Comic books in grade VF/NM or lower, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $33.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #3839361010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($0.99) will be charged at checkout.

1st Michael Linsner art. Cover price $1.50.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $395.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4445019008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Walter Johnson. Art by Walter Johnson, Jill Elgin, Paul Reinman and Chu F. Hing. Gunfights, outlaws and frontier justice in the Old West. The life of Western-themed humorist Will Rogers; The Texas Ranger encounters the Blacksmith Bandits, outlaws with a new gimmick, in a story (and cover) with mild pre-Code bondage elements; Frontier scout Kit West investigates a serial killer targeting women at Fort Gresham, in a story inspired by The Murders in the Rue Morgue, of all things. The Blacksmith Bandits; The Secret of Quiet Canyon; The Pony Express; Murder in the Stockade!; Death's Double Doom; Will Rogers, A Great American; War Drums; White Brother. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Art by Ken Battefield and others. Tender tales of romance among the cowhands and roughnecks of the Old West. Rancher Susan Polmer is as tough as any man, and more than a match for outlaw Bessie. Rancher Kate and railroad man Rex team up to find the outlaws who rustled her herd. The romance of cavalry soldier Jim and Pawnee woman Bright Star plays against a backdrop of conflict, and offers an interracial romance rare for its era. The cover promises "heart-warming thrillers of ranch and range." The Bride Wore Buckskin; Romance Rides The Rails; Senorita Six-Gun!; Arrow in My Heart. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $535.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4019690004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.05) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Tender tales of romance among the cowhands and roughnecks of the Old West. New Texan Ken finds beautiful neighbor Jane Foster believes his ranch is stolen. Sue suspects a debonair stranger wants to court her sister Lucy, but the truth is more sinister. Martha becomes involved with a handsome outlaw and his young son. Wild Beauty; Six-Gun Wedding; A Killer's Bullet Stole Her Love!; The Only Man I Could Ever Love. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $180.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #2041992002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.40) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Cover art by Reed Crandall. The Porcupine starring Captain Triumph, art by Reed Crandall; Fresh from their adventure with a werewolf, Lance and Kim enter a town and meet the Porcupine, who wore a coat of killer quills that he can throw with great accuracy, as well as using his body to topple walls by throwing himself into them. Mighty Midget starring Inkie, script and art by Al Stahl. Love and Larceny Don't Mix starring Hack O'Hara. The Pearl Swindle starring Pen Miller, script and art by Klaus Nordling. Floy Floy starring Floogy the Fiji. Fuzzy humor page by Jack Cole. Bubble Gum Cleopatra starring Beezy, script and art by Bernard Dibble. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $1,070.00 Paper: Off white Pedigree: Rockford Rockford. Label #4268976014

