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Add to cart CGC 9.8 $253.00 Paper: White Label #1018238003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.59) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: Guardians of the Universe! by Budd Lewis and Delando Nino; Hear the Organ Grinder Play by Mark Willard and Martin Salvador; Soul Sucker! by Gerry Boudreau and Fred Carrillo; Wreck of the Vendigo Shafter! by Rich Margopoulos, Gene Day, and Rudy Nebres; Nefites by Bruce Jones and Jun Lofamia; Orson Who? by Nicola Cuti, Carmine Infantino, and Wayne Howard; War is Hell! by Roger McKenzie and Val Mayerik; and The City of God by Budd Lewis and Steve Gan. Cover art by Ken Kelly. Cover price $2.00.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $120.99 Paper: White Label #0501692004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($3.63) will be charged at checkout.

This special Al Williamson issue includes the following reprinted stories: H2O World! by Archie Goodwin, Al Williamson, and Roy G. Krenkel; The Success Story by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson; Welcome Stranger by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson; Sand Doom by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson; Now you See it... by Bruce Jones and Al Williamson; and The Homecoming by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson. Cover art by Rudy Nebres. Cover price $2.00.

Creepy (1964 Warren) 139 CGC 9.8

Paper: Off white to white

Label #0502817001

This special Alex Toth issue includes the following reprinted stories: Daddy and the Pie by Bill DuBay and Alex Toth; The Monument by Archie Goodwin and Alex Toth; Grave Undertaking by Archie Goodwin and Alex Toth; Rude Awakening! by Archie Goodwin and Alex Toth; Survival! by Archie Goodwin and Alex Toth; Phantom of Pleasure Island by Gerry Boudreau and Alex Toth; and Unreal! by Alex Toth. Cover art by Rudy Nebres. Cover price $2.25.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $135.99 Paper: White Label #0083603014 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($4.08) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include: I Created the...Gargoyle! by Danille DuBay and Delando Nino; The Puppet Master by John Ellis Sech and Fred Carrillo; The Check-Out Counter by Timothy Moriarty and Alfonso DeLeon; Covering All Bases by Kevin Duane and Martin Salvador; Candle in the Wind by Gerry Boudreau and Jun Lofamia; and Moral Blood by Don McGregor and Al Sanchez. Cover art by Richard Corben. Cover price $2.25.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $280.99 Paper: White Label #1018237006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.43) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this issue include the following reprints: Forgotten Flesh by Doug Moench and Vicente Alcarar; For the Sake of Your Children! by Ed Fedory and Jaime Brocal; It! by Tom Sutton; In Darkness it Shall End! by Doug Moench and Vicente Alcazar; The Ghouls! by Carl Wessler and Martin Salvador; Berenice by Rich Margopoulos and Isidro Mones (from the story by Edgar Allan Poe); and It: The Terror-Stalked Heiress! by Carl Wessler and Jose Gual. The features page includes an announcement of the departure of Forrest J Ackerman from Famous Monsters. Cover art by Frank Frazetta. Cover price $2.25.

Add to cart CGC 9.6 $88.04 Paper: White Label #0501658005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.64) will be charged at checkout.

This final Warren issue includes the following stories: Moral Blood part three by Don McGregor and Al Sanchez; All of them Must Die! by Gerry Boudreau, Randy Palmer, and Martin Salvador; and The Iceman Killeth by Michael Fleischer and Delando Nino. Cover art by Jose Mirelles. Cover price $2.25.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $240.99 Paper: White Label #1446025001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.23) will be charged at checkout.

Stories in this last issue of Creepy magazine, which was published by Harris Publications, include: Sex Kitten by S.K. Pierce an Bill Wray; Creeps by Archie Goodwin, John Severin, and Wally Wood; Yellow Heat by Bruce Jones and Russ Heath; ...The Dump Man by Stephen Perry and Eric Shanower; Too Many Termarrows by Timothy Moriarty and Vic Catan; Dead Run by Jeff Jones; A Base and Nasel Hunger by Stephen Perry and Steve Bissette; Sacrifice by Roger McKenzie and Luis Bermejo; Grave Undertaking by Archie Goodwin and Alex Toth; To Kill a God! by Wally Wood; The Super-Abnormal Phenomena Survival Kit! by Jim Stenstrum and John Severin; Werewolf! by Larry Ivie and Frank Frazetta; Creepy's Loathsome Lore: Mummy's Curse! by Archie Goodwin and Roy G. Krenkel; The Machinations of Lust by S.K. Pierce, Mike Harris, and Greg Theakston; and No (Horse) Laughing Matter by Doug Moench and Rafael Auraleon. Cover art by Richard Corben. Cover price $2.95.

