Comic books 1940-1942, graded by CBCS

Action Comics (1938 DC) 40 CBCS 1.5

Paper: Off white

INCOMPLETE. piece missing from 1st 12 pages, slightly affects story.

Label #23-18DB970-001

Cover art by Fred Ray. Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by John Sikela (signed as Joe Shuster). Pep Morgan story, art by George Papp. Black Pirate story, art by Sheldon Moldoff. Three Aces story, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Chad Grothkopf. Mr. America story, script by Ken Fitch, art by Bernard Baily. The Adventure of the Prehistoric Valley starring Congo Bill, art by Fred Ray. Preview of Star Spangled Kid, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Hal Sherman (includes photo of Siegel). Zatara story, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Joseph Sulman. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 8.5 $5,800.00 or Best Offer Moderate professional restoration Paper: Off white to white Slab: Minor side edge crack Professional restoration includes: piece added to back cover, cover reinforced, spine splits sealed, tear seals to back cover, cover cleaned. Label #16-17447E6-008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($174.00) will be charged at checkout.

Hawkman (script by Gardner Fox, art by Sheldon Moldoff), the Sandman (script by Fox, art by Chad Grothkopf, not Creig Flessel), Gary Concord the Ultra-Man (only appearance; script and art by Jon L. Blummer as "Don Shelby"), the Flash (script by Fox, art by Everett (E.E.) Hibbard), the Spectre (script by Jerry Siegel, art by Bernard Baily), Biff Bronson (script by Albert Sulman, art by Joseph Sulman), the Hour Man (script by Ken Fitch, art by Baily), and Red, White and Blue (script by Siegel, art by William Smith). Two-page text story, "Exile to Jupiter" by Evelyn Gaines. Cover art (composite) by Creig Flessel, Hibbard, Blummer, and Baily. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 2.0 $595.00 Moderate amateur restoration Paper: Off white to white Amateur Restoration includes: small amount of color touch on cover, tear seal to cover with glue. Back cover married. Bottom edge of 2 center wraps trimmed. Moderate amount of tape tape and archival tape. Label #21-0BE0C52-002

