Comic books in 'Musical Instrument', graded by CBCS

Lisa Simpson cover. January 3, 1998. Inside: 12-page "Crasy for the Simpsons" feature; Richard Belzer ("Homicide: Life on the Street"); Star Trek: The Experience. Cover price $1.19.

Cover by Chic Stone. Stories and art by Cover by Chic Stone and others. Teen comedy that plays up the still-new idea of "TV" with its title. When high-tech thieves are stealing TV sets, Ozzie and Babs set out to catch the crooks, but the only place to hide is inside the TV itself. During a tour of a TV factory, Teevy starts picking up TV shows (including "Dragnet") on the bubbles he blows with his bubble gum. Ozzie and Dip set out to climb Crag's Peak, but maybe they shouldn't have worn lederhosen for the trip. 3-D TV; Teevy: A Screen in the Night; Teevy: The Cast-Iron Curtain; Mexicali Ruse; Quiz Whiz Fizzes. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The World's Longest-Running Cult Television Magazine. This issue: Doctor Who, Stargate Atlantis, Goodies, Battlestar Galactica. Cover price $7.99.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Issue features Tweety and Sylvester in "The Frame Game," "Nighty Knight," and "Discontented Canary." Issue also has the Road Runner in "The Hired Hound," one-page gag strips, and a one-page text feature "Salt-Water Daffy." Story and art credits: unknown. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Issue features Tweety and Sylvester in "Bird Bait," "Tubbed and Scrubbed," "Delivery Dilemma," and "Pie A La Tweety." Issue also has one-page gag strips, jokes page and "Picture Dictionary." Story and art credits: unknown. Back cover is a pinup of front cover art. All stories are reprints from the 1950s. Cover price $0.12.

Issue features Tweety and Sylvester in "The Plotters," "Off Limits," "Positively Thinking," and The Present." Story and art credits: unknown. Cover price $0.20.

Whitman edition. Cover price $0.15.

Whitman edition. Issue features Tweety and Sylvester in "The Plotters," "Off Limits," "Positively Thinking," and The Present." Story and art credits: unknown. Cover price $0.20.

Whitman edition. Cover price $0.30.

Whitman only edition. Cover price $0.40.

Whitman only edition. Cover price $0.50.

Anthology type comic with suspenseful, mystery, and spooky stories done in the style of the classic TV series "The Twilight Zone" which starred Rod Serling as your host. Painted cover art. The Voices, art by Jose Delbo; a man probes the limits of sound. The Inner Warning text story, art by Joe Certa. A Different Point of View, art by Till Goodan. The Most Menacing Man Alive, art by Frank Bolle. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Anthology type comic with suspenseful, mystery, and spooky stories done in the style of the classic TV series "The Twilight Zone" which starred Rod Serling as your host. Painted cover art. The Expert, art by Adolpho Buylla. Who's Afraid of the Ju-Ju Man?, art by Luis Dominguez. The Isle of the Dead. Those Good Ol' Days, art by Jack Abel. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Anthology type comic with suspenseful, mystery, and spooky stories done in the style of the classic TV series "The Twilight Zone" which starred Rod Serling as your host. Star Pupil, art by Jack Sparling. The Prettiest Child, art by Mike Roy. Overly Charming, art by Jack Sparling. The Hangman's Noose, art by Jack Sparling. 36 pgs. $0.35. Cover price $0.35.

Volume 3 #1, April 1983. This 2nd Anniversary Issue includes the following: fiction by Richard Matheson, Byron Marshall, Scott Edelman, and others; an interview with Colin Wilson; a preview of The Hunger; the teleplay to A World of His Own; and more. Cover price $2.50.

A "Serio-Comic" weekly addition to the New York Tribune, 12-3/4" X 8-1/2", colored, newspaper stock.

01-864-209 cover code. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.

Limited 1 for 10 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover by John Tyler Christopher. Written by Ryan North. Art by Erica Henderson. PREVIOUSLY ON 'THE UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL': Squirrel Girl is trapped in the past, and friend Nancy has gone back to rescue her! But Nancy didn't have a time machine, so she hitched a ride with DOCTOR DOOM!! So now it's Squirrel Girl versus Doctor Doom in the 1960s, fighting for the fate of the very planet!! What could possibly go wrong, right?? Well anyway, in this issue EVERYTHING GOES WRONG FOREVER 28 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $3.99.

Story and Art by Ray Fawkes. Cover by Jamie McKelvie. 'SYMPHONY' Part Five As the end approaches and deaths accumulate, the quartet remember what made each of them take up the art that is destroying them all. 28 pages, full color. Rated M Cover price $3.99.

Story by Joe Pruett. Art by John Kissee. Cover by Michael Wm. Kaluta. A gangster epic set in an alternate history in which Prohibition never ended. The addition of tobacco, firearms and legalized gambling to Prohibition makes life difficult for the new Untouchables. 24 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $2.95.

