Comic books April 1953, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $350.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4568491007

Contains Alex Toth art. In order of appearance: "The Hands of Don José" art by Alex Toth, reprinted in Seduction of the Innocent (1985 Eclipse) #6, Genius Isolated The Life and Art of Alex Toth HC (2011 IDW) #1-1ST, and Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 HC (2011 FB) #1-1ST; "Weird Maze" activity page; "The Three Monkeys"; "Phantom of Flushing"; "Flowers on Deborah's Grave"; "Ghost of Raynham Hall"; and "Nothing Can Save Her" reprinted in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (1989) #8, Haunted Love (2016 IDW) #1, and Haunted Love: The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics HC (2017 IDW) #1-1ST. "Call for Claws: Old Bates Knew a Magic Word, but He Used It Once Too Often!" illustrated text story by Lewis Island. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $1,330.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Label #4701316001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($39.90) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Ernest Schroeder. Stories and art by Ernest Schroeder and others. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #110. No issue # on cover; Vol. 10, issue #3 in indicia. Airboy goes undercover in a secret society of neo-Vikings who are building a gigantic airplane. In the Balkans, an gigantic, mechanical suit of armor with its mighty hammer is brought to life once more by Cold War conflict. A test pilot makes a daring parachute dive after his latest plane loses its wings midflight. Airboy; The Heap; The Dancer of Tambora; The Shadow's Pigtail; A Job for Angels; The Thing Called Money. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $480.00 Paper: Off white to white Inner well not fully sealed, book appears unaffected and secure. Label #2101548003

Stories by unknown. Art by Kenneth Rice, Jim McLaughlin, Lou Cameron and unknown. Only a strong America can prevent...atomic war! In this issue: "Arctic Assault" with art by Kenneth Rice; "Old-Timers Die Hard" with art by Jim McLaughlin; 2-page text story "Weapon of Horror!"; "Operation Satellite" with art by Lou Cameron; and "Peril at Ploesti"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $140.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #3982878004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.20) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by thegeneral

Cover by Carl Burgos. "The Night It Rained Men!", script by Carl Wessler, art by John Forte; Sgt. Dimock and his men must hold on "Hopeless Hill." "The Crusader," pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel; Richard the Lion-Hearted battles Saladin during the Third Crusade. "The Cannon's Course" two-page text story. "Operation Mo," pencils by Dick Ayers, inks by Ernie Bache; The Battle of Midway. "No Man's Land!", art by Bob Brown; A movie star visits the troops on the front lines. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Detective Comics (1937 1st Series) 194 CGC 6.5

Paper: White

Label #4727468019

Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by Bill Woolfolk, Carmine Infantino, Jack Miller and unknown. Art by Bob Kane, Charles Paris, Sid Check, Moe Worthman, Leonard Starr, Howard Sherman and unknown. Don't miss Batman and Robin in "The Stolen Bank" by Bill Woolfolk, Bob Kane and Charles Paris. Plus: Pow-Wow Smith, Indian Lawman in "Return of the Killers!" with art by Leonard Starr; Robotman in "The Crime Collector" by Carmine Infantino, Jack Miller, Sid Check and Moe Worthman; and Impossible -- But True! tale "The Man in Ice!" (featuring Roy Raymond) with inks by Howard Sherman. Also: Quick Quiz activity half-pager by H.T. Elmo; Casey the Cop 1-pager by Henry Boltinoff; Jerry the Jitterbug 2-pager by Boltinoff; and 2-page text piece "Extinguishing the Firebugs" by Jack Miller (as John Marlowe). And: Superman says "People Are People!" in a 1-page public service announcement by Jack Schiff and Win Mortimer. 44 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Fighting Undersea Commandos (1952) 5 CGC 6.5

