Comic books 1955 or before, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $450.00 Paper: Off white Label #2005076015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($13.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Tony DiPreta. Stories and art by Art Seymour, Charles Tomsey, Dave Curtis, Tony DiPreta, and John Cassone. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. The Boy King, Giant and Muggsy battle Dr. Plasma, a sinister Nazi tattoo artist who uses the backs of spies to transmit secret data. Micro-Face investigates why thugs are stealing lampshades from various places around town. Twilight goes into action when wild animals stalk the city streets. The Boy King and the Giant; Nightmare and Sleepy; Stupid Manny's One-Man Gym; Micro-Face; The Fussy Killer; Zippo: The Goblin's Playground; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers: The Underground Gold Factory; Two-Faced Town. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $549.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #1199733005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.47) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Fred Guardineer, Art Helfant, Bernard Sachs, Alden McWilliams, and Jack Keller. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Nightmare and Sleepy were listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Gun Master infiltrates a secret club of gangsters and killers, The Gat Frat, and meets blonde femme fatale Velvet Silver again. Little person Craig Mansfield invents telescopic stilts to make himself tall, and uses them to fight crime as the superhero Rackman. Nightmare and Sleepy battle The Scorpion, who enslaves his victims, in their last appearance together in the Golden Age. Gun Master; Rackman; Nightmare and Sleepy; Fetlock Groans the Detective; Phantom of the River; A Cop Is Born; Boy King; Cornie Corner; The Secret of Krishnu; Swifty; Micro-Face. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $1,200.00 Paper: Off white Label #4465051002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($36.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Jack Cole, Charles Biro, Bob Wood, Fred Schwab, Fred Guardineer, Rafael Astarita, Frank Frollo, Maurice Gutwirth, Jack Romer, Richard Dean, George Nagle, Ken Fitch, Joe Penner, Hal Raynor, Will Harr, Claire Moe, Dick Ryan, and Bob McCay (credited as Winsor McCay, Jr.). An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, as a giveaway for Cocomalt, a powdered-drink company. Cocomalt sponsored a popular radio show featuring comedian Joe Penner, who appears here in short comic strips. Early stories and art by comics legends Jack Cole (creator of Plastic Man) and Will Eisner. featuring radio comedian Joe Penner. A rare Little Nemo in Slumberland strip drawn by Bob McCay, son of original Nemo artist Winsor McCay (credited here as Winsor McCay, Jr.), plus a one-page strip featuring Little Nemo's Impy. Also featuring early stories by Charles Biro and Bob Wood, later the minds behind the notorious Crime Does Not Pay comic. Cover is also by Biro. Little Nemo in Slumberland; Insurance Ike; Officer Skelly; Tommy the Bear Scout; Cowboy Joe Penner; Put On Your Own Radio Show; When the Berry Blossoms; Boodini the Great; The Wild Cat; Lucky Coyne; Impy; Myrth-Parade; Spots; Sky Menace; Senior Symphony; Brain Teasers; Bib and Tucker; Round Table Adventures; Dan Hastings; Adventures In Goobyland; King Kole's Kourt; Animal Crackers; Laughing At Life; Don't Look Now; Nothing But the Truth; Tell Me? Mr. Wise Guy. 48 pages, Full Color.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $364.00 Paper: Off white to white Italy. Label #4515880008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.92) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Italian Series. "Tenebrosa Cospirazione". Contains an early Superman story. Horizontal format. Italian Language.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $890.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #0356522014 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($26.70) will be charged at checkout.

