Comic books published by Rural Home Publishing Co., graded by CGC

Mask Comics (1945) 1 CGC 3.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #3727611001

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Rudy Palais, Maurice Gutwirth, Don Rico, and L.B. Cole. Mystery-adventure anthology from the publisher variously known as Rural Home and Croydon. A suicidal man takes out a murder contract on himself, but his wife mysteriously returns on the night the murder is to take place. Comics biographies of two of the greatest showmen, P.T. Barnum and Harry Houdini. Jerry and Tod share an old jalopy which everyone in town considers a death trap. Tim Dolan: Name Your Price for Slaughter; Bonnie: Adventure of the Exploding Spaghetti; I Dont Want To Die!; Count Boris Strikes Back; Game of Death: Murder on Park Avenue; Theres One Born Every Minute; Harry Houdini: The Touch That Failed; Heroes of Legend: Damon and Pythias; The Legend of The Gordian Knot: Drift Wood: Escape into Darkness; …Death of You. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $400.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4412525008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($12.00) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Harry Fisk and Chu F. Hing. Adventure comics from Rural Home Publishing. Teen Dinky Dibbs sets out to become a detective, with help from his mystery-solving parrot Cracker, and soon discovers Nazi saboteurs. When nightclub singer Swifty is being blackmailed, vaudeville comedian Mike dons a comedy mask and becomes The Prankster. Naval commander Lloyd "Fifty Fathoms" Foster battles Nazi destroyers in the Indian Ocean. Jack Bradley; Dinky Dibbs: The Disappearing Dynamite; Prankster; The Other Half; Fifty Fathoms Foster; The Judge and the Jury; Stenchy; Red Riot. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $300.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4412525009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Leonard Starr. Stories and art by Leonard Starr and Frank Bolle. Adventure comics from Rural Home Publishing. Teen detective Dinky Dibbs and his parrot sidekick set out to prove that a parrot can be as useful as a dog when it comes to fighting crime and saving lives. When vaudeville comedian Mike is doing a crank-call bit, he hears a woman in trouble at the other end of the line, and investigates as The Prankster. Solve-a-Crime dares the reader to figure out the clues and discover who pushed a man in front of a subway car. Secret Assignment; Solve-a-Crime; Saunders of State; Pathfinder; Dinky Dibbs; The Prankster: Adventure of the Sudden Scream; El Kuraan; Red Riot; Name the Place in Each State. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $1,800.00 Conserved Paper: Cream to off white Conservation Includes: Staples Replaced. Label #4149258003

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Bill Savage and Brian Savage. A funny-animal comic presenting multi-chapter adventures and featuring work by pioneering cartoonists such as L.B. Cole from Rural Home Publishing Company. In an issue-length Wonderworm epic, Happy Village is threatened by the schemes of Sooper Dooper, drawn to resemble an insect version of Hitler. Wiggles transforms into Wonderworm, but Mayor Rabbit is secretly colluding with Sooper Dooper, while hostile forces lay siege to Happy Village and cut off its food supply. The final battle is the sort of strange combination of funny-animal action and WWII propaganda that typifies the national mindset at the time. Wiggles the Wonderworm; Happy Village Mobilizes; Super Spy; Wiggles Meets Gargantua; Tardy Turtle's Rescue; Happy Village Under Siege; The Whale-Fish; Wiggles Meets Sooper Dooper. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.