Comic books in 'Boxing', graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $645.00 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: See item notes Inner well not fully sealed, book appears unaffected and secure. Label #0045434003

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon. The Lady and the Champ, script and pencils by Jack Kirby; Fighter Jimmy Maddox's fight manager decides to double cross his boxer when he meets the champ in the ring, but the Sandman's advice to Maddox's sweetheart saves the day. Wish Upon a Star! starring Starman, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Emil Gershwin. Checkmate to Chivalry starring The Shining Knight, art by Louis Cazeneuve. The Case of the Haunted Opera starring Genius Jones, script by Alfred Bester, art by Stan Kaye. Justice Was Taken For a Joy Ride starring Manhunter, art by Pierce Rice. The Riddles in Rhyme starringHourman and Thorndyke, art by Bernard Baily. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $901.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #0203930009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($27.03) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Cover art by Steve Ditko. First appearance of Mr. Petty (inventor of the Living Brain) in The Terrible Threat of the Living Brain!, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; When two technicians try to steal a computer that is on display at Peter's school, they accidentally turn it into "The Living Brain" that goes wild and must be stopped by Spider-Man. Reprinted in Marvel Tales # 5 and #145. Spider-Man Tackles The Torch!, script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; Spider-Man crashes a party at Johnny Storm's girlfriend's place, causing a fight between the Human Torch and Spider-Man that soon escalates to include the rest of the Fantastic Four. Letter to the editor from Buddy Saunders, president of MyComicShop, written to Marvel in his callow youth. 36 pgs. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $249.95 or Best Offer Paper: Slightly britle Slab: Paper flake(s) in case Label #2068098002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.50) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Stories and art by Boody Rogers, Ogden Whitney, Ham Fisher, Ray McGill, J. P. McEvoy, John Striebel, and Alfred Andriola. Big Shot featured reprints of McNaught Syndicate humor and adventure strips, alongside original characters like Skyman and The Face. Doc Static's cure for Sparky's sudden microscopic shrinking has the side-effect of giving Slap Happy super-powered feet. Marvelo the Magician and his assistant Zee join Commodore Crank's yacht for a Caribbean cruise, but someone doesn't want them on board. Charlie Chan tries to prove Eric innocent of being the deadly Rockingham Bandit before the real Bandit gets to him. Skyman; Sparky Watts; Captain Devildog; Joe Palooka; Spy-Chief; Charlie Chan; Rocky Ryan; Dixie Dugan; Marvelo; The Face; Oliver Drab. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $160.00 Paper: Off white Label #3712550004

Circa 1948. Standard 7x10 3/8 comic size, 16-pages, full color, newsprint cover and interior. Featuring Jim Jolly, the Lightweight Boxer. Cute little promo book about boxer shorts for boys. Sponsored by Lightweight Boxers, the wonderful new shorts for boys! Walter Johnson art/story?

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $350.00 Paper: Off white to white From the collection on Jon Berk. Label #1485450018 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.50) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Story by J. P. McEvoy. Art by John Striebel and Ham Fisher. Reprints of the long-running comic strip, featuring a former showbiz star who encounters adventure and, sometimes, romance. This issue reprints the storyline where Dixie is dating a would-be boxer. To help him train, Dixie enlists the aid of champion boxer Joe Palooka (also a part of the McNaught comics syndicate). Joe Palooka artist Ham Fisher obliged by providing the Palooka art in these strips, creating one of the earliest crossovers in comics. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $75.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4267053006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.25) will be charged at checkout.

48-page giant. "The Mind of the Monster!" Guest-starring the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, and Thundra. Story by Gerry Conway. Art by Rick Buckler and Joe Sinnott. Bruce Banner visits the Baxter Building and devises a plan to turn the Thing back in Ben Grimm and also rid himself of the Hulk forever. But something goes wrong...and a brand new Hulk vs. Thing battle erupts! Fantastic Four members: Mr. Fantastic, Human Torch, Medusa, and the Thing. This issue includes a 4-page write-up from Roy Thomas describing the format and next story planned for the Giant-Size series. This issue also contains a 7-page rogues' gallery of famous FF foes. (Note: The title of the series changes to Giant-Size Fantastic Four for the next issue.) Cover price $0.35.

Green Lantern (1960 2nd Series DC) 39 CGC 7.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4395964011

Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Murphy Anderson. Practice Makes The Perfect Crime, script by John Broome, pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Sid Greene; Black Hand uses he power-light to create the illusion that Green Lantern is Black Hand, leading to GL's arrest for stealing the Dona Maria. The Fight For the Championship of the Universe, script by John Broome, pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Sid Greene; An intergalactic fighting champion wants a shot at Green Lantern. 36 pgs. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $1,300.00 Paper: Off white to white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s); Minor crack(s) front or back, under 1" Label #4333804002

"Tail of Death"; Amos Hatter has to take care of his younger scientist brother, Joseph; The mentally deranged Joseph experiments with a growing formula, but finds the opposite and shrinks himself down to mouse size; Amos helps him to regain his normal size, but is murdered by Joseph out of fear to be submitted to a mental institution. "Terror On High"; Two criminals infiltrate a monastery in the Bavarian Alps, where the bodies of the dead are preserved in its sub-zero cellar; Ralph and Jerry steal precious gems from the corpses and make their escape to their hide-out cabin; But the ghosts of the robbed come for revenge. "The Bony Shadow" text story by Brett Thompson. "The Clay Coffin"; Sculptress Hortense Hollingsworth creates things of beauty, but is homely herself; When husband Grover starts flirting with the new maid, Hortense poisons her and makes her into a statue. "The Vengeful Corpse"; Fisherman John Penn murders old Silas Barnes for his gold; He dumps the body at sea. Penn panics, however, when the corpse turns up in his fishing net. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $770.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #3858906013

