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Add to cart CGC 9.8 $173.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #0754352014 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.19) 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 $110.30 Paper: Off white to white Label #0774026020 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.31) 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 $107.14 Paper: White Label #0972698031 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.21) 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 $241.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1396870010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.23) 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 $271.00 Paper: White Label #1018238003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.13) 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 $223.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #0502817001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.69) 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 $126.06 Paper: White Label #0501658005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.78) 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.

Cremator (1998) 1A CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Label #4653109017

Cover by Leonardo Jimenez & Roy Young. Cover price $2.95.

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 4.5 $349.00 Paper: Off white Label #4634534005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.47) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by John Prentice, Gerald McCann, Frank Kramer, and Vic Martin. The adventures of Dr. Tom Rogers, prison psychologist. A parole-board chairman gets a look at life on the inside after a blow to the head. Recently released jewel thief Jake sets his sights on the Bradley Pearls. Dr. Rogers suspects that Harvey, the penitentiary librarian, is doing time for someone else. No Second Chance; One Last Hope; Double Dose! The Criminal Always Loses; The Two-Bit Heirloom; Law Laffs; The Lady Killer; It's a Crime! Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $284.00 Paper: Off white Label #4476313006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.52) 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 $211.85 Paper: Off white Label #3846676009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.36) 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.

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.

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.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $321.10 Paper: Off white to white Label #4354763001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.63) will be charged at checkout.

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.

Add to cart CGC 1.5 $195.00 Paper: Cream to off white Tape on interior cover. Label #1974355006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.85) will be charged at checkout.

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.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $360.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4204455007

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.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $375.00 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Chipped/broken bracket Label #3732576008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.25) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Gardner Fox and others. Art by H. C. Kiefer, Ed Waldman and Ann Brewster. E.C.'s Pre-Trend crime title started as adventure, changed to grisly crime stories and eventually metamorphosed into straight-up horror. Country sleuth Ellis Parker is called in after a strange murder case stumps the local police. Modern-day pirate and supervillain The Octopus wages a crime spree on the high seas, but luckily, heroic Igor the Archer stands in his path. A handsome hoodlum has a way with the ladies and excels at both love and larceny, until he kisses one woman too many. The Deadly Grease Monkey; The Alibi; Igor the Archer: The Fable of the Flying Dutchman; The Ghost of Markham Manor; The Case of the Kissing Killer. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $345.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1231844011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.35) will be charged at checkout.

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.

Add to cart CGC 1.0 $3,500.00 Paper: Light tan to off white Spine of cover completely split and re-attached with tape. Label #3864870001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($105.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Al Feldstein and Johnny Craig. Art by Al Feldstein, John Alton, Fred Peters and Johnny Craig. E.C.'s Pre-Trend crime title begins its transformation into a New Trend horror title, featuring the 1st appearance of The Crypt Keeper. Mrs. Stonely's death seems a mere accident, and her husband's affair with a secretary only a coincidence, but one cop isn't convinced. Rising boxer Johnny Sparr becomes the "Guardian of the Little Guy" after his father is killed by the Mob. Corrupt businessmen murder their partner, or so they think, but when they check again the grave is empty. This is the tale that debuted the Crypt-Keeper and EC's legendary horror comics. Murder Writes a Policy; Case Number 318: Murder: The Swindle by Flame; Double-Exposure; Johnny Sparr: Guardian of the Little Guy; Coincidence; Return from the Grave. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $199.99 Paper: White Label #4668586011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.00) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Action girl Sally the Sleuth and "The Chief" go undercover to catch an arson gang burning down houses for the insurance money. Reporter Ray Hale witnesses a murder by an abandoned house, but after the victim disappears, he learns he seemingly witnessed an crime that happened 18 years before. When a swimming film star dies during a dive, suspicion falls on her rescuers, who both had a reason to kill her. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Bullet of Treachery; Sally the Sleuth: Peril in the Flames; Ray Hale, News Ace: The Mysterious Tip-Off; The Hand of Fate; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Dive to Death. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $299.00 Paper: White Label #4667465007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.97) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Cover by A. C. Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Frank Frazetta, Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Dan Turner attends a "midnight men's party" where the entertainment is magician Charm Marlowe, whose costume is skimpier than Zatanna's. But when a man dies by snakebite, Dan suspects "premeditated killery." Gail Ford goes undercover as a maid to get the drop on robbers targeting wealthy homeowners. Sally the Sleuth goes undercover as a model to find the deadly secret behind two women's deaths, in a story with plentiful good-girl art. Plus a classic religious PSA featuring early art by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: The Fortune-Teller Robberies; Ray Hale: After-Hours Killing; Sally the Sleuth: Tumbling Corpses; Prayer Works Wonders; Theft by Appointment; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Mysto-Magic Murder. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $364.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4427465023 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.92) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

