Gleason comic books graded by CGC

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 7.0 $2,565.00 Paper: Cream to off white Olympia Collection. Label #4592797002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($76.95) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Rudy Palais, Dick Wood, Dick Briefer, Bob Wood, 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. A woman is dubbed a "female Bluebeard" after doing away with her husbands, in a story with art by Dick Briefer. The story of Nolan the Notorious features early art by pioneering African-American artist Alvin Hollingsworth. The murderer of Mary Lawson is revealed by a burnt match, in a tale with art by Dick Briefer. Also featuring a vintage PSA for wartime paper drives, an early recycling program. Career of Carrington Hill; Four Crooks and a Coffin; Female Blue Beard; Murder Master; Angel Face of Crime; The Case of the Missing Monster; Nolan the Notorious; Whodunnit? Who Murdered Beautiful Mary Lawson?; A Crimebuster Special. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $3,500.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Pedigree: Promise The Promise Collection. Label #1974641005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($105.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by StrandEstate

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by C. L. Hartman, Jack Alderman, Rudy Palais, Dick Wood, Norman Maurer, Robert Sale 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 origin of Mr. Common Sense, sometimes known as Officer Common Sense, a ghost cop who becomes an occasional story host like Mr. Crime. London is terrorized by The Ratcliff Highway murders in the early 1800s. Hoods terrorize a wealthy man with extortion threats against his children. Plus a vintage PSA for wartime tin-can recycling. Uncle Sam Needs Tin!; The Cocksure Counterfeiter; The Slippery Mr. Smith; The Smile of Death; The Saga of "Hungry Joe"; The Monster of Crime; The Meanest Crime; This'll Kill You!; Whodunnit. 48 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 $2,000.00 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 4.5 $799.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Label #4518079003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($23.97) will be charged at checkout.

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 9.6 $2,200.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Pedigree: Edgar Church (Mile High) Edgar Church (Mile High). Right Side Edge has gapping, inner well and book are unaffected. Label #0145589001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($66.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by StrandEstate

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dan Barry, Fred Guardineer, George Tuska, Dick Briefer, Rudy Palais, Bob Moore, Jack Alderman, Walter 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. The Fleagle brothers like to rob banks together, but superstitions may turn them against each other. Bespectacled killer Danny Iamascia is even more dangerous with his glasses off - to his fellow hoods and himself, in a story with early art by future "Flash Gordon" artist Dan Barry. A masked robber terrorizes the Massachusetts town of Belmont, so citizens organize a neighborhood patrol. The Kill-Crazy Fleagle Brothers; Danny Iamascia, Dutch Schultz's Triggerman; On the Level; Arkansas Killer; The Chicken-hearted Killer; Jail Didn't Save Them; The Belmont Bandit; Whodunnit: The Invisible Killer. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $284.00 Paper: Cream to off white Scuffing to front and back of slab. Label #0107969003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($8.52) 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 $229.95 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 ($6.90) 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 4.0 $7,250.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #4661080001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($217.50) will be charged at checkout.

Written by Charles Biro. Art by Charles Biro. Cover by Charles Biro and Bob Wood (as Woodro). Daredevil Battles Hitler (Chapter 1); Daredevil crashes in on a meeting at Berchtesgaden in which Hitler makes final plans to invade England across the Channel, then has to evade Nazi soldiers seeking to locate and kill him. Written by Charles Biro. Art by Jack Cole. The Claw Double Crosses Hitler! (Chapter 2); Hitler approaches the Claw to ask his assistance in helping him and the Japanese successfully attack and destroy the British in Singapore. Fighting Hitler and His Jungle Hordes (Chapter 3); Daredevil and Lance must stop Hitler's plans to conquer Africa from within. Written by Charles Biro. Art by Jack Cole. Smash Goebbels' Spy Net (Chapter 4); Dickie is summoned to Washington D.C. with his latest invention: a fool-proof decoding machine. Wreck Goering's Sky-Fighters (ch. 5) Von Roeder, Nazi Sea Raider (Chapter 6). Written by Bob Davis. Art by Bob Davis. The Man of Hate Adolf Hitler--Dictator of Germany!; The rise of Hitler from a budding artist to soldier in WW1 to Chancellor and finally as a rising dictator. Ad for Daredevil Comics #2, art by Bob Wood. Ad for Silver Streak Comics. Hitler photo cover. 68 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $959.00 CGC Qualified Paper: Cream to off white Staples replaced. Label #4539580009 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($28.77) will be charged at checkout.

