Comic books 1948 w/ month not specified, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $284.00 Paper: Off white Label #4476313002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.52) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Cover by Raeburn Van Buren. Stories and art by Raeburn Van Buren and Budd Sheppard. Confusingly, while numbered #2 on cover, this issue is listed as #1 in the indicia. The comic-strip adventures of city boy Slats, his small-town sweetheart Becky, and Becky's reprobate father "Bathless Groggins," with exceptionally nice art by Raeburn Van Buren. Becky believes Slats has been killed when the merchant steamer he signed onto is sunk. But he's actually been shanghaied onto the ship called the Black Cat, far out at sea. Meanwhile, Becky joins a dance troupe in Hollywood to forget Slats. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $500.00 Paper: Off white to white Canadian Edition. Label #4555051010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($15.00) will be charged at checkout.

Canadian Reprint. Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson (sometimes credited as Ace). Stories and art by Charles Flanders, Drake Williams, H. H. Knerr, Doc Winner, Chic Young, Joe Musial, Lee Falk, Ray Moore, William Ritt, Clarence Gray, Don Moore and Alex Raymond. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay presents an anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. Includes Alex Raymond's Jungle Jim. The Phantom seeks an abducted Maharajah; The first issue of the series featuring the Phantom on the cover, as well as an introductory splash page for the character. The Phantom; Jungle Jim; Henry; Katzenjammer Kids; Fighting Americans; Blondie; Brick Bradford; The Lone Ranger; Teddy and Sitting Bull; Doc Winner's Daffy Doodles. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $395.00 Paper: Cream to off white From The Collection of John Buscema. Label #4703924017 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by John Buscema. Written by unknown. Art by John Severin, Gene Colan and unknown. True cases proving crime can't win! Don't miss the true life story of Dinton Phillips, the cold-blooded killer who wouldn't hurt a flea, in "Dinton Phillips" with art by John Severin. Also in this issue: "Frank Leason the Man They Called: 'Madman!'" with pencils by Gene Colan; 2-page text story "The Gag"; Salute to the Law!: "The Subway Squad!"; "I'm Bigger Than the Law!"; and "Murder Without Motive!" 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $250.00 Paper: Cream to off white From The Collection of John Buscema. Label #4703924016 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by John Buscema. Written by unknown. Art by John Severin, Gene Colan and unknown. True cases proving crime can't win! Don't miss the true life story of Dinton Phillips, the cold-blooded killer who wouldn't hurt a flea, in "Dinton Phillips" with art by John Severin. Also in this issue: "Frank Leason the Man They Called: 'Madman!'" with pencils by Gene Colan; 2-page text story "The Gag"; Salute to the Law!: "The Subway Squad!"; "I'm Bigger Than the Law!"; and "Murder Without Motive!" 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $500.00 Paper: White Label #2137118002

Hillbilly blonde Babe, an ace runner and baseball player, is ready for the big leagues, but the big leagues may not be ready for Babe. Story, art and cover by Boody Rogers. 52 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $356.25 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Chipped/broken bracket Label #3732576008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.69) 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.

Add to cart CGC 9.6 $569.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #0162062003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($17.07) will be charged at checkout.

Safety-themed promotional comic featuring popular comic strip and cartoon characters in new stories drawn by their creators. Standard comic-sized, 16-pages, full color, quality white stock paper (not the typical newsprint of most promotionals), no cover price. Comic strip and cartoon characters such as Henry, Bugs Bunny, The Berrys, Dixie Dugan, Elmer, Tim Tyler, Bruce Gentry, Abbie and Slats, Joe Jinks, The Toodles, and Cokey. 16 pages.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $1,599.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #4210792002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($47.97) will be charged at checkout.

Stories by Walter Johnson and others. Art by Warren Kremer, Alvin Hollingsworth and Walter Johnson. Cover by Matt Baker. The first comic book featuring Leslie Charteriss adventurer Simon Templar, better known as The Saint, timed to coincide with the concurrent Saint radio show starring Vincent Price. The Saint stalks a killer backstage at a pirate play; Photojournalist Flash Harper catches an arsonist in action in his latest photo; Lucky Dale, Girl Detective, finds danger at sea while vacationing on a houseboat. Also featuring a Flash Harper story and a classic cover by legendary good-girl artist Matt Baker. The Saint Steals the Show; Operation Blackout: The Mole; Terror in the Night; Do You Know?; The Saint Plays Nursemaid! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $330.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4652009012 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.90) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Frank Bolle. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Stories and art by Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #14. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured Western adventure starring movie cowboy Tim Holt. Westerners believe a stagecoach is cursed after three different men die on it; A man dressed as a conquistador for a masquerade is murdered, and one of his spurs is stolen; A sheriff wounded by outlaws wants his son to take over his job, but he's not interested. Meet Tim Holt!; Satan's Stagecoach!; Tim Holt's Roundup; The Spur of the Conquistadore!; The Sheriff of Rail's End! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

True Crime Comics (1947 Magazine Village) 5 CGC 5.0

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #1231683004

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $275.00 Paper: Off white to white Canadian Edition. Label #4667465023 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.25) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Canadian Edition. Reprints Cover and material from Willie Comics (1946) #13. "Hey Look" - Story and Art by Harvey Kurtzman.