Comic books October 1944, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $780.00 Paper: Off white Label #1969414016 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($23.40) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by R.W. Hall, Radcliffe, Alan Mandel, Dick Briefer, Dick Wood 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. Crimebuster tracks the murderous thug known as Johnny-on-the-Spot, in a particularly violent pre-Code story. Yankee Longago has a Groundhog Day-style time-loop adventure that teaches the importance of war bonds, a wartime fundraising effort, featuring art by Dick Briefer. Swoop Storm uses his new Gull Plane, a flap-winged plane like Airboy's Birdie, to take on Axis forces during WWII, featuring art possibly by Archie creator Bob Montana. Crimebuster; Swoop Storm; True Story of Jan Smudek; Daredevils Greatest Battle; Little Dynamite; Young Robinhood and his Band; Yankee Longago. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Exciting Comics (1940) 35 CGC 9.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4334828001

Cover by Alex Schomburg. Written by John Swenson, Gerald Devers, Walt Wilson and unknown. Art by Ken Battefield, Maurice Gutwirth, Bob Oksner, Max Plaisted, Ed Moritz and unknown. Featuring The Black Terror, Nemesis of Crime, in an untitled story with art by Ken Battefield and Ed Moritz. Plus: The American Eagle in an untitled story with art by Maurice Gutwirth; Crash Carter, Air Cadet, in an untitled story with art by Bob Oksner; 1-page text story "Dust Storm" by John Swenson; The Liberator in an untitled story; 1-page text story "Haunted House" by Gerald Devers; Sergeant Bill King in an untitled story with art by Maurice Gutwirth; 1-page text story "Good Cowpony" by Walt Wilson; and Larry North, U.S. Navy, in and untitled story with art by Max Plaisted. 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $1,275.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #1462522021 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($38.25) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by M.E. Peacock and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Robert Webb, Alex Blum, Ann Brewster, H.C. Kiefer, Lily Renee and George Tuska. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Tiger Girl must prove a white man stole a precious idol before tribal warfare erupts, in a story with possible art by Matt Baker; More good-girl art as Hooks Devlin investigates the "lamp-post Mata Haris" who are causing US soldiers to desert; Senorita Rio investigates Nazi U-boat attacks on ships near the Panama Canal. Another offbeat bondage cover by Joe Doolin. Rip Carson; Tiger Girl; Hooks Devlin; Kayo Kirby; Silent Cannons; Shark Brodie; Senorita Rio. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $549.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4671561020 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by M.E. Peacock and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Robert Webb, Alex Blum, Ann Brewster, H.C. Kiefer, Lily Renee and George Tuska. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Tiger Girl must prove a white man stole a precious idol before tribal warfare erupts, in a story with possible art by Matt Baker; More good-girl art as Hooks Devlin investigates the "lamp-post Mata Haris" who are causing US soldiers to desert; Senorita Rio investigates Nazi U-boat attacks on ships near the Panama Canal. Another offbeat bondage cover by Joe Doolin. Rip Carson; Tiger Girl; Hooks Devlin; Kayo Kirby; Silent Cannons; Shark Brodie; Senorita Rio. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $349.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #1488672022 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Al Gabriele. Stories and art by Henry Kiefer and Roland "Ramona" Patenaude. Headline Comics' first rotating slate featured a slew of Axis-punching super-heroes typical of the early 1940s. Kinker Kinkaid investigates Crime's 3-Ring Circus; Teen inventor Cliff Gordon plays pirate on the high seas; Time-traveling teen Tom Morgan visits the Old West. Junior Rangers; Buck Saunders; Cliff Gordon -- Pirate; Routine Report; Tom Morgan; Kinker Kinkaid. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $1,330.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Significant front/back scuff(s). Label #0199354014 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($39.90) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Madman of Terror Mountain starring Human Torch, art by Jimmy Thompson. Case of the Electric Killers starring Sub-Mariner, art by Allen Simon. The Horror of the Secret Weapon starring Miss America, script by Otto Binder, art by Charles Nicholas. Escape to Freedom text story. The Case of the Vanishing Head starring Patriot, art by Al Bellman. The Talking Corpse starring Angel, art by Gustav Schrotter. 52 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Marvel Mystery Comics (1939) 59 CGC Coverless

Paper: Off white

COVERLESS. Centerfold missing.

Label #4664068014

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Madman of Terror Mountain starring Human Torch, art by Jimmy Thompson. Case of the Electric Killers starring Sub-Mariner, art by Allen Simon. The Horror of the Secret Weapon starring Miss America, script by Otto Binder, art by Charles Nicholas. Escape to Freedom text story. The Case of the Vanishing Head starring Patriot, art by Al Bellman. The Talking Corpse starring Angel, art by Gustav Schrotter. 52 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,600.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #4613271001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($48.00) will be charged at checkout.

World War II era bondage art cover by Syd Shores. The Angel is cover featured in a battle with Nazis. The Angel stars in "The Legend of the Murderous Falcon!" Untitled Human Torch story. The Destroyer in "Jap Juggernaut." Tommy Tyme and His Wonderful Clock of the Ages by Charles Tomsey. Terry Vance, the School Boy Sleuth in an untitled story. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $1,499.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Very minor amount of glue on centerfold. Label #4153289014 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($44.97) will be charged at checkout.

World War II era bondage art cover by Syd Shores. The Angel is cover featured in a battle with Nazis. The Angel stars in "The Legend of the Murderous Falcon!" Untitled Human Torch story. The Destroyer in "Jap Juggernaut." Tommy Tyme and His Wonderful Clock of the Ages by Charles Tomsey. Terry Vance, the School Boy Sleuth in an untitled story. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $2,299.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #1624601006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($68.97) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Origin and first appearance of Mr. Mxyztplk (later Mxyzptlk). Superman flies for the first time. Cover art by Jack Burnley. Superman Alias Superman, script by Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel], pencils by Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster]; Lois Lane thinks Clark Kent is trying to trick her into believing he's Superman! Untitled Lois Lane story, script by Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel], pencils by Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster]; Lois is taken prisoner by the Dover gang. The King's Substitute!, script by Bill Finger [as Jerry Siegel], art by Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster]; Unhappy because his father-in-law to be considers him to be a nobody, Johnny Poly goes to Poltavia to bid on a picture of the nation's ancient monarch. Death of a Pirate text story by Eric Carter. The Mysterious Mr. Mxyztplk!, script by Jerry Siegel (signed), pencils by Joe Shuster (?) and Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster]. Handy Andy humor page by Jack Farr. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.