Comic books January 1953

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Add to cart CGC 4.0 $165.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4337466002

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $299.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4404942019 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover art by Ken Bald. 50 Cowboys & Indians; 41 Circus Toys ad. Tale of Terror, art by Lin Streeter; Satan himself sells a story to a comic book editor and demons threaten the creative staff until the printing plates are destroyed, and the demons along with them. Behind The Door! text story. Apollo's Fatal Gloves, pencils by Al Camy, inks by George Wilhelms; Glen Sanders finds a pair of magic gloves but they are stolen by someone who uses them to murder, until Apollo creates a second pair so Glen can defeat the murderer. House ad for Skeleton Hand comic. The Ghostly Flag-Raising--Uncanny Mysteries. The Hungry Horde, art by Jon Blummer; After a theft of a large amount of blood plasma, Mark and Martha are called to investigate; They discover the Master Vampire using the plasma to create an army but destroy the army and the Master. The Skeleton's Secret!, pencils by Charles Nicholas. The Evil Eye, art by King Ward. 36 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $9.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Foxing. Water damage.

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Add to cart Good $3.00 View scans 2" Spine split from top of book. Foxing. Soiling. Water spotting. Weak bindery glue.

Volume 27, Issue 1 - January, 1953. Cover by Arnold Kohn. Science fiction stories by Mallory Storm, Charles Creighton, E.K. Jarvis, and Rog Phillips. Illustrations by Tom Beecham, John Fay, and William Slade. Cover by Arnold Kohn. 6.75" x 9.75", 164 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $450.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white Slab: Significant front/back scuff(s) Label #2108091008 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Siggy’s Comics

Add to cart GD 2.0 $209.95 or Best Offer View scans Centerfold detached at one staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Sol Brodsky. "The Different Vampire," pencils by Dick Ayers, inks by Ernie Bache; A vampire destroys one of his own coven when he uncovers his secret that he prefers vampire blood to human blood. "Horror Hill" text story. "The Worm That Turned," art by Ed Winiarski. "The Manhunter!", art by Vic Carrabotta. "The Man Who Went To Far!", script by Carl Wessler, pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel. "Gorilla!", script by Carl Wessler. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Fine $23.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

January, 1953 - Volume 9, Issue #1.

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $7.50 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

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Add to cart Good $3.00 View scans Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Jan 1953. Volume 50, Issue 5 - 1st printing. Cover by Pawelka. Science fiction stories by Poul Anderson, E.B. Cole, Julian Chain, Lee Cahn, and Steve Benedict. Illustrations by Edd Cartier, Orban, Pawelka, and van Dongen. Article on nuclear power. Softcover, 5.5-in. x 7.75-in.; 168 newsprint pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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The war comic formerly called Attack updates itself for the nuclear era. Stories of horrific atomic warfare include Tomorrows War, Operation Paratrooper and the ironically titled The Situation Is Well in Hand. Stories and art by Harry Harrison, Vic Carrabotta and Vince Napoli. Cover by Napoli. 36 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $185.00 View scans 1" cumulative spine split with splitting to interior wraps. Staples added (not manufacturing).

Cover pencils by Jim McLaughlin. Dr. Gueux's Nightmare Monsters, pencils by Louis Zansky; Dr. Gueux wants to rule the world with the help of monsters dreamt up by a mystery writer in his nightmares. Greed's Grisly Treasure; Adventurer runs an errand for the devil; He fights ghosts in a spooky tavern to get his hands on a pirate treasure. Role of the Footlight Werewolf, pencils by Charles Nicholas, inks by Paul Gattuso; Ambitious actor goes method acting to portray a werewolf onstage; He joins a band of werewolves, supplies them with victims and learns their behavior and rites. Black Horror of Druid's Glen, pencils by Charles Nicholas. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Russ Heath. No Retreat!, art by Gene Colan. I Saw Hitler Die! (he gets shot in the face), art by Russ Heath. His Excellency Was Excellent in Korea! text story. Bait!, art by Cal Massey. Enemy Patrol!, art by Dick Ayers. 32 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Clem Weisbecker and Pete Costanza. Pre-Code war comics from Fawcett, created during the height of the Korean War. A young soldier faces a trial by fire on the front lines in Korea. Sgt. Cragg gives his platoon a pep talk that they'll never forget. A sailor terrified of battle earns the nickname "Landlubber," and only an act of heroism can redeem him. Youll Never Be Twenty!; As You Were!; Decoy; Platoon Forward!; Landlubber! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $20.00 View scan 5" spine split. Water damage. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by TheGoodOlDays

