Comic books August 1951, graded by CGC

Archie (1943 Archie Comics) 51 CGC 5.5

Paper: White

Label #4766479015

Cover by Bill Vigoda. Stories by unknown. Art by George Frese and unknown. Featuring Archie in: "Cops and Ribbers"; "Love's Labor Lost"; "The Name Game"; "Act Your Age"; "Do or Dive"; and the 1-pager "Road Shmo"! Plus: Archie's Pal Jughead in "Dressed to Kill"! Also: 2-page text story "It's a Sad Whirl!" Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $999.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4714704006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($29.97) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Alan Mandel, Bill O'Connor, Ben Flinton, Leonard Sansone, Ken Battefield and Basil Wolverton. L. B. Cole's Star Publications takes over the Blue Bolt series, and as the superhero craze wanes, Blue Bolt becomes a backup feature to Dick Cole in his own title. Blue Bolt suspects that a series of natural disasters targeting the Allied powers is the work of his old foe, the subterranean Green Sorceress. The Phantom Sub must protect the governor of the Mahatmas Islands as he travels across the oceans to the Pentagon on WWII business, but Axis forces are close behind. A Spacehawk adventure by Basil Wolverton, as Spacehawk faces Dr. Gore and the menace known as the Blazing Death. Also featuring a "Night on Bald Mountain" Spacehawk cover by L. B. Cole, as the title prepares to switch to a horror comic with the following issue. Blue Bolt; Sub-Zero; Phantom Sub; Hidden Horror; Target; Spacehawk. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Casper the Friendly Ghost (1949-1951 1st Series St. John) 5 CGC 3.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4766479013

St. John presents the earliest issues of what eventually became Harvey's long-running series about the friendliest of ghosts. Tired of staying in chilly haunted houses, Casper decides to visit the warm Wild West. Casper decides he doesn't want to "live" in a gloomy old haunted house. Casper helps a boy win a fox hunt; luckily, the fox and the hounds stop to have tea time together. Tomboy Trouble; Casper the Friendly Ghost: The Disguise; Beautyfied. Final issue of the series; Numbering continues with Harvey Comics Hits (1951) #61, also considered Casper the Friendly Ghost #6. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Casper the Friendly Ghost (1949-1951 1st Series St. John) 5 CGC 2.5

Paper: Off white

Label #4766479012

St. John presents the earliest issues of what eventually became Harvey's long-running series about the friendliest of ghosts. Tired of staying in chilly haunted houses, Casper decides to visit the warm Wild West. Casper decides he doesn't want to "live" in a gloomy old haunted house. Casper helps a boy win a fox hunt; luckily, the fox and the hounds stop to have tea time together. Tomboy Trouble; Casper the Friendly Ghost: The Disguise; Beautyfied. Final issue of the series; Numbering continues with Harvey Comics Hits (1951) #61, also considered Casper the Friendly Ghost #6. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $575.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4288217015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($17.25) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by unknown. Art by Bob Kane, Lew Sayre Schwartz, Bruno Premiani, Frank Bolle and unknown. What's this?! Batman knocked out? Or could he be throwing the fight? Read the amazing answer when Batman becomes..."The Park Avenue Kid!" with pencils by Bob Kane and Lew Sayre Schwartz. Plus: Pow-Wow Smith, Indian Lawman in "The Legend of the Stalking Ghost!" with art by Bruno Premiani; Robotman in "The Strange Bodies of Robotman" with art by Frank Bolle; and Impossible -- But True! tale "The Man with the Bullet-Proof Heart!" (featuring Roy Raymond). Also: Shorty 1-pager by Henry Boltinoff; Casey the Cop half-pager by Boltinoff; Casey the Cop 1-pager by Boltinoff; Quick Quiz activity page by H.T. Elmo; 2-page text piece "White Mystery" by F. Banks; and Varsity Vic 1-pager by Boltinoff. And: 1-page Tootsie Roll ad "Captain Tootsie and His Vacation-Time Pals" with art by Bill Schreiber. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $1,000.00 Paper: White Label #4241094005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($30.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Wally Wood. Edited by Sol Cohen. Art by Louis Ravielli, Rocke Mastroserio, Henry C. Kiefer, Manny Stallman, Joe Orlando and Wally Wood. Tales of horror from the era just before the Comics Code was introduced. A drowned corpse pursues his killer back to New York; A newlywed groom makes a deal with the devil to be reunited with his dead bride; A prediction of death turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy. The Thing from the Sea!; A Honeymoon of Horror!; The Chamber of Death!; The Stranger in Studio X; Do You Know?; Nightmare! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $499.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4667465010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($14.97) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Matt Baker cover. "Tripoli" Shores and Leatherneck Jack star in separate untitled adventures; "Han River Death Trap;" and "Fly...or Die!" The "Leatherneck Jack" was drawn by Baker. Two page text story, "Troop Ambush That Failed." Despite the #15 on the cover, this is the 1st issue of the St. John/Charlton Fightin Marines series. The numbering picks up from The Texan (despite the fact that there is also a Texan #15), becomes Fightin' Texan with issue #16 and #17, then becomes Fightin' Marines again, begining with issue #2. Whew! To top it all, this issue is slightly oversize, measuring 7.5" by 11". Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $450.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #1230606015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($13.50) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Birbos