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 by Johnny Craig. Stories by Al Feldstein and Johnny Craig. Art by Johnny Craig, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, and Fred Peters. EC's New Trend crime title featured top-notch art and writing, barrier-pushing graphics and pre-Code violence. A writer seeks solitude for his writing, and also for the murder that he's planning. A condemned murderer escapes the courtroom, only to have justice catch up with him on the subway. A jewel thief picks the wrong house for his next crime, and witnessing a murder is only the start of his ordeal. Sweet Dreams!; The Perfect Place!; The Electric Chair; The Hangmans Noose; The Guillotine!; Private Performance! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Al Feldstein and Johnny Craig. Art by Johnny Craig, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, and Fred Peters. EC's New Trend crime title featured top-notch art and writing, barrier-pushing graphics and pre-Code violence. A writer seeks solitude for his writing, and also for the murder that he's planning. A condemned murderer escapes the courtroom, only to have justice catch up with him on the subway. A jewel thief picks the wrong house for his next crime, and witnessing a murder is only the start of his ordeal. Sweet Dreams!; The Perfect Place!; The Electric Chair; The Hangmans Noose; The Guillotine!; Private Performance! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein and Johnny Craig. Art by Johnny Craig, Marie Severin, Jack Davis, Jack Kamen, and Reed Crandall. EC's New Trend crime title featured top-notch art and writing, barrier-pushing graphics and pre-Code violence. A cheating wife and a murderous husband plot to out-murder each other with a fire and a wild horse. Brothers who owe a huge debt to mobsters prove to be even worse at murder than they were at gambling. When jealous stunt fliers fall for the same woman, the opportunities for them to murder each other are plentiful. Famous hanging-corpse cover by Johnny Craig was cited in illustration #10 of the famous anti-comics classic Seduction of the Innocent. Fire Trap!; The Welchers; Rope!; Double Jeopardy; Plane Murder. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by George Evans. "This'll Kill You!", script by Otto Binder, art by Reed Crandall; The police are stunned when Victor Gattling brings in the dead body of his best friend and then claims that he, Victor, has been killed by his best friend. "Standing Room Only," script by Otto Binder, art by Jack Kamen; Siblings Carl and Cynthia spent their early years cross-dressing in order to have laughs on their friends but fall out of favor with each other; Stime later, Carl sees that his sister has married into money, so he murders his sister and her husband and then disguises himself as her in order to have access to those funds as beneficiary. "The Real Thing" one-page text story by Al Feldstein, art by Marie Severin. "Return Blow," script by Carl Wessler, art by Reed Crandall; Alma and Luke decide to butter up Alma's boss lady at the fabulous Sanford Manion in order to get Alma listed in the old lady's will as beneficiary for a cool $250,000. "Last Resort," script by Carl Wessler, art by George Evans; Jerry hated Mona, hated her for being controlled by her money, so he seeks out a diversion in young and beautiful Jane, a waitress in town. Jerry kills Mona and dumps her into a lake at night, which eventually trips him up because he had dumped her body into crystal clear Silver Springs! 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.