Auctions: comic books 1930-1939

Ace Comics (1937) 16 GD/VG 3.0

1" Cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation.

Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Stories and art by Robert L. Ripley, Feg Murray, Clarence D. Russell, H. H. Knerr, Doc Winner, Jack Sords, Russ Westover, A. D. Carter, Lyman Young, Chic Young, Rutherford G. Montgomery, Jack King, Joe Musial, Billy DeBeck, Lee Falk, Ray Moore, Paul Robinson, Gene Ahern, George Herriman, Don Moore and Alex Raymond. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay presents an anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. Includes Alex Raymond's Jungle Jim and George Herriman's beloved Krazy Kat. The Phantom battles the all-female air pirates known as the Sky Band; the famous weird-facts strip Ripley's Believe It Or Not. The Phantom; Ripley's Believe It Or Not; Jungle Jim; Seein' Stars; Pete the Tramp; Katzenjammer Kids; Elmer; Sports in Pictures; Tillie the Toiler; Nicodemus O'Malley & His Whale, Palsy-Walsy; Just Kids; Tim Tyler's Luck; Blondie; Timberline Tales; The Stamp Spotlight; Curley Harper at Lakespur; Teddy and Sitting Bull; Barney Google; Etta Kett; Krazy Kat; Room and Board; Doc Winner's Daffy Doodles. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Action Comics (1938 DC) 7 CGC Coverless

Paper: Cream to off white

Coverless. 1st wrap missing. 1/2 of page 31 missing.

Label #4713475003

2nd Superman cover - Cover art by Joe Shuster. Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel (as Jerome Siegel), art by Joe Shuster. Chuck Dawson story, art by Homer Fleming. Pep Morgan story, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. Adventures of Marco Polo story, art by Sven Elven. Double Trouble [Part 2] starring Tex Thomson, art by Bernard Baily. Fact page art by Sheldon Moldoff. Scoop Scanlon, Five Star Reporter, art by Will Ely. Zulu Diamond Mine starring Zatara Master Magician, script and art by Fred Guardineer. 68 Pages, Full Color. $.10 Cover price $0.10.

Action Comics (1938 DC) 9 CGC Coverless

Paper: Cream to off white

COVERLESS. 1st & 2 center wraps missing. Page 2-5 & 7 missing.

Label #4649144001

Cover art by Fred Guardineer. Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel (as Jerome Siegel), art by Joe Shuster. Scoop Scanlon, Five Star Reporter story, art by Will Ely. Pep Morgan story, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Fred Guardineer (as Gene Baxter). Adventures of Marco Polo story, art by Sven Elven. Tex Thomson story, art by Bernard Baily. Chuck Dawson story, art by Homer Fleming. The Mad Lama starring Zatara Master Magician, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. Candid Comic Camera one-pager, art by Bob Kane. 68 Pages, Full Color. $.10 Cover price $0.10.

Action Comics (1938 DC) 11 CGC Coverless

Paper: Cream to off white

COVERLESS. 1st 2 & 2 center wraps missing. Page 4-7 Missing.

Label #4649144002

Cover art by Fred Guardineer. Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel (as Jerome Siegel), art by Joe Shuster. Superman called the Man of Steel for the first time. Scoop Scanlon, Five Star Reporter story, art by Will Ely. Pep Morgan story, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Fred Guardineer (as Gene Baxter). Adventures of Marco Polo story, art by Sven Elven. Tex Thomson story, art by Bernard Baily. Chuck Dawson story, art by Homer Fleming. Sea Ghost starring Zatara, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. 68 Pages, Full Color. $.10 "1st time Superman uses his X-Ray Vision." - Odinson, mycomicshop.com Archivist. Cover price $0.10.

Action Comics (1938 DC) 13 CGC Coverless

Paper: Cream to off white

Coverless. 1st wrap missing. Large piece missing from page 2. Centerfold missing. Page 31 missing.

Label #4713475002

Cover art by Joe Shuster. Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. Scoop Scanlon, Five Star Reporter story, art by Will Ely. Pep Morgan story, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Fred Guardineer (as Gene Baxter). Adventures of Marco Polo story, art by Sven Elven. Tex Thomson story, art by Bernard Baily. Chuck Dawson story, art by Homer Fleming. Swamp of Satan starring Zatara Master Magician, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. 68 Pages, Full Color. $.10 NOTE: 1st appearance of Ultra-Humanite (Superman's very first super powered foe). Cover price $0.10.

Action Comics (1938 DC) 17 CGC Coverless

Paper: Cream to off white

Coverless: 1st wrap missing. Page 2,3 & 5-8 missing.

Label #4649144003

Superman, Pep Morgan, the Adventures of Marco Polo, Tex Thompson (art by Bernard Baily), Chuck Dawson, and Zatara (art by Fred Guardineer). Full-page ads for Superman # 2 and New York World's Fair Comics. Superman cover. 68 Pages, Full Color. $.10 Cover price $0.10.

Amazing Mystery Funnies (1938) 5 0.3

COVERLESS INCOMPLETE. First wrap missing (affects Skyrocket Steele and Tom Campbell stories). Reproduction cover attached with extra staples. Brittle.

