Comic books January 1954, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 9.2 $195.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white File Copy. Label #0780152011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Howard Nostrand. Stories and art by Bob Powell and Howard Nostrand. Originally distributed with 3-D glasses; see individual item notes to determine whether an offered copy still includes them. A series of 3-D adventure stories, published to coincide with the 3-D craze in movies and comics of the era. A champion racer competes in the famed Le Mans endurance race. Test pilots Fred and Joe try to sabotage each other's planes so they can be the first lunar astronaut. Plus a tale that takes advantage of the 3-D technology of the era by telling two separate tales on the same page. Il Maestro; First Man On the Moon; Trapped; Winged Prayer; Three-D Blinkey. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, B&W with 3-D effects. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $800.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4332210006

"The Men From Mars," "Nightmare!" (art by Joe Sinnott), "A Million Light-Years Away" (art by Bill Everett), "Two Times Two!" (art by Paul Reinman), "The Mad Mamba!" (art by Joe Maneely), and a two-page text story, "A Man's Past." Edited by Stan Lee. Cover by Joe Maneely. Stories by Bill Everett, Joe Sinnott, Sam Kweskin, Joe Maneely, and Paul Reinman. These tales of horror, sci-fi, and suspense will take you on Adventures into Alien Worlds! 36 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $285.00 Paper: Off white to white Slab: Significant side/edge cracks 1" or more Label #4318436024

Cover by Win Mortimer. "The Joker's Movie Crimes!", pencils by Dick Sprang, inks by Charles Paris; The Joker's films his crimes in order to sell them as instructional aids; He sees himself lampooned in a new Batman movie and makes a film about humiliating Batman and Robin. Binky Says: "Know Your Community!" public service announcement, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. "Dick Grayson's Nightmare!", pencils by Dick Sprang, inks by Charles Paris; Bruce Wayne has Wayne Manor redecorated while he is involved in a murder trial in Chicago; Robin to operates out of a nearby cabin belonging to a vacationing mystery writer; A gang of thieves plan to rob a nearby warehouse. One-page Casey the Cop story by Henry Boltinoff. "The Deadly Dingo!" two-page "factual" comic story, art by Nick Cardy. "Calling All Con Men!" text story by Jack Miller. "The Machines of Menace!", script by Bill Woolfolk, pencils by Bob Kane (Batman and Robin figures only) and Lew Sayre Schwartz, inks by Charles Paris; Robberies committed in Gotham City by fantastic machines prompts Batman and Robin to follow one out to sea, where they are captured by an automated fishing device; Inventive genius Eric Golar dreams of creating a fully automated city. The Line of Stars Presents Superman DC National Comics ad. 44 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $240.00 Paper: White Label #4022353016

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Harry Lazarus, Ken Landau, Bob Forgione, Charles Nicholas, Jon L. Blummer and Charles Quinlan. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A sinister rubber baron has his partner killed by a Brazilian witch doctor, but the victims severed head continues to haunt him even back in America; A man purchases a cursed music box in Venice; A Nazi war criminal is pursued by the spirits of his victims. The Venetian Music Box!; Revenge of the Fire-Spirit; Hallahans Head!; United Forever!; The Living and the Dead!; The Dead Remember; True Uncanny Mysteries. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $73.00 Paper: Off white Label #4273737009