Edited by Stan Lee. Cover inks by Christopher Rule. Stories by unknown. Art by Morris Weiss and unknown. Featuring Hedy De Vine, Millie the Model and Tessie the Typist! In this issue: Hedy De Vine in "The Critic's Crisis" and "Beauty and the Beast"; Millie the Model in "Oh Those Clothes!"; and Tessie the Typist in "The Prison Problem" with art by Morris Weiss. Plus: Hey Look! 1-pager by Harvey Kurtzman. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $831.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #3710163007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($24.93) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Frank Harry. The Amazon Bride, script by William Moulton Marston [as Charles Moulton], art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman is drugged by gangsters, and that night she dreams that she has lost her Amazon powers, so agrees to marry Steve. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]. The Twain Shall Meet--History Feature, script by M. C. Gaines, art by Dennis Neville. Is the Kid a Killer? starring Green Lantern, script by Alfred Bester, art by Paul Reinman. Heroes in Dungarees--East-West Story, art by Dennis Neville. The Psalm of the K Ration starring Hop Harrigan, script and art by Jon L. Blummer. The Story of Prince Henry--Picture Stories from American History, script by M. C. Gaines, art by Don Cameron. The Man Who Tilted Windmills starring The Flash, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Jon Chester Kozlak. Green Lantern for Paper Salvage public service announcement, art by Paul Reinman. 84 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 0.5 $189.95 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Page One Missing. Label #4253784006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.70) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover art by Everett E. Hibbard. The Great Blue Father, script by William Moulton Marston (signed as Charles Moulton), art by Harry G. Peter; A scientist by the name of Professor Proto Plasm invents a "moron hormone" that makes people simple-minded, including Steve Trevor and Wonder Woman. Mutt & Jeff Gags strips by Al Smith (signed as Bud Fisher). Tomorrow the World play adaptation, art by Everett E. Hibbard. The Man with the Missing Memory!, art by Jon Chester Kozlak; The Checker Mob and the Crime Syndicate are both after Professor Memory, a man who has been picked up by Doiby in his cab. Green Lantern's job is to discover why. The Story of the French and Indian War--Picture Stories from American History, script by M. C. Gaines, art by Don Cameron. The Dragon Dies in India starring Johnny Everyman, art by John Daly. The Elevator That Went Sideways starring The Flash, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Everett E. Hibbard. 84 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 0.5 $200.00 Paper: Cream to off white Page 1 missing. Label #4471880004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Everett E. Hibbard. The Great Blue Father, script by William Moulton Marston (signed as Charles Moulton), art by Harry G. Peter; A scientist by the name of Professor Proto Plasm invents a "moron hormone" that makes people simple-minded, including Steve Trevor and Wonder Woman. Mutt & Jeff Gags strips by Al Smith (signed as Bud Fisher). Tomorrow the World play adaptation, art by Everett E. Hibbard. The Man with the Missing Memory!, art by Jon Chester Kozlak; The Checker Mob and the Crime Syndicate are both after Professor Memory, a man who has been picked up by Doiby in his cab. Green Lantern's job is to discover why. The Story of the French and Indian War--Picture Stories from American History, script by M. C. Gaines, art by Don Cameron. The Dragon Dies in India starring Johnny Everyman, art by John Daly. The Elevator That Went Sideways starring The Flash, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Everett E. Hibbard. 84 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $945.00 Paper: Off white Label #4318802009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($28.35) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Everett E. Hibbard. The Menace of the Rebel Manlings, script by Joyce Murchison, art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman and Octavis are taken prisoner aboard a submarine controlled by Manilus, a former lab assistant who was exposed to Vitamin Z gas, which enlarged his brain; He has taken over Atlantis and now plans to conquer the world. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith (signed as Bud Fisher). The Galloping Greenbacks starring The Flash, art by Everett E. Hibbard. Foney Fairy Tales, script and art by Ed Wheelan. Detour--Just a Story, script and art by Howard Purcell. Seek and Hide, or, The Airmail Trail starring Hop Harrigan, script and art by Jon L. Blummer. The Meaning of 'D' starring Green Lantern, art by Paul Reinman. 76 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 9.2 $695.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white "Ruben Blades Collection" Sticker affixed to frontside of slab next to CGC Holographic Sticker. Label #0064539012 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($20.85) will be charged at checkout.

Comic Cavalcade: One-Hundred Years of Cooperation (1945) is an 8-page, full color, newsprint promotional comic (reprinted from Comic Cavalcade #9). No cover price.