Vol 2 #1. Cover art by Terry Gilkison. Untitled Skyrocket Steele story, art by Bill Everett; Invex gives Steele the power of invisibility in order to fool his chief, Vance Roy, and which leads to his capture. Spectre of the Deep. Shanghaied, script and art by John Patterson. The Flaming Idol starring Dick Kent. Double Trouble, script and art by Jeo E. Buresch. Untitled Dan the Dick story. Guns For General Sing. 52 pgs.$0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Dime Adventure Magazine (1935-1936 Popular Publications) Vol. 1 #1 CGC 4.0

Paper: Slightly britle

Label #4581732009

Film Fun (1915-1942 Film Fun Publishing Co.^) Magazine 519 CGC 8.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4696564002

July, 1932. Cover by Enoch Bolles. Movie stills featuring stars like Joan Crawford, Carole Lombard, Harpo Marx and many more matched with humorous captions. Plus jokes and text stories. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Funnies, The (1936-1942 Dell) 3 PR 0.5 (R)

Restored (see item notes)

RESTORATION. Color touch, spine rebuild, tear seal, piece fill and staple replaced. TRIMMED. Possible married pages. Heavy tape on interior. Moisture damage.

Contains comic strip reprints, text articles, and activity pages. In order of appearance: "The Worry Wart" by J. R. Williams; "Dan Dunn" by Norman Marsh; "Mutt and Jeff" and "Cicero's Cat" by Bud Fisher; "Boots" by Edgar Martin; "Stranger than Fiction" by Richard W. Thomas and Walter Galli; "Everybody's Playmate" by A. W. Nugent; "Reg'lar Fellers" and "Daisybelle" by Gene Byrnes; "Tailspin Tommy" by Hal Forrest; "Bronc Peeler and Coyote Pete" and "On the Range" by Fred Harman; "Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune" by Roy Crane; "Myra North, Special Nurse" by Ray Thompson and Charles Coll; "The Nut Brothers", "Mr. Blotto", and "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "Otto Honk" by Bela Zaboly; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "The Tiny Mites" by Hal Cochran and George Scarbo; "This Curious World" by William Ferguson; "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "Freckles and his Friends" by Merrill Blosser; "From the Notes of Major Cosmo Strange, D.S.O." by George Baker; "Annibelle" by Dorothy Urfer; "Salesman Sam" by C. D. Small; "The Adventures of 'Sparagus and Chubby"; "Scribbly" by Sheldon Mayer; "Ben Webster's Page" by Jay Jerome Williams (as Edwin Alger); "Flapper Fanny" by Gladys Parker; "Tad of the Tanbark" and "Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; "Herky" by Clyde Lewis; "Happy Mulligan"; "Home Magic" by A. W. Nugent; and "Stories in Stamps" by I. S. Klein. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Ginger (1935-1936 Edmar-Nudeal-Best) Vol. 40 #1 GD+ 2.5

Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

O. Greiner cover. Illustrated spicy stories plus full-page pinups. Interior is actually an issue of "La Paree"; Vol. 45, No. 1. 7 3/4-in. x 10 1/2-in., 52 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $0.25.

Saucy Stories (1938 Newsdealers Magazine Corp.) Pulp Feb 1938 GD/VG 3.0 (R)

Trimmed

Paper: Cream to off white

Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Spicy stories magazine with illustrations throughout. 7" x 10", 98 pages, text with B&W illustrations. Cover price $0.25.

Secret 6 (1934-1935 Popular Publications) Pulp Vol. 1 #1 GD

Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Super Comics (1938-1949 Western/Dell) 16 GD 2.0 (R)

Restored (see item notes)

RESTORATION. Spine rebuilt, staples replaced and reinforced, TRIMMED.

Cover by Bill Holman. Stories and art by Milton Caniff, Chester Gould, Frank King, Harold Gray, Bill Holman, Zack Mosley, Stanley Link, Oskar Lebeck, Frank Willard, Gus Edson, Walter Berndt, Ed Leffingwell, Martin Branner, Basil Reynolds, Loy Byrnes, Al Posen and Carl Ed. An early comic book from Dell, featuring reprinted newspaper comic strips alongside new material. Pat, Terry and Connie head up the rescue mission to free Sandhurst from his captors, against their better judgment. Skeezix gets his first traffic ticket while driving Tops' car, and town gossip soon has it as a major moving violation. Smilin' Jack learns the secret of the Legion of Forgotten Pilots. Also featuring popular strips Little Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Smokey Stover and The Gumps. Foo-lish Folks; Moon Mullins; Dick Tracy; Tiny Tim; Smitty; Spooky; Gasoline Alley; Tim Todd the Boy Detective; The Crow's Nest; Wyoming Willie; Skit, Skat and the Captain; Winnie Winkle; The Gumps; Harold Teen; Little Orphan Annie; Manuk the Arctic Crusoe; Bobby & Chip; Zipper; Do You Know?; Terry and the Pirates; Streaky; Elmer; Sweeney & Son; Smokey Stover; Little Joe; Smilin' Jack. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Superman (1939 1st Series) 1 CGC Page 19 Only

Paper: Off white

19th Page Only.

