Comic books May 1969

Auction Item: CGC 9.0 View scans Auction opens January 3 Paper: White Label #4641264013	Auction Item: CGC 8.5 View scans Auction opens December 15 Paper: Off white to white Label #4667957014	Auction Item: VG- 3.5 View scans Auction opens December 8 Cover detached at one staple. One staple replaced.	Add to cart GD 2.0 $24.50 View scan Cover detached at one staple. 4" Tear in to cover.
Add to cart GD- 1.8 $21.50 View scan	Add to cart CGC 9.4 $359.00 View scans Paper: White Label #4545304012 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.	Add to cart CGC 9.4 $595.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white Label #4260639002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.	Add to cart CGC 9.0 $349.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #4484736019 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Add to cart CGC 8.5 $265.00 View scans Paper: White Label #4432196006 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.	Add to cart CGC 8.0 $175.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4587163007 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.	Add to cart CGC 8.0 $194.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4507168001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.	Add to cart CGC 7.5 $130.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4393692006 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
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Cover art by Neal Adams. What Is...the Power?, script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Neal Adams, inks by Tom Palmer; In the Egyptian desert, the X-Men battle the Living Pharaoh and his men; The Pharaoh takes off with Alex and siphons off his mutant powers to turn himself into the Living Monolith; As the X-Men battle the Monolith, Alex turns the tables by taking back his power and more, stopping the Monolith and destroying the ancient temple where he has been trapped; Alex warns his friends to stay away as he has no control over the destructive powers coursing through his body. The Flying A-Bomb!--The Origins of the Uncanny X-Men!, script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Werner Roth, inks by Sam Grainger; conclusion of Angel's origin. 36 pgs. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $400.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: White U.K. Price Variant. Label #3802644001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 1/- cover price. Cover art by Neal Adams. What Is...the Power?, script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Neal Adams, inks by Tom Palmer; In the Egyptian desert, the X-Men battle the Living Pharaoh and his men; The Pharaoh takes off with Alex and siphons off his mutant powers to turn himself into the Living Monolith; As the X-Men battle the Monolith, Alex turns the tables by taking back his power and more, stopping the Monolith and destroying the ancient temple where he has been trapped; Alex warns his friends to stay away as he has no control over the destructive powers coursing through his body. The Flying A-Bomb!--The Origins of the Uncanny X-Men!, script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Werner Roth, inks by Sam Grainger; conclusion of Angel's origin. 36 pgs.

Cover art by Neal Adams. The Brain Robbers! starring Johnny Peril, script by George Kashdan, art by Jack Sparling. Burn, Match, Burn!--Tales of the Mad, Mod Witch, script by Dave Wood, art by Art Saaf [as Art Saafe]. The Corpse That Didn't Die!, script by Dave Wood [as D. W. Holtz], art by Pat Boyette. 36 pgs. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart Good $2.65

Vol. 3, No. 1 - May , 1969. 5.25" x 7.25", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.60.

Add to cart Good $8.00

1970 - A Fleetway Annual! Includes comic stories, prose, articles, and word puzzles. Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 128 pages, PC/PB&W.

Mike Friedrich interviews Dick Giordano accompanied by a caricature by Joe Orlando. Bill Dubay on the King Features Syndicate. Wendy Fletcher (pre-marriage to Richard Pini) spot illustration. Johnny Chambers' "Little Green Dinosaur" comic strip. Richard Corben's "Monsters Rule" parts 6-8. Jim Jones' on Will Eisner illustrated by Alan Hutchinson and Bill Dubay. George Metzger's "In the Lower Depths". Richard Corben's "Lure of the Tower" complete eight-page story. Bob Juanillo portfolio. Letters from Richard Kyle and John Belfi. Letters logo by Vaughn Bode as well as the back cover. 8.5-in. x 11-in., 24 pages, B&W.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $2.65 Water damage. Chew.

#16, 4/70, 15c. Comic book version of the 1960s Irwin Allen TV series about the adventures of the crew of the submarine Seaview. Issue features "The Overland Trail - Parts 1 & 2" in which the Seaview becomes land-locked and has to go over land to get back to the water. Issued also features Gold Key Comics Club features. Painted cover. Story and art credits: unknown. Number/month on Cover: 10133-004, April. NOTE: This issue reprints an earlier issue. Cover price $0.15.

Mystery of the Loch by Carl Barks, from Comics and Stories #237; In the Buying Mood by Carl Barks, from Uncle Scrooge #6; The Inventors Contest with Gyro Gearloose, by Carl Barks. Stories and art by Chase Craig, Dan Gormley, Gil Turner, Dan Spiegle, Pete Alvarado, Paul Murry, Frank McSavage, Tony Strobl, George Wheeler, and Al Hubbard. 4.75. x 6.5. 160 pages. Cover price $0.50. Cover price $0.50.