Cover by Carl Burgos. "12 Hours Till Death," script by Carl Wessler, art by Russ Heath; Five engineers are sent behind enemy lines to blow up a power plant. "The Big Bluff!", pencils by Mike Sekowsky; A North Korean officer tries to take a hill held by American soldiers. "Rangers Stick Together" two-page text story. "Out Of The Frying Pan," art by Vernon Henkel; American prisoners escape from a POW camp and steal a tank to return to their lines. "Red Guerilla!", script by Carl Wessler, art by Jay Scott Pike; A North Korean captain is stirring up the local farmers against the American forces. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 11, Issue 6 - January, 1953. Painted cover by Peter Driben. Issue features pictorial of Bettie Page at a carnival. 8.5" x 11.5", 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $329.95 or Best Offer View scans Pencil and crayon on cover. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Bernard Bailey. Stories and art by Sheldon Moldoff, Bill Woolfolk, Maurice Gutwirth and Bob McCarthy. Classic pre-Code horror from St. John. A police detective encounters a magical clock that sends people to Hell when it strikes thirteen. Traveling the polar wastes, two explorers are trapped in an igloo for months, and one of them is slowly going insane... or is it both? Gangsters force a Romani witch to use her powers to bring a ganglord back from the dead. The Horrors of the 13th Stroke; The Lonely One!; The Ghoul at Eldritch Manor!; Gray Matter; Return of the Dead! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Reed Crandall. Stories by Bill Woolfolk, Paul Gustavson and unknown. Art by Reed Crandall, Paul Gustavson and unknown. Featuring Blackhawk in: "Terror of the Crimson Hoods" by Bill Woolfolk and Reed Crandall; "Devil's Squadron!"; and "Vampire Men of Kunwalo!" with story by Bill Woolfolk. Plus: Chop Chop in an untitled back-up story by Paul Gustavson. And: 1-page text story "Man-Killer"! 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck, Pete Costanza and unknown. Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) stars in: "Hand of Horror" with story by Otto Binder; "Captain Marvel Fights the Mongol Blood-Drinkers" by Otto Binder, C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza (the Scarlet Vampire appearance); and "Captain Marvel Battles Viking Villainy" with story by Otto Binder (Dexter Knox appearance). Plus: Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb tale "The Well-Dressed Dope!"; Captain Kid in "The New Suit"; and Jon Jarl in the 2-page text story "Space Salvage" with script by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder). 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $1,495.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Scuffing on front of case; Scuffing to inner well of case File Copy. Label #0009636007 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

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Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Al Avison, Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Abe Simon and Moe Marcus. Harvey Comics joins the parade of pre-Code horror comics pioneered by EC in the 1950s. Scientists create a ravenous bacteria and realize they can control its actions. Archaeologists encounter deadly ants and living mummies in a pyramid. A doctor learns how to read the minds of others, but the first person he tries it on turns out to be a murderous lunatic. Nightmare of Doom; Vengeful Corpse; The Place!; The Living Mummies; True Tales Of The Tomb; Mind Over Matter; Web of Doom! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Men Against the Sea, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 104, with 1/53 date). Story continued from CI #100 "Mutiny on the Bounty". Following the mutiny, Captain Bligh and eighteen members of his crew are set adrift in an open boat. Unprotected against fierce storms, unarmed against attacks by savage natives and facing slow starvation, the men embarked on an amazing voyage of breathtaking adventures across thousands of miles of treacherous sea. Second part of the Bounty trilogy, last part continues in CI#109 "Pitcairn's Island". Cover price $0.15.

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Men Against the Sea, 2nd Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 114). Story continued from CI #100 "Mutiny on the Bounty". Following the mutiny, Captain Bligh and eighteen members of his crew are set adrift in an open boat. Unprotected against fierce storms, unarmed against attacks by savage natives and facing slow starvation, the men embarked on an amazing voyage of breathtaking adventures across thousands of miles of treacherous sea. Second part of the Bounty trilogy, last part continues in CI#109 "Pitcairn's Island". Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $3.80 Water damage. Writing (interior and exterior). Staple rust.

