Master Comics (1940 Fawcett) comic books 1948-1950

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $300.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Pedigree: Crowley Crowley Copy. Label #0083588015

Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Captain Marvel Jr., Bulletman and Bulletgirl. Capt. Marvel Jr. tries to keep the biggest dog in the world from destroying everything in its path. Nyoka seeks a way to prevent a strange disease from destroying a rubber plantation. Western hero Hopalong Cassidy faces off against a sinister hypnotist. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. Cover may be the work of longtime Superman artist Kurt Schaffenberger. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The World's Largest Dog; Trader Tom; Lumber Jack; Nyoka: The Rubber Pox Plague; Bulletman: The Death Jump; Vacuum Bloobstutter's Bodacious Broadcast; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: The True Friend; Kanvasback: Molar Mauler; Hopalong Cassidy: The Hypnotist's Spell. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.2 $475.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Pedigree: Davis Crippen "D" Copy Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Davis Crippen ("D" Copy). Includes COA from The Davis Crippen "D" Copy Collection. Label #0745099008

Cover art by Kurt Schaffenberger. The Growing Giant, art by Kurt Schaffenberger; Captain Marvel, Jr. vs. Sivana, Jr. Adventures of "R.C." and Quickie ad for Royal Crown Cola with John Wayne. Tames a Tornado starring Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll ad, art by C. C. Beck. The Deadly Revenge starring Nyoka the Jungle Girl, art by Bernie Krigstein. Raw Courage starring Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb. The Poison Dart Murder Case! starring Bulletman. Bloobstutter's Choo-Choo Chance text story by Rod Reed. The Missing Accomplice!, art by Maxwell Elkan; Twin River Opera House is robbed, but one of the men is caught. He is later set free when given the name of his accomplice; This is a ruse made by Hopalong to get them both. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $390.00 View scans Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #0083550003

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $79.00 View scans Centerfold detached at one staple. Cover oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Bernie Krigstein, Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger, Bill Ward, Frank Bolle, Max Elkan, Bill Woolfolk and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Captain Marvel Jr., Bulletman and Bulletgirl. Sivana Jr.'s latest invention captures Capt. Marvel Jr. in an impenetrable bubble, in a story (and cover) with art by longtime Superman artist Kurt Schaffenberger. Nyoka faces a new menace in the jungle, in an story with early art by future EC legend Bernie Krigstein. When a dog is committing robberies, Bulletdog tries to convince Bulletman and Bulletgirl that a blind beggar's seeing-eye dog is involved (!), in a story by Shazam co-creator Otto Binder and Torchy artist Bill Ward. Captain Marvel, Jr. Gets Bottled Up; For the Master Mind; Trader Tom; Lumber Jack; Nyoka: The Savage Custom; Bulletman: Blind Man's Bluff; Vacuum Bloobstutter's Hole Holiday; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: Shopworn; Kanvasback: History Making Reply; Hopalong Cassidy: Beyond the Law. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $350.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4424280012 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Kurt Schaffenberger, Carl Pfeufer, John Jordan, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Captain Marvel Jr., Bulletman and Bulletgirl. Capt. Marvel Jr. visits a suburban town populated by rehabilitated criminals he has captured, but one Anonymous Crook wants to take down Crooks Anonymous. Tom Mix does double duty as a bodyguard when two prospectors hire him to make sure they don't kill each other. Bulletman and Bulletgirl are captured by an arms dealer who is selling stolen bombs to Central American dictatorships. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Anonymous Crook!; Colonel Corn & Korny Kobb: Delirious Dairy Farmers; Nyoka: The Ivory Tusks Murders; Dizzy Daisy; Bulletman: The Vanishing Bombs; Zuzu the Zoo Keeper: Monkey Sees; Spud and Bud; Vacuum Bloobstutter: Pilfered Painting, or, Bloobstutter Boils About His Oils; Muscle Hedd; Tom Mix: Golden Treachery. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.2 $440.00 View scans Pedigree: Crowley Crowley Copy. Label #0083590006

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Kurt Schaffenberger, Howard Boughner, Carl Pfeufer and John Jordan. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Captain Marvel Jr. Capt. Marvel Jr. runs afoul of a prankster whose jokes are deadly serious. Jungle queen Nyoka gets caught up in the search for onyx statues and must evade a deadly tar pit. After a cyclone destroys City Hall, Western hero Tom Mix helps lead the effort to rebuild, but a crooked contractor plans to swindle the town with shoddy materials and pocket the difference. Plus Comix Cards (like the later Marvel Value Stamps) featuring the original Captain Marvel (Shazam), Captain Marvel, Jr., and Mary Marvel. Capt. Marvel Jr.: Deathly Humor!; Muscle Hedd Hasn't a License!; Nyoka: The Mystery of the Jungle Tar Pit; Dizzy Daisy; Vacuum Bloobstutter in the Lion's Den; Tom Mix: Concrete Death; Bunkhouse Baraby. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.0 $200.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #0008872-AC-007

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Kurt Schaffenberger, Henry Kiefer, Howard Boughner, Carl Pfeufer and John Jordan. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Captain Marvel Jr. An escaped convict hides out in a secret compartment underneath a suburban house where even the owner can't find him, in a story (and cover) with art by longtime Superman artist Kurt Schaffenberger. Action girl Nyoka learns a secret that will change the mind of tribal chieftain Noma...if she lives long enough to reveal it. Western hero Tom Mix encounters outlaws who arrange fatal accidents for popular townspeople, then make off with the money the town raises for the family's benefit. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Strange House!; Muscle Hedd; Nyoka: The Lost Brother; Pilot Pete Gives the Bird; Ozzie and Babs: Coiffure Craziness!; Dizzy Daisy; Ben the Business Man; Marlow the Marshal; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: Flicker Fools; Vacuum Bloobstutter: No Holes Barred; Poetic Pete; Tom Mix: The Case of the Sheriff's Misfortune. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.2 $750.00 View scans Paper: Off white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Crowley Copy. Label #0083590016

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Bill Ward, Howard Boughner, Henry Kiefer, Carl Pfeufer and John Jordan. Master Comics was one of the cornerstones of the Fawcett lineup during the 1940s. Sivana Jr. enlists circus performer Rubberface, who can look like anyone, to impersonate Capt. Marvel Jr. and cause trouble for his enemy. On the legendary Big Rock Candy Mountain, Mother Mirth uses a magic wand to create a homeless children's paradise, but criminals want the wand for themselves. Capt. Marvel Jr. and His Worthiest Opponent; Mary Marvel and the Big Rock Candy Mountain!; Dizzy Daisy Gets Her Exercise!; Nyoka the Jungle Girl and The Path of Doom; Ozzie and Babs and The Poisonality Boy!; Tom Mix and the Twin Oaks Mystery! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.