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Add to cart CGC 9.8 $190.00 Paper: White Label #0973795006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.70) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: Pantomime at Sea by Cary Bates and Joe Vaultz; Almost Shangri-La by Bruce Jones and Leopoldo Duranona; The Thing in the Haunted Forest by Abel Laxamana; Killer Claw by Mark Lasky, Walt Simonson, and Klaus Janson; Night Eyes by Bruce Jones and Alfredo Alcala; and Fair Prey by Bruce Jones and Isidro Mones. Cover art by Patrick Woodroffe. Cover price $1.50.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $102.91 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #0761880019 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.09) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this 1978 Creepy Annual include the following reprints: Thane: Angel of Doom by Archie Goodwin and Jeff Jones; Bookworm by Gerry Conway and Richard Corben; On Little Cat Feet! by John Jacobson and Rafael Auraleon; Thumbs Down! by Anne T. Murphy and Al Williamson; Lucky Stiff by Gerry Boudreau, Carl Wessler, and Ramon Torrents; and The Black Cat by Bernie Wrightson (from the story by Edgar Allan Poe). Cover art by Walt Simonson and Kim McQuaite. Cover price $1.25.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $75.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #0625286016 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.25) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this 1978 Creepy Annual include the following reprints: Thane: Angel of Doom by Archie Goodwin and Jeff Jones; Bookworm by Gerry Conway and Richard Corben; On Little Cat Feet! by John Jacobson and Rafael Auraleon; Thumbs Down! by Anne T. Murphy and Al Williamson; Lucky Stiff by Gerry Boudreau, Carl Wessler, and Ramon Torrents; and The Black Cat by Bernie Wrightson (from the story by Edgar Allan Poe). Cover art by Walt Simonson and Kim McQuaite. Cover price $1.25.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $142.50 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #1051951006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.28) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this robot-themed issue include: The Games by Roger McKenzie and Pablo Marcos; The Caretaker by Bob Toomey and Alfredo Alcala; Mother Park by Roger McKenzie and Jose Ortiz; Wolfer O'Connel: In the City of Gold by Budd Lewis and Pepe Moreno; Holocost by Steve Englehart and Terry Austin; and Keep Kool by Bob Toomey and Alex Nino. Cover art by Ken Kelly. Cover price $1.25.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $149.99 Paper: White Label #0973795007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.50) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this robot-themed issue include: The Games by Roger McKenzie and Pablo Marcos; The Caretaker by Bob Toomey and Alfredo Alcala; Mother Park by Roger McKenzie and Jose Ortiz; Wolfer O'Connel: In the City of Gold by Budd Lewis and Pepe Moreno; Holocost by Steve Englehart and Terry Austin; and Keep Kool by Bob Toomey and Alex Nino. Cover art by Ken Kelly. Cover price $1.25.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $91.00 Paper: White Label #4407810006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.73) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: Vampire Dawn by Archie Goodwin and Pepe Moreno; The Organizer by Bruce Jones and Leopoldo Duranona; The Ravenscroft Affair by Bill DuBay and Paul Neary; Alien Affair by Cary Bates and Val Mayerik; and Heart of Darkness by Bill Mantlo and Luis Bermejo. Cover art by Jim Laurier. Cover price $1.50.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $190.00 Paper: White Label #0502601009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.70) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: Snapper by Bill Kelly and Leopoldo Duranona; Sunset Farms by Gerry Boudreau, Alex Southern, and Rudy Nebres; Take Your Child, Please! by Cary Bates and Jose Ortiz; The Demon Hater by Nicola Cuti and Rafael Auraleon; Horror is a Highrise by Archie Goodwin and Leopoldo Duranona; A Knightmare to Remember by Cary Bates and Joe Vaultz; and The Clockmaker by Bob Toomey, Gary Null, and Jesus Blasco (art miscredited to Jesus Blasquez). Cover art by Patrick Woodroffe. Cover price $1.75.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $74.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4556418008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.22) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this 1979 Annual issue include the following reprints: The Muck Monster by Bernie Wrightson; The Laughing Man by Bruce Jones and Bernie Wrightson; The Pepper Lake Monster by Bernie Wrightson; Clarice by Bruce Jones and Bernie Wrightson; Cool Air by Bernie Wrightson (from the story by H.P. Lovecraft); Country Pie by Bruce Jones, Carmine Infantino, and Bernie Wrightson; and A Martian Saga by Nicola Cuti and Bernie Wrightson. Cover art by Bernie Wrightson. Cover price $1.50.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $110.27 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #0774026019 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.31) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: Rats by Bob Toomey and Pepe Moreno; Charnel Combat by Pierce Askegren and Danny Tallerno; Heat by Gerry Boudreau and Leopoldo Duranona; Small War by Roger McKenzie, Jim Starlin, and Pablo Marcos; The Reaper by Archie Goodwin and Alex Toth; and An Android Affair by Mark Laskey and Rafael Auraleon. Cover art by Kirk Reinhart. Cover price $1.75.