Written by Charles Biro. Art and cover by Charles Biro. The Kiss of Death; Forty years after he and his partner discovered the tomb of Princess Sheba, Dr. Pierce, knowing the Princess was buried alive, discovers a secret hidden inside the golden cobra buried with her: a serum which can bring her back to life! Written by Dick Wood. Art by Bernard Klein. Introducing the Whirlwind; Terry Turner is taking on an inhuman brute named Jean Jacques for the heavyweight championship, and learns that two swindlers are asking Terry to take a dive in the fight. Written by Dick Wood. Art by George Roussos (as Inky Roussos). Untitled Nightro, the Streamlined Robin Hood story; Two unscrupulous miners, having discovered a vein of pitchblend (or radium), have their find confirmed by scientist, Hugh Goddard. Art by Edd Ashe. Baseball Beginnings; The baseball team at Hale University is doing poorly and Coach Taylor is in danger of losing his job. Written by Bob Wood. Art by J. Gahr. The Coming of the Pioneer; The Pioneer hears a crash and discovers a wrecked car with injured men at the bottom of a gorge. Art by Charles Biro. Daredevil On Defense" text story. Written by Dick Briefer. Art by Dick Briefer. Origin of the Bronze Terror; Unscrupulous renegade Scar Thornton fills the Indians with liquor and fleeces them of their money on crooked games of chance. Written by Jerry Robinson. Art by Jerry Robinson. London Can Take It!; A prisoner of a concentration camp, Franz escapes with the help of Dian and makes his way to London, where he is greeted and lauded by the Prime Minister himself. Ad for Captain Battle Comics. Ad for Silver Streak Comics. 68 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $3,299.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #3980365001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($98.97) will be charged at checkout.

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.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $715.00 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.

Add to cart CGC 9.6 $3,200.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Pedigree: Edgar Church (Mile High) Edgar Church (Mile High). Label #0746823003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($96.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by StrandEstate

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Richard French, Morris Weiss (credited as Wes Sirrom), Virginia Hubbell and Carl Hubbell. 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 try to help a juvenile delinquent they met playing baseball. Boxer Go-Along Gallagher gets his first chance at a big fight when another boxer has to cancel. Daredevil investigates after a deceased pillar of the community turns out to be part owner of a notorious gambling club. Also featuring a vintage ad for Pepsi-Cola starring "Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop." Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Dickie Dean; Go-Along Gallagher: His First Fight; Sniffer; Crimebuster: Fancy Alibi; Daredevil. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $2,200.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white to white Pedigree: Edgar Church (Mile High) Edgar Church (Mile High). Label #0746823005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($66.00) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by StrandEstate

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Bob Wood, Chic Stone, Fred Guardineer, Virginia Hubbell, Dan Barry and Carl Hubbell. 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 star in a topical story of alcoholism, child neglect and murder (that also features Daredevil acting as a defense lawyer in court, in full costume), with early art by Flash Gordon's Dan Barry. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys encounter a juvenile delinquent (then a new concept) while at summer camp. Teen inventor Dickie Dean heads out West and encounters outlaws who are trying to swindle a rancher out of his uranium-rich land. Also featuring an illustrated profile of artist Charles Biro, and an early strip by future Marvel legend Chic Stone. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Daredevil: The American Crime!; Table Tennis; Sniffer: Inheritance Trouble; We'll Never Forget; Inside Dope; Crimebuster: Extra Evidence; Dickie Dean. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.