Cover by Bill Everett. "Aman the Amazing Man" by Bill Everett; Chuck Hardy in "The Lant Beneath the Sea" by Frank Thomas; "The Iron Skull" by Carl Burgos; "Minimidget the Super-MIdget" by John T. Kolb; "Zardi the Eternal man"; "The Shark" by Lew Glanz; "Mighty Man and the Coal People" by Martin Filchock; "The Magician From Mars" by John Guinta and Michael Mirando; and a two-page text story, "Three-Ring Death" by Duke Carey. 68 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 1.8 $999.95 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Slab: Scuffing on front of case Label #22-3108ACF-001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($30.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Note: issue #3 is the first issue. Untitled story; Captain Courageous starts out stopping kids from bullying a girl and it snowballs into stopping a Nazi invasion of the United States. Untitled story, script by Otto Binder; Lone Warrior enlists in the U.S. Army, is stationed right by the boy's camp where his kid brother goes, and the two join forces to stop saboteurs at the Army base working for the Dictator's Shadow. Untitled story; Tyson Typhoon and the crew of the Sea Lion are transporting a scientist who enemy agents want to kill. Untitled story; Ned and Kay are asked by the American Consul in Mexico City to return diamonds to Brazil, but gangsters have other plans. Capsule biography of Captain Jack Knight, art by Warren Kremer. "Mastermind Payoff" text story by Ralph Powers. Untitled Paul Revere, Jr. story, art by George Wilson; Paul Sr. runs an anti-isolationist newspaper called "America Awake", which draws the ire of a Fifth Column group called The Thorns; Paul Jr. and his friends, Patrick and Betsy, are members of a club with the same name and fight the Thorns. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 4.5 $749.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Minor side edge crack Label #7008919-AA-006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($22.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Wood, Bob Wood, Alan Mandel, Frank Volp, Dick Briefer, Bart Tumey, Norman Maurer and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. The origin of Iron Jaw is revealed, as his son is sent to America on a mission from Hitler. Young Robin Hood encounters the mysterious criminal mastermind called The Veiled Lady. A spy tries to prevent Bombshell from revealing the Nazi plans for the invasion of America. Crimebuster: Origin of Iron Jaw; Young Robin Hood: Wanted Dead or Alive: Mickey Murder, Bullet Brain; Boy Comics Hero of the Month; Daredevil On the Isle of Terror; The Case of Bill MacDonald; Swoop Storm; Little Dynamite: Boys of the Street; Yankee Longago. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 0.3 $2,275.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Coverless. INCOMPLETE. Label #6500066-AA-016 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($68.25) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by C.C. Beck. All stories written by Joe Simon, penciled by Jack Kirby, and inked by Dick Briefer. Captain Marvel stars in an untitled adventure in which the Big Red Cheese battles Dr. Sivana's super-robot "Z!" Also features "Capt. Marvel Out West," an untitled adventure in which Captain Marvel battles dragon-men from Saturn, and "Capt. Marvel Battles the Vampire," in which Billy Batson learns about vampires from a book by H.P. Lovecraft! Also features two one page fillers, "Capt. Marvel's Pencil-Puzzle-Page" and "Bill Batson's Page of Games." 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 0.5 $1,099.95 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Centerfold missing, affects story. INCOMPLETE. 15th wrap detached. Cover reattached with moderate amount of tape. 2 long pieces of plastic attached to interior cover with moderate amount of tape. Label #21-21EDEFB-001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($33.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Charles Quinlan. Stories and art by Charles Quinlan, Ray Willner, Edward Lipowski, Saul Rosen and Al Ulmer. Sometimes listed as Cat-Man Comics Vol. 1 #9. The adventures of Cat-Man and other early superheroes from the Golden Age of comics Cat-Man's alter ego David Merryweather is marked for death after he threatens to reveal the names of the Nazi-affiliated Swastika Council. Dr. Diamond tracks a mysterious zeppelin that is destroying buildings with artificial lightning. Dean Denton is a reformed burglar who becomes the crime-fighting Deacon to make up for his past misdeeds. Working out of a church, he tries to prevent ex-con Johnny from resuming his life of crime and corrupting his young brother. Cat-Man; Blaze Baylor and the Arson Ring; The Deacon; Dr. Diamond; Lucky Landers; Freddie's Match; Hurricane Harrigan; Rag Man; Devil Dogs; Pied Piper; Lance Rand. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 2.5 $850.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #22-323A2F8-001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($25.50) will be charged at checkout.

Untitled American Eagle story, script by Richard E. Hughes, art by Kin Platt; Eaglet gets super-powers. Untitled Black Terror story. Untitled Liberator story. The Unholy Trio starring Pepper Swift, art by Bob Oksner. Untitled Crash Carter story, art by Bob Oksner. Untitled Sgt. Bill King story, art by Maurice Gutwirth. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 8.5 $610.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white File Copy Label #19-37578F8-010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($18.30) will be charged at checkout.

Famous Funnies becomes the first comic book series to reach its hundredth issue. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, a text story, and an original Fearless Flint feature. In order of appearance: "Life's Like That" by Fred Neher; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Fearless Flint" by H. G. Peter; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Connie" by Frank Godwin; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; and "Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon. "Larry Frames the Fire Demons" text story by M. M. Oblinger. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.5 $3,999.95 or Best Offer Conserved CBCS Authentic Signature Paper: Off white to white Verified Sig: Carl Barks. Amateur Conservation Includes: Tear seals to cover with glue. Label #17-2A6599E-003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($120.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Indicia title is "DONALD DUCK FINDS PIRATE GOLD, No. 9." Cover art by Hank Porter. Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold, script by Bob Karp (adaptation) and Homer Brightman (original storyboards), pencils by Carl Barks (story pages 1, 2, 5, 12-40) and Jack Hannah (story pages 3, 4, 6-11, 41-64), inks by Carl Barks (story pages 1, 2, 5, 12-40) and Jack Hannah (story pages 3, 4, 6-11, 41-64); Bearing a map found in Donald's seafood restaurant, the ducks and a parrot named Old Yellow Beak set sail for an island where the pirate Henry Morgan's treasure is buried; Unknown to them, the crew of the ship is made up of Black Pete, disguised as an old woman, and two of his rat-faced henchmen; Peter takes over the ship, but the ducks and the parrot reach the treasure island on a raft; They dig up the treasure while Pete lies in wait. Back cover treasure map. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 7.5 $715.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #17-4049963-054 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($21.45) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Bill Everett cover. Contains three original features accompanied by comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Hydroman" by Bill Everett; "Flyin' Jenny" by Russell Keaton; "Screen Oddities" by Gordon Fawcett; "The Purple Zombie" by Tarpe Mills; "Sergeant Stoney Craig" by Frank Rentfrow and Don Dickson; "Reg'lar Fellers" by Gene Byrnes; "Dinky Dinkerton" by Art Huhta (as Jim Wallace); "Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; "Mann of India" by Tarpe Mills; "Bill and Davey" by James P. McCague; "Dare-devils of Destiny" by Frank Rentfrow and Don Dickson; "Gordon Fife and the Boy King" by Bob Moore and Jim Hales; "Amaze A Minute" by Arnold; "Tad of the Tanbark" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; and "Kitty Moran and her Hound" and "Idioddities" by Jack Romer. "Trouble in Sudbury" text story by E. Albert Willard. Indicia states "Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics". 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Human Torch Comics (1940) 7 CBCS 3.0 Restored

