Comic books March 1946

Cover by Nina Albright. Stories and art by Ray Gill, Nina Albright, Jim Wilcox, Mary Leland and B. Gordon Guth. Sometimes listed as 4Most #18. Four different stories featuring clean-cut teen heroes of the 1940s from Novelty Press. Laura Bradly, daughter of Coach Bradly, is abducted by a crook who looks just like Dick Cole. The Cadet's pal Dan meets his match in action girl Hilda Potts, in a story (and cover) by early female comics artist Nina Albright. Jerry's attempts at automating their chores with inventions aren't nearly as successful as Edison's, but he does invent the riding lawnmower - sort of. Edison Bell tells young readers how to build a tepee. Also featuring vintage comics ads starring "Pepsi" the Pepsi-Cola Cop, Volto from Mars and History's Mysteries. Classic good-girl swimsuit cover by Nina Albright. Dick Cole; Edison Bell; How to Make an American Teepee; The Prayer; Oh, Doctor!; The Call; The Cadet; Candid Charlie. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Joe Musial. The Phantom strips, script by Lee Falk, art by Ray Moore. Daffy Doodles strips, art by Doc Winner. Katzenjammer Kids strips, art by H.H. Knerr. Tim Tyler's Luck strips, art by Lyman Young. Pete the Tramp strips by Clarence D. Russell. Jungle Jim strips, art by Alex Raymond. Barney Google strips, art by Billy DeBeck. Blondie strips, art by Chic Young. Teddy and Sitting Bull strips, art by Joe Musial. Tillie the Toiler strips, art by Russ Westover. Prince Valiant strips, art by Hal Foster. They'll Do It Every Time strips, art by Jimmy Hatlo. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $229.95 or Best Offer View scans INCOMPLETE. Page missing, affects Poor Dad! comic. Water damage, 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 art by Jack Burnley and Stan Kaye. Battle of the Redwoods starring Superman, art by Ira Yarbrough. Crime without Loot starring Hayfoot Henry, script by Al Schwartz, art by Stan Kaye. The Escape of Elephant Al starring Vigilante, art by Mort Meskin (as Mort Morton Jr.). Dead Man's Drum starring Congo Bill, script by Alvin Schwartz, art by Edwin Smalle. The Mental Marvel starring Zatara, art by W. F. White. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $355.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Minor side edge cracks; Scuffing on front and back of case; Scuffing to inner well of case; Other - see grading notes .5" Crack to bottom edge of slab. Label #4065564003

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $250.00 View scans 1.5" Cumulative spine split. Staple rust with migration.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon. The Dream of Peter Green, pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Marvin Stein; Fed up with crowded city conditions, Peter Green dreams of a new recreation center for the kids in the city to use, but it's the Sandman who must battle a crooked building contractor using inferior materials to build it. The Meteor Mob starring Starman, script by Joe Samachson, art by Emil Gershwin. King "Artie's" Crime Court starring the Shining Knight, script by Joe Samachson, art by Chuck Winter. The Eighth Day of the Week starring Genius Jones, script by Whitney Ellsworth, art by Stan Kaye. Honorable Information, Please starring Mike Gibbs, Guerilla, script by Joe Samachson, art by Maurice Del Bourgo. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Part comics, part text features. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 4 #3 - March 1946. Covering civilian and military aviation. Articles this issue include landing on ice, analysis of the C-47, future of British aviation, flying wing design, weapons of the future, news and reviews. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 74 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Cover art by Paul Reinman. Doiby Dickles, the Human Bomb starring Green Lantern, script by Henry Kuttner, art by Paul Reinman; Doiby is captured by a mad scientist and is supposedly filled with enough liquid nitro to blow up the city. Words of Wisdom starring Dr. Mid-Nite, art by Stan Aschmeier. Blooey and the Sedan Chair starring Red, White and Blue, script by John B. Wentworth, art by Dennis Neville. Virtue Is Its Own Reward starring The Atom, script by Joseph Greene, art by Jon Chester Kozlak. Aerie of the Vulture Known as Robomb starring Hop Harrigan, script and art by Jon L. Blummer. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Klaus Nordling. Stories by Klaus Nordling, Ernie Hart, Al Stahl, Paul Gustavson and unknown. Art by Klaus Nordling, Ernie Hart, Al Stahl & Janice Valleau, Paul Gustavson, Stahl & Robin King and unknown. Featuring: Untitled Odd Jobs, Inc. story; Giddy Goose in "Sauce For the Goose"; untitled Kit 'n' Kat story; untitled Uncle Fuddly story; untitled Willie Worry story; untitled Mitymite story; 2-page text story "Mister Butts"; Mickey the Moocher in "No Tire! No Money!"; 1-page untitled Oxxy story; and untitled Bozo the Hobo story. 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Chris Flag, Pat Roberts, Pat Parrish, and Don Drew. Cover by Ellis Chambers. A collection of funny-animal comics from Fox Feature Syndicate. Percy skips school to go swimming, only to end up in fish school; Cosmo Cat flies to Alaska to rescue a kid's lollypop from the sweets-thief known as the Lollypop Fiend; Flash Rabbit (a funny-animal parody of Flash Gordon) faces Ling Lizard on the planet of Evilupitus. Percy; Flash Lyte; Cosmo Cat; Diamond Fever; Pandamoneum; Flash Rabbit. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $149.95 or Best Offer View scans Interior is complete. Severe water damage, staple rust/migration, mold. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Alex Schomburg cover. Jerry Robinson, Bob Powell, and Louis Ferstadt art. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Walt Kelly. Stories by Walt Kelly, Roger Garis and unknown. Art by Walt Kelly, H.R. McBride, Morris Gollub and Dan Noonan. Tales featuring Albert and Pogo, Uncle Wiggily and Goozy! Also: the stories "Cubby and Tubby" and "Silvershoes"! And: the text article "Mixed Families"! Plus: "Winter Time" text story! 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 37, Issue 1 - March, 1946. Cover by William Timmins. Science Fiction and adventure stories, this issue features "Pattern For Conquest: Part 1" by George O. Smith. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Edited by George E. Brenner. Cover by Klaus Nordling. Stories by Klaus Nordling, Gwen Hansen, Paul Gustavson, and Joe Millard. Whimsical circus tales with clowns and other trappings of the big top, including Carnie Calahan as The Barker! 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dick Sprang. "Crime on the Wing!", script by Bill Finger, art by Win Mortimer (as Bob Kane); Mobsters decide to use the Penguin as a ruse for Batman and Robin to follow while they commit crimes. "The Looters!", art by Win Mortimer (as Bob Kane); Seeing both of his parents killed in an earthquake on a small Pacific island, Dorry Leaf becomes an expert on these phenomena, and is offered a post at Pacific Coast University to oversee a seismographic observatory that he is determined to make quake-proof!; However, crooks become interested when they discover that the Professor can predict in advance where quakes will occur; Batman and Robin step in. "Double Trouble" text story by Murray Boltinoff (as Blair Bolton). "The Search for Santa Claus!", art by Win Mortimer (as Bob Kane); Jim Jocelyn's thieving cousins have a high time spending the money that their uncle had amassed for charities by using it to build up their own multi-million dollar businesses; They decide that the only way they can safeguard themselves is to murder their uncle. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $180.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