Knights of the Galaxy in "Duel of the Planets" (script by Robert Kanigher as "Dion Anthony," pencils by Carmine Infantino?), "Heroes Out of Time" (script by John Broome as "Robert Starr"), "Vengeance of the Moth" (script by "Jerry Coleman," pencils by Gil Kane), and "Big House of Space" (script by Manly Wade Wellman). One-page Tootsie Roll ad, "Captain Tootsie Silences Rattler" by Bill Schreiber. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $110.00 Paper: Cream to off white From The Collection of John Buscema. Label #4703924007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.30) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Syd Shores. Stories and art by John Buscema, Mort Lawrence, Mort Leav, Bob Rogers, Charles Miller, John Forte, Vince Alascia and Bill Woolfolk. Bloody pre-Code crime comics, in imitation of Crime Does Not Pay - including a top-hatted, otherworldly narrator. The twist is that the publisher offers wanted posters (and rewards) for real-life criminals. A sports reporter exposes the Mob's control of boxing, in an early story by future Marvel and Conan legend John Buscema. "Crime Lab" detectives "Loot" and "Doc" investigate the "Phantom Burglar" who never leaves a trace behind. The Great Unsolved Mysteries contest invites readers to ponder a mysterious death in 1928. The Broadway Bandit; The Murder Ring; Wanted: Henry Clay Tollett; Curtains For A Killer!; Great Unsolved Mysteries: Harry Wilkes - Innocent or Guilty?; Crime Lab: The Phantom Burglar; Death in the Swamp. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $99.00 Paper: Cream to off white From The Collection of John Buscema. Label #4703924008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Syd Shores. Stories and art by John Buscema, Mort Lawrence, Mort Leav, Bob Rogers, Charles Miller, John Forte, Vince Alascia and Bill Woolfolk. Bloody pre-Code crime comics, in imitation of Crime Does Not Pay - including a top-hatted, otherworldly narrator. The twist is that the publisher offers wanted posters (and rewards) for real-life criminals. A sports reporter exposes the Mob's control of boxing, in an early story by future Marvel and Conan legend John Buscema. "Crime Lab" detectives "Loot" and "Doc" investigate the "Phantom Burglar" who never leaves a trace behind. The Great Unsolved Mysteries contest invites readers to ponder a mysterious death in 1928. The Broadway Bandit; The Murder Ring; Wanted: Henry Clay Tollett; Curtains For A Killer!; Great Unsolved Mysteries: Harry Wilkes - Innocent or Guilty?; Crime Lab: The Phantom Burglar; Death in the Swamp. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $95.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4472874017 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.85) will be charged at checkout.

Archie house ad. "All Wished Up"; Linda makes a wish at the wishing well for Wilbur to ask her out. Pepe Comics house ad. "A Straw Vote," art by Joe Edwards; The boys have to drink sodas to vote for their girls in a popularity contest. "Ham 'n Egghead"; When Wilbur finds out Slats and Laurie are trying out for a play, Wilbur tries to get the lead opposite Laurie. Wilbur Fun Page. "Talk of the Town," pencils by Samm Schwartz; Suzie is spending her time in the office talking on the phone to Gladys instead of working. Suzie house ad. "Hoarse Sense"; Miss Gargle is frustrated that baseball season has made her male students hoarse from cheering. Untitled Katy Keene story, script and art by Bill Woggon; Katy doesn't have a date so Sis gets Chubby Chuckles to come over with candy. Katy Keene house ad. Stuff About Stars article about celebrities. "Paint Necessary So"; To try and keep Wilbur out of trouble, Dripwaite puts Wilbur in the art class. "Past Perfect"; Laurie got a perfect score on a personality test, but she knows no one is perfect. Don't Let It Puzzle You half-page. House ad for Archie Comics/Pep Comics/Laugh Comics. "Hot Guy," art by Dave Berg (as Davy Berg); Red is suffering from heat exhaustion. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.