Extensive amateur restoration

Paper: Cream to off white

Amateur Restoration Includes: Extensive amount of color touch on cover & pieces added, reinforced, spine splits sealed, tear seals, cover cleaned, staples replaced. All 3 edges of 1st 2 wraps trimmed. 2 center wraps detached.

Label #21-225E20F-003

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Agent of Death starring the Human Torch, script and art by Carl Burgos; Torch and Toro try to stop the plans of Agent X, who is out to destroy an American convoy headed toward the Far East carrying food and supplies. Promotional ad featuring Captain America, who encourages readers to join his Sentinels of Liberty. The Case of the Attempted Dreadnaught Disasters starring Human Torch, script and art by Carl Burgos; The Flaming Duo must act quickly to prevent the treacherous fingers of Japanese treachery, out to destroy strategic bridges that would bottle up our Navy yard. Devil Cat text story by Mickey Spillane. Sub-Mariner Slaughters the Japs On Wake Island, art by Allen Simon. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 2.5 $65.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #20-2C64B4A-003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($1.95) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson (sometimes credited as Jo King). Stories and art by William Ritt, Clarence Gray, Brandon Walsh, Nicholas Afonsky, Carl Anderson, Jack Burnley, R. J. Scott, Eddie Sullivan, Charlie Schmidt, Lee Falk, Phil Davis, E. C. Segar, George McManus, Otto Soglow, Eddie Rickenbacker, Clayton Knight, Romer Grey, Charles Flanders, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Don Moore and Alex Raymond. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay presents an anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. Mandrake the Magician rescues a woman from an attempted hit-and-run by thugs. Brick Bradford; Little Annie Rooney; Henry; Sport Features; Scott's Scrapbook; Radio Patrol; Mandrake the Magician; Thimble Theatre; Flash Gordon; Bringing Up Father; The Little King; Ted Towers, Animal Master; King of the Royal Mounted. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 3.0 $4,749.95 or Best Offer Paper: Slightly britle Label #21-3941879-001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($142.50) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

"The Wild Hare," script by Chase Craig; Elmer goes hunting and has to deal with a screwy rabbit. "Porky's Hired Hand"; Porky hires a night watchman to guard his chickens. Untitled story; Sniffles meets Mary Jane. "Tom Thumb in Trouble"; Tom is saved from drowning by a little bird. "Porky's Hollywood Sketchbook." Untitled story; Mike captures a roonga and PP&P. He delivers them to the king; The pot is put on to boil; Pete pitches a rock from the portal of the prison hut, beaning the king; Mike stages a coup d'etat, declaring himself king; The gang escapes in the chaos as Cap and the crew arrive; On the trail back, the rare roonga appears! "Elmer and His Magic Wand," art by Chase Craig; Bugs convinces Elmer that he has a magic wand. Untitled story, art by Win Smith (as Leon Schlesinger); Bugs steals a government airplane in order to win a model building contest. "Pokerhuntas and Captain Johnny Smith." "Bugs Bunny and His Secret Six." "Believe It or Else." Porky Pig art on back cover. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 7.5 $10,000 Paper: Off white to white Label #16-23F4BA7-001

