Comic books May 1955, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $675.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #1497670004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($20.25) will be charged at checkout.

"Bombo, Rogue Elephant!" To capture thieves that are intent on stealing a map that is taped around Bornbo's tusk, Congo Bill pretends to kill a bad elephant. Also includes: "The Return of Prince Padhan!"; "The Sun-Born Mountain Man"; and "The Mysterious Jungle!" Cover by Nick Cardy. Cover price $0.10.

Cutie Pie (1955) 1 CGC 3.5

Paper: Off white

Label #0170675005

Cover by Gene Fawcette. Stories and art by Gene Fawcette and Charlotte Kay. Adorable 5-year-old girl Cutie Pie knows nothing but mischief, in a series inspired by the success of Dennis the Menace. Cutie's dad suffers greatly when Cutie and her mother go to the store for a sale. Cutie's mom accidentally bakes her wedding ring into a cake for the bake sale, and comedy hijinks ensue. Under protest, Cutie's dad takes her to the golf course, and quickly regrets it. A La Mode; As Is; She Takes the Cake; Florence Nightingale: Angel of Mercy; Sitter's Sitter; A Slight Handicap; Round Trip; Disk Jockey; Yours Truly, Cutie Pie and Copy. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $285.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #0345147002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.55) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Hy Fleishman. Stories and art by A.C. Hollingsworth and others. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. When the old rivalry between two barons is revived by horse-racing and murder, a mysterious horse appears on a mission of vengeance. A Civil War soldier shares a magic charm with his sweetheart that will keep them united through life and death, but he didn't really think about what that means. Archaeologist Dr. Peale finds evidence of a race preceding the Native Americans, and awakens things that were better left in slumber. First issue to feature the Comics Code seal on the cover. The Mardenburg Curse; The Final Waltz; Shadow over Manton Farm; Don't Box Me In. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $1,575.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Pedigree: Bethlehem Slab: Scuffing on front and back of case; Scuffing to inner well of case Bethlehem. Label #1052981002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($47.25) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Robert Webb, Ken Battefield, Manning Lee Stokes Alex Blum, and Fred Schwab (credited as Fist E. Cuffs). Chemist Kip Adams becomes The Flame, with superhuman strength and a reporter girlfriend. The Flame tries to find out who's behind a sabotage ring. Tugboat Tessie and Melody leap into action after an escaped circus elephant runs amuck on the Brooklyn Bridge. Boxer Plug McTee doesn't know what to do after his manager is bought out for ten grand. Devil's Business; The Man in the Seven-League Boots; Tugboat Tessie: Traffic and Tide!; Plug McTee; Everybody's Secret; The Flame's Field Day. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $405.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4302464006

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by George Tuska, Tex Blaisdell, Ken Battefield, C. W. Winter and Richard Speed. Tough marshal Bob Hardie is better known to friend and foe alike as The Hawk. Outlaw Jake Burns frames The Bold Buckeroo for a crime and takes over his ranch. In an action-girl story, Buckskin Belle takes on cattle rustlers, aided only by her kid brother and aged farmhand Cactus Pete. The Bold Buckeroo and Rusty tangle with dope smugglers. Plus comics biographies of Jesse James and Jack Dalton, and a story with early art by future Marvel legend George Tuska. The Bold Buckeroo: Frame-Up; Buckskin Belle: Rustlers; Mustang Jack; Dudes Dictionary; The Bold Buckeroo: Graveyard Gulch. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $270.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #0329308005

Cover pencils by Sol Brodsky. "The Locked Drawer!", art by Bill Benulis; A couple buy a dresser that used to belong to a witch and the bottom drawer does not open; They are curious because of a story the furniture dealer told them about the witch keeping all of her secrets in the bottom drawer, and so they attempt to open it, without success. "High Pressure Man!", art by John Tartaglione; A desperate publicity man is trying to use gimmicks to garner attention, but with his new client, the schemes don't work out; First he tells the man to enter the lion cage at the zoo but the beasts appear uninterested so he enters to attempt a rescue, but he ends up needing to be rescued by his client from the animals; Second he tells the client to enter a burning building and he will enter to rescue him but he is overcome by smoke and the client has to carry him out. "The Stone Bird," art by Angelo Torres; A farmer is plagued by a gargoyle that nightly devours his chickens. "The Journey" text story, art by Carl Burgos. "The Long Night," pencils by Paul Reinman; A man believes that his relatives are just waiting for him to die so they can get his money and that he hates them; When he is under the impression he has died, he finds himself in an afterlife where he is stopped from boarding a beautiful boat taking people to the promised land. "The Eager Beaver!", art by Mort Lawrence; A man who always wants to be first in line for public events in order to photographed by the newspapers regrets when he signs up to be the first man launched to Mars. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $275.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Slab: Scuffing to inner well of case Label #1488660022 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.25) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Edvard Moritz, Bill Allison and Marty Elkin. Crime and horror comics with detective heroes, an unusual mix. A noble condemned to the guillotine during the French Revolution escapes with the help of a ghostly ancestor, then does the same for a modern-day descendant. A man has a vision of a couple's tragic death in a train accident, but is unable to prevent their fate. Pete Stockbridge, the master of disguise known as the Chameleon, outwits a gang of thieves. Aid from Yesterday; Date with Death; Toni Gayle: Maze of Mystery; Deserved Retribution; Curse of the Ancients; Pete Stockbridge: Mystery of Disguise. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $140.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #1394099005

Cover art by Al Plastino. The Amazing Professor Memory, script by Bill Finger, art by Al Plastino; Superman takes the place of Professor Memory when the mob is after him for accidentally learning the serial numbers on some stolen bills. Varsity Vic humor page by Henry Boltinoff. The Big Game Hunt of Metropolis, script by Otto Binder, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Ray Burnley; The Swindle Syndicate dupe Jimmy Olsen with free passes to Jack Borden's Big Game Hunt in an attempt to stop Clark Kent from figuring out who their leader is. Superboy's Last Day in Smallville!, script by Jerry Coleman, pencils by Wayne Boring, inks by Stan Kaye. Fearless Fosdick stars in a quarter-page Wildroot Cream-Oil ad with art by Al Capp. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.