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Item #63709152
Published Oct 1943 by Lev Gleason.$1,249.00- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #4572350017
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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Wood, Norman Maurer, Bob Wood, Dick Briefer, Carmine Infantino, and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. Russian soldier Ilya Kuzin battles Nazis despite a disabled leg, in a true story with early art by comics legend Carmine Infantino. Mysterious criminal mastermind The Veiled Lady returns to vex Young Robin Hood. Yankee Longago meets Pocahontas and Capt. John Smith, featuring art by Dick Briefer. Crimebuster; Young Robin Hood: The Killer's Brothers; Boy Comics Hero of the Month; Daredevil: Sweeney Learns a Lesson; Swoop Storm; Little Dynamite: East Side, West Side, All Around the Town; Yankee Longago. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #61309150
Published Feb 1944 by Lev Gleason.Boy Comics (1942) 14 CGC 8.5 Crowley
Paper: Off white to white
Crowley.
Label #2030551001
Starts Jan 3 Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Alan Mandel, Dick Wood, Dick Briefer, Rudy Palais and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. Crimebuster seeks the kidnapped son of an important US military figure and finds his old foe Iron Jaw at the heart of it. Yankee Longago encounters Ponce De Leon and the Fountain of Youth, featuring art by Dick Briefer. Swoop Storm uses his new snow plane to take on Japanese forces invading the US territory of Alaska. Crimebuster; Young Robin Hood; Boy Comics Hero of the Month; Daredevil: The Killer Who Couldn't Retire; Swoop Storm; Little Dynamite; Yankee Longago. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #62376797
Published Oct 1944 by Lev Gleason.$850.00- Paper: Off white
- Label #1969414016
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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by R.W. Hall, Radcliffe, Alan Mandel, Dick Briefer, Dick Wood and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. Crimebuster tracks the murderous thug known as Johnny-on-the-Spot, in a particularly violent pre-Code story. Yankee Longago has a Groundhog Day-style time-loop adventure that teaches the importance of war bonds, a wartime fundraising effort, featuring art by Dick Briefer. Swoop Storm uses his new Gull Plane, a flap-winged plane like Airboy's Birdie, to take on Axis forces during WWII, featuring art possibly by Archie creator Bob Montana. Crimebuster; Swoop Storm; True Story of Jan Smudek; Daredevils Greatest Battle; Little Dynamite; Young Robinhood and his Band; Yankee Longago. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #61895557
Published Feb 1946 by Lev Gleason.$775.00- Paper: Off white to white
- Pedigree: Promise
- The Promise Collection.
- Label #1973835011
Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Sidney Mason, Alan Mandel, Jack Alderman, Norman Maurer, Dick Briefer, Dick Wood and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. Crimebuster tries to rescue a man marked for death by mobsters. Yankee Longago meets Haroun Al-Raschid, the caliph at the center of the Arabian Nights tales, featuring art by Dick Briefer. Young Robinhood tries to figure out how to cope after Friar Tuck falls in love, complicating their crimefighting. Crimebuster; Swoop Storm; Boy Comics Hero of the Month; Daredevil: Death In a White Suit; Little Dynamite: The Clever Crime; Young Robinhood; Yankee Longago. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #63333610
Published Feb 1946 by Lev Gleason.$163.00- Paper: Off white to white
- Label #4595898005
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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Sidney Mason, Alan Mandel, Jack Alderman, Norman Maurer, Dick Briefer, Dick Wood and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. Crimebuster tries to rescue a man marked for death by mobsters. Yankee Longago meets Haroun Al-Raschid, the caliph at the center of the Arabian Nights tales, featuring art by Dick Briefer. Young Robinhood tries to figure out how to cope after Friar Tuck falls in love, complicating their crimefighting. Crimebuster; Swoop Storm; Boy Comics Hero of the Month; Daredevil: Death In a White Suit; Little Dynamite: The Clever Crime; Young Robinhood; Yankee Longago. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #51913337
Published Feb 1946 by Lev Gleason.$150.00- Paper: Off white to white
- Three center wraps detached.
