Comic books February 1944

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $428.00 View scans Paper: White Label #4652452004 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover art by Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye. The Lost-and-Found Mystery starring Superman, script by Jerry Siegel), art by Ed Dobrotka (signed as Joe Shuster). The Little Men Who Were There starring Vigilante, script by Joe Samachson, pencils by Mort Meskin (as Mort Morton Jr.), inks by Joe Kubert. Kangaroo Capers starring Congo Bill, art by Edwin Smalle. Traitor's Bait starring Americommando, script by Joseph Greene, art by Bernard Baily. East Meets West starring Zatara. 60 Pages, Full Color. $.10 Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $123.45 or Best Offer View scan INCOMPLETE. Missing first page and two center wraps, affects art and story. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Edited by Ed Cronin. Cover by Fred Kida. Stories by Fred Kida, Dan Barry, Tony DiPreta, Gil Kane, Carl G. Hodges, Maurice Del Bourgo, John Cassone, and Bob Fujitani. Heroic action stories of war and airborne adventure—these are Air Fighters Comics! 68 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $14.00 View scans Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 10%.

February, 1944. Volume 33, Issue 6. Cover by William Timmins. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; black and white; 160 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $1,349.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white Label #4589314005 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Edited by Ned L. Pines. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories by Richard Hughes, Morley Burroughs, and Tex Mumford. Action-packed tales featuring such characters as Thunderhoof and the Black Terror, a super strong super-hero. 60 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $849.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4533710002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Edited by Ned L. Pines. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories by Charles Roberts, Richard Hughes, Tex Mumford, and August Froehlich. Action-packed tales featuring such characters as Thunderhoof and the Black Terror, a super strong super-hero. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by James Wilcox. Stories and art by C. C. Beck, Rod Reed, Ray Gill, John Jordan, George Kapitan, Jim Wilcox, Henry C. Kiefer, Harold DeLay, Jack A. Warren, and Tom Gill. Sometimes listed as Blue Bolt #43. Former superhero Blue Bolt soars as an aviator hero in WWII. Shot down over Nazi-held Yugoslavia, Blue Bolt joins forces with partisan freedom fighters. Sergeant Spook and Jerry step out of the drawing board to help "Sergeant Spook" artist John Jordan catch the kids who stole his comic-book collection - yet another oddball Sgt. Spook plot. A vintage activity page on how to build a model railroad layout with control tower, and a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, "Captain Tootsie and the Secret Weapon," with art by Shazam creator C.C. Beck. Dick Cole; I Fly For Vengeance, Part Four; Fearless Fellers; Sergeant Spook; Old Cap Hawkins True Tales; Unhappy Landing; Edison Bell; Edison Bell's Central Control Tower Model Railroad Layout; Blue Bolt; Krisko & Jasper; Bluebolts and Nuts. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $24.00 View scans Staple deteriorated, all wraps detached. Near full length spine split to cover.

Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza. On Planetoid Punkus, Billy observes Mr. Mind's latest invention, a mammoth cannon called Great Big Bertha which is aimed at Earth and can fire shells that are a mile long. Billy escapes so that Captain Marvel can try to stop the cannon from being fired, but he is too late in "The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 11: The Firing of Great Big Bertha" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck. Captain Marvel also stars in: "Deep in the Heart of Dallas" with art by C.C. Beck (appearances by Mayor Rodgers, Love Field, SMU, the Dallas Times Herald, the Dallas Morning News, and the Cotton Bowl); "The Military Misfit!" with art by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza; and "The Glass-Blower of Greenpoint!" with art by C.C. Beck. Plus: 2-page text story "Name, Rank and Serial No." with script by Jess Benton. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $2.65 View scans Spine split 10%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Agriculture and farming magazine. Includes articles, fiction, and humor. 11" x 14", 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $299.95 or Best Offer View scans 3" cumulative spine split. Cover detached at single center staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Attack On the Red Cross starring Black Terror, art by Alex Schomburg; vs. Col. Bosch and Nazis. The Tuxedo starring American Eagle, art by Maurice Gutwirth; vs. The Tuxedo and the Enigma Raiders. Encounter With Mr. Doom starring the Crime Crushers; vs. Mr. Doom [Count Hezky-Duom]. Air Trap For a General starring Sgt. Bill King, art by Maurice Gutwirth; vs. Schmidt and the Japanese. Action In the Aleutians starring Crash Carter, art by Bob Oksner; vs. the Japanese. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $20.00 View scans Spine split 10%. Water damage: Moderate.