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $99.00 Paper: White Label #3967867003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.97) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: Scream by Bob Toomey and Leopoldo Duranona; A Noble Gesture by Adolfo Abellan; The Beast by Michael Fleisher and Isidro Mones; Nightmare Highway by Gerry Boudreau, Carmine Infantino, and Steve Leialoha; and The Silkie by Nicola Cuti, Val Mayerik, and Jeff Easley. Cover art by Ken Kelly. Cover price $1.75.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $102.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #0626263015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.06) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: Scream by Bob Toomey and Leopoldo Duranona; A Noble Gesture by Adolfo Abellan; The Beast by Michael Fleisher and Isidro Mones; Nightmare Highway by Gerry Boudreau, Carmine Infantino, and Steve Leialoha; and The Silkie by Nicola Cuti, Val Mayerik, and Jeff Easley. Cover art by Ken Kelly. Cover price $1.75.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $175.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #0754352014 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.25) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: Nursery School by Bob Toomey and Leopoldo Duranona; Epitaph by Len Wein and Joaquin Blasquez; The Curse of the Binderwoods by Mark Laidlaw and Isidro Mones; Junior was a Momma's Boy by Gerry Boudreau, Carmine Infantino, and Jorge Benuy; and Process of Elimination by Bob Toomey, Val Mayerik, and Pablo Marcos. Cover art by Enrich Torres. Cover price $1.75.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $128.64 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #0774026020 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.86) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include the following reprints: A Boy and his Thing by Bill DuBay and Alex Nino; Keep Kool by Bob Toomey and Alex Nino; Always Leave 'em Laughing by Len Wein and Alex Nino; Sisters by Bill DuBay and Alex Nino; Backwaters and Timing Circles by Budd Lewis and Alex Nino; and Alien Strain by Bill DuBay and Alex Nino. Includes the 1979 Warren Awards. Cover art by Jim Laurier. Cover price $1.75.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $124.97 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #0972698031 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.75) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: Malphisto's Illusion by Nicola Cuti, Alexis Romeo (a.k.a. Romeo Tanghal), and Alex Toth; Cult by Archie Goodwin and Martin Salvador; Paydirt by Roger McKenzie, Carmine Infantino, and Alfred Alcala; Mayhem Museum by Carl Wessler and Adolpho Buylla; The Prometheus by Rich Margopoulos, John Garcia, and Rudy Nebres; and A Slight Case of Madness by Bill DuBay and Herb Arnold (story credited to Will Richardson). Cover art by Vicente Segelles. Cover price $1.75.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $235.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #1396870010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.05) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: Once upon a Christmas Eve! by Will Richardson (a.k.a. Bill DuBay) and Martin Salvador; His Own Private Demon! by Roger McKenzie and Anton Caravana; Top Dog! by Roger McKenzie and Alex Nino; Jacque Couteau's Circus of the Bizarre by Roger McKenzie, Carmine Infantino, and Alex Toth; The Tempered Sword! by Manuel Auad and Alfredo Alcala; Living Death Camp! by Roger McKenzie and Rafael Auraleon; and Knight Errant by Roy Kinnard and Michael Saenz. Cover art by Ken Kelly. Cover price $1.95.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $275.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #1018238003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.25) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: Guardians of the Universe! by Budd Lewis and Delando Nino; Hear the Organ Grinder Play by Mark Willard and Martin Salvador; Soul Sucker! by Gerry Boudreau and Fred Carrillo; Wreck of the Vendigo Shafter! by Rich Margopoulos, Gene Day, and Rudy Nebres; Nefites by Bruce Jones and Jun Lofamia; Orson Who? by Nicola Cuti, Carmine Infantino, and Wayne Howard; War is Hell! by Roger McKenzie and Val Mayerik; and The City of God by Budd Lewis and Steve Gan. Cover art by Ken Kelly. Cover price $2.00.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $65.99 Paper: White Label #0626265009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($1.98) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: Guardians of the Universe! by Budd Lewis and Delando Nino; Hear the Organ Grinder Play by Mark Willard and Martin Salvador; Soul Sucker! by Gerry Boudreau and Fred Carrillo; Wreck of the Vendigo Shafter! by Rich Margopoulos, Gene Day, and Rudy Nebres; Nefites by Bruce Jones and Jun Lofamia; Orson Who? by Nicola Cuti, Carmine Infantino, and Wayne Howard; War is Hell! by Roger McKenzie and Val Mayerik; and The City of God by Budd Lewis and Steve Gan. Cover art by Ken Kelly. Cover price $2.00.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $120.99 Paper: White Label #0501692004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.63) will be charged at checkout.