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.2 $895.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #3980780012 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($26.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Bill Benulis and Jack Abel. Edited by Jack Byrne. Stories and art by Ruth Roche, Nick Cardy, Robert Webb, John Forte and Matt Baker. Fiction House presents a partial reprint of Fight Comics (1940) #53 under a new title. Boxer Kayo Kirby finds trouble while on a tour of Central America, in a story with art by legendary good-girl artist Matt Baker; Hooks Devlin and his gal Peaches find danger at a dude ranch; Senorita Rio sets out to rescue munitions factory workers who have been captured by El Sangre, in a story drawn by Rio creator Nick Cardy. Risks, Unlimited starring Rip Carson; Kayo Kirby; Hooks Devlin; Senorita Rio. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $305.00 Paper: Off white to white File Copy Label #1626980006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.15) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Don Spaulding. Article that recounts the Menomini legend of the Good Spirit Nanabush, the first Menomini brave Shekatcheke, and the wild rice found at Lake Winnebago. War Feathers, art by Alberto Giolitti; Young Crow wants to win glory in war and finds his chance when enemy braves steal his tribe's calumet. Fight for the Water Hole, art by Alberto Giolitti; A gang controlling the only water hole for miles about charge pioneers exorbitant sums per barrel; Tonto tricks the gang using a tomato. Story includes inside back cover and concludes on back cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $1,200.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4052862005

Cover art by Gene Colan. Kill Me a Monster, art by Paul Reinman; A professor hires an assassin to kill creatures who possess the bodies of men. Blood Relation, art by Ed Winiarski; This story postulates that love can cure hereditary vampirism. The Fangs of the Wolf, art by Bill Everett; A man who shoots dogs for fun is bitten by a werewolf; He even has hired a sharpshooter to kill any strays that might venture onto his property, but he regrets this action when he changes to wolf form and his hired hand shoots him. Symphony in Death, art by Joe Maneely; When a music critic steals a work from a composer and passes it off as his own, the composer attaches a rope to a phonograph and strangles the critic slowly by playing the recording. The Walking Dead, art by John Forte; A zombie tries to eat a man but is tricked into a crematory chamber. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $449.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #1497658002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($13.47) will be charged at checkout.

Scripts by Stan Lee, art by Dan DeCarlo. Hanover and His Gals back-up. Chili back-up. 36 pages Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $499.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #0229504004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($14.97) will be charged at checkout.

Pre-Code mystery and horror stories from Canadian publisher Superior. A crook soon regrets stealing a cursed gem from the coffin of his aunt's twin sister, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. After the grisly murder of his wife (in an iron lung!), Bill is repeatedly visited by a woman who looks just like her. Watching a horror movie unleashes the beast within henpecked Horace, turning him into a werewolf with a taste for the ladies. Some horror-comics covers are symbolic, but this cover actually illustrates a scene from the comic, when gangster Big Jim visits a hellish nightclub called the Charnel House. Trapped in the Tomb; The Deadly Double; Mark of the Beast; Horror a la Mode; Call Me Monster. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $440.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4244747013

Cover art by Russ Heath. The Movie House Horror!, art by Syd Shores. The Man Without Eyes!, art by Paul Reinman. What Happened Up There?, art by Dave Berg. You Can't Twin, art by Tony DiPreta. The Black Crows! 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.5 $278.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Extra staple added after manufacturing. Tape on cover. Label #2084352009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.34) will be charged at checkout.

Fountain of Fear, art by George Roussos; An escaped convict finds the fountain of youth; He tries to change his appearance by getting younger, but vengeful Indian spirits won't let him leave the fountain. The Coin of Evil, script by W. W. Jacobs (original story), pencils by Nick Cardy; Three wishes come true by the magic of a beggar's coin; But there's a horrible price to pay. Hands of Fate text story by Gordon Jones, pencils by Jack Katz. The Prophecy, pencils by Jack Katz; Carlotta sees death in the cards for thief Chuck Hanson; He kills Carlotta and is doomed to die by water; He does so after weeks on the run. The Wig, art by Mike Roy; A barber kills a man and steals his hair for a wig, but the wig seeks revenge. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $189.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #3712150024 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.67) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Irv Novick. Prize Target, script by France Herron, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Ray Burnley. All Quiet, script by William Woolfolk, pencils by Gene Colan, inks by Joe Giella. Turnabout, script by William Woolfolk, pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito. The Fort and the Flea, script by France Herron, art by Jim McArdle. Private Pete filler page by Henry Boltinoff. From Blueprints to Battlefield humor story. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 15 CGC 2.5