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. "The Result of the Most Famous Battle in Comic Magazines," script by Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, and John Compton, art by Everett and Burgos; Trapped in a translite tube, only the intervention of Betty Dean saves the Torch and ends the battle between him and Namor. Human Torch untitled story, script and art by Carl Burgos; Torch must battle a gas syndicate who tries to raise the price of gasoline, and bombs any gas station refusing to go along. Sub-Mariner untitled story, script and art by Bill Everett; Because of Namor's seemingly inability to handle the Torch, he is suspended from all active service; Meanwhile, a group of hardened ice field seamen, led by Luther Robinson, seek out the Sub-Mariner to destroy him. The Angel untitled story, art by Paul Gustavson; The Angel must cope with weird "devils of the mist," who have been released from the bowels of the earth by a volcano, and who are kidnapping young women top side to sacrifice to that volcano. Electro, the Marvel of the Age untitled story, art by Steve Dahlman; Electro is called into service to battle an evil, now insane, ex-genius of brain surgery, stationed in an old castle somewhere off the coast of Cuba, who has successfully created artifical blood. Tiger Trail text story, script by Beach Allen, art by Ed Robins. The Masked Raider untitled story, art by Al Anders; A criminal who has fatally wounded a tax collector sees the Raider, and works out a scheme to convince the Sheriff that the Raider is the murderer...all as a blind to steal the tax money himself. "The Murder of a Man Without a Will," script by Ray Gill, art by Bob Oksner; While Terry Vance, the Boy of a Hundred Hobbies" works on an experiment, he hears a police call of someone murdered in a penthouse. Advenures of Ka-Zar the Great untitled story, art by Ben Thompson; A wanted criminal captures two Scotland Yard detectives and leaves them for dead, while he attempts to fly out of the jungle to freedom. 68 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 4.0 $2,100.00 Conserved Paper: Cream to off white Amateur Conservation Includes: Cover reattached & interior reinforced with glue. Four pieces of tape on interior cover. Label #19-1A14335-028

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Captain America Comics ad. "The Poison Pill Suicides" starring The Human Torch, story and art by Carl Burgos; Torch and Toro are invited to lead the Coney Island Mardi Gras pageant, but a henchman of a gunrunner named Izan succeeds in interrupting the event with a bomb before committing suicide with a poison pill rather than facing his boss's judgment to be drowned for failure. "The Flying Dutchman" starring Sub-Mariner, script and art by Bill Everett; Intrigued by four ship sinkings by a mysterious 18th-century ghost ship, Namor figures that the tremendous loss of gold shipments carried aboard those ships must be the work of a 20th-century pirate who has bolted the ghost ship to a submarine. Young Allies Comics ad. The Vision untitled story, script by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, pencils by Kirby and David Walters, inks by Walters; The Vision comes to Earth to battle the "Mad Man of Science", Dr. Korbeau, who has discovered the secret of man's soul and how to remove it; Korbeau removes the souls of seven of his scientific competitors. "The Sea of Grassy Death" text story, script by Mickey Spillane. "The Green-Faced Man,", art by Al Fagaly; The celebrated trial of the Green-Faced Man is interrupted when the prisoner's gang frees him with an attack of gas; However, the Patriot tracks him down. "The Case of the Deadly Letters" starring Terry Vance, script by Ray Gill, art by Bob Oksner; Terry and Deadline suspect that Hollywood director Aubrey de Woode did not commit suicide, but was murdered, and they suspect the dead man's nephew, even though the police have ruled the young man out as a suspect. "Strange Adventures in the Land of Nowhere" starring Jimmy Jupiter, script and art by Ed Robbins; Jimmy is taken up in an airplane but forgets to fasten his safety belt, and falls out of the plane, landing on a soft cloud; He discovers he is in the Land of Nowhere. "The Horror of the Haunted Cathedral" starring Angel; General Henchel faces the prospect of suicide because of his blunder along the German-Russian Front, but instead he makes a hasty departure by submarine to America. 68 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 1.0 $1,495.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #17-2C06FE4-012 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($44.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Mac Raboy. The Coming of Captain Nazi, script by Bill Woolfolk, art by Mac Raboy; Hitler introduces a new foe for the super heroes in America: Captain Nazi, who is sent to the United States specifically to destroy its weakling "heroes." The Black Dragon Society, art by Charles Sultan; Minute Man [Jack Weston] vs. the Black Dragon Society. The Curse of the Balandrachu starring El Carim, art by George Tuska. The Goat People and the Dragon, script by Otto Binder, art by Rafael Astarita; Captain Venture vs. King Leon. The Peacemakers starring the Companions Three. The Landers-Benson Range War, art by Ralph Carlson; Buck and Mike run smack into a range war, and have to make peace. Black Giant, the Man From the Grave starring Zoro, The Mystery Man. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 9.0 $14,495 or Best Offer Moderate professional restoration Paper: Off white to white Moderate/Extensive Professional Restoration Includes: Color touch on cover, pieces added to cover, tear seals to cover and interior, cover and centerfold reinforced, cover and interior cleaned, staples cleaned. Gerber 8. This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($434.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Bernard Baily. "The Spectre Strikes," script by Jerry Siegel, art by Bernard Baily; After murdering Corrigan, Benson and his thugs decide to kill the witness, Clarice, but before they can do this, a wraith-like Corrigan appears before them to exact justice. "Biff's Disguise," starring Biff Bronson, script by Albert Sulman, art by Joe Sulman. "The Mine Sweepers," starring Lt. Bob Neal, script by Robert Hirsch, art by Russ Lehman. "The Rocket Ship," starring King Carter, art by Paul Lauretta. "Submarine Pirates," starring Captain Desmo, art by Ed Winiarski. "Murder in the Ring," starring Detective Sergeant Carey, script and art by Joe Donohoe. "The Search for Half Breed Charlie," starring Sergeant O'Malley of the Red Coat Patrol, art by John Lehti. "The Fall of Billy Evans," starring Bulldog Martin, art by Bart Tumey. 68 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.0 $815.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #16-47F16A0-002