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Cover by Paul Murry. Stories and art by Carl Barks, Al Hubbard, John Carey, and Paul Murry. Sometimes listed as Vol. 29 #8. The long-running vehicle for Disney character comics featured art by Carl Barks, the legendary Good Duck Artist. Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Captain Churchmouse try to retrieve a Ming Dynasty teapot from smugglers. In a story by Barks, Huey, Dewey and Louie play an April Fool's trick on Donald. Daisy tries to teach April May and June a lesson about inner beauty. Donald Duck; Scamp: Tricky Tracker; April May and June: The Not-So-Magic Mirror; Daring Sky Rider; Mickey Mouse: The Secret of Shipnappers' Cove. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Chic Stone. Stories and art by Ezra Jackson and Robert Hayward Webb. The first series from 1960s publisher Eerie presents gory tales of horror and the macabre, many "reanimated" from classic pre-Code horror comics. Jerry learns the horrifying truth about Jessica's many husbands. A strange rain of blood is centered on a man who framed a romantic rival for murder. A political mission to Central America is sabotaged by voodoo chieftains. Escape From Hell; Terror Town; Blood in the Sky; The Empty Coffin; Monster Mill; Witch or Widow; Torture Travelogue; Zombie Vengeance. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $0.35.

Untitled one-page story; Wendy brings a vampire to meet some kids who said they needed an umpire. "Blubbering Bus"; Wendy defends a broken-down bus from a wicked sorcerer and helps it regain confidence in itself. Untitled one-page story; Spooky scares up a waterfall so that Poil can take a picture. Untitled one-page story; Spooky tries to handle a bully but his effort backfires. "Unexpected Help"; Continued from "Blundering Bus" earlier in this issue. "The Ladies' Aid," art by Warren Kremer; Casper sees two ladies driving through the Enchanted Forest and tries to keep anything scary away from them. "The Bullfight" text story. "Pic-Nicked" text story. "Relatively Rare"; When Poil introduces her brainy cousin Wowzer, Spooky tries to find a smart relative but without much success. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

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Featuring: 3 page Witching Hour framing sequence starring Mordred, Mildred and Cynthia, drawn by Alex Toth and Dick Giordano; 6 page story "That's right, Bernard -- scream!" drawn by Jack Sparling; 7 page story "The Trip of Fools!" drawn by Jose Delbo; 1 page filler "The Beat Goes On!" drawn by Sid Greene; 4 page story "Once Upon a Surprise Ending!" drawn by Jack Sparling; 1 page Fact File text article "Fact File #6 (Sargon the Sorcerer)." Cover by Nick Cardy. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

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Walter Lantz' Woody Woodpecker. Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. Featuring the tale "Tricky Treasure Trek"! Also: the reprint tales "Silent Sam" and "The Perils of Port Rancid"! And: Oswald the Rabbit in the reprint story "Well Posted"! Plus: Chilly Willy in the 1-page reprint text story "Too Hot To Handle"! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.

Volume 7, Issue 3 - May, 1969. 8" x 10.5", 78 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $17.25 View scan

Add to cart VG 4.0 $15.75 View scan 1/2" cover-to-cover tear from bottom.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $12.50

Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Mike Esposito. Robin's Revenge! starring Superman and Batman, script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Jack Abel; After the Automator kills the Batman, Robin devotes the next ten years of his life to hunting down the killer. When the thief dubbed Golden Gloves starts operating using technology strikingly similar to the Automator's, Superman and Robin investigate and discover that Golden Gloves isn't the Automator, but a brainwashed Batman, who was actually teleported away ten years ago by the Automator, whom they finally bring to justice. Description of the first Batman story in Detective Comics #27. John Jones' Farewell to Earth starring the Martian Manhunter, art by Joe Certa; J'onn J'onzz meets a team of security officers from Jupiter who are seeking S'Vor, an escaped criminal on Earth. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $32.00 View scans

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $16.50 View scan 3" Spine split from top (chew). Cover coming loose at one staple. Water damage.

Cover by Bill Draut. Stories by unknown. Art by Bill Draut, Win Mortimer & Vince Colletta, Jay Scott Pike and unknown. Two very different girls try to break through the antagonistic attitude of a reclusive lighthouse keeper, and one succeeds in "Love Put Out the Light"! Plus: Marriage and a first child have not made Maria happy -- she thinks that the romance is gone between her and Billy in "Enter Marriage...Exit Romance!" Also: Mad Mad Modes for Moderns 2-pager "[When it's time to turn on with your fave tiger...]"! And: Judy meets Andy accidentally when their respective dates are unable to make it. They spend one evening together, but go back to their previous relationships, each thinking (mistakenly) that the other isn't interested in the reprint story "Ring of Gold"! Plus: Laura Penn...Your Romance Reporter letters page. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.