Written by Neal Bailey. Art by Nestor Ruiz, and Joel Robinson. It seemed a simple mission: burn the evil house while holding its demons at bay using Erich Zann's vial. But they didn't expect to wake the Great Old Ones. Behold the consequences of a quest for personal revenge in the material world when demons of the next dimension takes notice! Cover price $3.99.

Story, Art and Cover by Adriano. This one-shot featuring Vincent Price tells another gothic adventure about one of the characters that Price made famous, Dr. Phibes. Investigating a bad actor's death, Inspector Trout joins Thanatos, a mysterious man involved with Dr. Phibes' past, into a journey to London's sewers. There, they discover what happened to the master of bizarre murder. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Written by Jim Zub. Art by Steven Cummings and Tamra Bonvillian. Cover by Marguerite Sauvage. IMAGE COMICS'S SUPERNATURAL SENSATION! The first story arc ends. Revelation and sacrifice. 28 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $3.50.

Nov 1950. Cover by Frank Kelly Freas. Horror and supernatural stories by Fritz Lieber "The Dead Man", H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, Harold Lawlor, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Margaret St. Clair, Murray Sanford, and H. S. W. Chibbet. Illustrations by Charles A. Kennedy, Lee Brown Coye, Vincent Napoli, Matt Fox, and Joseph R. Eberle. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 100 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

Harvey reprints adventures of the good little witch and her friends in a plus-sized package. Casper helps a spaceship find its way home, but he picked the wrong planet. Casper and Wendy try to reverse the effects of Witch Weevil's latest spell on Mother Nature, in a three-part story. A Very Strange House; Ghost Sincerely Yours; Casper: Destruction Land; Spooky: Poils of Wisdom; Casper Tells About William Tell; Bratty Lous Visit; The Red Creature; Nobody Wants Me; Home is Where the Heart Is; Forest Fire!; Herman and Katnip: Truce Story; Spooky: A Record Scare. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

Limited 1 for 25 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover by Michael Allred. Written by Brian Azzarello. Art by Goran Sudzuka. An unlikely ally arrives on the eve of the Battle for Olympus… but standing by Wonder Woman's side is a deadly place to be! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.

"Rhapsody in Blue!" Story by Peter David. Art by Jim Fern and Al Milgrom. The odd couple of X-Factor, Quicksilver and Madrox, adventure out together. Plus, Polaris is attacked by an unknown assailant. Cover price $1.25.

Stories and art by Jack Cole, Charles Biro, Ferd Johnson, Dick Ryan, Joe Beck, Otto Eppers, Russell Keaton, Jim Tyer, and Bob McCay (credited as Winsor McCay, Jr.). Numbering continues from Scoop Comics (1941) #3. A digest-sized comics anthology packaged for the U.S. Armed Forces by Harry A. Chesler Features Syndicate (listed as Remington Morse). Early stories and art by comics legends Jack Cole, creator of Plastic Man, and Charles Biro, later one of the minds behind the notorious Crime Does Not Pay comic. A rare one-page strip featuring Little Nemo's Impy drawn by Bob McCay, son of original Nemo artist Winsor McCay (credited here as Winsor McCay, Jr.). Short comedy strips, sometimes just one panel, with titles like Foxy Grandpa and Stars and Stripes. Also, text articles about WWII war efforts, including an argument in favor of wartime humor (like Yankee Comics) and a morale-building message to military personnel. Yankee Comics; Belly-Laughs; King Kole; Little Samson; Stars and Stripes; Lonesome Luke; Ace & Deuce; Ima Slooth; Joe McGee; Sick Call; Nutty Fagin; Dot and Dash; Impy; Joe Ticket the Picket; Jack Potts; Tom, Dick and Mary; Private Bill; The Rumor Cycle; Foxy Grandpa; Wacky Rhymes; Riggin Bill; Tough Guy Joe; Wacky Rhymes; Tough Guy Joe; Bad Breaks; Spots; Your Uncle Sam Speaking. 5-in. x 7.5-in., 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Sultan. Stories and art by Charles Sultan and George Tuska. An early comics anthology packaged by Harry A. Chesler Features Syndicate. Yankee Doodle Jones discovers that a mad scientist is using a blood-donation center to test his new serum on unsuspecting victims. The magical hero known as Enchanted Dagger seeks an end to the Green Plague. Aquaman-like Barry Kuda protects the queen of an undersea kingdom from attackers, aided by his sidekick Algie. Yankee Doodle Jones; Young Americans; Johnny Rebel; the Echo; Yankee Boy, the Enchanted Dagger; Barry Kuda; Sergeant Steele. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Written by Peter Bagge; art and cover by Gilbert Hernandez In stores August 11. The newest ongoing series from HOMAGE COMICS unites two of comics' most acclaimed creators ? Hate's Peter Bagge and Love & Rockets' Gilbert Hernandez ? for the all-ages story of an all-girl band that's become the biggest thing in outer space, but can't catch a break on their home planet...Earth. Join Woo Woo, Honey and Krazy (and their always enthusiastic manager, Crusty) as they tour outer space via interstellar limo, rehearse in suburban New Jersey basements and try to convince home- planet audiences that they really have hit it big. For more information, see the feature article. FC, 32 pg." Cover price $2.95.