Label #0218044021

Cover art by Joe Shuster. Features a two page origin (new material) of Superman by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, plus four pages previously omitted from the Action Comics series. Untitled Superman story; Clark Kent applies for a job at the Daily Star, but is turned down until Superman stops a lynching and Clark phones in the story. Untitled Superman story; Superman breaks into the Governor's mansion to stop the execution of Evelyn Curry, and Lois is kidnapped by gangsters, no thanks to that spineless milksop, Clark Kent, but is rescued by Superman. Scientific Explanation of Superman's Amazing Strength! Superman text story featuring Biff Dugan. Action Comics #14 ad, art by Fred Guardineer. Article with photos and biographies of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Back cover features the first pin-up of Superman with is also the 1st ever pin-up page to appear in a comic book. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Superman (1939 1st Series) 2 CGC Page 15 Only

Paper: Off white to white

Page 15 Only.

Label #4731587005

Cover pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by Paul Cassidy. Untitled Superman story starring Larry Trent, script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by Paul Cassidy; Superman saves the former heavyweight boxing champion of the world from committing suicide; When Superman learns that Larry Trent was drugged by his former manager to lose the title bout, the Man of Tomorrow disguises himself as Trent and slugs his way back to the title match. Superman's Tips For Super-Health. Superman at the World's Fair ad for New York World's Fair Comics, 1939 edition. Superman Champions Universal Peace!, script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by Paul Cassidy [as Joe Shuster]. Ad for the Supermen of America Club. Superman and the Skyscrapers, script by Jerry Siegel (signed), pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by Paul Cassidy [as Joe Shuster]; After five construction workers mysteriously die while trying to erect the Atlas Building, Superman decides to investigate. Superman text story. House ad for Superman in Action Comics. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Tailspin Tommy Air Adventure Magazine (1936-1937 C.J.H. Publications) Pulp Vol. 1 #1 GD/VG 3.0

Paper: Cream

Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

October 1936. Scarce pulp issue. Comic-book style cover by Fred Meagher. War stories include "Doomed in the Air" by Arnold Evan Ewart, "Treachery Rides High" by Ludwig Stanley Landmichl, "High-Jinxed!" by Stark Akers, and "Plane K-4 Going West" by Jay Kay. Interior illustration by Fred Meagher (1). 7-in. x 10-in.; black-and-white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-Bal-Ja the Golden Lion (1936 Whitman BLB) 4056 GD- 1.8

Writing on interior pages. Near complete spine split on front cover Cover and interior oxidation. Spine panel detaching.

Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-Bal-Ja the Golden Lion. Big Little Book format, but larger, hence a "Big Big Book" with text on every left-hand page and an illustration on every right-hand page. Hardcover, 7.25-in. x 9.5-in.; black and white; 318 pages; copyright 1936.

Terror Tales (1934-1941 Popular) Pulp Vol. 3 #3 VG/FN 5.0

Paper: Off white

Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 3, Issue 3 - July, 1935. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Terror Tales (1934-1941 Popular) Pulp Vol. 8 #4 GD

Paper: Cream to off white

Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Thrilling Mystery (1935-1947 Standard) Pulp Vol. 6 #3 CGC 4.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4386389003

Thrilling Spy Stories (1939-1940 Standard) Pulp Vol. 1 #1 CGC 6.0

Paper: Off white to white

Slab: Chipped/broken bracket

Label #4581726002

This first issue FEATURED: "Terror in Kurdistan" a novelette by E. Hoffman Price, plus Robert Leslie Bellem, G.T. Fleming-Roberts.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - Fall, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 17 #1 GD- 1.8

Paper: Light tan to Cream

Front cover detached 90%. Back cover detached 70%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 17, Issue 1 - January 1931. April 1923. Edited by Farnsworth Wright. Pulp magazine specializing in Horror and Science Fiction stories. This issue features "The Lost Lady" by Seabury Quinn. 6.75-in. x 10-in.; 128 newsprint pages, text (with B&W illustrations). Cover price $0.25.

Wonder Stories (1930-1936 Stellar/Continental) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 6 #1 VG 4.0 (R)

Trimmed

TRIMMED.

April 1935. Cover by Frank R. Paul. "Phantom Monsters" by Joseph H. Kraus. Other science fiction stories by Philip J. Bartel, Harry Collier, Thomas S. Gardner, Morton Brotman, Laurence Manning, and Stanton A. Coblentz. Illustrations by Paul. Softcover pulp, 7-in. x 10-in., 132 pages, black and white (text with illustrations). Cover price $0.25.

Wonder Stories (1930-1936 Stellar/Continental) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 7 #3 CGC 8.0

Paper: Off white

Label #4696215002

"The World of If" a short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum.

Volume 7, Issue 3 - August, 1935. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Wonder Stories (1930-1936 Stellar/Continental) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 7 #6 CGC 7.5

Paper: Off white

Label #4696215001

Volume 7, Issue 6 - December, 1935. 6.75" x 9.75", 148 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.