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller and others. Comics on Parade features reprints of Ernie Bushmiller's popular Nancy strip, featuring precocious Nancy and her streetwise pal Sluggo. Sluggo finds a cop's hat and decides to become a police impersonator. Nancy ties to mooch a cookie from Aunt Fritzi. Sluggo studies hypnotism. Nancy; Stamp Tips. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $149.95 or Best Offer View scan Mold. Heavy interior tearing, tape on interior pages (one page torn in half). Staple rust/migration. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Add to cart PR 0.5 $89.00 or Best Offer View scan Interior is complete. Full length spine split (partially taped), heavy soiling to interior. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Art Gates and others. Romance comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. Marianne falls for handsome artist Owen when he rents a room in her family's Victorian-era boarding house. A fortune teller gets blindsided by love, but she also doesn't see the heartache coming. Rebellious Florence is torn between bad-boy Mark and lawyer Louis, and gets arrested for being a "good-time girl." Also featuring a vintage ad for "50 Combat Action Plastic Toys." Halfway Up the Landing; He Kissed and Told!; My Fateful Love; My Day-Dream of Love; I Rebelled Against Convention. Followed by Confessions of Love (1953 Star Publications) #4, confusingly enough. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Reed Crandall. Stories by Robert Bernstein and unknown. Art by Pete Morisi, Paul Gustavson, Charles Sultan and unknown. A woman is out to revenge the murder of her lover, and accuses Two-Gun Lil for the killing after finding a piece of her shirt sleeve on the scene of the murder in an untitled story. Plus: A master of disguise is out from a lunatic asylum and has picked five men for death in his desire for revenge in the Arizona Raines story "The Killer With a Thousand Faces!"; in search of a job, Johnny Lash (the Whip) helps the daughter of a rancher in "Range War!"; Bob Allen, Frontier Marshal in "Triple Cross"; and 1-page text story "Wildfire" starring Brad Tucker and Marcia Robbins. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Lou Morales. Stories and art by Lou Morales, Art Capello, Frank Frollo, and Stan Campbell. Pre-Code crime comics from Charlton, sometimes published under its short-lived Capitol or Law and Order imprints. Mr. and Mrs. Chase are aided by teen gang "The Cobras" (who ride around in an Archie-like jalopy) while investigating a narcotics ring and a mad millionaire who keeps live alligators in his weird mansion. Not your typical crime-comics story. A small-time hood named Lippy still knows enough to bring down a major organized-crime syndicate. A detective flies out to Skull Lake to investigate killings that seem to be the work of a lake monster. Crime Clues: A Simple Case of Murder!; Mr. and Mrs. Chase: The Cobras; Rub-Out!; Plainly Poison; The Demon of Skull Lake; Radio Patrol: Case of the Bottled Murder. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Doug Wildey and Vince Colletta. Tales of love and heartbreak, with a twist: in-story appearances by real-life musicians of the era. Ski instructor Betty falls for Gary, who performs with real-life musician Ray Anthony. But they are separated by complications only a dangerous ski exhibition can resolve, in a story with early art by Doug Wildey. Mark marries Austrian immigrant Margo so she can get a green card, but is crushed to learn she's really engaged to another man. The romance between Ann and Bart leads to tragedy when he gets her to join a Communist agitator group, in a classic "Red Scare" story of the Cold War era. Plus a profile and photo of Hollywood legend Stewart Granger. Cover features a photo of Ray Anthony. No Other Love!; I Sold My Heart; Stewart Granger: Swashbuckler; Backyard Battleground; Mother Isn't Always Right. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Hy Fleishman. "The Note of Death," art by A. C. Hollingsworth; Norman Conway is made mayor on the promise to buy a haunted house from mobster Jake Lomax and turn it into a school; The witch Mary appears on the scene and starts fires. "Food For Thought!", art by John D'Agostino; Phil Stewart crashes his plane into the jungle and is rescued by mystery woman Kadira; She flees from her cannibal tribe and follows Stewart to the US to be his wife. "Grave Information" text story by Ellen Lynn. "Vampires Bite," art by Hy Fleishman; Doctor Ralph Bowan keeps a menagerie of freaks - a vampire, a ghoul and a witch - in his house, encased in big formaldehyde vats; When Bowan finds out that his wife Lily is cheating on him with his assistant Alan, he kills them and integrates them into his collection. "Sea of Ghosts," pencils by Harry Harrison; Captain Caleb Firth is a slave trader; He murders a cargo of Chinese workers to escape the coast guard; But one of them returns from the dead and comes for revenge. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Auction Item: PR 0.5 View scans 3 bids Current bid: $4.00 Time left: 7h 53m Interior complete. Full length spine split with both cover anchored with tape to spine. Margin pieces torn out of several pages (does not affect panel edge).

Add to cart GD 2.0 $105.00 View scans 2" cumulative spine split. Writing and tearing on interior pages.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $26.00 View scans INCOMPLETE. Interior tearing, interrupts art and story. Full-length spine split with back cover missing.