"Tail of Death"; Amos Hatter has to take care of his younger scientist brother, Joseph; The mentally deranged Joseph experiments with a growing formula, but finds the opposite and shrinks himself down to mouse size; Amos helps him to regain his normal size, but is murdered by Joseph out of fear to be submitted to a mental institution. "Terror On High"; Two criminals infiltrate a monastery in the Bavarian Alps, where the bodies of the dead are preserved in its sub-zero cellar; Ralph and Jerry steal precious gems from the corpses and make their escape to their hide-out cabin; But the ghosts of the robbed come for revenge. "The Bony Shadow" text story by Brett Thompson. "The Clay Coffin"; Sculptress Hortense Hollingsworth creates things of beauty, but is homely herself; When husband Grover starts flirting with the new maid, Hortense poisons her and makes her into a statue. "The Vengeful Corpse"; Fisherman John Penn murders old Silas Barnes for his gold; He dumps the body at sea. Penn panics, however, when the corpse turns up in his fishing net. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $99.00 Paper: White Label #4398630009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.97) will be charged at checkout.

Real-life cannibalistic serial killer Dahmer goes toe-to-toe with the Lord of Hosts. A sort-of sequel to Boneyards equally nasty Young Jeffy Dahmer. Written by Boneyard publisher Hart Fisher, with art by Nelson Danielson. Mature readers. 36 pages, B&W, Adults Only. Cover price $2.75.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $270.00 Paper: Light tan to off white File Copy. Label #0996819007

Cover by Ham Fisher. Stories and art by Ham Fisher. The amiable boxer strip resumes its focus on boxing as the Korean conflict winds down. A five-round exhibition fight with Antoine L'Boeuf for the Delinquent Children's Camp turns into a grudge match. Joe reveals that L'Boeuf was a Nazi collaborator he encountered during WWII. Plus a history of boxing. Five Rounds of Terror; Identity Revealed; Athlete's Feat; In This Corner. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $249.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #4354860013 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.47) will be charged at checkout.

"Champion!" Guest-starring Thor, Hulk, Sub-Mariner, Colossus, Sasquatch, Doc Samson, and Wonder Man. Cameos by the Fantastic Four, Avengers, and X-Men. Story by Tom DeFalco. Art by Ron Wilson, Camp Esposito, Giacoia, Dan Green, and Chic Stone. In arguably the best Thing story of all, a cosmic immortal known as the Champion, a being of nigh immeasurable strength whose existence is defined by physical contest, arrives on Earth and wishes to test his mettle against the mightiest heroes this planet has to offer. If they do not fight, this powerful being will destroy the Earth. After readily dispatching all contenders, the last man standing is Aunt Petunia's favorite nephew. But, can even the strongest member of the Fantastic Four hope to defeat an Elder of the Universe? 48 pages.

NOTE: "This issue was parodied on the cartoon "Dextor's Laboratory," in Dial M for Monkey. The Thing's role was filled by Dextor's Super Monkey and the Champion-like character was voiced by professional wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage." - Odinson, mycomicshop.com Archivist

Cover price $1.00.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $590.00 Paper: White Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Minor amount of color touch on cover. Label #1043383004

Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by Ed Herron, Stookie Allen and unknown. Art by Ed Dobrotka, Charles Paris, Stookie Allen and unknown. Law vs. crime! Based on the smash radio hit! Mr. District Attorney in: "The Honest Convicts!" by Ed Herron, Ed Dobrotka and Charles Paris; "The Case of the Fat Crook!" by Herron, Dobrotka and Paris; and "In This Corner - Death!" by Herron, Dobrotka and Paris. Also in this issue: The Crime File 2-page text article; A Perfect Crime Mystery "Death at the Wheel"; A Special Crime Feature "State Trooper"; and Bill Quaine 2-pager "Story-Book Sleuth" by Stookie Allen. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $300.00 CGC Qualified Paper: Off white Large piece missing form page 1. Label #4412525005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.00) will be charged at checkout.

Urko--the Afhanafhian Terror starring Boom Boom Brannigan, art by Charles Voight. The Man Who Lived Alone starring Yank and Doodle and Black Owl. Untitled stories starring Frankenstein (script and art by Dick Briefer), Jason, and Sir Prize (art by Charles Voight). The End of the Rope text story by Lester Lee. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $148.00 Paper: White Label #4272328007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.44) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Nick Cardy. "The Origin of Wonder Woman," script by William Marston, art by Harry G. Peter; Upon her arrival in man's world, Wonder Woman drops an Amazon scroll that details the origin and early days of the Amazons, while later sources outline her birth, her youth, and her battle in the arena for the right to be Wonder Woman; reprinted from Wonder Woman #1. "This is the Story of Wildcat!", script by Bill Finger, art by Irwin Hasen; Boxer Ted Grant kills the former champ in the ring and is inspired by Green Lantern to adopt the identity of Wildcat to clear himself; reprinted from Sensation Comics #1. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Strange Sports Stories (1973) 4 CGC 8.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #1261895015

Cover by Nick Cardy. "The Challenge of the Faceless Five!", script by Cary Bates, art by John Rosenberger; the fate of the world depends on a faceless basketball team winning a game. "Man with the Golden Gloves!", script by Denny O'Neil, pencils by Irv Novick, inks by Dick Giordano; a prize fighter has heavy weights on his hands. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $75.00 Paper: White Label #4369621002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.25) will be charged at checkout.

Spaced Out, Part 3. While the military attempts to unlock the secrets of the alien spacecraft, Raphael has a plan to help the aliens retrieve it. Story, art and cover by Rich Hedden & Tom McWeeney. Black and white; 32 pages. Cover price $2.00. Cover price $2.00.