Auctions: comic books February 1957

Adventure Comics (1938 1st Series) 233 CGC 5.0

Paper: Off white

Label #2139841005

Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Stan Kaye. Joe Smith, Man of Steel starring Superboy, script by Otto Binder, art by John Sikela; Glowing meteor gives a man super-powers for a day. The Sea Clown, art by Ramona Fradon; Wackyman is a clown who somehow duplicates all of Aquaman's powers. Hy Wire humor two-pager by Henry Boltinoff. Private Pete humor page by Henry Boltinoff. A Lesson for a Bully starring Green Arrow, script by Bill Finger, art by George Papp. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Adventures of Bob Hope (1950) 43 CGC 5.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4419899012

Cover pencils by Owen Fitzgerald. Untitled Bob Hope story, pencils by Owen Fitzgerald; Bob Hope hopes to become a contestant on "The $65,000 Question" to make money; He accidentally strikes Carolyn Spooner with his yo-yo; She takes him to the lab of her father, who puts him into a time machine and sends him into the future. Untitled Bob Hope story part two, pencils by Owen Fitzgerald; Bob Hope returns from the future. Professor Spooner accidentally sends him into the past. Untitled Bob Hope story part three, pencils by Owen Fitzgerald; Bob Hope lands in the prehistoric past and encounters dinosaurs, a sexy cave girl and a cave man. Untitled Bob Hope story part four. Peg two-pager by Henry Boltinoff. Ad for 100 Toy Soldiers from Josely Co. 36 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

Donald Duck (1952-1980 Dell/Gold Key/Whitman/Gladstone) 51 CGC 5.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4423956020

Cover by Paul Murry. Stories by Carl Fallberg, Carl Barks and unknown. Art by Tony Strobl, Carl Barks, Steve Steere and John Liggera. Donald Duck is featured in "The Secret of the Glacier," plus the back-up story "The Star Gazer"! Also: Half-pager "All Season Hat" (by Carl Barks), and 1-pagers "Self-Willed Clock" and "Sign Instructions"! Plus: Goofy in "The Pesky Pelican"! And: 1-page Big Bad Wolf story "The Magic Box"! Characters in this issue: Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, Huey, Dewey, Louie, Black Pete, Goofy, Morty, Ferdie, Big Bad Wolf, Li'l Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Hi-School Romance (1949) 60 PR 0.5

Interior is complete. Severe water damage. Tape.

Cover art by Al Avison. Resort Romeo, art by John Prentice; June Baker and her mother manage a summer resort, the only thing her father left them after his death. House Ad for True Bride-to-Be Romance 22. Yesterday's Love, art by Al Avison; Carla has been dating Bern Madsen, and she is ready to marry him but still thinks of Jeff Condon, a pilot she met while he was on furlough from Korea. House ad for First Love 24, Love Problems and Advice Illustrated 49, Hi-School Romance 61, First Romance 44, and True Bride-to-Be Romances 22. School Boy, art by Bill Draut; Sharon hates watching her sister Elaine suffer through, married to Phil who "gets by" working at a gas station. First Claim on Him, art by Bob Powell; Judy works at the Hi School Music Shop, and was intently listening to the new record by Joe Banner, when he enters the store. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Strange Tales (1951-1976 1st Series) 55 GD 2.0

Water damage.

Cover art by Bill Everett. "The Jack-In-The-Box," art by Mac Pakula; An ivory hunter regrets opening a tribal witch doctor's jack-in-the-box when inside it contains the spirit of the Elephant God. "Octopus!", script by Carl Wessler, art by Tony DiPreta; In 1980 a ship finds itself menaced by an octopus made gigantic by atomic bomb tests so a call is made to the past to shoot all nearby octopi and save the ship in a future time. "What Goes On Down There?", art by John Giunta; Underground invader's resolve to conquer the surface world fails when they realize that after millions of years adapting to life underground they are no bigger than ants. "The Spirit of '76," art by Joe Maneely; A young boy cleans out the attic of the old house his family moved into and meets a ghost from the Revolutionary War era. "Earth-Trap!", art by Robert Sale; The guardian of the force of gravity takes a vacation from the center of the Earth and gets hoodwinked by a phony medium attempting to demonstrate telekinesis so he goes back to the gravity controls and turns them up a notch and no one can move. "Man Without Fear!", script by Carl Wessler, art by George Roussos; A soldier's ghost demonstrates the bravery that the man never could in life. "The Threat From the Void," art by Paul Reinman; In the days of the cold war Jupiter sends a threat to Earth, close to achieving space travel technology, warning them if another global war breaks out Earth shall have to be destroyed. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.