Comic books December 1939, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 0.1 $150.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Coverless. Label #4331230015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.50) will be charged at checkout.

This issue features an ad with the first in-print mention of The Flash and Hawkman, pre-dating publication of Flash Comics #1! Cover art by Walter Galli, Jon L. Blummer, and William Smith. Origin, Part II starring Gary Concord, the Ultra-Man, script and art by Jon L. Blummer (signed as Don Shelby); Gary's father's story continues; He discovers he is the only one who can breathe the air outside the domed cities. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith (as Bud Fisher). Believe It or Not by Robert L. Ripley. The Volcano starring Red, White and Blue, art by William Smith. Northern Lights starring Hop Harrigan, script and art by Jon L. Blummer (signed as Jon Elby). A Thousand Years A Minute - Part 3--Adventures in the Unknown, script by Carl H. Claudy, art by Stan Aschmeier. Scribbly Teaches the Principal, script and art by Sheldon Mayer. Calling the Roll starring Ben Webster, script and art by Edwin Alger. The American Way [Part 4], script by John B. Wentworth, art by Walter Galli. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $21,500 Paper: Off white The DC Universe Collection Label #4278170001

Cover by Leo O'Mealia. This comic-sized ashcan issue was used to secure the trademark for the title, "Flash Comics" before the release of Flash Comics (1940 DC) #1. Reuses cover from Adventure Comics #41. Partial interior from All-American Comics (1939) #8. 7 1/2" X 10 1/2". Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $3,499.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #4636243001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($104.97) will be charged at checkout.

Vol. 1, No. 6 - December 1939. See Marvel Science Stories (1938-1939 Postal Publications) Pulp for earlier issues. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,499.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4392596018 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($44.97) will be charged at checkout.

Vol. 1, No. 6 - December 1939. See Marvel Science Stories (1938-1939 Postal Publications) Pulp for earlier issues. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $2,200.00 Conserved Paper: Off white Conservation includes: cover reinforced. 10th -12th wraps married. Label #2054014001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($66.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Lou Fine. Stories by Dick Briefer, Fred Schwab, and Will Eisner. Art by Walter Frame, Dick Briefer, Fred Schwab, Munson Paddock, George Tuska, Klaus Nordling, Arthur Peddy, Charles Nicholas, Art Franklin, Bob Powell, and John Lindermayer. An anthology of Golden Age adventure comics from Fox Feature, including the original Blue Beetle. A mysterious superhuman causes Rex Dexter to age rapidly and menaces him with bizarre monsters, in another one-of-a-kind story by Dick Briefer; Early adventures of The Blue Beetle and The Green Mask likely written by Will Eisner; Zanzibar, who looks like Mandrake the Magician in a blue fez, battles the Walrus Men at the South Pole. The Will of John D. Lovingston; The Robot Solar System; Come! Come!; River Lily and the Purr of Death; The World Race; Big-Shot Krard's Dope Ring; The Case of Oil; Mr. Death; Ki-Mung, Bloodthirsty Buccaneer; A Trap for the Blue Beetle; Inspector Bancroft of Scotland Yard Smashes a Spy Ring; Ki-Mung, Bloodthirsty Buccaneer; Tiger Hunt; Super Sleuths; Marooned at the South Pole. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Top-Notch Comics (1939) 1 CGC 2.5

Paper: Cream to off white

Cover detached.

Label #1238997020

Edited by Abner Sundell. Cover art by Edd Ashe. Meet Rang-A-Tang The Wonder Dog house ad. "The Pearl Harbor Peril," art by Edd Ashe; The Wizard uses his super powers to stop a Jatsonian attack on Pearl Harbor. "In the Worlds of Time," script by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder), art by Jack Binder; Scott, a traveler through time with Dr. Meade in the "time car" (which is more of a rocket ship), pick ups Thor the Viking and the lovely Elda in the past. One-page SporTopics story, art by Irwin Hasen. "Murder by Sock" Swift of the Secret Service story, art by Charles Biro; introduction of Rex Swift; vs. Jack Snite. "To-nite! Saved from the Flames!" Jungle Town Show Boat story, script and art by Dick Ryan; Only Billy Hippo appearance. "Vendetta with Von Schiller," script by Joe Blair, art by Irv Novick; Ben "Wings" Johnson introduction and origin vs. Capt. Von Schiller and Nazis. "Murder Rap" text story with Lucky Coyne by Ken Fitch. It's Really A Fact! non-fiction story, art by Bob Wood. "The Bat and the Bull," script by Ken Fitch; Lucky Coyne posing as Bat Yardley, jewel thief in prison. One-page Lonesome Luke story. The "Fortune Teller's Revenge," art by Chuck Winter; The Mystic (later Kardak) intro; vs. Chuck and his gang. "Kornell Goes to West Point;" Keith Kornell, a physical and mental marvel, is a Kentucky mountaineer who is a collateral descendant of President Andrew Jackson and the son of a World War hero, is orphaned at the age of 5, when both of his parents succumbed to the ravages of pneumonia epidemic; Reared by a poor relative, Keith's life is one of dire poverty until a newspaper runs a story on him and he meets an old Army buddy of his father's who is now a U.S. Senator. "The Ice Cream Cone," script and art by Bob McCay (as Winsor McCay II). "Case 1: Master Forgers," script and art by Jack Cole; true crime story. "Forgets To Remember" one-page Pokey story, script and art by Dick Ryan. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.