- Label #2127167005
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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Sidney Mason, Alan Mandel, Jack Alderman, Norman Maurer, Dick Briefer, Dick Wood and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. Crimebuster tries to rescue a man marked for death by mobsters. Yankee Longago meets Haroun Al-Raschid, the caliph at the center of the Arabian Nights tales, featuring art by Dick Briefer. Young Robinhood tries to figure out how to cope after Friar Tuck falls in love, complicating their crimefighting. Crimebuster; Swoop Storm; Boy Comics Hero of the Month; Daredevil: Death In a White Suit; Little Dynamite: The Clever Crime; Young Robinhood; Yankee Longago. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #62523440
Published Jun 1947 by Lev Gleason.Boy Comics (1942) 34 CGC 6.5
Paper: Cream to off white
Label #4332887005
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Starts Jan 3 Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dan Barry, Carl Hubbell, Bob Wood and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. Crimebuster and Squeeks try to help a girl who is contemplating suicide despite her seeming successes. A love triangle between rival aviators turns to murder, featuring aviation-themed art by Flash Gordon's Dan Barry. Little Dynamite and his pals learn about the dangers of guns while visiting Uncle Dan's farm. Also featuring a vintage ad for the book "How to Get Along with Girls." Crimebuster; Stop Me If You've Heard This One!; Little Dynamite; Daredevil: Extra Evidence. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60516593
Published Jan 1944 by Lev Gleason.$849.95
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- Paper: Off white to white
- Tape on Interior Cover, Interior.
- Label #2006614003
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Cover by Don Rico. Stories and art by Basil Wolverton, Jack Cole, Kane Miller, Bob Wood, and Don Rico. Aviator hero Captain Battle Jr. carries on his father's battles against fascism in WWII Europe. The Green Claw returns with an army of robots to conquer the Earth, in a story by Plastic Man creator Jack Cole. Rhyming reporter Scoop Scuttle follows a lead, in a story by comics legend Basil Wolverton. Ranger Bill Wayne, better known as the Texas Terror, rides after cattle rustlers. The Man Who Didn't Believe in Ghosts!; Behind the Enemy Lines!; Code in Blood!; Scoop Scuttle; Slow Drawin' Fool; The Green Claw; Bill Wayne. Final issue of the series. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #64103950
Published Jul 1949 by Lev Gleason.$295.00- Paper: Cream to off white
- Pedigree: Davis Crippen "D" Copy
- Davis Crippen ("D" Copy). Includes COA.
- Label #4603008001
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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by C.H. Moore, Fred Guardineer, and Charles Biro. A companion series to Crime Does Not Pay from the same publisher, slightly less violent and with more emphasis on police work. An anonymous tip brings down Lester "The Louse" Diller, king of the early bootleggers, who hides his hooch in a sauerkraut juice factory. Mob kingpenWhitey Hicks and Burt Mott battle to the death to control the docks. Bank clerk Edward Ingram invests in stolen securities and collects bullets, in a story featuring actual use of the line "You'll never take me alive, coppers!" Cover and first page feature a photo endorsement from police Captain Felix Lynch, approving of "this magazine as a good reading for red-blooded American youngsters." This endorsement was later cited (negatively) in the text of the classic anti-comics tome Seduction of the Innocent. Also featuring a vintage ad for the "U-Fly-It" flight simulator game. Lester "The Louse" Diller; On the Level; Double-Crossing Whitey Hicks and His Enemy in Crime, Burt Mott; Thug-Uglies; Don't Let Reformers Kid You...; The White Fedora Murders; Laugh These Off!; Edward Ingram. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #63530405
Published Sep 1950 by Lev Gleason.$90.00- Paper: White
- Label #4294518006
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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Tony DiPreta, C. H. Moore, Carl Wessler, George Tuska, Fred Kida, Fred Guardineer, and Charles Biro. A companion series to Crime Does Not Pay from the same publisher, slightly less violent and with more emphasis on police work. A cop tracks a deported killer to Sicily and finds that his lawless work continues. A detective dares the reader to figure out who killed the advance man for a carnival, in a whodunit with multiple clues and an upside-down panel for the answer. The Suspect; How They Were Trapped; Mob In Exile; On the Level; Death Takes a Ride!; Our Police Hall of Fame; This'll Kill Ya!; The Sergeant's Story. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60793455
Published Jun 1942 by Lev Gleason.$1,950.00
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- Restored: B1
- Paper: Off white to white
- Restoration includes: tear seal to cover, glue on 13th page, cover reinforced. (Married 13th page)
- Label #1292690003
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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.