WRITTEN BY PETER BAGGE; ART AND COVER BY GILBERT HERNANDEZ In stores September 1. The newest ongoing series from HOMAGE COMICS unites two of comics' most acclaimed creators ? Hate's Peter Bagge and Love & Rockets' Gilbert Hernandez ? in the ongoing story of the most popular band in the universe! In "Woo Woo, Phone Home," the spaciest grrrl band this side of the Jersey Turnpike gets a taste of intergalactic glamour when they try living on a planet that actually loves their music! But the sweet smell of success turns sour when the alien atmosphere causes unexpected physiological changes in the girls ? right before a big concert! Also, meet the missing alien who may have found a cozy home in a suspiciously familiar place back on Earth. FC, 32 PG." Cover price $2.95.

Written & illustrated by Steven K. Weissman. Minimal color, 24 pages, standard paper stock, cardstock cover, 7-in. x 7-in. Mature readers. See also: TYKES (1997) Cover price $2.95.

Cover by Ray Dirgo. Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. Featuring Yogi Bear in: "Yogi's Good Deed"; "Yogi Bear and the Martians"; "Stop the Rain Already!"; and "Is This Trip Necessary?" Plus: "Boners, Moaners, and Groaners" joke page! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.

Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. Featuring Yogi Bear in: "Happy Birthday"; "Tough Nut"; "Honey Hassles"; and "The Hide-Out"! Plus: Yogi Bear and Ranger Smith in the 1-page text story "A Star Bear is Born"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.30.

Yogi Bear Goes Country and Western (1977) by Horace J. Elias. from the Durabooks published by Modern Promotions. Yogi and Boo Boo help country and western star Hootenanny Annie put on a concert while she visits Jellystone Park. Not a true comic, rather text with illustrations, plus in the corner of every page is a flip drawing that, as the pages as fanned, creates a cartoon motion action scene. Eight book in the 1977 Durabooks series. Color cover with black and white interior, 240 pages, 3.5-in. x 4.5-in. x 1/2-in. square bound. Cover price $0.49.

Gold Key edition. Cover price $0.35.

Promotional comic for selling Grit Newspaper door to door. 4 7/8" x 6 3/8", 16 pages, full color.

Cover by Don Heck. Stories by unknown. Art by Art Saaf, Gene Colan, Vince Colletta? and unknown. Fledgling actress Lisa meets Paul Dennis, an acclaimed stage performer. The two fall in love and he helps her establish her career, but later pushes her away when he learns he is dying in "Catch a Falling Star"! Plus: Gloria moves to the big city for a new job and meets Larry, but they both wonder whether they are over their past loves in "The Other Woman"! Also: Vic falls in love with Wendy, but she's engaged to Arthur, who's in the hospital following a car accident, and she insists that she is staying faithful, even though she's in love with Vic too in "I'll Marry You Anyway!" And: Linda's sister Dawn keeps stealing her boyfriends, so Linda comes up with a plan to teach her a lesson, which unfortunately backfires in the retitled reprint story "Dirty Trick"! Plus: 1-page Marc -- On the Man's Side! advice column; 1-page "Are You the Romantic Type?" survey; and 1-page text story "I'll Call You Sometime...!" 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Book 1: Tygers!" Written by Grany Morrison. Art by Steve Yeowell. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 88 pages, B&W. Cover price $10.90.

An anthology of independent and alternative comics. This issue includes stories and art by Skip Williamson, Kim Deitch, Penny Van Horn, David Collier, Rick Altergott, Bob Fingerman, Glenn Head, and Ted Stearn, as well as part five of The Chuckling Whatsit by Richard Sala. Black and white; 52 pages. Cover by Kim Deitch. Mature Readers. No issue number indicated. Cover price $3.95.

An anthology of independent and alternative comics. This all-Kim Deitch issue features the first chapters of The Search for Smilin Ed, later collected as a graphic novel. Black and white; 52 pages. Cover by Deitch. Mature Readers. Cover price $3.95.

An anthology of independent and alternative comics. This issue includes stories and art by Ivan Brunetti, Oscar Zarate, Mike Diana, Lewis Trondheim and Francesca Ghermandi, as well as part five of The Search for Smilin Ed by Kim Deitch. Black and white; 52 pages. Cover by Archer Prewitt. Mature Readers. Cover price $3.95.