Stories and art by Roy Crane, J. R. Williams, Norman Marsh, Irwin Myers, Al McWilliams, Merrill Blosser, Ray Thompson, Charles Coll, Dan Balkin, Martha Orr, Sol Hess, Wallace Carlson, Gene Ahern, Al Lewin, Frank V. Martinek, Leon A. Beroth, Abe Martin, Sylvia Sneidman and Ken Ernst. Crackajack Funnies presented original stories and reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Wash Tubbs & Captain Easy. Don Winslow and his Navy crew attempt to rescue American civilians from the Spanish Civil War. Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy hop a train and ride with the hoboes - at least until Easy loses the boot that's got their money in it. Nan Cameron turns Tom Mix over to Carter's outlaws, who plan to shoot him, but Hank arrives just in time. Dan Dunn; Captain Frank Hawks, Air Ace; Freckles and His Friends; Myra North, Special Nurse; Columbus Goes West; Wash Tubbs; Out Our Way; Apple Mary; The Nebbs; Our Boarding House; Clyde Beatty; Don Winslow of the Navy; Tom Mix; Boots and Her Buddies; Tom Traylor, G-Man X32; Flapper Fanny; Buck Jones: The Rock Creek Cattle War. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $750.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #4480158010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($22.50) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Roy Crane, J. R. Williams, Norman Marsh, Irwin Myers, Al McWilliams, Merrill Blosser, Ray Thompson, Charles Coll, Dan Balkin, Martha Orr, Sol Hess, Wallace Carlson, Gene Ahern, Al Lewin, Frank V. Martinek, Leon A. Beroth, Abe Martin, Sylvia Sneidman and Ken Ernst. Crackajack Funnies presented original stories and reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Wash Tubbs & Captain Easy. Don Winslow and his Navy crew attempt to rescue American civilians from the Spanish Civil War. Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy hop a train and ride with the hoboes - at least until Easy loses the boot that's got their money in it. Nan Cameron turns Tom Mix over to Carter's outlaws, who plan to shoot him, but Hank arrives just in time. Dan Dunn; Captain Frank Hawks, Air Ace; Freckles and His Friends; Myra North, Special Nurse; Columbus Goes West; Wash Tubbs; Out Our Way; Apple Mary; The Nebbs; Our Boarding House; Clyde Beatty; Don Winslow of the Navy; Tom Mix; Boots and Her Buddies; Tom Traylor, G-Man X32; Flapper Fanny; Buck Jones: The Rock Creek Cattle War. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.8 $142.45 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #3970945025 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.27) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Carl Burgos. Stories and art by Dick Ayers, Sol Brodsky, Joe Maneely, Howie Post, and Mike Sekowsky. The very first incarnation of Marvel's humor publication, started in the first wave of 1950s Mad imitators. A parody of werewolf movies, with art by Dick Ayers. A Crazy look at censors, a hot topic in 1953. Sinbad the Tailor must leave town in a hurry to flee angry customers, and that's how his adventures begin. Racket Buster!; Rose-Colored Glasses; The Wolf Man; Spencer the Censor; Sinbad the Tailor!; Gentlemen Prefer Bonds. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $99.00 Paper: White Label #4504190015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.97) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Jeffrey Lang, Michael Allred and Bernie Mireault. Cover by Allred and Mireault. One-shot anthology includes the first-ever appearance of Frank Einstein, who would later develop into Allred's wacky superhero, Madman. 24 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $2.95.

Creatures on the Loose (1971) 10 CGC 9.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4544980010

Series formerly "Tower of Shadows." Written by Roy Thomas. Art by by Berni Wrightson (adapted from the Robert E. Howard story). Cover by Marie Severin. New story: first full comic book appearance of King Kull in "The Skull of Silence; Kull's arrogance leads to the release of an ancient menace that he barely is able to defeat. Art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. Reprint"Trull the Unhuman!"; The mental essence of an alien bent on global conquest takes over a steam shovel and is defeated by an elephant. 36 pages, full color. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $75.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4071614004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.25) will be charged at checkout.

Series formerly "Tower of Shadows." Written by Roy Thomas. Art by by Berni Wrightson (adapted from the Robert E. Howard story). Cover by Marie Severin. New story: first full comic book appearance of King Kull in "The Skull of Silence; Kull's arrogance leads to the release of an ancient menace that he barely is able to defeat. Art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. Reprint"Trull the Unhuman!"; The mental essence of an alien bent on global conquest takes over a steam shovel and is defeated by an elephant. 36 pages, full color. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $67.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #4414167011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.01) will be charged at checkout.

First comic book appearance of Thongor in "Thongor, Warrior of Lost Lemuria!" Script by George Alec Effinger, pencils by Val Mayerik, inks by Vince Colletta (based on the Lin Carter story "Thieves of Zangabal"). Reprint: "Gundar!" with script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko. Jim Steranko cover. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $200.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4577588012 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.00) will be charged at checkout.

New Man-Wolf series begins. "Full Moon, Dark Fear!" Script by Doug Moench, pencils by George Tuska, inks by Vince Colletta. Letter to the editor from comic writer Ralph Macchio. The letters page also contains Marvel Value Stamp series A # 65 (Iceman). Reprint: "Joe's Weak Spot" with art by Bill Walton. Gil Kane/John Romita Sr. cover? Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $149.95 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #4651728005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.50) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by DoctorEdwardsEmporium

New Man-Wolf series begins. "Full Moon, Dark Fear!" Script by Doug Moench, pencils by George Tuska, inks by Vince Colletta. Letter to the editor from comic writer Ralph Macchio. The letters page also contains Marvel Value Stamp series A # 65 (Iceman). Reprint: "Joe's Weak Spot" with art by Bill Walton. Gil Kane/John Romita Sr. cover? Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $56.95 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #4534826014 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($1.71) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by DoctorEdwardsEmporium

Written by Steve Niles. Art by Justiniano & Walden Wong. Cover by Justiniano. He's back for the first time in a new 6-issue miniseries written by horror maven Steve Niles (BATMAN: GOTHAM COUNTY LINE, 30 Days of Night) with art by Justiniano & Walden Wong (DAY OF VENGEANCE)! TV pundit Jack Ryder - whose successful show 'You Are Wrong' continues to aggravate the nation - runs afoul of a doctor who transforms him into a strange new weapon in Gotham's war on crime! The 21st century just got a little stranger! Cover price $2.99.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $399.00 Paper: White Label #4170464003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.97) will be charged at checkout.

