Comic books 1950, graded by CBCS

Archie (1943 Archie Comics) 46 CBCS 5.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #22-1716DF1-005

Cover by Bob Montana. Stories by unknown. Art by Sam Schwartz, George Frese and unknown. Featuring Archie in: "Life's No Picnic"; "Tight Sneeze"; "Let's Face It"; "Off the Record"; and "Judgement Day"! Plus: Jughead in "Anything Goes"! Also: 2-page text story "Death On Wheels"! Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 4.0 $395.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #18-1347365-009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by John Celardo and others. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. The FBI and Scotland Yard track a gang of murderous jewel thieves to the frozen wastes of Greenland, in a story that may be early work by Frank Thorne. Mounties King and Bernard track poacher Johnson, described in the captions as a "human wolverine," but he proves too tough for just two Mounties. Donovan investigates when Marian denies that the body recovered from a plane crash is that of her husband Bill. And a biography of Jesse James. Cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. The Ghost With Silver Spurs; The Case of the International Jewel Thieves; Jesse James; The Arctic Menace; Storm Patrol; Corpses in the Caribbean. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 9.6 $1,000.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white File Copy. Highest graded. Label #7003440-AA-008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($30.00) will be charged at checkout.

Captain Marvel and the Lts. of Safety (1950) #2 "Danger Takes To Climbing". 16 pages, full color.

Add to cart CBCS 4.0 $185.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #21-40ADE66-002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.55) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Stories and art by Otto Messmer and Joe Oriolo. Comics adventures of the popular, long-running cartoon character. Felix goes on another of his flying-carpet adventures. A scary radio show has Felix on edge, and his nephews are practicing their shadow animals at the same time. Felix investigates a sudden racket. Shadow Shudders; Felix Comes Through; Vegetaria; Felix Spruces Up; Monty Monk. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 4.5 $70.00 Paper: Light tan to off white Label #19-320DEF4-015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.10) will be charged at checkout.

Based on a popular kids' puppet show broadcast on CBS from 1948-51 about a sinister but bumbling magician and his loyal but good-hearted assistant, Pinhead. Pinhead and Foodini risk their lives to foil a nefarious plot. Foodini demonstrates how to do magic tricks. The adventures of Jingle Dingle the weather elf, another popular icon from the early days of television. The Great Foodini; Foodini's Deed For the Day; Pinhead Takes Over; Jingle Dingle; Foodini's Fortune; Foodini's Guest Appearance; Foodini's Last Mile; Foodini's Circus Mystery; Foodini's Ghost of a Chance. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.0 $85.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #19-320DEF4-016 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.55) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Vic Martin and others. Based on a popular kids' puppet show broadcast on CBS from 1948-51 about a sinister but bumbling magician and his loyal but good-hearted assistant, Pinhead. Foodini and Pinhead go West to help Willy save her dude ranch from a conniving cowhand. Jingle Dingle the weather elf, another popular icon from the early days of television, has an Old West adventure when his "telebell" leads him to bank-robbing outlaws. Escaped convicts get ahold of the remote for Foodini's new robot. Magic tricks submitted by readers. Plus an illustrated feature on the creators of the puppets, Hope and Morey Bunin. Meet the Bunins, Hope and Morey; Foodini Finds an Island; Sand Drifters; Foodini's Great Magic; Reptile Rhapsody; Jingle Dingle: The Little Man Who Is Always There; Westward Ho With Pinhead; Robot Trouble; Foodini's Predicament; Jingle Dingle: Things You'll Never See; Foodini's Magic. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.0 $200.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #0008872-AC-007