This special Al Williamson issue includes the following reprinted stories: H2O World! by Archie Goodwin, Al Williamson, and Roy G. Krenkel; The Success Story by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson; Welcome Stranger by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson; Sand Doom by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson; Now you See it... by Bruce Jones and Al Williamson; and The Homecoming by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson. Cover art by Rudy Nebres. Cover price $2.00.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $225.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #0502817001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.75) will be charged at checkout.

This special Alex Toth issue includes the following reprinted stories: Daddy and the Pie by Bill DuBay and Alex Toth; The Monument by Archie Goodwin and Alex Toth; Grave Undertaking by Archie Goodwin and Alex Toth; Rude Awakening! by Archie Goodwin and Alex Toth; Survival! by Archie Goodwin and Alex Toth; Phantom of Pleasure Island by Gerry Boudreau and Alex Toth; and Unreal! by Alex Toth. Cover art by Rudy Nebres. Cover price $2.25.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $135.99 Paper: White Label #0083603014 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.08) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: I Created the...Gargoyle! by Danille DuBay and Delando Nino; The Puppet Master by John Ellis Sech and Fred Carrillo; The Check-Out Counter by Timothy Moriarty and Alfonso DeLeon; Covering All Bases by Kevin Duane and Martin Salvador; Candle in the Wind by Gerry Boudreau and Jun Lofamia; and Moral Blood by Don McGregor and Al Sanchez. Cover art by Richard Corben. Cover price $2.25.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $280.99 Paper: White Label #1018237006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.43) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include the following reprints: Forgotten Flesh by Doug Moench and Vicente Alcarar; For the Sake of Your Children! by Ed Fedory and Jaime Brocal; It! by Tom Sutton; In Darkness it Shall End! by Doug Moench and Vicente Alcazar; The Ghouls! by Carl Wessler and Martin Salvador; Berenice by Rich Margopoulos and Isidro Mones (from the story by Edgar Allan Poe); and It: The Terror-Stalked Heiress! by Carl Wessler and Jose Gual. The features page includes an announcement of the departure of Forrest J Ackerman from Famous Monsters. Cover art by Frank Frazetta. Cover price $2.25.

Add to cart CGC 9.6 $139.67 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #0501658005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.19) will be charged at checkout.

This final Warren issue includes the following stories: Moral Blood part three by Don McGregor and Al Sanchez; All of them Must Die! by Gerry Boudreau, Randy Palmer, and Martin Salvador; and The Iceman Killeth by Michael Fleischer and Delando Nino. Cover art by Jose Mirelles. Cover price $2.25.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $240.99 Paper: White Label #1446025001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.23) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this last issue of Creepy magazine, which was published by Harris Publications, include: Sex Kitten by S.K. Pierce an Bill Wray; Creeps by Archie Goodwin, John Severin, and Wally Wood; Yellow Heat by Bruce Jones and Russ Heath; ...The Dump Man by Stephen Perry and Eric Shanower; Too Many Termarrows by Timothy Moriarty and Vic Catan; Dead Run by Jeff Jones; A Base and Nasel Hunger by Stephen Perry and Steve Bissette; Sacrifice by Roger McKenzie and Luis Bermejo; Grave Undertaking by Archie Goodwin and Alex Toth; To Kill a God! by Wally Wood; The Super-Abnormal Phenomena Survival Kit! by Jim Stenstrum and John Severin; Werewolf! by Larry Ivie and Frank Frazetta; Creepy's Loathsome Lore: Mummy's Curse! by Archie Goodwin and Roy G. Krenkel; The Machinations of Lust by S.K. Pierce, Mike Harris, and Greg Theakston; and No (Horse) Laughing Matter by Doug Moench and Rafael Auraleon. Cover art by Richard Corben. Cover price $2.95.

