Comic books November 1943, graded by CGC

Ace Comics (1937) 80 CGC 8.0

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #4368650007

Cover art by Joe Musial. The Phantom strips, scripts by Lee Falk, art by Ray Moore. Pete the Tramp strips by Clarence D. Russell. Jungle Jim strips, art by Alex Raymond. Katzenjammer Kids strips, art by H.H. Knerr. Tim Tyler's Luck strips, art by Lyman Young. Family Portraits strips, art by Norman Lynd. Blondie strips, art by Chic Young. Prince Valiant strips, art by Hal Foster. Teddy and Sitting Bull strips, art by Joe Musial. Tillie the Toiler strips, art by Russ Westover. Just Kids strips, art by A.D. Carter. Private Breger Abroad strips by Dave Breger. Curley Harper at Lakespur strips, art by Lyman Young. Barney Google strips, art by Billy DeBeck. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $2,299.95 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4331158003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($69.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover art by Jack Burnley and Stan Kaye. The Boy Who Came Back starring Superman, script by Don Cameron (signed as Jerry Siegel), pencils by Ed Dobrotka (signed as Joe Shuster), inks by George Roussos. The Sword of Destiny starring Vigilante, script by Alvin Schwartz, pencils by Mort Meskin (as Mort Morton Jr.), inks by Joe Kubert. The Talking Trees starring Congo Bill, script by Joe Samachson, art by John Daly. Burma Remembers starring Americommando, script by Joseph Greene, art by Bernard Baily. Circus Daze starring Zatara, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Joseph Sulman. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.2 $17,200 Paper: Off white Label #1393613003

Includes: Syd Shores cover art; The Menace of the Murderous Mole-Man, Script by Otto Binder, Pencils by Jimmy Thompson; Ali Baba and His Forty Nazis, Pencils by Ken Bald, Inks by Vince Alascia; The Tomb of Death text story; The Talons of the Vulture, Pencils by Syd Shores, Inks by Vince Alascia; and Mind Smasher starring Human Torch. 60 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $1,795.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Cover, 1st & 2nd wrap detached. Tape on cover. Label #3756092004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($53.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Mac Raboy. Stories by Otto Binder and Art Helfant. Art by Mac Raboy, Tom McNamara, Phil Bard, Marc Swayze and Al Carreno. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Freddy Freeman is adopted and sent to school by a well-meaning couple who don't know that he is secretly Captain Marvel Jr. Someone wants a mysterious briefcase so badly, they've sent Captain Nazi to go get it, but luckily he runs across Freddy Freeman along the way. Sivana's latest invention is a holographic projector that can create "mirages" of anything. Captain Marvel Jr. Goes to School; Rubbernose Randolph; The Case of the Missing Briefcase; Demlins; The Mirage Projector of Crime!; King of the Rhubarbs; Sam the Sheriff; The Case of the Poison Press! 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $3,300.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4217997015

Cover by Charles Quinlan. Stories and art by Charles Quinlan, Herman C. Browner, Jack Grogan, Jack Alderman, and C. R. Schaare. Sometimes listed as Cat-Man Comics Vol. 2 #8. The adventures of Cat-Man and other early superheroes from the Golden Age of comics. Cat-Man and Kitten battle their arch-enemy, the porcine Mr. Peccary, after he escapes prison. The Deacon goes after black marketers who deal in ration books, designed to conserve national resources during World War II. American soldiers in Nazi-occupied Europe encounter Blackout, leader of the Berlin underground, and learn the secret of the old windmill. Cat-Man & Kitten; The Deacon: The Ration Book Racket; Ragman; Little Leaders; The Hood: The Mystery Sharks Nest Point; In Twenty-Five Years; Blackout: The Windmill of Betrayal!; Murders for Profit; Los Banditos; Black Market Butcher; Death Roams the Deep. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $200.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #0285779004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Carmine Infantino, Dick Wood, R. W. Hall, Dick Briefer, Milton Kramer, Bob Wood, Jack Alderman and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. The Eastman Gang becomes the ruling underworld organization in New York in the period between the 1890s and the 1910s. A killer's shoes identify him among Texans' cowboy boots, in a story with early art by comics legend Carmine Infantino. Crime Does Not Pay editors Charles Biro and Bob Wood investigate a murder and find the trail leads right back to their own office, in a whimsical whodunit with art by Dick Briefer. Crime Kings: The True Story of Monk Eastman; The Killer the Law Couldn't Kill; The Texas Terrors; Mirthful Murder and the Crazy Killers; The Praying Corpse; Sing Sing Prison Break; Crime Close-Ups; The Patent Leather Killer!; Whodunnit? Be a Detective. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $1,850.00 Paper: Off white to white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #1292756004

Cover art by Sheldon "Shelly" Moldoff. Flash stars in "Seeing is Believing," written by Gardner Fox with art by Lou Ferstadt (as E.E. Hibbard). Also includes: Ghost Patrol in "The Metal Man" by Ted Udall and Frank Harry, Johnny Thunder in "Pranks on Ship" by John B. Wentworth and Stan Aschmeier, The Whip in "The Penthouse Murder" with art by Homer Fleming, "Murder in the Art Department" Minute Movies by Ed Wheelan, and Hawkman in "Case of the Impolite Salesmen" by Fox and Sheldon Moldoff. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $1,360.00 Paper: Off white Pedigree: Pennsylvania Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Pennsylvania. Label #0092960012

Cover art by Alex Kotzky. The Man With the Heavy Glasses starring Blackhawk, pencils by John Cassone, inks by Alex Kotzky. Wanted Dead Or Alive starring Sniper, script by Ted Udall, art by Vernon Henkel. Untitled stories starring Death Patrol (script and art by Al Stahl) and P.T. Boat. Backa Bom Bay starring Private Dogtag, script and art by Bart Tumey. U. S. Battleship Smashes Jap Air and Sea Armadas featuring Secret War News, script and art by Fred Guardineer. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $180.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #3735264002

Cover art by Harry Sahle. "The Gruesome Twosome," art by Irv Novick; Steel buys two small jinxed goblin figurines that brings him trouble and bad luck. "The Zoot Suits," script by Ed Goggin, pencils by Harry Sahle, inks by Terry Szenics; Banana and Stencho have received reward money and spend it on clothes and women. "The Password," script by Ed Goggin, pencils by Harry Sahle, inks by Terry Szenics; The revenue men only get gas to drink. "Honor Among Thieves" text story by George Wellington. "Three Rounds With Gorilla Gus," art by Ed Robbins (as Robin); Red Rube signs up for a boxing match against Gorilla Gus to earn 500 dollars to help a lady and her blind son to an operation. "Seven Weeks of Hard Luck," script and art by Joe Edwards; Bigge Jinx has got an order from Pluto in Hades to deliver seven weeks of hard luck to Chimp for breaking his crystal ball. "A Day In the Country," script by Ed Goggin, art by Claire Moe; Piddle, Grump and the students are taking a day off in the country, without Ginger. "Vines Camp," script by Ed Goggin, art by Lin Streeter; School activities at Vines Camp with Wilbur as Councilor. 60 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.