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    Clue Comics (1943) #1 CGC 5.5
    Published Jan 1943 by Hillman.

    Clue Comics (1943) 1 CGC 5.5

    Paper: Cream to off white

    Label #1073052002

    Ended Apr 17 2012
    Winning Bid $210

    Cover by Alan Mandel and Dan Barry. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Bob Wood, Alan Mandel, Dan Barry, Tony DiPreta, Al Ulmer, Pierce Rice and John Cassone. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. An exiled teen ruler flees the Nazis with his people and an ancient colossus built by Nostradamus, becoming The Boy King and the Giant. Ex-soldier and private eye Terry Gardner becomes Twilight, a masked hero battling crime with the aid of his parrot, Snoopy. An inventor uses a high-tech mask to avenge his brother's murder by gangsters, becoming the hero Micro-Face. The Boy King and the Giant!; Checking the Checker; Stupid Manny; Micro-Face; Smoke Rings of Death; Zippo; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers; Murder Before the Footlights. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10. Grade: CGC 5.5 explanation of grade Condition: Used (collectible)