Paper: White

Label #4735814024

Art by Louis Ravielli and Vincent Alascia. Cover by Louis Ravielli. Tales of the U.S. Navys Underwater Demolition Team, popularly known as the frogmen. A captured American soldier with vital secrets is subjected to truth serum, and the frogmen must free him before he cracks. Then, the frogmen seek the mystery underwater message service delivering info to the enemy. Also featuring one last stunning contents page illustrated by Louis Ravielli on the inside front cover. The Stolen Brain!; Undersea Post Office!; They Couldnt Take Us!; Death to the Enemy!; Surprise Attack! Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $4,995.00 or Best Offer CGC Signature Series Paper: Off white to white Slab: Chipped/broken bracket Ray Bradbury & Jack Davis Authenticated Autographs on Page 13. Label #4446014001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($149.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Graham Ingels. Photo and biography of Ray Bradbury. Pipe Down!--The Witch's Cauldron!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels; A young woman marries an old man with a penchant for tobacco and poetry for his money and quickly grows tired of him; She meets a young man and they plot to push him down the stairs as though his death were accidental. Bedtime Gory!--The Vault of Horror!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by George Evans; A woman buys a stretch rack for her husband when he reveals that he killed her wealthy father so as to appear an accident and married her for her money and not for love. Pot-Shot!--The Old Witch's Grim Fairy Tale!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen. The Black Ferris!--The Crypt of Terror, script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by Jack Davis. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $300.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4427483001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

cover and art by Dan DeCarlo. Jetta in "Act Your Age," "Atom and Evil," and "Celestial Celebrity." Zoomer back-up story, "Double Trouble." Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $1,900.00 Paper: Off white Slab: Significant side/edge cracks 1" or more Label #0780428001

Cover by Bill Everett. "Death of a Puppet," art by Harry Anderson; A puppeteer's menagerie consists of shrunken humans. "Death Draws a Circle" text story. "Ghost Guard," art by Tony DiPret; A hermit reveals himself to be a ghost guarding pirate treasure. "Paid In Full," art by Carl Hubbell; A collection agent bullies one of his victims so much that the man murders and robs the collection agent unknowingly in the darkened streets so he has the money to pay off his debt. "High As a Kite," art by Vic Dowling; The town drunk who wishes to be as high as a kite meets the Devil in a bar, who grants his wish. "It's Murder, He Says!," art by Jack Abel; The police take down the story of a man who claims to know about the details of a murder that took place between two brothers. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $761.00 Paper: Light tan to off white Label #0260437003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($22.83) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Bill Everett. "Death of a Puppet," art by Harry Anderson; A puppeteer's menagerie consists of shrunken humans. "Death Draws a Circle" text story. "Ghost Guard," art by Tony DiPret; A hermit reveals himself to be a ghost guarding pirate treasure. "Paid In Full," art by Carl Hubbell; A collection agent bullies one of his victims so much that the man murders and robs the collection agent unknowingly in the darkened streets so he has the money to pay off his debt. "High As a Kite," art by Vic Dowling; The town drunk who wishes to be as high as a kite meets the Devil in a bar, who grants his wish. "It's Murder, He Says!," art by Jack Abel; The police take down the story of a man who claims to know about the details of a murder that took place between two brothers. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.5 $200.00 Paper: Light tan to off white Label #4585538004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by TheInnerGeek

Cover art by Bill Everett. "The Ice Monster Cometh!", art by Gene Colan; A woman who scoffs at local tales of an 'ice monster' plots to get rid of her husband and pin the blame on the 'ice monster'; She has the tables turned on her when the accomplice she picks to aid her in her crime reveals himself to be...the Ice Monster. "The Lost City," pencils by Sheldon Moldoff; A pilot finds himself in a lost city at the ocean floor while charting a hurricane where men have their mouths sewn shut in order to prevent them from telling the secret. "The Woman Who Was Afraid of Birds" text story. "Harry's Hideout," art by Carl Hubbell; A murderer seeks a hiding place and unknowingly enters a time capsule. "Tough Guy," art by John Rosenberger; Bart Nelson is too tough for the demons of hell--nothing they do to him has any effect until they come up with a rather unique torment. "The Great Disappointment!", script by Stan Lee, art by Russ Heath; A Soviet expedition lands on the moon, but the cosmonauts are absorbed into the surface; American scientists observing this admit that they knew that the moon was a dangerous living organism, which is why they allowed the Soviet Union to reach it first. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $650.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1139255007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($19.50) will be charged at checkout.

