Comic books February 1944

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $540.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s); Plastic debris between case and inner well Label #4266835001

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $495.00 or Best Offer View scans 1" cumulative spine split. Centerfold detached at single center staple. Water damage. Cover and interior oxidation. Tape on interior cover. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

The implied violence in this cover for "Beware of the Tramp!" is about as extreme as you will see on the cover of a Golden Age comic! And an issue that is very hard to come by, as well!

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Dick Wood, Bob Wood, Dick Hall, Basil Wolverton, Rudy Palais and Dick Briefer. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Rhyming reporter Scoop Scuttle is foiled and fooled by the false faces of Stan Dan the Makeup Man, in the final Scoop Scuttle story by comics legend Basil Wolverton. A new phase begins in the saga of The Claw, featuring art by Rudy Palais. The Pirate Prince takes on a corrupt judge who's jailed one of his sailors, in a story with art by Dick Briefer. Daredevil: Meet the Tramp; Sniffer and the Deadly Dozen; Dickie Dean; Scoop Scuttle; The Pirate Prince; Crimebuster: Squeeks Does It Again; The Claw. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $290.00 or Best Offer View scans Piece of first page torn and adhered to following page (slightly affects art). Cover detached at single center staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by thegeneral

Add to cart Coverless $74.95 or Best Offer View scan INCOMPLETE. First two wraps and two center wraps missing, affects art and story. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Batman and Robin in "Artists in Villainy," Air Wave in "Bandits on the Beam" (art by George Roussos), the Crimson Avenger in "Scoundrels in Society," Slam Bradley in "Shorty Falls in Love," Three-Ring Binks, and Boy Commandos in "Never Say Die" (by Jack Kirby and Klech). Tootsie Roll back cover ad, "Captain Tootsie and the Secret Weapon" by Rod Reed and C.C. Beck. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $14.25 View scans Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Slight.

Volume 27, 1st Printing - "The Uncomplaining Corpses" by Brett Halliday. Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

"Jane fished up the skull with a grappling hook." -- from "The Remembering Skull" by Clyde Moorehead.