Add to cart CGC 9.6 $212.99 Paper: Off white Label #0098275015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.39) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by H.B. Harris. Edited by Bill Parente. Stories by Archie Goodwin, John Benson, Bhob Stewart, and Johnny Craig. Art by Frank Frazetta, Angelo Torres, Dan Adkins, Rocke Mastroserio, Wally Wood, Neal Adams, and Johnny Craig. Reprints from the early years of the influential horror comics magazine. A Frazetta werewolf one-pager; a monster rises from the grave. 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. 52 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $90.00 Paper: White Label #4294518006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.70) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Tony DiPreta, C. H. Moore, Carl Wessler, George Tuska, Fred Kida, Fred Guardineer, and Charles Biro. A companion series to Crime Does Not Pay from the same publisher, slightly less violent and with more emphasis on police work. A cop tracks a deported killer to Sicily and finds that his lawless work continues. A detective dares the reader to figure out who killed the advance man for a carnival, in a whodunit with multiple clues and an upside-down panel for the answer. The Suspect; How They Were Trapped; Mob In Exile; On the Level; Death Takes a Ride!; Our Police Hall of Fame; This'll Kill Ya!; The Sergeant's Story. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $655.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4495669005

Stories and art by Irv Novick, Nick Cardy, Arthur Peddy, and Mike Suchorsky. Cover by Norman Saunders. The adventures of Dr. Tom Rogers, prison psychologist. A tough hood gets his comeuppance in prison; a new hero is introduced, private eye Barney Bailey. Big Shot in the Big House; The Heart of a Con; Nobody Cheats the Hangman; Sidewalk Serenade; plus gag strips and a text story. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $299.00 Paper: Off white Label #4476313006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.97) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Stories and art by Bill Ely and others. Tales of crime and mobsters, both true and fictional, a prime example of the genre that thrived in the years before the Comics Code. A jewel thief sets his sights on the famed Blue Star diamond as a gift for his wife. A simple-minded town fool stumbles on the evidence of a murder, but townspeople think he is involved himself. It's gangsters vs. cowboys when a new rustling scheme involves hijacking a cattle drive onto a schooner. The Glass Gibraltar; The Rats on the Vine; Haunted Headlines; The Kind Nuisance; The Mink in the Balcony; The Hamburger Pirates; The Gypsy Link. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $1,950.00 or Best Offer Restored: B1 Paper: Off white to white Restoration includes: tear seal to cover, glue on 13th page, cover reinforced. (Married 13th page) Label #1292690003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($58.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Briefer, Harry Lucey, Woody Hamilton, Carl Hubbell, Bob Montana, George Tuska, Norman Maurer, Alan Mandel, Lev Gleason and Charles Biro. Numbering continues from Silver Streak Comics (1939) #21. Erroneously listed as issue #23 on cover (#22 in indicia). The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. The series kicks off with the true story of 1930s mobster Louis Lepke Buchalter, the gangster who created the Murder, Inc. killer-for-hire operation. The Wild West gunfighter "Wild Bill" Hickok becomes a figure of legend. Paralyzed polio survivor Bill Reed develops a set of prosthetic wings and becomes the superhero War Eagle, in his sole adventure. Crime Kings: The Real Story Behind Lepke, Mad Dog of the Underworld; Wild Bill Hickok; Officer Edward Maher and the Mad Dog Killers of Fifth Avenue; The Saga of Harpshead Road; Two-Legged Rats; The Mad Musician and His Tunes of Doom; The Crime Corner Presents: Hollywoods Panther Man, The Jersey Devil; The Case of the Twisted Cigarettes; The Blackout Murder Mystery; Dickie Dean, The Boy Inventor; The War Eagle. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $1,599.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4387095003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($47.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Robert Bernstein, Jack Alderman, Rudy Palais, Woody Hamlton, Vernon Henkel, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. An unhinged circus clown, spurned by a woman after making a declaration of love (in full clown regalia), then murders her (still in full clown regalia). The infamous Burke and Hare get jobs providing corpses to early medical schools, but when they run out of bodies, they start making fresh ones. Drunken med-school reject "Doc" Moran becomes the underworld's favorite physician. Also featuring a vintage PSA about recognizing honorably discharged veterans. The Bookkeeping Bandit; Case of the Love Sick Clown; Ghouls' Gold; The Folly of Johnny Bananas; The Case of the Impossible Suicide; Doctor of Evil; Whodunnit. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $2,300.00 Paper: White Label #2026049001