Stories by Stan Lee. Art and Cover by Dan DeCarlo. In this issue: Millie the Model in three untitled stories and three untitled 1-pagers. Plus: untitled Chili story; 2-page text story "Queen for a Day" (writer unknown); and untitled Daisy and Iggy story. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $540.00 Paper: Off white to white Tape on cover. Label #3878244001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.20) will be charged at checkout.

Stories by Stan Lee. Art and Cover by Dan DeCarlo. In this issue: Millie the Model in three untitled stories and three untitled 1-pagers. Plus: untitled Chili story; 2-page text story "Queen for a Day" (writer unknown); and untitled Daisy and Iggy story. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $189.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #1566286006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.67) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by Henry Boltinoff, Morris Waldinger and unknown. Art by Howard Purcell, Charles Paris, Ramona Fradon, Henry Boltinoff and Morris Waldinger. Brand-new adventures of TV and radio's favorite! Mr. District Attorney in: "The Case of the Bad Luck Clues!" with art by Howard Purcell and Charles Paris; "The T.V. Gang" with art by Purcell and Paris; and "Shoot -- Like a Camera" with art by Purcell and Paris. Also in this issue: A Casebook Mystery "The Killer's Accomplice" with art by Ramona Fradon; Casey the Cop half-pager by Henry Boltinoff; "Reprieve from Death!" half-pager by Morris Waldinger; and The Crime File 2-page text article. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $5,000.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4528622002

Cover by Dick Beck. Pre-Code tales of horror and the supernatural from Story Comics. A man likes to marry women and murder them for their money, but his latest bride has a taste for blood. The "true" story of Tituba, the Haitian servant who was accused of witchcraft during the infamous Salem witch trials. A mortician collects body parts, but the woman he loves gets too close to his trophy room. Death Comes in Small Pieces; Life's Blood; Witches Never Die; The Living Dead. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $3,150.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4343083001

Cover by Dick Beck. Pre-Code tales of horror and the supernatural from Story Comics. A man likes to marry women and murder them for their money, but his latest bride has a taste for blood. The "true" story of Tituba, the Haitian servant who was accused of witchcraft during the infamous Salem witch trials. A mortician collects body parts, but the woman he loves gets too close to his trophy room. Death Comes in Small Pieces; Life's Blood; Witches Never Die; The Living Dead. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $1,200.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4477426003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($36.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Dick Beck. Pre-Code tales of horror and the supernatural from Story Comics. A man likes to marry women and murder them for their money, but his latest bride has a taste for blood. The "true" story of Tituba, the Haitian servant who was accused of witchcraft during the infamous Salem witch trials. A mortician collects body parts, but the woman he loves gets too close to his trophy room. Death Comes in Small Pieces; Life's Blood; Witches Never Die; The Living Dead. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $270.00 Paper: Off white to white Crowley Copy. Label #1074815004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.10) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover features Kay Aldridge from the movie serial Perils of Nyoka. Stories and art by Howard Boughner and John Martin. Raised in the jungle by her scientist father, Nyoka faces its dangers like no man ever could. In a three-part story, oil is discovered on tribal lands. But that attracts the crooked Captain Pokoik, who turns the tribe against the chieftain, Kongi. Nyoka sets out to free Kongi and reveal the truth, but first she must survive the death trap Captain Pokoik has set for her. Little Thief; The Jungle Treasure, Chapter One: The Geyser of Death!; Trader Tom; Fizzy; Chapter Two: The Hostage; Forbidden Secret; Quiz; Egbert the Explorer; Gate to Doom; Chapter Three: Death Rides the Falls; The Whiskey Rebellion. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $540.00 Paper: White Label #4647172002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.20) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Will Elder and John Severin. Stories and art by Jerry De Fuccio, Ric Estrada, Will Elder and John Severin. Prize's flagship Western title featured early art by John Severin and other greats who worked for EC in the following decade. American Eagle returns to Canada to help a friend battle Louis Riel's rebellion. Three stories and a cover featuring early art by EC legends Jerry De Fuccio, Will Elder and John Severin. Confederate deserters plot to steal enough gold from the Black Hills to finance a second War Between the States. Rebellion; Sitting Bull; The Roundup; Army Beef; Zebulon Pike; Deserter. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Carl Burgos. "Danny Had a Dream," art by Joe Sinnott; Danny, a kid living on a farm, dreams of growing up and creating a powerful weapon which he can use to conquer the world; To get started on his task, he decides to gather some old junk and build a model of the machine which he envisions. "Feud!", script by Stan Lee, art by Jerry Robinson; A stranger in a mountain town comes across a murdered man, but the local sheriff refuses to do anything about it; The sheriff explains that the dead man is a member of the Ratfield family, who have been feuding with the McKay clan for years. "I Am a Vampire" text story. "The Big Kill," art by Charles A. Winter; This story's narrator claims that he's responsible for thousands of deaths every year, yet people love him and always want to make him a part of their lives. "5 Years Too Late!"; Released from prison after serving a five-year sentence, Birdie Salvo prepares to pick up his hidden loot; However, he gets picked up by some members of his former gang, who force him to tell them where the money is hidden. "Father-In-Law Trouble," art by Dick Briefer; Jeff Mitchell marries a woman for her money, but he soon finds out that her father, Mr. Hudson, has cut off her inheritance because he (correctly) considers Jeff to be a "cheap fortune-hunter"; Angrily, Jeff pushes his wife off a cliff and pretends that she fell off by accident. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Jack Davis. "By the Fright of the Silvery Moon!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; After two men are found torn apart on the night of a full moon, the sheriff of a small American farm community seizes a man who has arrived from Hungary with his two sons and has him shot, believing him to be a werewolf. "Midnight Mess!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; A man visits his sister in a small town where people get off the street and close up shop before sundown due to a recent spate of seventeen vampire killings, but scoffs at the idea as the work of a homicidal maniac as vampires don't exist. "The Rack" text story. "Busted Marriage!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen; A man has voodoo dolls made as wedding cake figures in order to get a wealthy woman to marry him. "This Wraps It Up," script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Graham Ingels (as Ghastly); Three archeologists, one with a bad heart (Munson), uncover the tomb of the 5th Pharoah of Egypt with a large treasure. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.0 $169.77 Paper: Brittle Label #4688939003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.09) will be charged at checkout.