February 1944. Cover by Modest Stein. Stories include "Death Had Yellow Eyes," a book-length novel by "Kenneth Robeson"; "Guts Come High" by J. Patrick Fleming; "Jungle Crucible" by Stuart Friedman; "Mountain Justice" by Ray Vicker; and "Efficiency, Main Herr" by E.E. Halleran. 5.5-in x 7.75-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $349.95 or Best Offer View scans 3" cumulative spine split. Cover detached at single center staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Attack On the Red Cross starring Black Terror, art by Alex Schomburg; vs. Col. Bosch and Nazis. The Tuxedo starring American Eagle, art by Maurice Gutwirth; vs. The Tuxedo and the Enigma Raiders. Encounter With Mr. Doom starring the Crime Crushers; vs. Mr. Doom [Count Hezky-Duom]. Air Trap For a General starring Sgt. Bill King, art by Maurice Gutwirth; vs. Schmidt and the Japanese. Action In the Aleutians starring Crash Carter, art by Bob Oksner; vs. the Japanese. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Connie" by Frank Godwin; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; and "Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon. "Smoke Proof" text story. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 60 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $86.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $30.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 50%. Back cover detached 50%. Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $20.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 10%. Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 6, Issue 1 - February 1944. Cover by Rod Ruth. Science Fiction and Adventures stories. This issue features "A Thought in Time" by Leroy Yerxa, and "Outlaw Queen of Venus" by Wallace West. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 212 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf, Joe Oriolo and Bill Brady. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Hoppy and Millie climb into a picture on the wall and enter Picture Land, where everyone is controlled by the ink-bottle enforcers of a paint-brush tyrant and his court of living art supplies! Monkey detective Sherlock Monk goes to the movie theater and learns why everyone avoids sitting in Seat 13. Sheriff Oscar wonders why Hiram's auctioning his horse for such a cheap price. Plus songs and a coloring page. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny; Sherlock the Monk Defies Superstition; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Willie the Worm and the Midnight Visitor!; Sherlock's Song Page; Uncle Don: Silly Riskers; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Billy the Kid Plays Follow the Leader; Chuck the Duck: Pick Up Your Troubles; Fuzzy Bear on the Bridle Path!; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Willie the Worm; Billy the Kid Color Me Up Page!; Sherlock the Monk Turns Dog Trainer; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Billy the Kid Can't Sleep; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Gill Fox. "The Girl You Couldn't Trust," pencils by Alex Kotzky, inks by John Cassone; Doll Man (Darrel Dane) vs. Pacardo and Yutz and his gang. Untitled Mickey Finn story, script and art by Lank Leonard. "Enemy That Is Neither Beast Nor Man," pencils by Mort Leav; Rusty Ryan saves two men from a castaway boat, and also a cage with an unknown beast. "The Ghost of the Clover Club" starring Swing Sisson, script and art by Vernon Henkel; A man shot and killed in the Clover Club swears he will return to have his vengeance. "Introducing Perky," script and art by Sid Lazarus. "Submarine Assignment"; Spin Shaw is sent to recover a secret sight from a downed plane. "The Case of the Museum Crooks," art by Tony DiPreta; Blimpy (aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain) vs. Nervous Harry. 60 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 48 Issue #10 - February, 1944. Cover by Henry S. Gillette, Herman Rountree, Arthur Fuller and many more. "Five Shot Adam" by Roland Clark, illustrated by Fuller. Articles and stories about fishing, hunting, arms and ammunition, conservation laws and much more. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in. 92 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by Claude Lapham and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by George Tuska, Nina Albright, Karen Karol and Arnold Hicks. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Good-girl art aplenty as Senorita Rio investigates a voodoo cult in Haiti; Hooks Devlin discovers that a Nazi agent is dressing in drag to hide out in America; More good-girl art as boxer Kayo Kirby is invited to speak on a radio show. Another upside-down bondage cover (see issue #27). Shark Brodie; Dusty Rhodes; Senorita Rio; Rip Carson; Guerrilla Mother!; Decoy For Doom; Kayo Kirby; Hooks Devlin; Chip Collins. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Alex Schomburg cover. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $1,300.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #0256484009

Flash stars in "Thousand Dollar Bill," written by Gardner Fox, art by Martin Naydel. Also includes: Ghost Patrol in "Legend of the Lethal Lagoon" with art by Frank Harry; Johnny Thunder in "The Thunderbolt Impersonates Johnny" by John B. Wentworth and Stan Aschmeier; The Whip in "The Light That Never Failed" with art by Homer Fleming; "The Sleeping Beauty" by Ed Wheelan; an ad for the Junior Justice Society; and Hawkman in "Personal Protection from the Hawkman" by Fox and Sheldon Moldoff. Cover art by Everett E. Hibbard. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Illustrated text pieces. Cover price $0.10.

World War II cover by L.B. Cole. In order of appearance: "Magno and Davey", "Captain Courageous", and "Unknown Soldier" art by Louis Ferstadt; and "Lash Lightning". "From Beyond Boot Hill" text story by Clint Douglas. 60 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 3 #2 - Feb. 1944. Mostly single-panel cartoons and some text jokes. 10 1/4-in. x 13 1/2-in., 40 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Stories by Lloyd Randall, Carl Wessler, Ben Solomon, Gordon Sheehan, James Keane and Buck Evans. Art by Ben Solomon, Carl Wessler, Woody Gelman, Gordon Sheehan, Rube Grossman and Ken Hultgren. Funny-animal mayhem from Creston, later an imprint of legendary independent publisher ACG. When the cartoonist falls asleep while working on a Byron Bunny comic book, the characters in the story come to life; A dog soldier and a sailor duck compete for the affections of a cute bird, but it turns out shes already married to a bulldog Marine; The debuts of long-running features Filbert Fox and The Duke and the Dope. Nezzo; The Duke and the Dope; Busybody Bear; Weepy Woodchuck; Filbert Fox; Byron Bunny; 3 Boys an' a Gal; The Cat and the Canary; Peewee the Pup; Patty Plump Buys a Present; Doggie Dave; The Ghost of Terrible Tomcat; Happy Goes Hayseed. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $86.00 View scans Cumulative spine split. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Edge damage. Foxing. Scuffing. Soiling. Front cover internally reinforced with tape and with small abraded hole.

