Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) comic books graded by CBCS

Add to cart CBCS 5.5 $3,999.95 or Best Offer Conserved CBCS Authentic Signature Paper: Off white to white Verified Sig: Carl Barks. Amateur Conservation Includes: Tear seals to cover with glue. Label #17-2A6599E-003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($120.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Indicia title is "DONALD DUCK FINDS PIRATE GOLD, No. 9." Cover art by Hank Porter. Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold, script by Bob Karp (adaptation) and Homer Brightman (original storyboards), pencils by Carl Barks (story pages 1, 2, 5, 12-40) and Jack Hannah (story pages 3, 4, 6-11, 41-64), inks by Carl Barks (story pages 1, 2, 5, 12-40) and Jack Hannah (story pages 3, 4, 6-11, 41-64); Bearing a map found in Donald's seafood restaurant, the ducks and a parrot named Old Yellow Beak set sail for an island where the pirate Henry Morgan's treasure is buried; Unknown to them, the crew of the ship is made up of Black Pete, disguised as an old woman, and two of his rat-faced henchmen; Peter takes over the ship, but the ducks and the parrot reach the treasure island on a raft; They dig up the treasure while Pete lies in wait. Back cover treasure map. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.0 $195.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #21-40ADE66-001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.85) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Indicia title is "ANDY PANDA, No. 54." Cover art by Dan Gormley. The Ghostrider, art by Dan Gormley; Charlie and Andy take a vacation out West and end up in the rundown town of Grimy Gulch; When the Ghost Rider appears after a ten-year absence and robs the bank, Andy and Charlie are made deputies and trail him; They get lost and end up in a ghost town, where Miranda Panda and Wally Walrus are held captive by a gang of "ghosts." The Magic Hat, script by John Stanley, art by Dan Gormley; Andy and Charlie go into a magician's hat and find themselves in Hocus-Pocus Land, the place things go when magicians make them disappear. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.0 $249.00 Paper: Off white to white Centerfold detached. Label #0009861-AA-014 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.47) will be charged at checkout.

Indicia title is "DONALD DUCK in the Terror of the River, No. 108." Cover art by Carl Buettner. The Terror of the River!!, script and art by Carl Barks; Donald's sneezes at an auction are mistaken for bids on a houseboat and soon he and the nephews are sailing down the Ohio River; There they encounter a huge serpent. The Firebug, script by Carl Barks, art by Carl Barks; Carl Buettner (last two panels only); Donald falls on his head when getting up one morning and turns into a pyromaniac, setting harmless fires but also getting the blame for big fires set by another firebug. Seals Are So Smart, script and art by Carl Barks; The nephews play ball at the beach with a baby seal, and this sets Donald to dreaming of how much money he could make with a trained seal act. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 2.0 $560.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #22-25A1D8F-001

Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK, No. 178. Cover art by Dan Gormley. Christmas on Bear Mountain, script and art by Carl Barks; Donald's stingy old Uncle Scrooge McDuck lets the ducks use his mountain cabin for the Christmas holidays, planning to test Donald's bravery by coming to the cabin disguised as a bear; However, two real bears--a mother and her cub--turn up at the cabin soon after the ducks' arrival. Santa Claus Land, art by Don Gunn; Mickey and Goofy are working at Santa's Workshop at the North Pole; Doc and Grumpy of the Seven Dwarfs and Dumbo are also working there; Goofy is made custodian of Santa's reindeer, where he discovers that Prancer has been stolen by Willie the Giant. Two one-page Barks strips. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 7.5 $98.00 Paper: White Label #22-0692A42-226 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.94) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Indicia title is "Rudyard Kipling's MOWGLI JUNGLE BOOK, No. 487." Painted cover art by Morris Gollub. Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli, script by Rudyard Kipling (original story) and Paul S. Newman (comic adaptation), art by Morris Gollub; The story of Mowgli, a boy raised by a wolf pack and instructed in the ways of the jungle by Baloo the Bear and Bagheera the Panther. Mowgli is threatened by the Bandar-Log (monkey people) and Shere Khan, a crippled tiger. Story is adapted in part from "Mowgli's Brothers" and "Kaa's Hunting" from the 1894 collection "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 7.5 $120.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #22-0692A42-227 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.60) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Photo Cover shows Zorro (as played by Guy Williams). Stories by unknown. Art by Alex Toth. Based on the 1957-59 ABC TV series Zorro. Seventh Four Color issue to feature the character Zorro; first of seven Four Colors to feature Walt Disney's Zorro. Featuring the tales "Presenting Senior Zorro" and "Zorro's Secret Passage," plus the 1-page story "Along Zorro's Trail" drawn by Russ Manning (travelogue of several old-Spanish sites that have survived into Modern California) and the text article "The First Vaqueros." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 6.5 $350.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #21-1E60C21-006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.50) will be charged at checkout.

Indicia title is "PEANUTS, No. 969." Cover art by Dale Hale. Linus's Blanket Addiction; Linus goes into withdrawal symptoms when Lucy hides his blanket. The Ball-Chasing Gig; Snoopy is fooled when Linus pretends to throw a ball and tells him to fetch it. The Kite Calamity; Lucy tries to help Charlie Brown get his kite into the air. Linus the Liar; Linus is causing problems for the group with a series of lies. All art by Dale Hale. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 1049 CBCS 7.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #23-40B95C4-001

Indicia title is "DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP, No. 1049." Adapted from the 1959 movie "Don't Give Up the Ship." Photo cover of John Paul Steckler VII (as played by Jerry Lewis). Preview with photos. Don't Give Up The Ship, script by Eric Freiwald and Robert Schaefer, art by Dan Spiegle; When the Navy asks for appropriations, Congressman Mandeville demands to know the whereabouts of an unaccounted-for destroyer escort, the USS Kornblatt from World War II, as an excuse to deny funding; Vice-Admiral P. T. Bludde sends for Lt. John Paul Steckler, who was the man who last signed off on the ship; Steckler, a bumbler, was the lowest ranking officer left when the ship left Pearl Harbor and he managed to run the ship on a reef near an island; Steckler goes ashore, only to find it occupied by Japanese soldiers who don't know the war is over; His crew thinks he's dead and sails to San Diego. A quiz to match illustrated words with their meaning in Naval slang. Silhouettes of various types of Navy ships on back cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.