Human interest family centric publication that features short fiction stories, recipes and celebrity gossip. 24 pages, 8.5" x 11.25", B&W Newsprint.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $42.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Back cover detached 5%.

Add to cart Good $10.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Front cover detached 50%. Back cover detached 5%.

Volume 6, Issue 1 - February 1944. Cover by Rod Ruth. Science Fiction and Adventures stories. This issue features "A Thought in Time" by Leroy Yerxa, and "Outlaw Queen of Venus" by Wallace West. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 212 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $645.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white 2 center wraps detached. Label #2126381001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by Claude Lapham and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by George Tuska, Nina Albright, Karen Karol and Arnold Hicks. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Good-girl art aplenty as Senorita Rio investigates a voodoo cult in Haiti; Hooks Devlin discovers that a Nazi agent is dressing in drag to hide out in America; More good-girl art as boxer Kayo Kirby is invited to speak on a radio show. Another upside-down bondage cover (see issue #27). Shark Brodie; Dusty Rhodes; Senorita Rio; Rip Carson; Guerrilla Mother!; Decoy For Doom; Kayo Kirby; Hooks Devlin; Chip Collins. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $905.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #0256484009

Flash stars in "Thousand Dollar Bill," written by Gardner Fox, art by Martin Naydel. Also includes: Ghost Patrol in "Legend of the Lethal Lagoon" with art by Frank Harry; Johnny Thunder in "The Thunderbolt Impersonates Johnny" by John B. Wentworth and Stan Aschmeier; The Whip in "The Light That Never Failed" with art by Homer Fleming; "The Sleeping Beauty" by Ed Wheelan; an ad for the Junior Justice Society; and Hawkman in "Personal Protection from the Hawkman" by Fox and Sheldon Moldoff. Cover art by Everett E. Hibbard. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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February 6, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Doris Hume, Rose Franken (as Franken Meloney), Harley F. Cope, W.H.B. Kent, Katherine Greer, and H. Carson Lee. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

Add to cart FN 6.0 $7.90

February 20, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by W.H.B. Kent, Edward Price, Linnie Ethel Biles, Rose Franken (as Franken Meloney), Ray Humphreys, and Ruth Ayers. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $8.49

February 27, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Velia Ercole, W.H.B. Kent, J.F. Houghton, Alma & Paul Ellerbe, Rose Franken (as Franken Meloney), and Allen F. Herdman. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

Add to cart Good $5.00 View scans Spine split 25%.

Volume 2, Issue 4 - February, 1944. Goldwyn Girls photo cover. Long running magazine that features song lyrics, celebrity gossip, articles, and fan letters. This issue features songs from motion pictures such as; "Cowboy Canteen" starring Tex Ritter and Jane Frazee, "Honeymoon Lodge" starring Harriet Hillard, "Higher and Higher" starring Frank Sinatra, and many more. 8.5" x 11", 18 pages, B&W Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $15.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