Stories by Toni Blum and Will Eisner. Art by Alex Blum, Louis Cazeneuve, Bob Powell and George Tuska. Cover by Ed Ashe. A strongman superhero from Fox Feature, descended from the Biblical Samson and sharing his weakness: having his hair cut. This issue includes reprints from Samson's early appearances in Fantastic Comics #1, 3, and Mystery Men Comics #2 and 6. A mysterious magnetic super-weapon is lifting ocean liners right out of the sea; Wing Turner is shot down while scouting for Nazi U-boats in the North Atlantic. Dynamic cover by Ed Ashe. The Coming of Samson; Wing Turner; Dragor; Samson and the Murder Ring; K-51 Spies At War. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 1.5 $1,750.00 Paper: Off white Cover detached. Front cover reattached to back cover with 9 pieces of tape. Centerfold detached. Label #18-110B82D-003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($52.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Lou Fine. Stories by Rodney Weems and Bert Whitman. Art by Emil Gershwin, Robert Webb, George Tuska, and Bert Whitman. An anthology of Golden Age adventure comics featuring sci-fi heroes and some of the very first superheroes. Electric-powered hero Electro becomes Dynamo, and uses his powers to trap a gang of gold thieves in gold electroplate like living statues; Marga the Panther Woman is kidnapped by a mad African ruler who wants to make her his queen; Navy Jones helps the undersea kingdom rebel against its corrupt Prime Minister. Another terrific cover by Lou Fine. Science Fights Crime!; The Eagle: The Mail Pirates; Dynamo: The Fort Knox Gold Robbery; Cosmic Carson: Master of the Ice Ray; Perisphere Payne: Attack On the Moon; Build a Fighting Plane; Build a Super-Locomotive; Marga: Uchunko, Ruler of the Jungle; Gold...1000 Miles Down; Dr. Doom: Battle of the Insects; Navy Jones: The Prime Minister Strikes Back. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 8.0 $520.00 Slight amateur restoration Paper: White Amateur Restoration Includes: small amount of color touch on cover and tear seal on back cover. Label #7007107-AB-006