Add to cart CGC 9.6 $212.99 Paper: Off white Label #0098275015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($6.39) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by H.B. Harris. Edited by Bill Parente. Stories by Archie Goodwin, John Benson, Bhob Stewart, and Johnny Craig. Art by Frank Frazetta, Angelo Torres, Dan Adkins, Rocke Mastroserio, Wally Wood, Neal Adams, and Johnny Craig. Reprints from the early years of the influential horror comics magazine. A Frazetta werewolf one-pager; a monster rises from the grave. 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. 52 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $300.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #1488623032

Cover by Lou Morales. Stories and art by Lou Morales, Dick Giordano, Frank Frollo, and Stan Campbell. Pre-Code crime comics from Charlton, sometimes published under its short-lived Capitol or Law and Order imprints. Mr. Chase introduces a tale of intrigue with the following: "You readers may think that because this is a comic book, all these stories are dreamed up by haggard looking writers pounding fiction out of a typewriter until the wee hours of the morning...Well, you're right!" An insurance investigator arranges a pardon for a convicted bank robber, in hopes of finding the loot he stashed away before he was caught. Ex-con Frankie gets a job at a munitions plant and falls in with a plan to rob the place of its payroll. Bondage cover by Lou Morales. So... You Want to Be a Detective???; Mr. and Mrs. Chase: Alias Gregori; Full Pardon!; The Thirteenth Victim; Radio Patrol: Steal a Million; Killer, Come Home. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $349.00 Paper: Off white Label #4634534005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.47) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by John Prentice, Gerald McCann, Frank Kramer, and Vic Martin. The adventures of Dr. Tom Rogers, prison psychologist. A parole-board chairman gets a look at life on the inside after a blow to the head. Recently released jewel thief Jake sets his sights on the Bradley Pearls. Dr. Rogers suspects that Harvey, the penitentiary librarian, is doing time for someone else. No Second Chance; One Last Hope; Double Dose! The Criminal Always Loses; The Two-Bit Heirloom; Law Laffs; The Lady Killer; It's a Crime! Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $284.00 Paper: Off white Label #4476313006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.52) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Stories and art by Bill Ely and others. Tales of crime and mobsters, both true and fictional, a prime example of the genre that thrived in the years before the Comics Code. A jewel thief sets his sights on the famed Blue Star diamond as a gift for his wife. A simple-minded town fool stumbles on the evidence of a murder, but townspeople think he is involved himself. It's gangsters vs. cowboys when a new rustling scheme involves hijacking a cattle drive onto a schooner. The Glass Gibraltar; The Rats on the Vine; Haunted Headlines; The Kind Nuisance; The Mink in the Balcony; The Hamburger Pirates; The Gypsy Link. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $1,950.00 or Best Offer Restored: B1 Paper: Off white to white Restoration includes: tear seal to cover, glue on 13th page, cover reinforced. (Married 13th page) Label #1292690003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($58.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Briefer, Harry Lucey, Woody Hamilton, Carl Hubbell, Bob Montana, George Tuska, Norman Maurer, Alan Mandel, Lev Gleason and Charles Biro. Numbering continues from Silver Streak Comics (1939) #21. Erroneously listed as issue #23 on cover (#22 in indicia). 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. The series kicks off with the true story of 1930s mobster Louis Lepke Buchalter, the gangster who created the Murder, Inc. killer-for-hire operation. The Wild West gunfighter "Wild Bill" Hickok becomes a figure of legend. Paralyzed polio survivor Bill Reed develops a set of prosthetic wings and becomes the superhero War Eagle, in his sole adventure. Crime Kings: The Real Story Behind Lepke, Mad Dog of the Underworld; Wild Bill Hickok; Officer Edward Maher and the Mad Dog Killers of Fifth Avenue; The Saga of Harpshead Road; Two-Legged Rats; The Mad Musician and His Tunes of Doom; The Crime Corner Presents: Hollywoods Panther Man, The Jersey Devil; The Case of the Twisted Cigarettes; The Blackout Murder Mystery; Dickie Dean, The Boy Inventor; The War Eagle. 64 pages, Full Color. 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 7.5 $2,200.00 Paper: White Label #2026049001

