Auctions: comic books October 1954

Dell Giant Donald Duck Fun Book (1953-1954 Dell) 2 GD/VG 3.0

1/2" spine split from bottom. Some activities inside completed in pencil.

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Cover by Tony Strobl and Don MacLaughlin. Stories and art by Paul Murry and others. Donald Duck Fun Book was a 100-page special from Dell, featuring classic Duck stories, puzzles, games, connect-the-dots, mazes, crossword puzzles, and cut-outs. Uncle Scrooge's latest hobby is collecting rare birds. Donald and his nephews try to help Daisy find her cat Figaro. Donald wants to read a book while the kids watch a movie. Plus games, puzzles and activity pages aplenty. Happy Birthday!; Bird Watchers; Time Out for Laughs!; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Circus Want Ad; A Fish Story; Laughs. 100 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 18 CGC 4.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4250345005

"The Man Who Went Back!," art by Pete Tumlinson; A man is pursued through time by tax collectors. "Hate Is the Master" text story. "The Hidden Man!," art by Ed Moline; A mysterious sniper who has shot seven people in the city park turns out to be a monkey in the nearby zoo who somehow acquired a gun. "He Wouldn't Stay Dead!," art by Bill Walton; A man conducts rites that reincarnate his shrewish wife's spirit into a figurine, but the new person, whom he names 'Jolie', is a kind and supportive ideal wife. "The Swami!," art by Mort Lawrence; A crook forces his stepson to commit crimes for him but one victim is a swami who turns the man's greed against him. "The Worst Thirst," art by Ed Winiarski; Two brothers are incensed that their neighbors have put down a well that has dried up the well on their property so they lay pipe to divert the water back down to the well on their property. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Tales of Horror (1952 Toby/Minoan) 13 GD- 1.8 (R)

Restored (see item notes)

RESTORATION. Cover cleaned. 3" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple, coming detached at second. Oxidation. Heavy water damage.

Cover by Al Gordon. Stories and art by Al Gordon, H.L. Larsen, Medio Iorio and Myron Fass. Pre-Code horror comics from Toby Press. A woman's ghost rises from the grave to visit her still-living husband, only to learn he's met someone else. A man realizes that demon-possessed children are behind a series of horrible murders - but could his own son be one of them? A vampire travels to the American West, where no one has ever heard of vampires or how to kill them, in the amusing horror-Western hybrid The Vampire Goes West. A Womans Revenge; Ghost with a Torch; Disaster Included; The Little Children; The Vampire Goes West. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.