One of many vintage supermarket tabloid magazines full of high profile FBI and CIA cases of the era, accompanied by black and white photographs and testimonials from those involved in, and close to the events themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 58 pages, B&W, recommended for 16+. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $100.00 View scans Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Cover by Stephen Douglas. Stories and art by George Carlson, Ray Willner, Dave Tendlar, and Stephen Douglas. Kids' comics featuring the whimsical fables of beloved artist George Carlson, praised by Harlan Ellison as a "comic of the absurd." A Tearful Tea-Taster and a Green Umbrella that is also a Duke help a Coffee-Eyed Hermit save a princess. Bingo and Glum climb Jack's beanstalk and flee the Giant. The Pie-Faced Prince buys an umbrella containing a stolen Crown Jewel after Rajah Razzo Razzh-Berri accidentally hocks it. Bingos Frolics in Fairytale Land; Jingle Jangle Tales: The Coffee-Eyed Hermit and the Unprisoned Princess; Aunty Spry; Chauncey Chirp and Johnny Jay; Bedelia, the Motherly Hen; Hortense the Lovable Brat Fights the Black Market!; The Story of Timothy Noddinghead; The Pie-Face Prince of Pretzleburg; Susie Spring and her Off-Spring; Bottleneck and Widget. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $199.95 or Best Offer View scans Eldon pedigree (no certification included; see marking on front cover). 2" cumulative spine split (chew). Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Art Saaf. Edited by Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Alex Blum, Arnold Hicks, and Robert Webb. An influential anthology starring jungle hero Sheena, featuring early art by legendary comics artists in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Sheena learns the gorillas who are abducting beautiful native maidens are just men in gorilla suits; An offbeat Ghost Gallery story at a circus features the ghosts of a lion tamer and his pet tiger; As Agent ZX-5's Philippine adventure continues, the comic shows an increasing tendency toward terrific good-girl art. The Hawk; Weird Stories of the Supernatural; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; Ghost Gallery; Midnight the Black Stallion; Memo for Saturday: "Murder"; ZX-5 Spies In Action; Inspector Dayton. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson (sometimes credited as Jo King). Stories and art by William Ritt, Clarence Gray, Fran Striker, Brandon Walsh, Nicholas Afonsky, Carl Anderson, Jack Burnley, R. J. Scott, Eddie Sullivan, Charlie Schmidt, Lee Falk, Phil Davis, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly, George McManus, Otto Soglow, Eddie Rickenbacker, Clayton Knight, Charles Flanders, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Frank Miller, Don Moore and Alex Raymond. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay presents an anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. Mandrake the Magician finally makes it out of Pacifica; The Phantom meets geologists Lana and Greta Marshall, who want to explore Bengali's uncharted mountain ranges. Brick Bradford; The Lone Ranger; The Phantom; Little Annie Rooney; Henry; Sport Features; Scott's Scrapbook; Hall of Fame of the Air; Sentinel Louie; Radio Patrol; Mandrake the Magician; Thimble Theatre; Flash Gordon; Bringing Up Father; The Little King; Barney Baxter in the Air; Sappo; Tuffy; Right Around Home; Blondie. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $29.00 View scans Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

February 7, 1944. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: portraits of British leaders; Japanese prisoner-of-war camps; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 124 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $29.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

February 21, 1944. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Morris Ernst; Patrice Munsei, young opera star; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 128 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $32.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

February 28, 1944. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Mexico; Lepke; Ella Raines; perspective maps; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 116 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fair $2.65 View scans Spine split 50%.

8.5" x 11", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Very Fine $62.00 View scans Back cover detached 10%. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 16, Issue 118 - February, 1944. Magazine featuring film dramatizations in prose illustrated with stills and regular monthly features. 8.5" x 10.5", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Fair $7.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Single panel cartoons and pinups. 10 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in., 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $893.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4363900006 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart Coverless $174.95 or Best Offer View scan Extra staples added (not manufacturing). Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover art by Harry Sahle. Shield G-Man Club ad. "Tales of a Safety Pin," script by Otto Binder; A safety pin that seems to be followed by bad luck helps The Shield and Dusty solve a crime. "The Ferryboat Admiral" starring Captain Commando and the Boy Soldiers and Karl Van Hoosen (Introduction, death). "Dead Men's Eyes Tell Tales" starring Dutch Kane (as a corpse), Doc Einstone, Rabbit, Southpaw Sears, and Hangman, script by Otto Binder, art by Bob Fujitani (as B. Fuje). "The Ghost of Henry Schmidt" text story starring The Shield by Vivian Berg. "Christmas Cheers," script by Harry Sahle and Ed Goggin, pencils by Harry Sahle, inks by Virginia Drury (as Ginger); Archie gets a cheque for $50 from his grandfather, makes a list of what he wants to buy for his friends, but most of the money is gone by the time he buys the gifts. Untitled story, script and art by Larry Harris; Captain Barney Keel is driving a tugboat along the land when a dam breaks and he and Catfish Joe find themselves floating around on a newly created lake rescuing animals. Untitled story, art by Dave Higgins; Li'l Chief Bugaboo and Fido find a bear cub and accidentally anger its mom. Untitled story, art by Carl Hubbell; Marco Loco and Snooch are hypnotised by the Medusa but then capture her and take her to the King to collect a reward. 60 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $10.00 View scans Spine split 40%. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 15, Issue 5 - February 1944. Vintage photo magazine featuring Reader submitted photographs, and pictorials focusing on Sports, Celebrities, Controversies, and Fashions of the time. 10-in. x 13 1/2-in., 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $1,495.00 or Best Offer View scans Conserved Paper: Off white to white Conservation includes: cover cleaned. Label #3769910002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $1,284.55 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Pedigree: Rockford Rockford. Label #0055937012 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