1st Edition - 1st printing.

Based on the Film Written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero. Art by Bernie Wrightson. Cover by Jack Kamen.

Featuring the chilling shorts - "Father's Day," "Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill," "Crate," "Something to Tide you Over," and "They're Creeping up on You!"

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 10 1/2-in., 64 pages, full color.

Cover price $6.95.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $75.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4446268004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.25) will be charged at checkout.

Issue #3. June 1965. Stories in this issue include: Swamped! by Archie Goodwin and Angelo Torres; Tell-Tale Heart by Archie Goodwin and Reed Crandall (from the story by Edgar Allan Poe); Howling Success! by Archie Goodwin and Angelo Torres; Haunted! by Archie Goodwin and Gray Morrow; Incident in the Beyond by Archie Goodwin and Gray Morrow; and Return Trip by Arthur Porges and Joe Orlando. Cover by Frank Frazetta. 8.25" x 10.75". 48 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.35.

Creepy (1964 Warren) 14 CGC 9.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4542531003

Stories in this issue include: Where Sorcery Lives! by Archie Goodwin and Steve Ditko; Art of Horror by Archie Goodwin and Jerry Grandenetti; Snakes Alive! by Clark Dimond, John Benson, and Hector Castellon; The Beckoning Beyond! by Archie Goodwin and Dan Adkins; Piece by Piece by Archie Goodwin and Joe Orlando; Castle Carrion! by Archie Goodwin and Reed Crandall; and Curse of the Vampire! by Archie Goodwin and Neal Adams (making his comic book debut). Cover art by Gray Morrow. Cover price $0.40.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $119.99 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4587258002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.60) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Code’s Comics

Stories in this issue include: Thumbs Down by Anne T. Murphy and Al Williamson; Inheritors of Earth by Hector Castellon; Beauty or the Beast by Len Brown, Dick Giordano, and Sal Trapani; The Cask of Amontillado by Archie Goodwin and Reed Crandall (from the story by Edgar Allan Poe); The Damned Thing by Archie Goodwin and Gray Morrow (from the story by Ambrose Bierce); and Vested Interest by Ron Parker and George Tuska. Cover art by Albert Nuetzell. Cover price $0.40.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $80.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1074887065 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.40) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Stories in this issue include: Keep your Spirits Up by Bill Parente and Reed Crandall; Witches' Tide by Archie Goodwin and Gene Colon; Their Journey's End by Bill Parente and Ernie Colon; It That Lurks! by Archie Goodwin and Dan Adkins; Deep Ruby! by Archie Goodwin and Steve Ditko; and An Unlikely Visitor by Bill Parente, Bill Fraccio, and Tony Tallarico. Cover art by Richard Conway. Cover price $0.40.

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Stories in this issue include: The Mind of the Monster! by R. Michael Rosen and Ernie Colon; Drop In! by Don Glut and Tom Sutton; The Haunted Sky! by Archie Goodwin and Roger Brand; The River! by Johnny Craig; To be or not to be a Witch by Bill Parente and Carlos Prunes; Piece by Piece by Archie Goodwin and Joe Orlando; and Dr. Jekyll's Jest by R. Michael Rosen and Mike Royer. Cover art by Bill Hughes. Future artist and publisher Bill Black makes his comics debut via the fan page. Cover art by Bill Hughes. Cover price $0.50.

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Stories in this issue include: One too Many by Buddy Saunders (owner of Lone Star Comics) and William Barry; Royal Guest by Pat Boyette; Blue Mum Day by R. Michael Rosen and Reed Crandall; Dr. Jekyll was Right by Bill Warren, Bill Fraccio, and Tony Tallarico; I'm Only in it for the Money by Al Hewetson and Juan Lopez; The Full Service! by Nicola Cuti and Jack Sparling; and Boxed In! by Tom Sutton. Cover art by Pat Boyette. Cover price $0.50.

