous doll characters have adventures and learn lessons, featuring early art from Walt Kelly. Legendary Pogo artist Walt Kelly adapts Mother Goose nursery rhymes, including Little Jack Horner and Rock-a-bye Baby. Billy and Bonny Bee build a house for Mrs. Ladybug. Donot Inflate, the penguin, brags about being a famous soldier. Plus activity pages and "nonesuch" animals. Raggedy Ann; The Giants and the Herdboy; Egbert Elephant and His Friends; The Raggedy Way; Princess Nogood; Animal Mother Goose; Billy and Bonny Bee; Judy Bug. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 52, Issue 5 - January, 1947. 5.5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $18.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

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Vol. 198, No. 7 - January 10, 1947. 6.75" x 9.75", 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.