Auctions: comic books February 1943

Blue Bolt (1940-1949) Vol. 3 #9 FR/GD 1.5 (R)

Restored (see item notes)

RESTORATION. Staples replaced. Multiple lateral spine tears. 2" Spine split from top. Water damage. Tape.

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Cover by Al Plastino. Stories and art by Dan Barry, Al Fagaly, Alan Mandel, Jack Warren, John Daly, Bill O'Connor, Ray Gill, Harold DeLay, Henry Kiefer, John Jordan, R. E. MacNeal, Ray Ramsey, Martin Filchock and Eugene L. Pollock. Sometimes listed as Blue Bolt #33. Former superhero Blue Bolt soars as an aviator hero in WWII. Blue Bolt tackles arsonists with an ulterior motive, in a story inked by future Flash Gordon artist Dan Barry. The Phantom Sub launches an attack on the Japanese mainland itself. Sergeant Spook and his sidekick Jerry battle a plot to enslave the US at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Dick Cole; The Phantom Sub Invades Japan!; Blue Bolt; Old Cap Hawkins True Tales; Fearless Fellers; Krisko & Jasper; Sub-Zero; Edison Bell; Who's a Sissy!; The White Rider: Jail Break; Sergeant Spook; Bluebolts and Nuts. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Detective Comics (1937 1st Series) 72 GD+ 2.5

Centerfold detached. Moisture damage.

Cover art by Jerry Robinson. License for Larceny starring Batman and Robin, script by Joe Samachson, pencils by Bob Kane, inks by Jerry Robinson and George Roussos. Petals of Peril starring The Boy Commandos, script and pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon. The Adventure of the Wrong Numbers starring The Crimson Avenger, script and pencils by Jack Lehti, inks by `Charles Paris. The Target Murder starring Spy, art by Chuck Winter. Baptism of Fire text story by Tex Denton. Larry Jordan vs. Air Wave, script by Murray Boltinoff, pencils by Harris Levy (as Lee Harris), inks by Charles Paris. The Mystery of the Missing Monkey starring Slam Bradley, art by Howard Sherman. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Spy Smasher (1941 Fawcett) 11 CGC 3.0

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #4649717002

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.