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Robert Sale, C. L. Hartman, Rudy Palais, Edd Ashe, Bert Bushell, Davy Johnson, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. "Two Gun" Crowley's 1931 shootout with police becomes national news and helps create the image of the Prohibition-era gangster. A crooked insurance salesman hires two killers to do away with a woman for the insurance money. A story that dares the reader to figure out who committed murder during the production of a pirate movie. Also featuring several lurid text stories of the True Detective type, plus a vintage ad for Pepsi starring Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop. Cut-Rate Murder; A River, a Basket, a Stain of Red; Death Insurance; The True Story of Two-Gun Crowley; This'll Kill You!; Joe the Boss; Trio of Terror; Whodunnit. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $549.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #0987690001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Fred Guardineer, Mike Roy, Sam Burlockoff, Rudy Palais, George A. Marko, Arne Arntzen, Jack Alderman, Red Woodbury, Harley M. Griffiths and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. The Schroeder gang robs and kills its way across 1920s America, led by bereted blonde Irene, featuring some classic bad-girl art by Fred Guardineer. Mr. Crime narrates the story of killers Steve and Tony, featuring a lurid image of an electric chair high atop the pile of their victims' bodies. The true story of violent criminal Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. Also featuring a vintage ad for Pepsi starring Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop, and a photo of the Lev Gleason creative staff: Bob Wood, Lev Gleason and Charles Biro. Thug's Throne; Fingers of Death; The Tri-State Terror; Mad Dog Vincent Coll; Triple Death and the Trail of Terror; The Terror Down Under; The Horrible Halzingers; Whodunnit. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $349.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #0746647010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Ken Fitch, Fred Guardineer, George Tuska, Dick Wood, Rudy Palais, Bert Bushell, Jack Alderman, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. With the encouragement of Mr. Crime and the Devil himself, Denvil Dotson works his way up from petty theft to killing cops. Police suspect a swindle when a painter's highly insured studio burns down and takes his art with it. Infamous Ma Barker births a criminal gang that includes her four sons, in a different story than the previous issue's Barker bio. Also featuring a vintage ad for Pepsi starring Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop, and a classic bad-girl cover by Charles Biro. Devil's Diary; Mother of Murderers; On the Level; Brother Rats; Two-Timing Trio; Crime Quiz; Gyp Artist; The Case of the Voodooed Hangars; Whodunnit: Murder in the Penthouse. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $299.00 Paper: Cream to off white Scuffing to front and back of slab. Label #0107969003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Fred Guardineer, George Tuska, Lee Teaford and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. Criminal brothers Bud and Don Hoover have a lifelong feud that escalates into murder. The story of notorious real-life gunman Pretty Boy Floyd. Bloodshed results when neighborhood laundries fight back against Johnny Spanish's protection racket. The Hoover Brothers; Pretty Boy Floyd The Two-Faced Terror; Killers' Jinx; Washed in Blood; The Telltale Scar; Whodunnit. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $223.00 Paper: Off white Label #3846676009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.69) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Fred Guardineer, George Tuska, Joe Certa, Rudy Palais and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. The true tale of real-life bank robber Baby-Face Nelson. In the early 1900s, rural nurse Bertha Gifford becomes one of the first female serial killers. Cowardly Marty Durkin wins the name "Trigger Happy" for his deadly habit of shooting his way out of any situation. Baby Face Nelson vs. the U.S.A.; Trigger-Happy Durkin; This'll Kill You!; Crime Quiz; Bertha Gifford, Killer of 19 People; Murder Is a False Friend; The Woman Who Wouldn't Die; Whodunnit. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Crime Does Not Pay (1942-1955 Lev Gleason) 106 CGC 6.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #0354623005