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Robert Sale, C. L. Hartman, Rudy Palais, Edd Ashe, Bert Bushell, Davy Johnson, 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. "Two Gun" Crowley's 1931 shootout with police becomes national news and helps create the image of the Prohibition-era gangster. A crooked insurance salesman hires two killers to do away with a woman for the insurance money. A story that dares the reader to figure out who committed murder during the production of a pirate movie. Also featuring several lurid text stories of the True Detective type, plus a vintage ad for Pepsi starring Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop. Cut-Rate Murder; A River, a Basket, a Stain of Red; Death Insurance; The True Story of Two-Gun Crowley; This'll Kill You!; Joe the Boss; Trio of Terror; Whodunnit. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $549.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #0987690001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($16.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Fred Guardineer, Mike Roy, Sam Burlockoff, Rudy Palais, George A. Marko, Arne Arntzen, Jack Alderman, Red Woodbury, Harley M. Griffiths 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. The Schroeder gang robs and kills its way across 1920s America, led by bereted blonde Irene, featuring some classic bad-girl art by Fred Guardineer. Mr. Crime narrates the story of killers Steve and Tony, featuring a lurid image of an electric chair high atop the pile of their victims' bodies. The true story of violent criminal Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. Also featuring a vintage ad for Pepsi starring Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop, and a photo of the Lev Gleason creative staff: Bob Wood, Lev Gleason and Charles Biro. Thug's Throne; Fingers of Death; The Tri-State Terror; Mad Dog Vincent Coll; Triple Death and the Trail of Terror; The Terror Down Under; The Horrible Halzingers; Whodunnit. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $349.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #0746647010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Ken Fitch, Fred Guardineer, George Tuska, Dick Wood, Rudy Palais, Bert Bushell, Jack Alderman, 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. With the encouragement of Mr. Crime and the Devil himself, Denvil Dotson works his way up from petty theft to killing cops. Police suspect a swindle when a painter's highly insured studio burns down and takes his art with it. Infamous Ma Barker births a criminal gang that includes her four sons, in a different story than the previous issue's Barker bio. Also featuring a vintage ad for Pepsi starring Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop, and a classic bad-girl cover by Charles Biro. Devil's Diary; Mother of Murderers; On the Level; Brother Rats; Two-Timing Trio; Crime Quiz; Gyp Artist; The Case of the Voodooed Hangars; Whodunnit: Murder in the Penthouse. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $299.00 Paper: Cream to off white Scuffing to front and back of slab. Label #0107969003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Fred Guardineer, George Tuska, Lee Teaford 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. Criminal brothers Bud and Don Hoover have a lifelong feud that escalates into murder. The story of notorious real-life gunman Pretty Boy Floyd. Bloodshed results when neighborhood laundries fight back against Johnny Spanish's protection racket. The Hoover Brothers; Pretty Boy Floyd The Two-Faced Terror; Killers' Jinx; Washed in Blood; The Telltale Scar; Whodunnit. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $249.00 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Significant scratch(es) front or back Top edge label is missing. Label #0010444019 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Fred Guardineer 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. The story of notorious real-life gunman Pretty Boy Floyd. Mob boss Chris Ramsdell must face the music after one of his hoods shoots a senator's daughter. A tough DA is targeted by a gangster after he convicts his brother of murder. Also featuring a vintage ad for "Lev Gleason Comics picture trading cards." Pretty Boy Floyd, "Racketeer" Reward; Test Your Judgment!; Crime News Oddities; The End of the Underworld? 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $259.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #0354562004 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.77) will be charged at checkout.