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Kurt Schaffenberger, Henry Kiefer, Howard Boughner, Carl Pfeufer and John Jordan. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Captain Marvel Jr. An escaped convict hides out in a secret compartment underneath a suburban house where even the owner can't find him, in a story (and cover) with art by longtime Superman artist Kurt Schaffenberger. Action girl Nyoka learns a secret that will change the mind of tribal chieftain Noma...if she lives long enough to reveal it. Western hero Tom Mix encounters outlaws who arrange fatal accidents for popular townspeople, then make off with the money the town raises for the family's benefit. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Strange House!; Muscle Hedd; Nyoka: The Lost Brother; Pilot Pete Gives the Bird; Ozzie and Babs: Coiffure Craziness!; Dizzy Daisy; Ben the Business Man; Marlow the Marshal; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: Flicker Fools; Vacuum Bloobstutter: No Holes Barred; Poetic Pete; Tom Mix: The Case of the Sheriff's Misfortune. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 0.5 $145.00 Paper: Off white Slab: Significant scuff(s) front or back INCOMPLETE. 7th page and centerfold missing, affects story. 5th page detached. Label #18-45C021F-003

Cover by Gladys Parker. Stories and art by Gladys Parker and Frank Bolle. One of the first female-centric comic strips, by pioneering female artist Gladys Parker, Mopsy combines an Ever Meulen art style with pantomime-style gags and good-girl art. Mopsy gets a job as a reporter and is sent to interview movie star Gilda Glamor, but she's more interested in Gilda's handsome press agent. Mopsy goes back to school to earn a raise, but that doesn't work out quite like she expected. Mopsy takes issue with a fellow cheerleader dating a football player before a big game. Plus "Mopsy Modes" paper dolls, showcasing the fashions of the era. Mopsy; Mopsy the Reporter; Mopsy Modes; Strictly for Laughs; It's Co-old Outside. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 4.5 $145.00 Paper: Off white Slab: Scuffing on front and back of case; Scuffing to inner well of case Label #20-2EA2423-004

Tomahawk in "Sally Raines--Frontier Girl" (art by Fred Ray), Manhunters Around the World in "The Panama Patrol," Captain Compass in "The Sea-Going Schoolhouse," and Robin in "The Four O'Clock Crimes!" (with a Batman cameo). Full-page ad for Tomahawk # 1. Ray cover. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.5 $895.00 Paper: Off white to white Slab: Scuffing on front and back of case Label #0008220-AA-014 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($26.85) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Written by Edmond Hamilton. Art by Howard Sherman. Photo cover from Destination Moon. Chris and the crew of the Pioneer encounter radioactive, crystalline men in the Green Nebula and foil a plot to steal the Nebula's radium. Superboy stars in a one-page public service announcement, "Job Counselor. Written by David V. Reed. Art by Paul Norris and Bernard Sachs. Darwin meets a young actress who has accidentally bathed in the Fountain of Youth. Written by Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinger, and Bernie Breslauer. Art by Dick Sprang. A description of devices, events, and innovations predicated by Wells in his fiction. Written by Gardner Fox and Edmond Hamilton. Art by Jim Mooney and Sy Barry. A scientist uses a hydrogen bomb to cause rain, resulting in a world-wide flood. He uses a second bomb to save mankind. Article written by Julius Schwartz. Art by Morris Waldinger and Tommy Nicolosi. Science facts about the experiments of Otto von Ghericke and Isaac Newton. Text story, art by Raymond Perry. Written byGardner Fox and Robert Heinlein. Art by Curt Swan and John Fischetti. A story about a seat-of-the pants, first landing on the moon, adapted from the 1950 George Pal movie, Destination Moon. Text story by Julius Schwartz. Art by Morris Waldinger and Tommy Nicolosi. Facts about the 1692 appearance of Halley's Comet and the 1919 solar eclipse. Ad for Strange Adventures #2. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Venus (1948 Marvel) 11 CBCS 4.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #22-478CA56-011

"The End of the World!" Venus manages to help a scientist with his love life and save the Earth from falling into the Sun. "Beyond the 3rd Dimension." A scientist dies, taking the secrets of dimensional travel with him. Also includes: "The Plot!" and "Perilous Patrol." With this issue, the title changes format, with "Stories of the Supernatural" appearing on the cover. Cover price $0.10.