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Frank Frazetta, Fred Guardineer, Carl Wessler, Al McWilliams, Dick Rockwell, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. An investigator tries to prove that a gangster's suicide was actually murder, but a blond femme fatale is out to get him first. A lawyer goes to work for a racketeer, but when his sister gets drawn in, he realizes he's gone too far. Detective Boyd learns that a doll holds the clue to an arson and murder gang. A classic anti-drug PSA featuring early art by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. Also featuring a vintage ad for "Lev Gleason Comics picture trading cards." The Last Stand of Walther "The Profile" Taylor; We Can Stop the Enemies of Youth; Crooked Mouthpiece; The Killer Came East; The Case of the Deadly Doll; The Frame-Up That Backfired. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $250.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Significant scratch(es) front or back Top edge label is missing. Label #0010444019 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Fred Guardineer and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. The story of notorious real-life gunman Pretty Boy Floyd. Mob boss Chris Ramsdell must face the music after one of his hoods shoots a senator's daughter. A tough DA is targeted by a gangster after he convicts his brother of murder. Also featuring a vintage ad for "Lev Gleason Comics picture trading cards." Pretty Boy Floyd, "Racketeer" Reward; Test Your Judgment!; Crime News Oddities; The End of the Underworld? 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Crime Does Not Pay (1967-1970 M.F. Enterprises) Magazine Vol. 2 #6 CGC 7.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4615545004

True crime magzine. This issue features: John George Haigh "London's Bloody Vampire", Capone's Iron Fist, Sex Syndicate Style, They Hanged Charlie Birger, and more! 8-in x 10 3/4-in, 52 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $400.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4615545003

A very suggestive cover! We all know that there was no Comics Code Authjority governing magazines, but nonetheless we wonder how this image got past any eagle-eyed editor!

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $259.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #0354562004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.77) will be charged at checkout.