212 page super giant comic. Contains 54-page movie adaptation & other Peter Pan stories; plus Donald and Mickey stories with Peter Pan; A 32-page retelling of "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold" with yellow beak, called "Captain Hook & The Buried Treasure". 212 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $159.95 or Best Offer View scans Interior is complete, but brittle in places. Severe water damage, paper deterioration. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by unknown. Art by Dick Sprang, Charles Paris, Leonard Starr, Ruben Moreira and unknown. Batman and Robin battle the Exterminator in "The Man with a License to Kill!" with art by Dick Sprang and Charles Paris. Plus: Pow-Wow Smith, Indian Lawman in "The Platinum Raiders" with art by Leonard Starr; Robotman in "The Specter of Robotman"; and Impossible -- But True! tale "The Gun that Couldn't Miss!" (featuring Roy Raymond) with art by Ruben Moreira. Also: Casey the Cop half-pager by Henry Boltinoff, and 2-page text piece "Newest Crime Detector" by Jack Miller. And: 1-page public service announcement "Superboy Discovers a New Kind of Junior Sport!" by Jack Schiff and Win Mortimer. 44 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $13.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

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

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $18.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 15, Issue 1 - January, 1953. Cover by Frank Novarro. Stories include "The House That Hate Built" by Peter Dakin, "A Case For Mephisto" by Frank McGiven, "The Gods of Madness" by Chester S. Geier, and "The Rim of Faith" by E. K. Jarvis. Illustrated by Ed Emsler, Dave Stone, Dick Francis, and Frank Novarro. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 130 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $8.00 3/4" Cumulative spine split. Water damage.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $6.40 2.5" Cumulative spine split through cover and wraps.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $6.40

Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Bobby Bantam and Kenny Kangaroo. Buzzy's flapjacks are too hard to be breakfast, but they make great pistol targets. Bobby Bantam's nephew Beep wants to go to the ball game, but Bobby doesn't have enough money for both of them to go. Kenny Kangaroo must improvise when his coal shovel is too wide to fit through the furnace doors. Bobby Bantam: Take Me Out to the Brawl Game!; Horse Sense; Buzzy Bee; Kenny Kangaroo; Champ the Chump of Chimps: I Know Best!; Teddy Bear and Skeezel the Weasel: Mailman Stay 'Way from My Door; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: The Magic Lamp. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Otto Messmer. Stories and art by Otto Messmer, Joe Oriolo and A. W. Nugent. Comics adventures of the popular, long-running cartoon character; this series often featured art by the two men most associated with Felix, Otto Messmer and Joe Oriolo. Felix's latest job is with a moving company. Felix goes deep-sea fishing. Oliver gets money for doing chores. Penny Wise; Sea Slick; Oliver's Twist; Flub: Inky; Joe Blow; Play Fun. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $345.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4331414003

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $160.00 View scans 3" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple and loose at second. Tape along spine interior. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by TheGoodOlDays

Stories and art by Bill Fraccio, Tony Tallarico and A. C. Hollingsworth. Pre-Code tales of two-fisted criminals and the scales of justice from Story Comics. By this point, Fight Against Crime was edging away from crime stories to EC-style horror, as these stories demonstrate. Rival ganglords Mike and Toots feud over Mike's casino, but Toots makes a fatal error when he has Mike's gal Robin killed. Murderous thug George marries a wealthy widow and then has her declared insane, but fate has an ironic twist in mind. Stage magician Draco knows his wife and assistant are having an affair and planning his murder, so he arranges a gruesome revenge involving the old sawing-a-lady-in-half trick. Gangwar!; The Case of the Crazy Killer; The Striped Noose; The Corpse That Came Back!; Black Magic! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Walt Disney's PETER PAN and CAPTAIN HOOK, No. 446." Cover art by Bob Grant. Treasure Hunt, art by Bob Grant; Peter Pan is given a treasure map to the Mermaid Queen's treasure; Captain Hook tries to get the map from Peter but only gets half after he accidentally cuts it in half; Tinker Bell tries to find the map on Hook's ship, but is captured and held for ransom; After fooling Hook with a fake map, Peter gets both halves of the map and takes Wendy and Peter and the Lost Boys with him on a boat to find the treasure at Skull Rock; Hook and his crew follow him and there's a battle over the treasure. Adaptation of the 1952 Walt Disney animated motion picture "Peter Pan." Captain Hook and Peter Pan Cutouts activity page, art by Bob Grant. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $170.00 View scans Water spotting. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Stories and art by Dick Briefer. Cover by Dick Briefer. Prize Comics revives Dick Briefer's Frankenstein series in line with the horror trends of the Pre-Code 1950s. The Monster encounters a werewolf and an ancient curse; A Hindu-trained hypnotist and a woman's ghost seek vengeance on her killer; A woman is captured by voodoo cultists in Haiti. Mark of the Werewolf; Lorelei; Retribution; Drums of Voodoo. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $12.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 3, Issue 5 - January 1953. Cover by Milton Luros. Science Fiction and adventures stories featuring "Time Stops Today" by John Wyndham. Illustrations by Milton Luros and Paul Orban. 7-in. x 10-in. 96 newsprint pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $59.95 or Best Offer View scan Full length spine split (taped from interior). Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

