Auctions: comic books published by Fox

Mystery Men Comics (1939) 19 PR 0.5 (R)

Restored (see item notes)

RESTORATION. Staples replaced and TRIMMED. Full length spine split. Back cover missing and incorrect back cover married with archival tape.

Stories by Dick Briefer, Al Weine and Nathaniel Nitkin. Art by Charles Nicholas, Dick Briefer, Walter Frame, Klaus Nordling, Bob Powell, Al Weine, Munson Paddock, Norton Kingsley, and George Tuska. An anthology of Golden Age adventure comics from Fox Feature, including the original Blue Beetle. A talking crow who was once human tells Rex Dexter about the giant of Mercury, who turns humans to animals and hunts them for sport, in another inimitable story by Dick Briefer; The Blue Beetle and his girlfriend, reporter Joan Mason, investigate when the mysterious Sky-Ruler flings cars from atop skyscrapers; Green Mask sets out to free his reporter pal News Blake from a murder gang. The Skyscraper Murder Mystery; Slaves of Mercury; News Blake Gets a Clue; Tool Smugglers; The Bermuda Naval Base; Smugglers of El Chico; Burglar; The Golden Buddha; Baldy Burke; Vulloti. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Western Thrillers (1948 Fox) 1 VG+ 4.5

Cover by Sal Brodsky. Art by Sam Glanzman and others. Gun-blazing Western adventure from Fox Feature Syndicate. This issue features dangerous women of the Old West: Notorious dancer Velvet Rose and her outlaw lover Chet Hatch bring trouble to the ominously named town of Bloody Greens; Highwayman Jim Sikes is a thief and a killer, but his beautiful daughter Two-Gun Sal is ten times worse; Farmer's daughters Rita and Vivian Striker trade in their plows and gingham for pistols and stage holdups. The Saga of Velvet Rose and Her Dance of Death; Two-Gun Sal - Poison in Pigtails; Shootin' Duel; The Striker Sisters. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.