Edited by Will Lieberson, V.A. Provisiero and Al Jetter. Stories by Bill Woolfolk and unknown. Art by Shelly Moldoff, Bob McCarty, Leonard Frank and unknown. Horror tales that are so scary they could only lead you to believe that This Magazine is Haunted! In this issue: When Professor Niles unearths the remains of a Neanderthal man, the whole town suddenly regresses into inexplicable caveman behavior in "Let the Past Lie Buried!" with pencils by Shelly Moldoff. Plus: An adventurous photographer wants to take pictures of a mysterious, forbidden place called City of the Dead amidst a desert. He forces his entry by poisoning himself, but takes too high a dose and actually belongs in the realm of the dead in "The City of the Dead!" with art by Bob McCarty. Also: Engineer Roger Ellis is able to see striking doom in form of a black phantom. With a sorcerer's help he captures the phantom and imprisons it. But the horrible creature can free itself and strikes again in "Phantom of Disaster!" with story by Bill Woolfolk. And: Art painter Leo Main is threatened by his landlady Mrs. Tyran. He paints a murder scene involving her and an ominous fat man. The fat man becomes reality, though, and starts developing a will of his own in "The Fat Man!" with art by Leonard Frank. Plus: 2-page text story "The Mills Grind Fine" written by John Martin, and ads for Strange Stories from Another World and Worlds of Fear. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 0.5 $69.00 Paper: Cream to off white Centerfold Missing Label #4548076015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.07) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Ruben Moreira, Al Plastino and Ralph Mayo. 1940s Chesler heroes Rocketman and Rocketgirl return in new guises as Zip-Jet and Pat. "Tech" Carson and his "girl Friday" Pat put on their jet suits when they discover that an old mobster has a new trick: hijacking long-distance moving trucks. Aircraft designer Norton Bemis asks Zip-Jet and Pat to investigate a series of crashes. Zip-Jet and Pat learn that Ned Bailey's life is in danger after he finds an old pirate map. Terror Strikes the Turnpike; Assassin of the Air Lanes; Green Scaled Justice; Space Doom; Murder Hides Its Tracks. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.