36 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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Comic book featuring the famous singing cowboy hero Gene Autry. Gene Autry photo cover. Peter Pan comic ad. "Ghosts of the Modoc," art by Nicholas Firfires; Gene and Flappjack make a trip to the mountains, and run into a band of killers masked as Indian Ghosts. "The Big Joke," art by Tony Sgroi; Allie May and her brother, Jim, have inherited a ranch, but a neighbour is eager to get her sell out. He has not counted on Gene Autry, though. "Just Routine" text story starring Pony Express Rider Clint. "The Bad Luck Necklace"; Two bank robbers escape the posse and are returning to where they buried the strongbox, but an ancient Indian grave yield another find; Not a very lucky one. Daisy Air Rifles ad. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Comic book featuring stories focusing on famous singing cowboy hero Gene Autrys horse. Painted cover art by Sam Savitt. Night Horse non-fiction story; How horses are used at night during a cattle drive. "Blizzard Bound," art by Morris Gollub; Ricky and Champion get caught out in a blizzard. "Two-Way Roundup," script and pencils by Morris Gollub; A couple of outlaws attempt to hide at the Flying A. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $149.95 or Best Offer View scan Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

"Without Love!" (art by Jerry Robinson), "The Sweetheart of Alice Dorne" (art by Morris Weiss), "Mine Alone," and "When Tears Must Fall!" Al Hartley cover. Cover price $0.10.

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Painted cover by Henry Kiefer. Stories and art by Sam Glanzman, Sid Couchey and Fran Matera. Non-fiction comics featuring true tales of heroism from everyday people and courage on the battlefield. A passerby rescues children from a house fire; A truck driver rescues car crash victims on two separate occasions; A teen babysitter and a heroic dog save a young girl from a tornado. The Battle; In Spite of His Wounds; Into the Valley of Death; Hero of the Highway; Smoke Eating Truckman; Never Say Die; When Seconds Count; Stop That Tank!; No Time to Lose; Fireman Save My Child; The Cyclone and the Baby Sitter; So That They May Live to Fight Again; Alert Driver; Flames Attack Hero. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Don Heck. Stories and art by Thompson L. Bennett and others. Pre-Code horror comics by the talents at the Iger Shop. After concert pianist John's hands are severed in an accident, the mysterious Mr. Jones gives him a pair that plays beautifully - but they also compel him to kill. A strange world offers terrifying secrets. Notorious cover by future Marvel legend Don Heck is also the first of the influential "face" covers. Devil Claws; The Silent Clock; Death's Cargo; Forbidden World; The Thing from Out There. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Numbering continues from Startling Terror Tales (1952-53 1st Series) #10. L. B. Cole cover. Contains original and reprinted material as noted. In order of appearance: "Spirit of War" art by Jay Disbrow; "The K-9 Killers..True Tales" art by Robert S. Pious, retitled and reprinted from "Old Cap Hawkins' True Tales" in Blue Bolt Vol. 05 (1944) #4; "Lightning Death..! True Tales" retitled and reprinted from "Old Cap Hawkins' True Tales" in Blue Bolt Vol. 04 (1943) #8; "Paratroop Patrol...True Tales" art by Robert S. Pious, retitled and reprinted from "Old Cap Hawkins' True Tales" in Blue Bolt Vol. 05 (1944) #6; and "Survival of the Fittest" art by Jay Disbrow. Indicia states "THE HORRORS". 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $680.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #4436784017 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Race adventure from the world of 1950s auto culture, featuring terrific "hip" racer slang of the era. The lifelong rivalry between Jimmy and Bern extends to their love for Janice, and, of course, to the racetrack. Buzz convinces his skeptical grandfather to use his mechanical skills to create a souped-up hot rod. A taxi with a passenger in a hurry takes a shortcut through a race course and wins the race. Home Town Grabs; Stacked for Speed; The Turnpike Orphan; The Two-Wheeled Rodders; Good Drivers Know!; The Sneak Mill; Nervous Pistons; The Steam-Gas Drag. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.