Auctions: comic books January 1954
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Item #64206364
Published Jan 1954 by Lev Gleason.Lovers' Lane (1949) 38 CGC 2.5
Paper: Off white to white
Label #4629793014
Starts Apr 4 Cover by Fred Kida. Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk, Al Wenzel, Jay Scott Pike, Robert Martinott and Eloise Taylor. From the publisher of Crime Does Not Pay, Lover's Lane offered somewhat edgier, more lurid tales than other romance comics of the era. Penny, an orphan, is so desperate for love that soon she has a bad reputation with the boys. Redheaded ice skater Rusty secretly loves her coach Mike, but he's all business. German immigrant Greta arrives in the US to be with Hal, only to find he's met someone else. Also featuring a vintage ad for a Tom Corbett, Space Ranger "Invisible Helmet." Love Starved; Love on Ice; Trust Your Love; Girl Unwanted; Love Problems. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60988816
Web of Evil (1952) 10 FR/GD 1.5
7" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached.
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Starts Mar 9 "Death's Highway, pencils by Charles Nicholas; Torpo and Randy, two hitmen for the mob, crash their car on the way to the next job; They stay miraculously unharmed and encounter their former victims. The Cavern of the Damned; World traveler and explorer Lloyd Ramsey is exploring some underwater caverns and encounters a race of human looking aliens with three eyes; These beings plan on infiltrating society and overthrowing humanity. The Brain That Wouldn't Die; Criminal mastermind Benny the Brain Bronson goes to the electric chair, but Dr. Andre Renard steals his head from out of the grave and manages to revive the brain. Dancing Skeletons text story. The Spectre of Fate; Eric Marston unwillingly is a stowaway on the cruise liner Queen Ann and witnesses the ships sinking after a collision with an iceberg. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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