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Item #63929095
Published Jan 1946 by Lev Gleason.$1,599.00
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- Label #4387095003
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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.
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Item #58496584
Published Jul 1946 by Lev Gleason.$2,300.00- 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.
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Item #34422584
Published 1946 by Lev Gleason.$549.00
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- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #0987690001
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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.
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Item #34422590
Published 1946 by Lev Gleason.$349.00
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- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #0746647010
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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.
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Item #48897768
Published 1946 by Lev Gleason.$299.00- Paper: Cream to off white
- Scuffing to front and back of slab.
- Label #0107969003
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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.
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Item #61567115
Published Jun 1947 by Lev Gleason.$223.00- Paper: Off white
- Label #3846676009
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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Fred Guardineer, George Tuska, Joe Certa, Rudy Palais 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 true tale of real-life bank robber Baby-Face Nelson. In the early 1900s, rural nurse Bertha Gifford becomes one of the first female serial killers. Cowardly Marty Durkin wins the name "Trigger Happy" for his deadly habit of shooting his way out of any situation. Baby Face Nelson vs. the U.S.A.; Trigger-Happy Durkin; This'll Kill You!; Crime Quiz; Bertha Gifford, Killer of 19 People; Murder Is a False Friend; The Woman Who Wouldn't Die; Whodunnit. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #64044974
Published Jan 1952 by Lev Gleason.Crime Does Not Pay (1942-1955 Lev Gleason) 106 CGC 6.5
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Label #0354623005
Starts Jan 3 Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Frank Frazetta, Fred Guardineer, Carl Wessler, Al McWilliams, Dick Rockwell, 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 investigator tries to prove that a gangster's suicide was actually murder, but a blond femme fatale is out to get him first. A lawyer goes to work for a racketeer, but when his sister gets drawn in, he realizes he's gone too far. Detective Boyd learns that a doll holds the clue to an arson and murder gang. A classic anti-drug PSA featuring early art by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. Also featuring a vintage ad for "Lev Gleason Comics picture trading cards." The Last Stand of Walther "The Profile" Taylor; We Can Stop the Enemies of Youth; Crooked Mouthpiece; The Killer Came East; The Case of the Deadly Doll; The Frame-Up That Backfired. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #64044972
Published Dec 1952 by Lev Gleason.$250.00
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- Paper: Cream to off white
- Slab: Significant scratch(es) front or back
- Top edge label is missing.
- Label #0010444019
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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.
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Item #61956993
Published Sep 1941 by Lev Gleason.$730.00- Paper: Off white
- Label #4439740006
Written by Charles Biro. Art and cover by Charles Biro. The Case of the Killer Who Hated Death!!; Daredevil must battle a person who seems ordinary during the day, but who suddenly seems to take on a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde personality at night, becoming a vicious, monstrous killer! Written by Dick Wood. Art by George Roussos. The Suicide Circle; Two racketeers discover a doctor who has created a process in skin grafting that would allow criminals to commit crimes without leaving fingerprints behind. Written by Dick Wood. Art by Bernard Klein. Origin of 13; A reporter for The Herald is first on the 13th day of the month because of his editor's belief that the young man's views on a story are all wrong. Written by Bob Wood. Art by Bob Wood. The Battle of the Centuries; Having hypnotized the 2000 soldiers he had captured to serve as an Army to help him seize control of America, the Claw faces the challenge of an opposing force. Written by Jerry Robinson. Art by Jerry Robinson. Hesst Captured; Surveying the damage to London after the attacks made on it by the enemy and promises that the spy ring operating in the city will be captured within 48 hours. Written by Dick Wood. Art by Bernard Klein. K.O.'s Jones in 2nd; As Whirlwind continues to win in the ring, two fight promoters decides the only way to stop Terry is by hiring an ugly brute of a creature from Brazil to step in the ring with him. Ad for Silver Streak Comics, art by Jack Binder. Ad for Captain Battle Comics #1, art by George Harrison. 68 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #63882415