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Volume 5, Issue 2 - March, 1946. Painted cover by Peter Driben. Lingerie story pictorials with humorous captions and pin-up photos. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.25.

Published by Popular Publications Cover price $0.15.

Stories and art by Don Dean, Ham Fisher, Alfred Andriola, J. P. McEvoy, John Striebel, Frank Beck and Mart Bailey. Big Shot featured reprints of McNaught Syndicate humor and adventure strips, alongside original characters like Skyman and The Face. Bo the dog can't compete with the new kitten for cuteness, so he decides to adopt it instead. Slap Happy accidentally winds up in the pilot's seat when Doc Static is testing out his new invention, a remote-control drone plane. The debut of Cranberry Boggs, a sort of Northeastern Li'l Abner with lobster-traps and Codville, instead of Sadie Hawkins and Dogpatch. Bizarre pre-psychedelic cover was featured in Scott Shaw!'s Oddball Comics. Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Cranberry Boggs; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; Tony Trent; Skyman; Brass Knuckles; Jamie Cuthbert and the Dublin Terror. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart Very Good $60.00 View scans Only one staple (manufacturing). Spine stress. Corner Damage. Denting. Edge damage. Scuffing. Soiling.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - Spring, 1946. Pin-Up photos with captions and a few cartoons. 8.5" x 11", 70 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Everett Raymond Kinstler. "The Case of the Shoes of Doom"; Hulky wants to leave town, but he is leaving a murderous trail behind him. "Girl Trouble" starring Gloomy Gus and St. Pete, art by Red Holmdale. "The Cop and the Kid"; Black Hood vs. Charlie and other thieves. "The Corpse by the Window" text story. "The Case of the Disappearing Corpse"; Black Hood vs. Marty Dixon, John Carter, and Robert Dingling. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $159.95 or Best Offer View scans Cover and centerfold detached. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Al Bryant. Featuring: 12 page Blackhawk story "The Treasure of Ghanpat" drawn by Reed Crandall; 11 page Blackhawk story "The Wreck of the Rampole" drawn by Reed Crandall; 8 page Chop Chop story "Chop Chop's Rocket Ride" (note: 1st Chop Chop strip); 2 page text story "A Mirror For Manjorr"; 1 page Johnny Doughboy filler by Bernard Dibble; 14 page Blackhawk story "Blackhawk and the Slavers" drawn by Reed Crandall. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Tom Gill. Stories and art by Joe Donohoe, Ray Gill, Jim Wilcox, Win Clinger, Don Rico, Helen Blair, Milt Hammer, Jack Warren, and Tom Gill. Sometimes listed as Blue Bolt #64. Former superhero Blue Bolt soars as an aviator hero in WWII. In Sleepy Hollow, Sergeant Spook and Jerry battle the Headless Horseman come to life. Blue Bolt's female foil, reporter Marg Hesslin, gets her own solo story and action-girl cover (sort of) by Tom Gill. Edison Bell tells young readers how to create Train and Tunnel Book Ends. Also featuring a comics ad in which "Volto from Mars" defeats a savage two-grizzly attack with help from Grape Nuts cereal. Dick Cole; Edison Bell: The Old Mill Mystery!; Sniffy; Blue Bolt; Fearless Fellers; A Real Cowboy Now; Sergeant Spook; Krisko & Jasper; Cops and Robbers; Train and Tunnel Book Ends; Fear; Bluebolts and Nuts. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.