Stories and art by Dave Berg, Alex Blum and Al Camy. One of Fawcett's most popular superheroes, Spy Smasher fights saboteurs, fifth columnists, Quislings and collaborators during WWII. In a sort of primitive version of The Da Vinci Code, Spy Smasher learns that Da Vinci desgined a destructive secret weapon and hid the plans in a code, and he must find it before the Nazis do. Spy Smasher faces gladiatorial combat in the Roman Arena. A draftee deserts rather than serve in WWII, and soon he's recruited by Axis agents, but Spy Smasher offers him a chance at redemption. Plus a story by future Mad "Lighter Side" artist Dave Berg. The Deserter; Krishnu, Prophet of Evil; Bright Flames of War; The Quest of the Secret Weapon; On Convoy Duty. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 8.5 $8,400.00 Paper: Off white Label #00-7008344-AA-006

Cover art by Fred Ray. Untitled Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel (signed), pencils by Paul Cassidy [as Joe Shuster], inks by the Shuster Shop [as Joe Shuster]; Superman battles against some members of the Committee Against Militarism, whose leader is actually employed by a warring totalitarian nation. Supermen of America ad. Sport Spotlight on Surprising Veterans featuring Fred Fitzsimmons, Gene Sarazen, Max Baer, Ted Lyons, and Lefty Grove. Untitled Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel (signed), pencils by Paul Cassidy (?) [as Joe Shuster], inks by the Shuster Shop [as Joe Shuster]; Superman prevents Judge Crane from committing suicide, and, after talking with the judge, discovers that his daughter has been kidnapped. Untitled Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel (signed), pencils by Paul Cassidy (?) [as Joe Shuster], inks by the Shuster Shop [as Joe Shuster]; Editor White sends Clark out to Lamson Laboratories to get to the bottom of an unknown person or persons causing problems at the lab in an attempt to force the W-142 formula out of Lamson. A Bombing Flight text story, script by Frank Cooper, art by Fred Ray. Superman Physical Development Club article. Ad for Batman #4 and the Superman Radio Show. Untitled Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel (signed), pencils by Paul Cassidy [as Joe Shuster], inks by the Shuster Shop [as Joe Shuster]; The death of Morton Carling leads Lois, Sgt. Casey and Superman to uncovering the fact that the Jackson Jewelry Company was a front for a murder syndicate. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 2.0 $499.95 or Best Offer Paper: White Centerfold detached. Label #16-130768B-001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($15.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 2.0 $399.95 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Slab: Minor side edge cracks Label #16-17F1099-001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($12.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Weird Comics (1940) 13 CBCS 2.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #23-211F269-003

Edited by Victor Fox. Stories and art by Louis Cazeneuve, James J. Royal, Bert Whitman, Spencer Allen, and Robert Webb. An anthology of science fiction, horror and adventure comics from Fox. This is as pulpy as it gets. Miss Tilbury, the pretty co-worker who always belittles The Dart's civilian identity, is abducted by the criminals who have taken her cousin Roland; The Beast escapes prison and steals a powerful new gas weapon, and only the Eagle and Buddy can stop him; Marga and Ted seek vanished explorers and find a lost plateau in the jungle, where she kills an attacking panther using just her teeth. Dart; Sorceress of Zoom; Dr. Mortal; Eagle; Buffalo War; Marga the Panther Woman; Dynamo; Blast Bennett. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 3.5 $323.00 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Scuffing to inner well of case Centerfold detached. Label #20-48E05B5-015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.69) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by C. C. Beck. "The Vengeful Four," art by C. C. Beck; Three young men from different areas of the country (Texas, the Ozarks, and Brooklyn), all named Billy Batson, were reading Captain Marvels comic book adventures and happened to wonder if saying "Shazam" would work for them as well; As it happened, Tall Billy, Hill Billy, and Fat Billy were captured, along with the real Billy, by Sivana and his gang. "The Railroad Wreckers" starring Golden Arrow. "Crew of Criminals" starring Lance O'Casey. "Blitzing the Blitzys" starring Spy Smasher, art by Charles Sultan: vs. Otto Bund and Blitzys. "Death to the Traitor" text story, art by Carl Formes (as LaRac Semrof). "The Vital Defense Plans" starring Dan Dare. "Dr. Voodoo's Revenge," art by Mac Raboy; Hal and Nero escape from the giants and begin a long climb up a cliff face. "The Coming of Half-Man" starring Ibis the Invincible; vs. Half-Man. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 3.5 $500.00 Paper: Off white Centerfold Detached Label #18-3C0FFC4-027