Paper: Off white

Label #4258134002

Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "The Corpse Comes Back"; A lawyer murders his partner and buries the body in 5 states; The dead man is stitched together and sent back to get revenge; His body falls apart and the lawyer tries to destroy him with acid and bury him in a trunk. "Black Pearls of Death"; Two men force islanders to dive for them to steal black pearls from a sunken idol; Once they get the pearls, they kill the islanders. "Horror's House" text story by John Martin. "Over His Dead Body"; A woman suspects that her husband returning from a business trip is abnormal; His skin is cold and he never sleeps; He refuses medical exams; She cheats on him. "Horror Unseen"; A scientist accidentally turns into a glass man; He steals money and wears makeup to fool his new bride; She is suspicious, discovers that he is glass, and is killed by him. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.8 $1,140.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Slab: Scuffing on front of case; Scuffing to inner well of case Cover detached. Tape on interior cover & interior. Label #3697690024 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($34.20) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "The Corpse Comes Back"; A lawyer murders his partner and buries the body in 5 states; The dead man is stitched together and sent back to get revenge; His body falls apart and the lawyer tries to destroy him with acid and bury him in a trunk. "Black Pearls of Death"; Two men force islanders to dive for them to steal black pearls from a sunken idol; Once they get the pearls, they kill the islanders. "Horror's House" text story by John Martin. "Over His Dead Body"; A woman suspects that her husband returning from a business trip is abnormal; His skin is cold and he never sleeps; He refuses medical exams; She cheats on him. "Horror Unseen"; A scientist accidentally turns into a glass man; He steals money and wears makeup to fool his new bride; She is suspicious, discovers that he is glass, and is killed by him. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $895.00 or Best Offer Paper: Light tan to off white Label #4284285004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($26.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Matt Baker, Jim Mooney, Bernard Sachs, Bob Bean and Dana Dutch. Tales of teen angst and amour, often featuring art and covers by celebrated good-girl artist Matt Baker. Jenny tires of living in the boondocks and runs away to work in the new resort hotel, but her troubles follow her, in a story with art by Baker. Hildy's a waitress in a truck stop, but when she learns handsome trucker Al is rich, she thinks she's hit the jackpot. Carolyn meets Army lieutenant Jerry while both are working with occupation forces in Cold War Germany, but then handsome German Karl tells her Jerry is not who he says he is. That last story features early art by future Marvel legend Jim Mooney. Good-By Innocence!; Bull's Eye for Cupid; Deceived by Jealousy. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $949.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #0309082005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($28.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Tony Mortellaro, S. Finocchiaro, Sal Trapani and Eugene Hughes. Pre-Code tales of horror from Stanley Morse Publications. A man has a nightmare that an earthquake releases demons from Hell. A witch gives an unhappily married man some variety by transforming him into different creatures. A man with a bad heart finds a miracle cure, but there's a terrible catch. I Killed Mary; Premonition; The Witches Curse; Bum Ticker; The One That Got Away, Come and Get Me! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $210.00 Paper: Off white Label #3899439009

Cover pencils by Irwin Hasen, inks by Bernard Sachs. "The Human Tank," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; No weapon can harm him and no jail can hold him; how can Wonder Woman defeat the Human Tank? Strange Glove Beliefs text article, art by Morris Waldinger. "The Secret Invasion," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman wakes up in San Francisco - or does she?; A scientist projects images with his alien-granted abilities - or does he?; It's all an elaborate ruse to frustrate Wonder Woman's defense against an alien invasion. Wedding Souvenirs; Historical roots of the bridal veil, bridesmaids, the best man, honeymoons, and the wedding cake. Lucky In Love text article. "The Imposter Queen," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; To solve the mystery of her appearance in an old picture book, Wonder Woman travels to ancient Sardonia, where she impersonates the missing queen to prevent the evil Prince Rupert from usurping the throne. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.