Volume 1, Issue 4 - February, 1944. Cover by Peter Driben. Glamour and pinup magazine. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 68 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart FN 6.0 $7.90

February 6, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Doris Hume, Rose Franken (as Franken Meloney), Harley F. Cope, W.H.B. Kent, Katherine Greer, and H. Carson Lee. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

February 13, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. "Range Rider" by W.H.B. Kent begins. Other fiction stories by Helen R. Woodward, Jack London Berkebile, Rose Franken (as Franken Meloney), Allen F. Herdman, Sabella Toemmes, and Hester Hawkes. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

Add to cart FN 6.0 $7.90

February 20, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by W.H.B. Kent, Edward Price, Linnie Ethel Biles, Rose Franken (as Franken Meloney), Ray Humphreys, and Ruth Ayers. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $8.49

February 27, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Velia Ercole, W.H.B. Kent, J.F. Houghton, Alma & Paul Ellerbe, Rose Franken (as Franken Meloney), and Allen F. Herdman. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

Stories by Tony Loeb, F. O. Peters, Patrick High and James Canterbury. Art by Ken Hultgren, Tony Loeb, Milt Stein, Irving Dressler, Gil Turner, C. W. Winter, Otto Feuer and W. Henning. Funny-animal mayhem from Creston, an imprint of independent publisher ACG. Just for fun, Wacky Coon puts an ostrich egg in a chickens nest; Ferdie Bear takes an Alaskan rest cure with Tiger Jack that doesnt go as planned; Dope and Bologna are stranded at sea after their boat sinks. Wacky Coon; Ferdie Bear; Bitsy Bat; Perry Pigeon Traps a Crook; The Cottontail Twins; Ol' Tabby; Dope and Bologna; Snuffie Sees the Light; Gus Gopher's Phoney Express; Sandy and His Gang; Policeman Porko, Hero; Botch Bear. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

February, 1944. Volume 3, Issue 2. Humor Digest featuring jokes and cartoons. Marjorie Reynolds photo cover. 4 Cartoons by Vic Herman. Softcover Digest, side-stitched, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 68 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Historical and religious illustrated stories. Newsprint, 8-in. x 11-in. 16 pages, full color

Add to cart Good $15.00 View scans

Volume 2, Issue 4 - February, 1944. Goldwyn Girls photo cover. Long running magazine that features song lyrics, celebrity gossip, articles, and fan letters. This issue features songs from motion pictures such as; "Cowboy Canteen" starring Tex Ritter and Jane Frazee, "Honeymoon Lodge" starring Harriet Hillard, "Higher and Higher" starring Frank Sinatra, and many more. 8.5" x 11", 18 pages, B&W Cover price $0.10.

One of many vintage supermarket tabloid magazines full of high profile FBI and CIA cases of the era, accompanied by black and white photographs and testimonials from those involved in, and close to the events themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 58 pages, B&W, recommended for 16+. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Stephen Douglas. Stories and art by George Carlson, Ray Willner, Dave Tendlar, and Stephen Douglas. Kids' comics featuring the whimsical fables of beloved artist George Carlson, praised by Harlan Ellison as a "comic of the absurd." A Tearful Tea-Taster and a Green Umbrella that is also a Duke help a Coffee-Eyed Hermit save a princess. Bingo and Glum climb Jack's beanstalk and flee the Giant. The Pie-Faced Prince buys an umbrella containing a stolen Crown Jewel after Rajah Razzo Razzh-Berri accidentally hocks it. Bingos Frolics in Fairytale Land; Jingle Jangle Tales: The Coffee-Eyed Hermit and the Unprisoned Princess; Aunty Spry; Chauncey Chirp and Johnny Jay; Bedelia, the Motherly Hen; Hortense the Lovable Brat Fights the Black Market!; The Story of Timothy Noddinghead; The Pie-Face Prince of Pretzleburg; Susie Spring and her Off-Spring; Bottleneck and Widget. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Men's interest humor digest with cartoons, jokes and tasteful pin-up photography. 5" x 6.5", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.