Comic books September 1948, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 1.8 $1,500.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4334150001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($45.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Edvard Moritz. The Werewolf Strikes, script by Frank Belknap Long, art by Edvard Moritz; They captured a timber wolf, but it was instead a Werewolf! The Living Ghost, script by Frank Belknap Long, art by Fred Guardineer; Malveo, Satan's first lieutenant, lives and is looking for a Queen. The Painted Grave text story. It Walked By Night, art by Max Elkan. The Castle of Otranto--Tell Me A Ghost Story, script by Frank Belknap Long, art by Al Ulmer; adapted from novel by Horace Walpole. The Vengeful Specter of Lord Tyrone--True Ghosts of History, art by Edvard Moritz. Haunted House, art by King Ward. 52 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $625.00 Paper: Off white Label #0313730004

Listed as scarce in Overstreet. Cover art by Alex Toth. Masquerade at Mesa City starring Johnny Thunder, script by Robert Kanigher, art by Alex Toth. Case of the Talking Shadows starring Dr. Mid-Nite, script by John Broome, art by Rudolph Palais; Dr. Mid-Nite investigates mysterious shadow men who have robbed a jewelry festival, and is drawn to a silhouette show run by the Great Ludwig. Chewing Gum--Everything Happens to Harry, script and art by Ed Wheelan. The Ship That Sailed the Hills starring The Black Pirate, art by Howard Purcell. Crimes from a Cardboard Box starring Green Lantern, script by John Broome, art by Irwin Hasen. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $949.99 Paper: Off white to white Label #4734894001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($28.50) will be charged at checkout.

Edited by Ned Pines. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories by Mort Meskin, Jerry Robinson, William McClellan, George Roussos, Ralph Mayo, Chuck Stanley, and Donald Boyne Hobart. Action-packed tales featuring such characters as the Crime Professor and the Black Terror, a super strong super-hero. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $222.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #3811827007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.66) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

All comic stories except "Sweet Sue" reprinted in Terrifying Tales (1953) #12. In order of appearance: "Jo-Jo Congo King, The Movie Murder!" reprinted with new splash panel as "The Image of Horror.." in Terrifying Tales (1953) #12; "Jo-Jo Congo King, Gladiators of Gore!" reprinted as "Gladiators of Gore" in Terrifying Tales (1953) #12; "Jo-Jo Congo King, Talisman Pearl!" reprinted as "Talisman Pearl" in Terrifying Tales (1953) #12; and "Sweet Sue". "For Batter or Worse" text story reprinted in Pedro (1950) #18. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $4,550.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #0032080001

Cover by Sheldon Moldoff and Johnny Craig. Stories by Gardner Fox and Richard Kraus. Art by Sheldon Moldoff and others. EC's lone superhero, Moon Girl fights for justice, aided by her moonstone powers and her sidekick, the rugged Prince Mengu. Gangsters smuggling diamonds in the West Indies run afoul of zombies, in the first-ever horror story from EC, a publisher soon to be famous for them. Sola the scientist plans to harness solar power to enslave all men to the women of the Earth. Moon Girl and the Prince investigate a corpse that is seemingly seeking revenge on illicit lovers. Moon Girl was listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Fun action-girl cover by Sheldon Moldoff and Johnny Craig. Slaves to the Sun!; The Ranch at Barren Acres!; Zombie Terror!; Trouble on Mimas; The Corpse with Will-Power! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $1,800.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4184123001

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by J. F. Byrne. Stories and art by George Evans, Enrico Bagnoli, Joe Doolin, Frank Doyle, Maurice Whitman, Murphy Anderson and Matt Baker. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. In the Lost World, Hunt and Lyssa find an ancient Martian weapon and a warning of the Volta invasion; The body of a strange humanoid warns Mysta of an impending alien attack, in a story by good-girl art legend Matt Baker; Pirate queen Yrina manages to switch places with Futura on her way to trial, in a story with exquisite art by Enrico Bagnoli. Bizarre transparent-women-under-glass cover by Joe Doolin (also featuring The Red Comet, long after his last appearance in the comic). The Lost World; Futura; Mysta of the Moon; Auro Lord of Jupiter; The Unguarded Pass; Life On Other Worlds: Neptune; Space Rangers; The Star Pirate. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Sugar Bowl Comics (1948) 3 CGC 2.0

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #4742164003

Cover by Jerry Fasano. Stories and art by Alex Toth, Allen Ulmer, Ray Willner, Phil Berube, Ruth Atkinson, Jimmy Thompson, Larz Bourne and Jerry Fasano. Teen comedy from Famous Funnies, featuring early art by comics legend Alex Toth. Factory worker's son Randy and the richest kid in town compete over the same girl, a sort of reverse Betty and Veronica plot. Ginny's brother helps her win a medal by tricking her into saving a visiting senator. The Just Girls gang declare war on a teacher after wicked rumors spread about her. Also featuring a full-page ad for movie and celebrity stills from Irving Klaw, better known these days as the man who "discovered" pinup model Bettie Page. Ted the Tattler; Randy; Gabriel Blew; Just Girls; "Reet" Rita; Our Modern Juniors; Willy; When a Girl Wants a Feller; Patsy; Wendy; Ginny. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.