Auctions: comic books September 1950

Airboy Comics (1945-1953 Hillman) Vol. 7 #8 GD/VG 3.0

Water spotting.

Cover by Ernest Schroeder. Stories and art by Ernest Schroeder and others. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #79. No issue # on cover; Vol. 7, issue #8 in indicia. Airboy encounters an actual centaur in the shadow of the Great Wall of China. In Sicily, The Heap intervenes when an old friend from his human past is in danger. The little-known true story of the Texas Navy, during the Republic of Texas era of the 1830s. Also featuring a vintage ad for "Lucky Skull Ring," "Lucky Pirate Ring" and other charming mail-order novelties. Epic centaur-meets-plane cover by Ernest Schroeder. Airboy Meets the Centaur; The Heap; The Texas Navy; Swifty Chase; The Men in the Blankets; The Longest Fight; The Black-Browed Pirate; And It's a Fact. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Fight Comics (1940) 70 VG- 3.5

Cover-to-cover edge tear.

Edited by Joseph V. Daffron and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Bill La Cava, Gus Schrotter, and David Heames. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Evil white men try to turn the natives against Tiger Girl by creating phony versions of her pet tigers; Boxer Kayo Kirby faces crooks and a gigantic opponent in Central America; Senorita Rio investigates rumors of US forces aiding rebels in a South American republic. Another classic Tiger Girl cover. Tiger Girl; Kayo Kirby; The Camera Eye; Rip Carson of Risks, Unlimited; Senorita Rio. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 22 #1 FR 1.0

Near complete spine split.

Volume 22, Issue 1 - September, 1950. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Raymond F. Jones, Edmond Hamilton (Captain Future story "The Harpers of Titan"), Arthur K. Barnes and Henry Kuttner, Jack Vance, Mack Reynolds, and Matt Lee. Virgil Finlay illustration. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 166 pages. Cover price $0.25.