#2 does not have an issue number. Cover art by Jack Cole. The Gay Nineties Nightmare; A city has been transformed to look like the gay Nineties (1890s). Who's Who; Elmer Body has the ability to change bodies with anyone; Unfortunately for him, he chooses Woozy Winks. The Lava Man; Fargo Freddie falls into a volcano, meets a 500-year-old man who shows him how to turn into lava; As Lava Man, he slips out of Plastic Man's grip, but is defeated when his body cools and hardens. Welcome To Coroner's Corners!; Plas and Woozy go to Coroner's Corners to try and find out why everyone has gone stark raving mad. Scripts and art by Jack Cole. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $12.00 View scans

Add to cart Very Good $13.00 View scans Staple rust. Rust migration. Spine stress. Spine split from base. Foxing. Soiling. Water damage. Only one staple (manufacturing). Glue failure top half interior spine.

Vol. 2, No. 6. February, 1944. Pin-up magazine featuring non-nude photos of pin-up models. 8.25-in. x 11-in. 68 pages. B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $149.95 or Best Offer View scans Restored (see item notes) RESTORATION: Staple replaced. Front cover married. Miswrap. Miscut. INCOMPLETE. Piece missing, interrupts art or story. Brittle. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Art Saaf. Edited by Jean M. Press. Stories and art by Art Saaf, Graham Ingels, George Tuska, Fran Deitrick, Lily Renee, and Lee Elias. Tales of adventure from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. The U.S. Rangers take on a guerrilla camp in the heart of China; Good-girl art galore as Glory Forbes goes undercover at a circus and battles a gorilla on a highwire; In Cairo, Professor Broussard faces the sorceress Cephalia and her army of deadly spiders. Particularly outrageous bondage cover by Art Saaf. U.S. Rangers; Commando Ranger; The Werewolf Hunter; The Sea Devil; Shark-Bait; Glory Forbes; Private Elmer Pippin and the Colonel's Daughter; The Phantom Falcons. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $21.00 View scans Paper: Off white

Vol. 186, No. 3, Whole No. 915 - February 10, 1944. 6.75" x 9.75", 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $21.50 View scan 1 1/2" Cumulative spine split. Smoke damage. Chipped corners.

Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Wellman/Woolfolk/Jack Cole scripts, Cole, Fine, Robin King - A.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $21.50 View scan Smoke damage. Chipped edges.

Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Wellman/Woolfolk/Jack Cole scripts, Cole, Fine, Robin King - A.

Add to cart Coverless $349.95 or Best Offer View scans Restored (see item notes) Comic is complete other than being coverless. RESTORATION. Staples replaced. Includes attached reproduction cover. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Classic war cover. Cover pencils by Wayne Boring, inks by George Roussos. The Super Stunt-Man!, script by Bill Finger [as Jerry Siegel], pencils by Joe Shuster and Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster]; The son of a former carnival daredevil comes to town, not knowing his father had lost his nerve years before in a car stunt gone wrong. Comedians' Holiday!, script by Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel], art by Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster]; Clark and Lois decry the closing of a new movie company that has given work to former vaudeville comedians. Private Pete humor page by Henry Boltinoff. Superman's Master!, script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster]. The March text story by Alton Black. Good Ol Judge Jalopy humor page by Jack Farr. The Quicksilver Kid! starring Superman, script by Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel], pencils by Dick Sprang (layouts) and San Citron (finishes) [as Joe Shuster]. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $59.95 or Best Offer View scan INCOMPLETE. 3 wraps missing and heavy interior chew, interrupts art and story. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cadet story, script by George Kapitan, art by John Jordon. 18 Men and a Boat (part 2), art by Tom Gill. Bull's-Eye Bill story. Candid Charlie, art by B. Gordon Guth. Dan'l Flannel story, art by Ed Ryan. Target and the Targeteers story, art by Bill Allison. Speck, Spot, and Sis story, script and art by Alonzo Vincent. Chameleon story, art by Bill Allison. Targettoons story, script and art by Milt Hammer. Tootsie Roll ad, script by Rod Reed, art by C. C. Beck. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $2.50 View scans Spine split 30%.

TAM is legendary for its thorough and insightful coverage of the stage, both in American and England. Less well-known is the fact that TAM also provided some outstanding coverage of motion pictures. Broadway and Hollywood. 8.5-in. x 11-in., printed on a nice heavy stock. Cover price $0.35.