Comic books January 1946, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $1,799.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #0991859001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($53.97) will be charged at checkout.

Detective Comics #8 cover swipe. Features the comic strips Radio Squad by Joel Siegel and Jerry Shuster; Barry O'Neal and Fang Gow, Captain Quick, and King Arthur. 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.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,499.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4313681009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($44.97) will be charged at checkout.

Rudy Palais cover. "Unknown Soldier" feature replaced by "The Unknown". In order of appearance: "Magno and Davey" art by Rudy Palais; "The Unknown"; "Lash Lightning with Lightning Girl, 'The Riddle of the 13 Red Points!'" art by George Mabuchi (as 'George Gregg'); and "Captain Courageous" art by Rudy Palais. "Conquest of the Big Muddy" text story by Cliff Howe, reprinted from Super Mystery Comics Vol. 5 (1945) #3. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Marvel Mystery Comics (1939) 68 CGC 6.0

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Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Wolf of Gotham starring Human Torch, art by Al Bellman. The Pawns of Satan starring Sub-Mariner, pencils by Allen Simon. Clue of the Chinese Ticket starring Miss America, art by Charles Nicholas. Golden Wraith of Walgrave starring Patriot. Blind Man's Boots starring Angle, art by Carmine Infantino. 52 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $2,200.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4240854005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($66.00) will be charged at checkout.

Final issue. Reprint strips. Winter issue. Edited by Stan Lee. Story and Art by Tarpé Mills. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Featuring untitled Miss Fury strip reprints. Plus: 2-page text story "Cave Killer"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $1,150.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4651213005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($34.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Fantasy of Hate starring Sub-Mariner, Betty Dean, and Mr. and Mrs. Franz Egarus, art by Allen Simon. Brontosaurus--They Lived Long Long Ago. The Ghost Ship starring Sub-Mariner and Allen Rosnim, art by Allen Simon. Ambush text story. The Water Front Phantom starring the Sub-Mariner, Betty Dean, Jack Prentice, and Martha Prentice, art by Allen Simon. Shadow of the Noose starring Angel and The Noose, art by Al Bellman. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $945.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #3724855006

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Fantasy of Hate starring Sub-Mariner, Betty Dean, and Mr. and Mrs. Franz Egarus, art by Allen Simon. Brontosaurus--They Lived Long Long Ago. The Ghost Ship starring Sub-Mariner and Allen Rosnim, art by Allen Simon. Ambush text story. The Water Front Phantom starring the Sub-Mariner, Betty Dean, Jack Prentice, and Martha Prentice, art by Allen Simon. Shadow of the Noose starring Angel and The Noose, art by Al Bellman. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $489.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4448158025 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($14.67) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Ken Battefield. Stories and art by Ken Battefield, Burton Geller, Harold DeLay, Alan Mandel, Marvin Levy and Alex Toth. An early comics anthology focusing on Yellowjacket and other little-known superheroes of the Golden Age. Yellowjacket investigates when members of an exclusive club are being murdered one by one. In perhaps the first appearance in comics of an EC-style "horror host," The Ancient Witch narrates the story of The Avenging Hand for Famous Tales of Terror. King of the Beasts faces Mrs. Van Wiggle, a wealthy socialite who uses a trained lion to kill her society rivals. Plus an early one-page cartoon by future comics legend Alex Toth. Yellowjacket: The Lonely Ones; Diana the Huntress; Better Late than Never; King of the Beasts; Famous Tales of Terror: The Avenging Hand!; Little Laffs; Cap'n Grim, Harbor Pilot: Whom the Gods Would Destroy, First They Make Mad; Fip - The Filipino Kid; B Buzzes. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.