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Auctions: comic books 1944, graded by CBCS

  • Item #57706563
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    Fight Comics (1940) 34 CBCS 4.0

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #22-1281DA1-001

    Starts Jul 6

    Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by M.E. Peacock and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Robert Webb, Alex Blum, Ann Brewster, H.C. Kiefer, Lily Renee and George Tuska. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Tiger Girl must prove a white man stole a precious idol before tribal warfare erupts, in a story with possible art by Matt Baker; More good-girl art as Hooks Devlin investigates the "lamp-post Mata Haris" who are causing US soldiers to desert; Senorita Rio investigates Nazi U-boat attacks on ships near the Panama Canal. Another offbeat bondage cover by Joe Doolin. Rip Carson; Tiger Girl; Hooks Devlin; Kayo Kirby; Silent Cannons; Shark Brodie; Senorita Rio. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    It Really Happened (1944) 5 CBCS 4.5

    Paper: Off white

    Label #23-4917586-006

    Starts Jul 29

    Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories and art by Alex Schomburg, Leo Morey, Nat Schachner, and Homer Fleming. Biography, history and real war stories in comics form, part of a trend in non-fiction comics in the 1940s. Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart dares new boundaries and disappears into history; Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll is also a math whiz who creates logic puzzles; Lou Gehrig becomes a baseball legend in his own tragically short life. Monarchs of the Sea the Story of Whaling; Israel Putnam Who Dared Lead Where Any Dared to Follow; John Brashear, Beloved Lens-Maker and Astronomer; Amelia Earhart; Rockets to the Moon; Lou Gehrig, Baseball's Iron Horse; Jean Fabre; James Pattie, Messenger of the Gila Valley; Lewis Carroll; Sir Nathan B. Forrest, Leader of the Daring Forrest Rangers. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.