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Stories in this issue include: The Thing in Loch Ness by Bruce Jones; Skipper's Return! by Ernie Colon; The Final Ingredient! by Bill DuBay; Prelude to Armageddon by Nicola Cuti and Wally Wood; Extra Censory Perception by Steve Skeates and Gary Kaufman; and A Tangible Hatred by Don McGregor and Richard Corben. Includes fan letter by future Marvel editor and writer John D. Warner. Cover art by Kenneth Smith. Cover price $0.60.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $81.45 Paper: Off white to white Label #0357235003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.44) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: Excerpts from the Year Five! by Budd Lewis and Jose Ortiz; The Haunted Abbey by Budd Lewis and Vicente Alcazar; The Happy Abbey by Budd Lewis and Vicente Alcazar; The Happy Undertaker by Carl Wessler and Martin Salvador; Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven by Richard Corben (in color); Holy War by Budd Lewis and Adolfo Abellan; and Oil of Dog by Jack Butterworth and Isidro Mones (from the story by Ambrose Bierce). Cover art by Ken Kelly. Cover price $1.00.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $69.00 Paper: White Label #3884531009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.07) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: Vampires Fly at Dusk! by Archie Goodwin and Reed Crandall; Curse of the Full Moon! by Archie Goodwin and Reed Crandall; The Cask of Amontillado! by Archie Goodwin and Reed Crandall (from the story by Edgar Allan Poe); Hot Spell! by Archie Goodwin and Reed Crandall; The Beast on Bacon Street by Budd Lewis and Reed Crandall (in color); Hop-Frog! by Archie Goodwin and Reed Crandall (from the story by Poe); The Squaw! by Archie Goodwin and Reed Crandall (from the story by Bram Stoker); Frozen Fear! by Archie Goodwin and Reed Crandall; and Keep your Spirits Up by Bill Parente and Reed Crandall (story miscredited to Archie Goodwin). Cover art is a montage of interior panels. Cover price $1.25.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $63.02 Paper: Off white to white Label #4248569003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($1.89) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: Castles Made of Sand by Gerry Boudreau and Jose Ortiz; Eye for Eye, Fang for Fang by Doug Moench, Carmine Infantino, and Ernie Chan; Do You Believe in Singsigs! by Gerry Boudreau and Luis Bermejo; Temple of Seilos by Bruce Jones and Leopold Sanchez; Iron Man by Bill DuBay and Esteban Maroto; and Second Childhood by Bruce Jones and Ramon Torrents. Cover art by Steve Hickman. Cover price $1.25.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $90.00 Paper: White Label #4294518006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.70) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Tony DiPreta, C. H. Moore, Carl Wessler, George Tuska, Fred Kida, Fred Guardineer, and Charles Biro. A companion series to Crime Does Not Pay from the same publisher, slightly less violent and with more emphasis on police work. A cop tracks a deported killer to Sicily and finds that his lawless work continues. A detective dares the reader to figure out who killed the advance man for a carnival, in a whodunit with multiple clues and an upside-down panel for the answer. The Suspect; How They Were Trapped; Mob In Exile; On the Level; Death Takes a Ride!; Our Police Hall of Fame; This'll Kill Ya!; The Sergeant's Story. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $655.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4495669005