"Born to Burn" (art by Mike Sekowsky?), "Death Was His Partner," "The Homicidal Hitchhikers," "Teen-Age Private Eye," and "The Legacy of Death." Two page text story, "Cops Don't Cry!" by Jim Hendryx, Jr., and one page filler "X Marks the Spot." Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $850.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #2042487008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($25.50) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Ken Battefield and Pierre Charpentier. Crime and adventure comics featuring detective heroes. "Crime psychologist" Jim Phillips investigates a crime wave that seems to be masterminded by a hypnotist who died in prison. Private eye Jerry Jasper is hired by gang boss Mike Bullen to find out who is trying to take over his racket. Showgirl Babe Dawson hires master of disguise Don Grady to protect her from her ex-con ex-husband, Spider Webb. Bondage cover may be the work of Adolphe Barreaux. Jim Phillips: Death Is the Victor; Jerry Jasper: Murder Backfires; Don Grady: The Hidden Clue; Hate Backfires; Queenie Starr: Death Directs. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $274.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4354763001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.22) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Alvin Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and others. Crime and adventure comics featuring detective heroes. Dr. Lance Storm battles mad scientist Dr. Zarno, who has discovered how to turn people into radiation-powered zombies. Chinese scientist Dr. Foo helps Don Grady solve crimes, in his debut. Plus a classic anti-marijuana story. Lance Storm: The Nightmare Monster; Jerry Jasper; The Fantastic Dr. Foo; Queenie Starr. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.5 $195.00 Paper: Cream to off white Tape on interior cover. Label #1974355006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by William Zeller. Stories and art by Richard Kahn, Mo Marcus, Robert Leslie Bellem, Bill Fraccio, Art Gates, Jack Miller, Ray McClelland and Mike Esposito. Crime and adventure comics featuring detective heroes. Dr. Lance Storm's arch enemy Professor Zarno sets his sights on the British Crown Jewels during the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (a hot topic at the time). To solve a murder at the United Nations, Chinese-American scientist Dr. Foo employs his natural deductive skills, and perhaps even his supernatural skills. Wax figures confuse the clues in a case for Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (the most famous sleuth in the pages of Crime Mysteries). Bondage-themed cover by William Zeller is an homage to (or swipe from) an early Jack Kirby cover, for Champion Comics (1939-1940 Worth Publishing) #10. Lance Storm: Death Stalks the Crown; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Murder in Wax; Kitty Vale: Picture of Death; Murder is a Skin Game; The Fantastic Dr. Foo: Prayer of Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $325.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4204455007