Published May 1942 by Lev Gleason.$3,299.00
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- Paper: Off white
- Label #3980365001
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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Dick Wood, Bernard Klein, Bob Wood, Frank Volp, Carl Hubbell, Bob Montana, Lin Streeter, Sidney M. Elias and Dick Briefer. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. As World War II heats up, masked crimefighter Daredevil joins the Army Air Corps, the precursor to the Air Force. Pat Patriot puts on a wartime defense benefit at the upscale Diamond Room, but all is not as it seems. Two stories with early art by Archie creator Bob Montana, including a superhero tale and a comedy short. Daredevil: War; Thirteen and Jinx: Mystery of the Everglades, Ch. 1; Sniffer; Crimebuster: New York Under Fire; Houdonnit the Great; Real American #1; London; Pat Patriot; Whirlwind; Stamps: The Niagara Falls; Claw: Death To the Allies! 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #63774958
Published Feb 1943 by Lev Gleason.$880.00- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #4497013002
Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Dick Wood, Bob Wood, Alan Mandel, Carl Hubbell, Bart Tumey, Dan Barry, Basil Wolverton, and Dick Briefer. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. The Little Wise Guys battle a street gang called the Steamrollers, resulting in the shocking death of founding Wise Guys member Meatball. Rhyming reporter Scoop Scuttle braves a burning building and accidentally unearths an arsonist, in a story by comics legend Basil Wolverton. The Pirate Prince discovers just rulers who have been imprisoned in a dungeon by a dictator, in a story with art by Dick Briefer. Also featuring inks by future Flash Gordon artist Dan Barry. Daredevil; Thirteen and Jinx Smack the Saboteur; Sniffer; Dickie Dean; Scoop Scuttle; The Pirate Prince; Crimebuster: Sudden Death; The Claw. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #64103954
Published Apr 1944 by Lev Gleason.$220.00
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- Paper: Off white to white
- Label #4189105020
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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Dick Wood, Bob Wood, Dick Hall, Jack Warren and Dick Briefer. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Daredevil and The Little Wise Guys face the deadly millionaire called Pshyco on the ski slopes. Teen inventor Dickie Dean creates a Thought Transmitter, in a story with art possibly by Archie creator Bob Montana. The Pirate Prince's pal Droopy meets his dad, in a naval reunion in the tradition of Popeye and Poopdeck Pappy, with art by Dick Briefer. Also featuring a vintage ad for wartime "Victory Glasses": a set of tumblers featuring members of each branch of the US armed services smooching a cute civilian. Daredevil; Sniffer: The Strange Case of the Coded Pickles; Dickie Dean; Helpful Hank; The Pirate Prince; Crimebuster: Monkey Maneuvers; The Claw. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #62810600
Published Jan 1945 by Lev Gleason.$177.00- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #4530091001
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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Dick Wood, Bob Q. Sale, Carl Hubbell and Dick Briefer. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Daredevil discovers dead bodies hidden on a borrowed boat. The Pirate Prince meets time-traveler from the future Yankee Longago, from sister publication Boy Comics. The Claw's latest scheme results in disfiguring Hollywood's best faces, unless Bob and Lois can find the antidote. Daredevil; Sniffer and the Deadly Dozen; Dickie Dean: The New Sky Bus of the Air; Crimebuster: The Scientific Killer; The Pirate Prince; The Claw. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #63530736
Published Feb 1951 by Lev Gleason.$85.00- Paper: Off white
- Label #4294518008
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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, and Claude Moore. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. The Little Wise Guys risk their lives all over town to save people and win the Boy Heroes competition. Ace pilot "Hot Rock" Flanagan targets the mysterious enemy ace known only as "R" who targets Red Cross relief caravans. The Little Wise Guys investigate strange doings at a ski resort and uncover a killer. Little Wise Guys: Heroes by the Dozen; A Strange but True Story of Animal Passion; Air Devils Starring "Hot Rock" Flanagan, Part 2; Deny It If You Can; Crimebuster: He Fiddled While Jerome Burned; Famous Eccentrics; Laff It Off!; Little Wise Guys: Jumped or Fell. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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