Stories and art by Irv Novick, Nick Cardy, Arthur Peddy, and Mike Suchorsky. Cover by Norman Saunders. The adventures of Dr. Tom Rogers, prison psychologist. A tough hood gets his comeuppance in prison; a new hero is introduced, private eye Barney Bailey. Big Shot in the Big House; The Heart of a Con; Nobody Cheats the Hangman; Sidewalk Serenade; plus gag strips and a text story. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $349.00 Paper: Off white Label #4634534005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.47) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by John Prentice, Gerald McCann, Frank Kramer, and Vic Martin. The adventures of Dr. Tom Rogers, prison psychologist. A parole-board chairman gets a look at life on the inside after a blow to the head. Recently released jewel thief Jake sets his sights on the Bradley Pearls. Dr. Rogers suspects that Harvey, the penitentiary librarian, is doing time for someone else. No Second Chance; One Last Hope; Double Dose! The Criminal Always Loses; The Two-Bit Heirloom; Law Laffs; The Lady Killer; It's a Crime! Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $284.00 Paper: Off white Label #4476313006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.52) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Stories and art by Bill Ely and others. Tales of crime and mobsters, both true and fictional, a prime example of the genre that thrived in the years before the Comics Code. A jewel thief sets his sights on the famed Blue Star diamond as a gift for his wife. A simple-minded town fool stumbles on the evidence of a murder, but townspeople think he is involved himself. It's gangsters vs. cowboys when a new rustling scheme involves hijacking a cattle drive onto a schooner. The Glass Gibraltar; The Rats on the Vine; Haunted Headlines; The Kind Nuisance; The Mink in the Balcony; The Hamburger Pirates; The Gypsy Link. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $1,950.00 or Best Offer Restored: B1 Paper: Off white to white Restoration includes: tear seal to cover, glue on 13th page, cover reinforced. (Married 13th page) Label #1292690003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($58.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Briefer, Harry Lucey, Woody Hamilton, Carl Hubbell, Bob Montana, George Tuska, Norman Maurer, Alan Mandel, Lev Gleason and Charles Biro. Numbering continues from Silver Streak Comics (1939) #21. Erroneously listed as issue #23 on cover (#22 in indicia). The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. The series kicks off with the true story of 1930s mobster Louis Lepke Buchalter, the gangster who created the Murder, Inc. killer-for-hire operation. The Wild West gunfighter "Wild Bill" Hickok becomes a figure of legend. Paralyzed polio survivor Bill Reed develops a set of prosthetic wings and becomes the superhero War Eagle, in his sole adventure. Crime Kings: The Real Story Behind Lepke, Mad Dog of the Underworld; Wild Bill Hickok; Officer Edward Maher and the Mad Dog Killers of Fifth Avenue; The Saga of Harpshead Road; Two-Legged Rats; The Mad Musician and His Tunes of Doom; The Crime Corner Presents: Hollywoods Panther Man, The Jersey Devil; The Case of the Twisted Cigarettes; The Blackout Murder Mystery; Dickie Dean, The Boy Inventor; The War Eagle. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $1,599.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4387095003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($47.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Robert Bernstein, Jack Alderman, Rudy Palais, Woody Hamlton, Vernon Henkel, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. An unhinged circus clown, spurned by a woman after making a declaration of love (in full clown regalia), then murders her (still in full clown regalia). The infamous Burke and Hare get jobs providing corpses to early medical schools, but when they run out of bodies, they start making fresh ones. Drunken med-school reject "Doc" Moran becomes the underworld's favorite physician. Also featuring a vintage PSA about recognizing honorably discharged veterans. The Bookkeeping Bandit; Case of the Love Sick Clown; Ghouls' Gold; The Folly of Johnny Bananas; The Case of the Impossible Suicide; Doctor of Evil; Whodunnit. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Robert Sale, C. L. Hartman, Rudy Palais, Edd Ashe, Bert Bushell, Davy Johnson, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. "Two Gun" Crowley's 1931 shootout with police becomes national news and helps create the image of the Prohibition-era gangster. A crooked insurance salesman hires two killers to do away with a woman for the insurance money. A story that dares the reader to figure out who committed murder during the production of a pirate movie. Also featuring several lurid text stories of the True Detective type, plus a vintage ad for Pepsi starring Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop. Cut-Rate Murder; A River, a Basket, a Stain of Red; Death Insurance; The True Story of Two-Gun Crowley; This'll Kill You!; Joe the Boss; Trio of Terror; Whodunnit. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $549.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #0987690001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Fred Guardineer, Mike Roy, Sam Burlockoff, Rudy Palais, George A. Marko, Arne Arntzen, Jack Alderman, Red Woodbury, Harley M. Griffiths and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. The Schroeder gang robs and kills its way across 1920s America, led by bereted blonde Irene, featuring some classic bad-girl art by Fred Guardineer. Mr. Crime narrates the story of killers Steve and Tony, featuring a lurid image of an electric chair high atop the pile of their victims' bodies. The true story of violent criminal Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. Also featuring a vintage ad for Pepsi starring Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop, and a photo of the Lev Gleason creative staff: Bob Wood, Lev Gleason and Charles Biro. Thug's Throne; Fingers of Death; The Tri-State Terror; Mad Dog Vincent Coll; Triple Death and the Trail of Terror; The Terror Down Under; The Horrible Halzingers; Whodunnit. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Ken Fitch, Fred Guardineer, George Tuska, Dick Wood, Rudy Palais, Bert Bushell, Jack Alderman, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. With the encouragement of Mr. Crime and the Devil himself, Denvil Dotson works his way up from petty theft to killing cops. Police suspect a swindle when a painter's highly insured studio burns down and takes his art with it. Infamous Ma Barker births a criminal gang that includes her four sons, in a different story than the previous issue's Barker bio. Also featuring a vintage ad for Pepsi starring Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop, and a classic bad-girl cover by Charles Biro. Devil's Diary; Mother of Murderers; On the Level; Brother Rats; Two-Timing Trio; Crime Quiz; Gyp Artist; The Case of the Voodooed Hangars; Whodunnit: Murder in the Penthouse. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $299.00 Paper: Cream to off white Scuffing to front and back of slab. Label #0107969003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Fred Guardineer, George Tuska, Lee Teaford and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. Criminal brothers Bud and Don Hoover have a lifelong feud that escalates into murder. The story of notorious real-life gunman Pretty Boy Floyd. Bloodshed results when neighborhood laundries fight back against Johnny Spanish's protection racket. The Hoover Brothers; Pretty Boy Floyd The Two-Faced Terror; Killers' Jinx; Washed in Blood; The Telltale Scar; Whodunnit. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $211.85 Paper: Off white Label #3846676009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.36) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Fred Guardineer, George Tuska, Joe Certa, Rudy Palais and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. The true tale of real-life bank robber Baby-Face Nelson. In the early 1900s, rural nurse Bertha Gifford becomes one of the first female serial killers. Cowardly Marty Durkin wins the name "Trigger Happy" for his deadly habit of shooting his way out of any situation. Baby Face Nelson vs. the U.S.A.; Trigger-Happy Durkin; This'll Kill You!; Crime Quiz; Bertha Gifford, Killer of 19 People; Murder Is a False Friend; The Woman Who Wouldn't Die; Whodunnit. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $250.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Significant scratch(es) front or back Top edge label is missing. Label #0010444019 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Fred Guardineer and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. The story of notorious real-life gunman Pretty Boy Floyd. Mob boss Chris Ramsdell must face the music after one of his hoods shoots a senator's daughter. A tough DA is targeted by a gangster after he convicts his brother of murder. Also featuring a vintage ad for "Lev Gleason Comics picture trading cards." Pretty Boy Floyd, "Racketeer" Reward; Test Your Judgment!; Crime News Oddities; The End of the Underworld? 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $400.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4615545003