Stories and art by Art Gates, Alvin Hollingsworth and H. C. Kiefer. Crime and horror comics featuring detective heroes. The series begins edging toward pre-Code horror with this issue. Novelist Gene rents the deserted home of eccentric Simeon Graves to work on his next book, but it comes with a mysterious blonde, a dire warning, and a rumor of hidden treasure. A serial killer dares the police to stop him before he strikes again. An actor uses his skills to get away with the murder of his wife, but reliving the murder for a TV drama pushes him over the edge. Cash for a Corpse; The Strangler; Murder - and You Die!; Deadly Rendezvous; Bounty for Varmints; Dance of the Devil. 32 pages, Full Color. 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 5.0 $345.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #1231844011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.35) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Al Feldstein and others. Art by Al Feldstein, Ed Waldman, Howard Larsen and Graham Ingels. E.C.'s Pre-Trend crime title started as adventure, changed to grisly crime stories and eventually metamorphosed into straight-up horror. Redheaded bad girl Nell gets on the wrong side of the law and likes it, in a pre-Code story with early art by EC legend Al Feldstein. Police and gangsters alike are searching for safecracker Gentleman Danny Kenyon, in a story with early art by EC legend Graham Ingels. A mad scientist's plot involves a gorilla and the brain of an executed killer, in another early EC horror effort. Nell Baker; The Gentleman Gunman; The Werewolf's Curse!; The Hanged Man's Revenge; Ruse; The Ransom Racket. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 1.0 $2,950.00 Paper: Light tan to off white Spine of cover completely split and re-attached with tape. Label #3864870001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($88.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Al Feldstein and Johnny Craig. Art by Al Feldstein, John Alton, Fred Peters and Johnny Craig. E.C.'s Pre-Trend crime title begins its transformation into a New Trend horror title, featuring the 1st appearance of The Crypt Keeper. Mrs. Stonely's death seems a mere accident, and her husband's affair with a secretary only a coincidence, but one cop isn't convinced. Rising boxer Johnny Sparr becomes the "Guardian of the Little Guy" after his father is killed by the Mob. Corrupt businessmen murder their partner, or so they think, but when they check again the grave is empty. This is the tale that debuted the Crypt-Keeper and EC's legendary horror comics. Murder Writes a Policy; Case Number 318: Murder: The Swindle by Flame; Double-Exposure; Johnny Sparr: Guardian of the Little Guy; Coincidence; Return from the Grave. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $699.99 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #4346646010 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($21.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Wally Wood. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Adolphe Barreaux, Max Plaisted and Keats Petree. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Action girl Sally the Sleuth suspects that a bowling alley is a front for an illegal gambling den. Reporter Ray Hale investigates the murder of a dance-hall girl and uncovers a dope ring. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (who dresses like '50s-era Jimmy Olsen in these stories) investigates blackmail and murder on a movie set, in a story with an extended girl-fight sequence. Bondage-themed cover is early work by comics legend Wally Wood. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: The Clutch of Evil; Sally the Sleuth: Death Rolls a Strike; Ray Hale, News Ace; Bump the Jackpot; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Off Stage Kill. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $299.00 Paper: White Label #4667465007 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.97) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Cover by A. C. Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Frank Frazetta, Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Dan Turner attends a "midnight men's party" where the entertainment is magician Charm Marlowe, whose costume is skimpier than Zatanna's. But when a man dies by snakebite, Dan suspects "premeditated killery." Gail Ford goes undercover as a maid to get the drop on robbers targeting wealthy homeowners. Sally the Sleuth goes undercover as a model to find the deadly secret behind two women's deaths, in a story with plentiful good-girl art. Plus a classic religious PSA featuring early art by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: The Fortune-Teller Robberies; Ray Hale: After-Hours Killing; Sally the Sleuth: Tumbling Corpses; Prayer Works Wonders; Theft by Appointment; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Mysto-Magic Murder. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $364.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4427465023 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.92) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Tony Tallarico, Ray McClelland, Pierre Charpentier, John C. Mitchell, Bill Fraccio, William Grew and H. C. Kiefer. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. The ol' "injury-to-the-eye motif" returns, as Dan Turner seeks a killer who fires poison darts into his female victims' eyes! This story also features a deadly Punch & Judy show, hilarious Dan Turner tough-guy dialogue, and a villainous puppet-master who resembles Marvel's Puppet Master. Gail Ford goes undercover at a costume party to catch a wealthy man's killer, in a story with plentiful action-girl art. Sally the Sleuth and "The Chief" are mystified when an executed killer seemingly returns from the dead...for revenge. Gail Ford, Girl Friday; Ray Hale: Murder at First Base; Sally the Sleuth: Back From the Dead; Steve Wilder: Stuck With Murder; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: The Poisoned Puppet. Final issue under this title; series continues as Crime Mysteries (1952-1954 Trojan Magazines) #7, while the numbering continues with Secret Mysteries (1954) #16. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $8,990.00 or Best Offer Paper: White Pedigree: Gaines File Copy Gaines File Copy. COA Included. Label #1230251008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($269.70) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Johnny Craig. "Dead-Ringer," script and art by Johnny Craig; A petty thief learns that his virtual double, a millionaire, is an amnesia victim residing at a local sanitarium, and plans to somehow get into the sanitarium, dispose of the rich man and take his place, then suddenly come out of his amnesia state, and assume the man's identity. "A Moment of Madness!", script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Graham Ingels; A noted brain surgeon is experiencing blackouts, which cause him to unconsciously commit acts of violence during his blackouts. "Perfect Murder!" text story, script and art by Albert B. Feldstein. "Face-to-Face" text story by Albert B. Feldstein. "The Corpse in the Crematorium," script and art by Johnny Craig; A man subject to cataleptic fits is brought to a crematorium while his wife-to-be searches frantically for him; She fails to find him before he is scheduled for cremation. "Contract for Death," art by Jack Kamen; A doctor, conducting experiments on the human brain, comes across a man attempting suicide, and offers him $5000 not to do so...for one month; The contract is signed and money given, and the man goes out and lives it up; Plot adapted from Damon Runyon's story, "A Very Honorable Guy", featured as part of the 1989 film "Bloodhounds of Broadway." 