Cover by C. C. Beck. "The Vengeful Four," art by C. C. Beck; Three young men from different areas of the country (Texas, the Ozarks, and Brooklyn), all named Billy Batson, were reading Captain Marvels comic book adventures and happened to wonder if saying "Shazam" would work for them as well; As it happened, Tall Billy, Hill Billy, and Fat Billy were captured, along with the real Billy, by Sivana and his gang. "The Railroad Wreckers" starring Golden Arrow. "Crew of Criminals" starring Lance O'Casey. "Blitzing the Blitzys" starring Spy Smasher, art by Charles Sultan: vs. Otto Bund and Blitzys. "Death to the Traitor" text story, art by Carl Formes (as LaRac Semrof). "The Vital Defense Plans" starring Dan Dare. "Dr. Voodoo's Revenge," art by Mac Raboy; Hal and Nero escape from the giants and begin a long climb up a cliff face. "The Coming of Half-Man" starring Ibis the Invincible; vs. Half-Man. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 1.5 $2,150.00 or Best Offer Conserved Paper: Off white Amateur Conservation includes: Centerfold reinforced with glue. Cover and 2 center wraps detached. Front and back cover completely split and reattached with moderate amount of tape on cover. Label #23-3E84026-005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($64.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Joe Simon, inks by Lou Fine. The Valley of Terror starring Flame, Dr. Belos, and Vulture Men. Rango the Witch Doctor starring Yarko. Shorty Shortcake story. Mutiny On Devil's Island starring Patty O'Day and The Nazis, art by Claire Moe. Clue of the Broken Buddha starring Dr. Fung. Guardian Angels Under Stormy Skies text story by Nathaniel Nitkin (N. N. Nathaniel). The Castle of Professor Z starring Tex Maxon the Phantom Rider. Masquerade of Swing starring Don Quixote. Spark Stevens story. K-51 Spies At War story. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Wonderworld Comics (1939) 20 CBCS 2.5

Paper: Cream to off white

Cover Reattached With Moderate Amount of Tape on Interior.

Label #18-2A9764E-073

The Kidnappers starring Flame. Zarhov's Monster starring Yarko. The Black Pearl starring Shorty Shortcake. The Bombing Gang starring Patty O'Day. One Minute To Death starring Dr. Fung. Smuggler's Syndicate text story, art by Nathaniel Nitkin (N. N. Nathaniel). Headed For a Noose starring Tex Maxon, art by Munson Paddock (Chuck Munson). Return To the Dark Ages starring Don Quixote and Adolphus Stalini. Shanghaied By Captain Swine starring Spark Stevens. The Jigsaw Puzzle Plot--K-51 Spies At War. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Wonderworld Comics (1939) 27 CBCS 2.0

Paper: White

Label #23-211F269-004

The Kidnapping of Dr. Dobbs starring Flame. Blitz and the Saboteur starring Black Lion, art by Chuck Winter. Zino's Bombing Plot starring Yarko the Great. The Framing of Bill Mattson starring Tex Maxon art by Munson Paddock (Chuck Munson). The Framing of Bill Mattson starring Tex Maxon, art by Munson Paddock (Chuck Munson). The Murder of "Lord Cowper" starring Patty O'Day, art by Claire Moe (Vic Todd). Jungle Manhunt text story by Nathaniel Nitkin (N. N. Nathaniel). The Pencil Racket starring Dr. Fung. The Sky Pirate starring Wing Turner. Niki Comso's Train Sabotage Plot--K-51 Spies At War. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 2.0 $4,200.00 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Significant scuff(s) front or back 2 pieces of tape on interior cover. Label #0008675-AA-006

Traitors Die Fast! starring U. S. Jones, script by Bob Farrow. Patty O'Day story, art by Claire Moe. Burn, Devil, Burn! starring Flame, art by Arthur Cazeneuve. Yarko story. The Strange Case of Fulga the Fire Demon starring Dr. Fung. Spark Stevens story. Lu-Nar story. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.