A very suggestive cover! We all know that there was no Comics Code Authjority governing magazines, but nonetheless we wonder how this image got past any eagle-eyed editor!

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $259.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #0354562004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.77) will be charged at checkout.

"Born to Burn" (art by Mike Sekowsky?), "Death Was His Partner," "The Homicidal Hitchhikers," "Teen-Age Private Eye," and "The Legacy of Death." Two page text story, "Cops Don't Cry!" by Jim Hendryx, Jr., and one page filler "X Marks the Spot." Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $850.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #2042487008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($25.50) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Ken Battefield and Pierre Charpentier. Crime and adventure comics featuring detective heroes. "Crime psychologist" Jim Phillips investigates a crime wave that seems to be masterminded by a hypnotist who died in prison. Private eye Jerry Jasper is hired by gang boss Mike Bullen to find out who is trying to take over his racket. Showgirl Babe Dawson hires master of disguise Don Grady to protect her from her ex-con ex-husband, Spider Webb. Bondage cover may be the work of Adolphe Barreaux. Jim Phillips: Death Is the Victor; Jerry Jasper: Murder Backfires; Don Grady: The Hidden Clue; Hate Backfires; Queenie Starr: Death Directs. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $321.10 Paper: Off white to white Label #4354763001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.63) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Alvin Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and others. Crime and adventure comics featuring detective heroes. Dr. Lance Storm battles mad scientist Dr. Zarno, who has discovered how to turn people into radiation-powered zombies. Chinese scientist Dr. Foo helps Don Grady solve crimes, in his debut. Plus a classic anti-marijuana story. Lance Storm: The Nightmare Monster; Jerry Jasper; The Fantastic Dr. Foo; Queenie Starr. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.5 $195.00 Paper: Cream to off white Tape on interior cover. Label #1974355006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by William Zeller. Stories and art by Richard Kahn, Mo Marcus, Robert Leslie Bellem, Bill Fraccio, Art Gates, Jack Miller, Ray McClelland and Mike Esposito. Crime and adventure comics featuring detective heroes. Dr. Lance Storm's arch enemy Professor Zarno sets his sights on the British Crown Jewels during the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (a hot topic at the time). To solve a murder at the United Nations, Chinese-American scientist Dr. Foo employs his natural deductive skills, and perhaps even his supernatural skills. Wax figures confuse the clues in a case for Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (the most famous sleuth in the pages of Crime Mysteries). Bondage-themed cover by William Zeller is an homage to (or swipe from) an early Jack Kirby cover, for Champion Comics (1939-1940 Worth Publishing) #10. Lance Storm: Death Stalks the Crown; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Murder in Wax; Kitty Vale: Picture of Death; Murder is a Skin Game; The Fantastic Dr. Foo: Prayer of Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Art Gates, Alvin Hollingsworth and H. C. Kiefer. Crime and horror comics featuring detective heroes. The series begins edging toward pre-Code horror with this issue. Novelist Gene rents the deserted home of eccentric Simeon Graves to work on his next book, but it comes with a mysterious blonde, a dire warning, and a rumor of hidden treasure. A serial killer dares the police to stop him before he strikes again. An actor uses his skills to get away with the murder of his wife, but reliving the murder for a TV drama pushes him over the edge. Cash for a Corpse; The Strangler; Murder - and You Die!; Deadly Rendezvous; Bounty for Varmints; Dance of the Devil. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $375.00 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Chipped/broken bracket Label #3732576008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.25) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Gardner Fox and others. Art by H. C. Kiefer, Ed Waldman and Ann Brewster. E.C.'s Pre-Trend crime title started as adventure, changed to grisly crime stories and eventually metamorphosed into straight-up horror. Country sleuth Ellis Parker is called in after a strange murder case stumps the local police. Modern-day pirate and supervillain The Octopus wages a crime spree on the high seas, but luckily, heroic Igor the Archer stands in his path. A handsome hoodlum has a way with the ladies and excels at both love and larceny, until he kisses one woman too many. The Deadly Grease Monkey; The Alibi; Igor the Archer: The Fable of the Flying Dutchman; The Ghost of Markham Manor; The Case of the Kissing Killer. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Al Feldstein and others. Art by Al Feldstein, Ed Waldman, Howard Larsen and Graham Ingels. E.C.'s Pre-Trend crime title started as adventure, changed to grisly crime stories and eventually metamorphosed into straight-up horror. Redheaded bad girl Nell gets on the wrong side of the law and likes it, in a pre-Code story with early art by EC legend Al Feldstein. Police and gangsters alike are searching for safecracker Gentleman Danny Kenyon, in a story with early art by EC legend Graham Ingels. A mad scientist's plot involves a gorilla and the brain of an executed killer, in another early EC horror effort. Nell Baker; The Gentleman Gunman; The Werewolf's Curse!; The Hanged Man's Revenge; Ruse; The Ransom Racket. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.0 $3,500.00 Paper: Light tan to off white Spine of cover completely split and re-attached with tape. Label #3864870001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($105.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Al Feldstein and Johnny Craig. Art by Al Feldstein, John Alton, Fred Peters and Johnny Craig. E.C.'s Pre-Trend crime title begins its transformation into a New Trend horror title, featuring the 1st appearance of The Crypt Keeper. Mrs. Stonely's death seems a mere accident, and her husband's affair with a secretary only a coincidence, but one cop isn't convinced. Rising boxer Johnny Sparr becomes the "Guardian of the Little Guy" after his father is killed by the Mob. Corrupt businessmen murder their partner, or so they think, but when they check again the grave is empty. This is the tale that debuted the Crypt-Keeper and EC's legendary horror comics. Murder Writes a Policy; Case Number 318: Murder: The Swindle by Flame; Double-Exposure; Johnny Sparr: Guardian of the Little Guy; Coincidence; Return from the Grave. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.