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A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) comic books 1955 or before

  • Issue #5
    A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) 5

    Stories and art by Ferd Johnson, Chas. M. Quinlan, Ted Miller, and Mike Senich. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured reprints of 1940s comic strips. The Corsair meets the pirate captain called The Raven; Inca Dinca takes an energy pill that is supposed to allow him to work all day and night without tiring; Tim Hennessey is a deck-hand on the tugboat Jezebel Jones. Texas Slim and Dirty Dalton; The Corsair; Teddy Rich; Inca Dinca; Tommy Tinker; Tugboat Tim; Little Mexico. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #8
    A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) 8
    • Centerfold detached at one staple. Cover oxidation. Tape on interior cover.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
      Other items consigned by Bud Plant

    Cover by Chas. M. Quinlan. Stories and art by Ted Miller, Paul Parker, Chas. M. Quinlan, and Walter Johnson. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured reprints of 1940s comic strips. Cowboy Rodeo Ryan pursues on horseback after his car is stolen by "bank robbers and such"; The Masquerader and Chris track a missing heiress to a phony psychic, but the heiress is in on the plot; The Corsair investigates the crooked governor of a port city, but someone has tipped him off. Squirt O' Water; The Corsair; Teddy Rich; The Masquerader; Tommy Tinker; Rodeo Ryan; Tugboat Tim; Roger Wright; Danny Dude. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #9
    A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) 9

    Texas Slim and Dirty Dalton. Cover by Ferd Johnson. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Stories and art by Ferd Johnson. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured Texas Slim and Dirty Dalton newspaper reprints. Dirty Dalton thinks he's following a monster's tracks, but it's just Little Mexico's burro cart; Hotel room service thinks Slim and Dirty are dead because they sleep on the floor; The sheriff tries to keep an angry mob away from a convict. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.