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $350.00 Paper: Off white Label #4554812001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($10.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Al Feldstein and Johnny Craig. Art by Johnny Craig, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, and Fred Peters. EC's New Trend crime title featured top-notch art and writing, barrier-pushing graphics and pre-Code violence. A writer seeks solitude for his writing, and also for the murder that he's planning. A condemned murderer escapes the courtroom, only to have justice catch up with him on the subway. A jewel thief picks the wrong house for his next crime, and witnessing a murder is only the start of his ordeal. Sweet Dreams!; The Perfect Place!; The Electric Chair; The Hangmans Noose; The Guillotine!; Private Performance! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $300.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4562797003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Al Feldstein and Johnny Craig. Art by Johnny Craig, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, and Fred Peters. EC's New Trend crime title featured top-notch art and writing, barrier-pushing graphics and pre-Code violence. A writer seeks solitude for his writing, and also for the murder that he's planning. A condemned murderer escapes the courtroom, only to have justice catch up with him on the subway. A jewel thief picks the wrong house for his next crime, and witnessing a murder is only the start of his ordeal. Sweet Dreams!; The Perfect Place!; The Electric Chair; The Hangmans Noose; The Guillotine!; Private Performance! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $2,499.00 Restored: C1 Paper: Off white to white Restoration includes: small amount of color touch on cover, piece re-attached to cover with glue. (TOP EDGE OF COVER TRIMMED). COVER TRIMMED. Label #1252580003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($74.97) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein and Johnny Craig. Art by Johnny Craig, Marie Severin, Jack Davis, Jack Kamen, and Reed Crandall. EC's New Trend crime title featured top-notch art and writing, barrier-pushing graphics and pre-Code violence. A cheating wife and a murderous husband plot to out-murder each other with a fire and a wild horse. Brothers who owe a huge debt to mobsters prove to be even worse at murder than they were at gambling. When jealous stunt fliers fall for the same woman, the opportunities for them to murder each other are plentiful. Famous hanging-corpse cover by Johnny Craig was cited in illustration #10 of the famous anti-comics classic Seduction of the Innocent. Fire Trap!; The Welchers; Rope!; Double Jeopardy; Plane Murder. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art by Bernie Krigstein, Marie Severin, Jack Kamen, Joe Orlando, and Reed Crandall. EC's New Trend crime title featured top-notch art and writing, barrier-pushing graphics and pre-Code violence. A couple's intricate plot to have the mistress impersonate the murdered wife is undone by a game show, of all things. A banker who swindles a fortune from an old woman is betrayed by his own guilt. An attempt at murder-by-fire becomes suicide-by-spouse instead. Severed-head cover is one of the most infamous in comics history, mentioned during Gaines' testimony before the US Senate. In Each and Every Package; Monotony; Cinder Block; Sight Unseen. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art by Bernie Krigstein, Marie Severin, Jack Kamen, Joe Orlando, and Reed Crandall. EC's New Trend crime title featured top-notch art and writing, barrier-pushing graphics and pre-Code violence. A couple's intricate plot to have the mistress impersonate the murdered wife is undone by a game show, of all things. A banker who swindles a fortune from an old woman is betrayed by his own guilt. An attempt at murder-by-fire becomes suicide-by-spouse instead. Severed-head cover is one of the most infamous in comics history, mentioned during Gaines' testimony before the US Senate. In Each and Every Package; Monotony; Cinder Block; Sight Unseen. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by George Evans. "This'll Kill You!", script by Otto Binder, art by Reed Crandall; The police are stunned when Victor Gattling brings in the dead body of his best friend and then claims that he, Victor, has been killed by his best friend. "Standing Room Only," script by Otto Binder, art by Jack Kamen; Siblings Carl and Cynthia spent their early years cross-dressing in order to have laughs on their friends but fall out of favor with each other; Stime later, Carl sees that his sister has married into money, so he murders his sister and her husband and then disguises himself as her in order to have access to those funds as beneficiary. "The Real Thing" one-page text story by Al Feldstein, art by Marie Severin. "Return Blow," script by Carl Wessler, art by Reed Crandall; Alma and Luke decide to butter up Alma's boss lady at the fabulous Sanford Manion in order to get Alma listed in the old lady's will as beneficiary for a cool $250,000. "Last Resort," script by Carl Wessler, art by George Evans; Jerry hated Mona, hated her for being controlled by her money, so he seeks out a diversion in young and beautiful Jane, a waitress in town. Jerry kills Mona and dumps her into a lake at night, which eventually trips him up because he had dumped her body into crystal clear Silver Springs! 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover text quoted in Fredric Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent". In order of appearance: "Yvonne Ravenal, The Parisian Panther"; "Gladys Behmer Plans Murder"; "Daughter of the Devil, Rosa Harte"; "Gang Leaders, Owney Madden"; "Gang Leaders, Big Bill Lingley and Freddie Muehfeldt" reprinted from Murder Incorporated (1948 1st Series) #3; and "Don Wan". "White-Hot Murder" text story reprinted in Murder Incorporated (1950 2nd Series) #5. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Fox Feature Syndicate creates a pre-Code title guaranteed to provide lurid covers and art, as women both historical and fictional commit murder and other heinous acts. Doll maker Margot Haffner gets an unusual order from sinister Count Aorta, but he soon learns the hard way that she's the better criminal; Mary Read becomes one of the most famed female pirates of all time; In a truly offbeat story, redheaded hobo queen Mable Reine leads a tramp army on a rampage of robbery and looting against moneyed society. Margot Haffner: Passion for Dolls; Maude Bennet and Her Crusade Against the Law; Mary Read, Woman Pirate; Mable Reine, Queen of the Jungle. 32 pages, Full Color. In order of appearance: "Margot Haffner, Passion for Dolls"; "Maude Bennet and Her Crusade Against the Law"; and "Mable Reine, Queen of the Jungle" reprinted in Vixens, Vamps and Vipers SC (2014 EA Press) Lost Villainesses of Golden Age Comics #1-1ST. "Mary Read, Woman Pirate, A True Action Crime Story" text story reprinted from Crimes by Women (1948) #7. Cover price $0.10.

