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Suspense Comics (1943) comic books

  • Issue #5
    Suspense Comics (1943) 5
    • Interior is complete. Full length spine split with missing back cover. Oxidation.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    Cover art by L. B. Cole. Killer Take All starring Mr. Nobody; Noel Gruen was committing murder--no sooner had he put his smoking gun down when he was aware of someone else in the room. Satan story, art by Geo. H. Appel. Three Shall Die, art by Jack Alderman. Moment of Reason starring Mr. Nobody. Shady Business starring Sherry Filpe. Buried Alive, art by Snibbe. Whispering Wax, art by Don Rico. Khaaron story, art by L. B. Cole. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #6
    Suspense Comics (1943) 6
    • Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Cover oxidation.
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    Cover art by L. B. Cole. Pretty Pearls, Pretty Pearls starring Mr. Nobody. Satan story. Doctor of Doom starring Dr. Burton Millburn. A Slight Case of Ghost-Breaking text story starring Nat Greene. Sherry the Girl Detective story. The Return of the Hunted starring The Grey Mask. Rain on the Brain. The Man Who Murdered Himself. A Crime That Nobody Saw. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #9
    Suspense Comics (1943) 9
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #0065138005
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
    • 3" cumulative spine split, cover and centerfold detached.
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    Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Maurice Del Bourgos, Ezra Jackson, George H. Appel, Maurice Gutwirth, Bill Woolfolk, Lou Ferstadt, Nina Albright, Gerald Altman, Julia Gwin and L. B. Cole. Pre-Code crime and horror comics. Mr. Nobody is a shadowy, trench-coat-wearing narrator of horror and suspense tales, in the vein of the Crypt Keeper. A gangster forces a doctor to operate on his injured son, but the doctor is in a moral quandary over whether to turn the boy in to the police. The arch-fiend Satan abducts a bride and tries to coerce her into marrying him instead. Thieves steal an ancient Chinese idol and soon come to regret it. Mr. Nobody: My Son Has Returned; Sentence of Death; Satan; Mr. Nobody: Idol of Theft; Murder In the Hurricane; Mr. Nobody: Diamond of Death; Journey into Hell; Mr. Nobody: The Girl With the Blue Hair; Inspector Marsh's Crime Clues. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #11
    Suspense Comics (1943) 11
    Auction opens January 4
    • 3" cumulative spine split. Centerfold detached. 4" cumulative spine split through all wraps. Brittle.

    Cover art by L. B. Cole. After I Murdered Sandra starring Mr. Nobody, script by Jack Crooks, art by Rudy Palais. A Matter of Nicotine, script by Jack Crooks, art by George Appel. the murder and the miner starring Grey Mask, script by Jack Crooks, art by Maurice Whitman. A Bullet for the Ballerina text story by Jack Crooks. Sherry Flippe story, script by Jack Crooks, art by Tony Di Preta. Satan Furnishes a Bride for Harlequin, script by Jack Crooks, art by George Appel. Boomerang of Horror starring Mr. Nobody, art by Howard Larsen. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.