Auctions: comic books March 1948
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Item #60380644
International Crime Patrol (1948) 6 CGC 5.0
Paper: Off white
Label #4305438001
Starts Apr 6 Pre-code gem features bondage panels in almost every story, plus a scantily clad Moon Girl!
Ernie Bache cover (signed with his penname, 'Bachelor'), which features Radix the Man of Hate and the International Crime Patrol. The International Crime Patrol star in "The Tide of Terror!", Igor the Archer in "The Phantom of the Factory," the Chessmen in "The Adventure of the Misplaced Vial," and Madelon, Slick Chick of the Camera, in "Peril Over Paris." Also features Moon Girl in "Moon Girl and the Prince." Two full page Moon Girl and the Prince ads (one in black and white, the other in color). Two page text story, "The Mysterious Pencil Sharpener!" This pre-code gem features bondage panels in almost every story, plus a scantily clad Moon Girl! Va-va-va-voom! Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60526482
Real Clue Crime Stories Vol. 3 (1948) 1 FN- 5.5
Water spotting.
Starts Apr 6 Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Another crime comic from the prolific studio of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, this one featuring crimes throughout history as well as the standard gangster tales. Sometimes listed as Real Clue Crime #25. No issue # on cover; Vol. 3, issue #1 in indicia. Ganglord Moose is a crazy cat person, and judges his cohorts by how they get along with cats. Would-be counterfeiters run afoul of the mob. Gun-happy Ollie Larch goes on a countryside shooting and robbery spree. Also featuring a vintage ad for "Mr. Walker," an early rip-off of the Slinky toy. The Man Who Loved Cats; The Money That Came in Rolls; Special Delivery; Larry, New York's Swashbuckling Racket Genius; Hill Billy Bandit; The Kid's Last Fling; Dream Man. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60525359
Startling Comics (1940) 50 CGC 3.5 Qualified
Paper: Off white to white
Page 1, 4, 6, and 7 Missing, Affects Story. INCOMPLETE
Label #3763852010
Starts Apr 6 Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Phalanx of Fear starring Tygra. The Scourge of the Dark Seas! starring Sea Eagle. The White Elephant text story starring Tygra by Charles Strong. The Amoeba Men! starring Lance Lewis, Space Detective. The Joneses story. The Longest Arm text story by Edward Hassett. Jefferson Jones story, art by Hal Sherman. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60454735
Tags: Disney Ducks & MicePublished Mar 1948 by Dell/Gold Key.Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1940 Dell/Gold Key/Gladstone) 90 CBCS 7.5
Paper: Off white
Label #23-3D47B15-013
Starts Apr 6 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #58542359
Published Mar 1948 by Weird Tales.Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 40 #3 VG/FN 5.0
Starts Jul 6 Volume 40, Issue 3 - March, 1948. 25th Anniversary Issue. Cover by Lee Brown Coye. Horror and supernatural stories by Edmond Hamilton "The Might-Have-Been", Allison V. Harding, H. Russell Wakefield, Manly Wade Wellman, Carl Jacobi, August Derleth "The La Prello Paper", Ray Bradbury "The October Game", Robert Bloch "Catnip", Clark Ashton Smith, Theodore Sturgeon "The Professor's Tidy Bear", Seabury Quinn, Algernon Blackwood, and H. P. Lovecraft (verse). Illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, E. J. Beaumont, Boris Dolgov, and John Guinta. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.