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Auctions: comic books published by Fawcett, graded by CGC

  • Item #64124792
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    Captain Marvel Adventures (1941-1953 Fawcett) 47 CGC 6.0

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #4644960002

    Starts Apr 4

    Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder and George Marko. Art by C.C. Beck, George Marko and Pete Costanza. Superhero action with the original Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Captain Marvel and Dr. Moss shrink down in size and enter an anthill, where they encounter the super-powered "Marvel Ant" and a plot to overthrow the queen. The Jinx sells a bridge to Simp Simon and thinks he's made a tidy profit, until he sees how much the Simp makes panhandling at the bridge. Captain Marvel battles a great flood. Plus a PSA for WWII paper rationing, and a vintage ad for the Captain Marvel Club. The Marvel Ant; Dopey Danny Dee; Sergeant Sandy; Whipper-Snappers; The Voice; Simp Simon and the Jinx; The Second Deluge; The Mountain Marvel Feud. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62319566
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    Captain Marvel Adventures (1941-1953 Fawcett) 71 CGC 7.0

    Paper: Off white

    Label #1126960019

    Starts Apr 4

    Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder, Bill Woolfolk and Al Liederman. Art by C.C. Beck, Pete Costanza and Al Liederman. Captain Marvel and his Three Lieutenant Marvels star in "The Adventure in Time!" by Otto Binder, C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza (Sivana appearance; final appearance of the Three Lieutenant Marvels). Captain Marvel also stars in "Captain Marvel Traps a Sleepwalker" by Bill Woolfolk, C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza, and "The End of the World" by Otto Binder, C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Plus: Captain Kid in "The Inward Struggle" by Al Liederman. And: Jon Jarl in the 2-page text story "Satellite Prison" by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder). 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #64202091
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    Mary Marvel Comics (1945) 18 CGC 5.5

    Paper: Off white to white

    Label #4652009009

    Starts Apr 4

    Cover by Jack Binder. Stories by Otto Binder and Howard Boughner. Art by Jack Binder and Howard Boughner. Superhero action with Mary Marvel, long-lost sister of the original Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. While taking an art class at the beach, Mary encounters a talking sea serpent and quickly gets wrapped up in its story. Freshman Freddy's professor is so absent-minded, he's the one who shows up for a test in his underwear. Mary tries to manage a pet shop full of mischievous animals. Plus a plethora of comics-format ads, including Bubbles and Yanks for Yanks Bubble Gum, and Captain Tootsie and the Secret-Play Touchdown, by CC Beck and Pete Costanza. And a vintage ad for Captain Marvel t-shirts. The Talking Sea Serpent!; Memory Test; Two of a Kind; The Absent-Minded Professor; Antics of a Pet Shop!; Vita Min; Dizzy Daisy; The Sinister Tropical Snow! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #64199710
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    Spy Smasher (1941 Fawcett) 11 CGC 3.0

    Paper: Cream to off white

    Label #4649717002

    Starts Apr 4

    Stories and art by Tom McNamara and others. One of Fawcett's most popular superheroes, Spy Smasher fights saboteurs, fifth columnists, Quislings and collaborators during WWII. In South America, Spy Smasher realizes that Vasquez has been kidnapped and replaced by an Axis imposter. Spy Smasher investigates "haunted" defense plants, where he sees strange ghostly shapes and machines moving of their own accord. A mysterious soldier of fortune with no homeland begins to work for the Axis, in a story that features a Nazi-punching two-page opening spread. The Phantom Machines!; Menace over South America!; The Demlins; The Man Without a Flag!; Dead Mans Vengeance; The Battle-Scarred Cloak! Final issue of the series; Spy Smasher's adventures continued in Whiz Comics, where he became Crime Smasher after the war, and had a one-issue series under that title. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #64367455
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    Whiz Comics (1940 Fawcett) 42 CGC 7.5

    Paper: Off white

    Label #3839078004

    Starts Apr 4

    Cover pencils by C.C. Beck. Written by Otto Binder and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck, Emil Gershwin, Clem Weisbecker, Louis Cazeneuve and unknown. Captain Marvel returns in the Time Chair in "One Thousand Years from Now: Part 2" with art by C.C. Beck (continued from the previous issue). Plus: 2-page text story "Bottoms Up" by Ray Tender; Ibis the Invincible in "The Black Sorceror"; Little Albert 1-pager; "Spy Smasher Battles the Brazen Colossus of Japan" by Otto Binder and Emil Gershwin; Lance O'Casey in "Ape Island" with art by Clem Weisbecker; and "Golden Arrow Defeats Death in Lost Canyon!" with art by Louis Cazeneuve. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.