Add to cart CGC 1.5 $575.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4626030001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($17.25) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Hal Foster, Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Bill Conselman, Charlie Plumb, Bernard Dibble, Fred Methot, Rudolph Dirks, Harry Lee, Winfield Meggs, Becky Sharp, Laverne Harding, Harry O'Neill, H. E. Homan, Dudley T. Fisher Jr., Robert Dickey, R. M. Brinkerhoff, J. Carver Pusey, Paul Berdanier, Frank Owen and Raeburn Van Buren. Sometimes listed as Comics on Parade Vol. 1 #1. Early in the transformation of comic strips to comic books, United Features Syndicate published Comics on Parade as a showcase for its most popular strips, including Tarzan, Li'l Abner and Nancy. This issue features the debut comic-strip adventures of Tarzan (by future Prince Valiant artist Hal Foster), Al Capp's Li'l Abner, and Raeburn Van Buren's Abbie and Slats. In the latter, country spinster Abbie meets her orphaned cousin Aubrey for the first time. She knows he's a city boy, but she's not prepared for the rough-and-tumble teen who calls himself "Slats." Shipwrecked on the African coast, the infant son of Lord Greystoke is raised by great apes to become Tarzan. Plus an illustrated biography of screen legend James Cagney. Terrific cover features a parade-float's worth of classic 1930s comic-strip characters, the familiar mingling with the forgotten. Danny; Abbie an' Slats; The Captain and the Kids; Tarzan of the Apes; Wayne Webster of Waverly Prep; Roads of Romance; Jest di-Jest; Cynical Susie; Broncho Bill; Looy Dot Dope; Colonel Wowser; How to Make It; For Junior Readers; Joe Jinks; Fritzi Ritz; Billy Make Believe; Mr. and Mrs. Beans; Bucky and His Pals; Little Mary Mixup; Benny; Opportunity Knox; If You Want to Know; Ella Cinders; Danny Dingle; Dub Dabs; Li'l Abner; Jasper. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $300.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white From The Collection of Ruben Blades. Includes Ruben Blades Collection sticker on front of slab. Label #4478969017 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Victor Pazmiño. Stories and art by Sheldon Mayer, Boody Rogers, Charles Payne, J.R. Williams, C. D. Small, Al Carreño, Victor Pazmiño, A. W. Nugent, Stookie Allen, Augustus Robinson, James McCague, Tack Knight, Paul Jepsen, Norman Fallon, Courtney Dunkel, Adolphe Barreaux, Tex O'Reilly, Jack A. Warren, Walter Galli, Robert Weinstein, Ed Cronin, Bob Moore, and Carl Pfeufer. Edited by comics pioneers M.C. Gaines and Sheldon Mayer, The Comics presented original stories, art reprinted from Dell's Big Little Books, and reprints of classic newspaper strips. Arizona Ranger Tex Ritter and his pals Doc and Pee Wee track rustlers to the Mexican border and get framed for their trouble, in an adaptation of the 1937 Western movie Riders of the Rockies. A Deadwood Gulch story by Sparky Watts creator Boody Rogers. Space Policeman Rod and Unicor Warrior Taro discover why their prison is called the Island of the Living Dead. S'Matter, Pop?; Salesman Sam; Ted Strong; Tex Ritter: Riders of the Rockies; Gags and Giggles; Out Our Way; Stop Look and Laff; Cowboy and Indian Lore; My Big Brudder; How to Make the "Balsa Bullet"; Little Artists; Decks Awash; Sailor's Knots and Seaman's Ways; Deadwood Gulch; Bill and Davey; Crossword Puzzle Page; Rod Rian of the Sky Police; Manhunt: A True F.B.I. Story; The Enchanted Stone of Time; Pecos Bill; It's the Truth!; Victorious Valor; Cap'n Cloud; Comic Puzzles; Clancy the Cop; Gordon Fife and the Boy King; Headliners; Thrill-Hunters; Bachelor Bowers; Be a Big Leaguer: Catcher. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $389.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Top edge has gapping. Label #1993096024 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.67) will be charged at checkout.

Stories by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Sheldon Moldoff. Cover by Ogden Whitney. The crew of an atomic-powered submarine roams the seas, battling threats to American naval supremacy. Commander Bill Battle, Doc Blake, Champ Ruggles, and Tony Gardello become The Atomic Commandos, sea-going adventurers assigned to battle a secret new threat to American security. Hostile flying saucers attacking the U.S. turn out to originate from neither outer space nor Soviet Russia, but from the undersea kingdom of Atlantis! Produced in 3-D Truevision, says the cover, with no glasses needed. This turns out to mean the panels are shaped like little TV screens against a black background, with no 3-D effects. Atomic Sub; What Do You Know About Torpedoes?; Nothing Ever Happens! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $650.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white From the Collection of Jon Berk. "Ruben Blades Collection" sticker affixed to front of CGC slab. Label #1485502002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($19.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Bob Oksner. Stories and art by Bob Oksner, Don Williams, Ben Levin, Ken Battefield, William Hudson, Ed Good, John Ushler, Gil Turner, Max Plaisted, Leo Isaacs, Tony Loeb, E. Smith, William Martin and Everett Kinstler. A wide-ranging anthology featuring superheroes, funny animals, historical adventure and jungle action. The debut of adventure heroes Wonderman, Zudo, Magnet, and Silver Knight, who would later appear in Mystery Comics (1944); Jungle lord Zudo battles ivory hunters; Grant Halford, aka Magnet, invents a "Geo-Locator" that allows him to find bad guys or missing persons. The Wonderman who appears in this issue has no connection to either the Wonder Man created by Will Eisner for Fox or the later Marvel character. Brad Spencer--Wonderman; Swifty Smith; Perky the Quiz Pig; Zudo; Cactus Cal; Chimp the Champ; Magnet; Pancho and Poco; Pa Tucket; Battleship the Wag; Silver Knight; Pip the Penguin; Wilbur; Chips; Iglik the Eskimo; Red, Bloodhound Detective. 132 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $130.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4637828001