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Written by Ed Brubaker. Art by Sean Phillips. The Award-Winning crime series continues! Tracy Lawless is getting close to finding the killers he's been searching for... but before he can put all the pieces together, he finds himself in their crosshairs in Chinatown, with enemies all around him. This can't end well, or wouldn't be an issue of Criminal, would it? And remember, all the single issues of CRIMINAL are packed with articles and extras that are not reprinted in the collections. 40 pages, full color. MATURE READERS. Cover price $3.50.

Add to cart CGC 9.8 $59.00 Paper: White Dynamic Forces Edition. Label #4444951012 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($1.77) will be charged at checkout.

Dynamic Forces Exclusive Variant Cover by Humberto Ramos. Does not include Dynamic Forces Certificate of Authenticity. Story by Humberto Ramos and Brian Augustyn. Art by Carlos Meglia. A shocking one-shot delves into the history of Scarlet X! Several years before she is destined to meet Alex Elder, Scarlet X travels to Mexico City with her Red Hood mentor, M. Faucon, for her first real mission. But what should have been an easy case of tracking down some black marketeers trafficking is complicated by bizarre ritual murders ? and rumors of the return of a long-dead Vampire Witch! Along the way, Scarlet crosses paths with a not- undead-yet Joe; a horde of beautiful lady vampires; and an angelically handsome adventurer who's there to help...or is he? For more information, see the feature article. Cover price $9.95.