"Born to Burn" (art by Mike Sekowsky?), "Death Was His Partner," "The Homicidal Hitchhikers," "Teen-Age Private Eye," and "The Legacy of Death." Two page text story, "Cops Don't Cry!" by Jim Hendryx, Jr., and one page filler "X Marks the Spot." Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $850.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #2042487008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($25.50) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Ken Battefield and Pierre Charpentier. Crime and adventure comics featuring detective heroes. "Crime psychologist" Jim Phillips investigates a crime wave that seems to be masterminded by a hypnotist who died in prison. Private eye Jerry Jasper is hired by gang boss Mike Bullen to find out who is trying to take over his racket. Showgirl Babe Dawson hires master of disguise Don Grady to protect her from her ex-con ex-husband, Spider Webb. Bondage cover may be the work of Adolphe Barreaux. Jim Phillips: Death Is the Victor; Jerry Jasper: Murder Backfires; Don Grady: The Hidden Clue; Hate Backfires; Queenie Starr: Death Directs. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Alvin Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and others. Crime and adventure comics featuring detective heroes. Dr. Lance Storm battles mad scientist Dr. Zarno, who has discovered how to turn people into radiation-powered zombies. Chinese scientist Dr. Foo helps Don Grady solve crimes, in his debut. Plus a classic anti-marijuana story. Lance Storm: The Nightmare Monster; Jerry Jasper; The Fantastic Dr. Foo; Queenie Starr. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by William Zeller. Stories and art by Richard Kahn, Mo Marcus, Robert Leslie Bellem, Bill Fraccio, Art Gates, Jack Miller, Ray McClelland and Mike Esposito. Crime and adventure comics featuring detective heroes. Dr. Lance Storm's arch enemy Professor Zarno sets his sights on the British Crown Jewels during the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (a hot topic at the time). To solve a murder at the United Nations, Chinese-American scientist Dr. Foo employs his natural deductive skills, and perhaps even his supernatural skills. Wax figures confuse the clues in a case for Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (the most famous sleuth in the pages of Crime Mysteries). Bondage-themed cover by William Zeller is an homage to (or swipe from) an early Jack Kirby cover, for Champion Comics (1939-1940 Worth Publishing) #10. Lance Storm: Death Stalks the Crown; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Murder in Wax; Kitty Vale: Picture of Death; Murder is a Skin Game; The Fantastic Dr. Foo: Prayer of Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Art Gates, Alvin Hollingsworth and H. C. Kiefer. Crime and horror comics featuring detective heroes. The series begins edging toward pre-Code horror with this issue. Novelist Gene rents the deserted home of eccentric Simeon Graves to work on his next book, but it comes with a mysterious blonde, a dire warning, and a rumor of hidden treasure. A serial killer dares the police to stop him before he strikes again. An actor uses his skills to get away with the murder of his wife, but reliving the murder for a TV drama pushes him over the edge. Cash for a Corpse; The Strangler; Murder - and You Die!; Deadly Rendezvous; Bounty for Varmints; Dance of the Devil. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Al Feldstein and others. Art by Al Feldstein, Ed Waldman, Howard Larsen and Graham Ingels. E.C.'s Pre-Trend crime title started as adventure, changed to grisly crime stories and eventually metamorphosed into straight-up horror. Redheaded bad girl Nell gets on the wrong side of the law and likes it, in a pre-Code story with early art by EC legend Al Feldstein. Police and gangsters alike are searching for safecracker Gentleman Danny Kenyon, in a story with early art by EC legend Graham Ingels. A mad scientist's plot involves a gorilla and the brain of an executed killer, in another early EC horror effort. Nell Baker; The Gentleman Gunman; The Werewolf's Curse!; The Hanged Man's Revenge; Ruse; The Ransom Racket. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Al Feldstein and others. Art by Al Feldstein, Ed Waldman, Howard Larsen and Graham Ingels. E.C.'s Pre-Trend crime title started as adventure, changed to grisly crime stories and eventually metamorphosed into straight-up horror. Redheaded bad girl Nell gets on the wrong side of the law and likes it, in a pre-Code story with early art by EC legend Al Feldstein. Police and gangsters alike are searching for safecracker Gentleman Danny Kenyon, in a story with early art by EC legend Graham Ingels. A mad scientist's plot involves a gorilla and the brain of an executed killer, in another early EC horror effort. Nell Baker; The Gentleman Gunman; The Werewolf's Curse!; The Hanged Man's Revenge; Ruse; The Ransom Racket. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Wally Wood. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Adolphe Barreaux, Max Plaisted and Keats Petree. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Action girl Sally the Sleuth suspects that a bowling alley is a front for an illegal gambling den. Reporter Ray Hale investigates the murder of a dance-hall girl and uncovers a dope ring. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (who dresses like '50s-era Jimmy Olsen in these stories) investigates blackmail and murder on a movie set, in a story with an extended girl-fight sequence. Bondage-themed cover is early work by comics legend Wally Wood. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: The Clutch of Evil; Sally the Sleuth: Death Rolls a Strike; Ray Hale, News Ace; Bump the Jackpot; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Off Stage Kill. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Tony Tallarico, Ray McClelland, Pierre Charpentier, John C. Mitchell, Bill Fraccio, William Grew and H. C. Kiefer. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. The ol' "injury-to-the-eye motif" returns, as Dan Turner seeks a killer who fires poison darts into his female victims' eyes! This story also features a deadly Punch & Judy show, hilarious Dan Turner tough-guy dialogue, and a villainous puppet-master who resembles Marvel's Puppet Master. Gail Ford goes undercover at a costume party to catch a wealthy man's killer, in a story with plentiful action-girl art. Sally the Sleuth and "The Chief" are mystified when an executed killer seemingly returns from the dead...for revenge. Gail Ford, Girl Friday; Ray Hale: Murder at First Base; Sally the Sleuth: Back From the Dead; Steve Wilder: Stuck With Murder; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: The Poisoned Puppet. Final issue under this title; series continues as Crime Mysteries (1952-1954 Trojan Magazines) #7, while the numbering continues with Secret Mysteries (1954) #16. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Johnny Craig. "Murder May Boomerang," script and art by Johnny Craig; Nearly inseparable, a father and son did everything in life together until that one day when a prisoner from a nearby penitentiary discovers the pair's cabin, where he steals clothing and nearly beats the father to death. "Death's Double-Cross," script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Wally Wood; Ruth was bored and lonely; Her two-year marriage to John was missing something: love, and she found it in John's twin brother. "Reward!" text story by Albert B. Feldstein. "A Snapshot of Death!", script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Graham Ingels; A woman enters a pool room and hires a man to kill a lady, whose picture she provides to him; Imagine his surprise when he notes that the photo is of the woman wanting the crime committed. "High Tide!", script and art by Harvey Kurtzman; Four men on a mail boat leave the infamous Mephisto Prison and soon hear by radio of the escape of one of the prisoners; When the boat's engine, clogged with sand, brings the craft to a halt a ways off shore, all fingers begin to point to each other as the culprit. 36 pgs., full color.

PRINTING NOTE: Some copies have Vol. 1 No. 1 printed above a redacted line in the indicia (before the indicia was corrected). Apparently, EC originally intended to print this issue as Vault of Horror #15. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.