All reprints. Photo cover. In order of appearance: "Little Miss Wildcat" reprinted from Glamorous Romances (1949) #54; "My Spiteful Love" reprinted from Complete Love Magazine Vol. 26 (1951) #5; "The Game He Played" reprinted from Real Love (1949-56 Ace) #41; and "As Long as You Love Me..." reprinted from Real Love (1949-56 Ace) #33. "For a More Glamorous You: How to Set Pin Curls, A Youthful Hair Style, Lines Between the Eyes, For Unpleasant Breath..." text article reprinted from "Glamorizing Yourself..." in Glamorous Romances (1949) #48, "Help Yourself To Allure..." in Love Experiences (1949) #11 and #20, and "The Charm Corner..." in Real Love (1949-56 Ace) #62. Indicia states "Volume XXXI, Number 3, #184". 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $540.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4176234007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.20) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

L.B. Cole cover. All stories reprinted in Popular Teen-Agers (1950) #23. Contains original and reprinted material as noted. "Heart-Break" art by Jay Disbrow; "Will I Have His Kisses Forever??"; and "I Was Dazzled by Love" retitled and reprinted from "I Hid My Lover" in My Desire (1949) #3. "Love's Mailbox" and "It's Personal, Do You Wear a Girdle?" text articles. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $300.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4439864003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.00) will be charged at checkout.

"Gorilla City!" Congo Bill and Janu encounter a village filled with talking gorillas who are actually Martians. "Bombo?the Rage of London!" Bombo the Rogue Elephant goes to London. Also includes: "The Jungle Trolley Car!; "The World's Greatest Hunters"; and "Unseen Dangers of the Jungle." Cover by Nick Cardy. Cover price $0.10.

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.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $450.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #4572498010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($13.50) will be charged at checkout.

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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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"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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Action girl Sally the Sleuth and "The Chief" go undercover to catch an arson gang burning down houses for the insurance money. Reporter Ray Hale witnesses a murder by an abandoned house, but after the victim disappears, he learns he seemingly witnessed an crime that happened 18 years before. When a swimming film star dies during a dive, suspicion falls on her rescuers, who both had a reason to kill her. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Bullet of Treachery; Sally the Sleuth: Peril in the Flames; Ray Hale, News Ace: The Mysterious Tip-Off; The Hand of Fate; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Dive to Death. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by A. C. Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Frank Frazetta, Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Dan Turner attends a "midnight men's party" where the entertainment is magician Charm Marlowe, whose costume is skimpier than Zatanna's. But when a man dies by snakebite, Dan suspects "premeditated killery." Gail Ford goes undercover as a maid to get the drop on robbers targeting wealthy homeowners. Sally the Sleuth goes undercover as a model to find the deadly secret behind two women's deaths, in a story with plentiful good-girl art. Plus a classic religious PSA featuring early art by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: The Fortune-Teller Robberies; Ray Hale: After-Hours Killing; Sally the Sleuth: Tumbling Corpses; Prayer Works Wonders; Theft by Appointment; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Mysto-Magic Murder. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Tony Tallarico, Ray McClelland, Pierre Charpentier, John C. Mitchell, Bill Fraccio, William Grew and H. C. Kiefer. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. The ol' "injury-to-the-eye motif" returns, as Dan Turner seeks a killer who fires poison darts into his female victims' eyes! This story also features a deadly Punch & Judy show, hilarious Dan Turner tough-guy dialogue, and a villainous puppet-master who resembles Marvel's Puppet Master. Gail Ford goes undercover at a costume party to catch a wealthy man's killer, in a story with plentiful action-girl art. Sally the Sleuth and "The Chief" are mystified when an executed killer seemingly returns from the dead...for revenge. Gail Ford, Girl Friday; Ray Hale: Murder at First Base; Sally the Sleuth: Back From the Dead; Steve Wilder: Stuck With Murder; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: The Poisoned Puppet. Final issue under this title; series continues as Crime Mysteries (1952-1954 Trojan Magazines) #7, while the numbering continues with Secret Mysteries (1954) #16. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.