Clue Comics (1943) comic books
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Issue #2
- 3 1/2" cumulative spine split (chew). Centerfold detached at one staple and loose at second. Cover oxidation.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
Cover by Alan Mandel and Dan Barry. Stories and art by Alan Mandel, Tony DiPreta, Al Ulmer, and John Cassone. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Nightmare and his sidekick Sleepy investigate when Sunnytown's gravity suddenly gets turned off. Zippo uses his powered skates to investigate a doll factory that is smuggling steel to America's enemies during wartime. Twilight and Snoopy investigate suspicious doings at a museum, and encounter the villain known as The Porcupine. The Boy King: A Leader Against Crime!; Nightmare and Sleepy: The Upside-Down Town; Stupid Manny; Micro-Face; Detectives Have Brains; Zippo; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers; Twilight: The Quilled Death!! 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #12
- Paper: Off white
- Label #1199733005
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Stories and art by Fred Guardineer, Art Helfant, Bernard Sachs, Alden McWilliams, and Jack Keller. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Nightmare and Sleepy were listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Gun Master infiltrates a secret club of gangsters and killers, The Gat Frat, and meets blonde femme fatale Velvet Silver again. Little person Craig Mansfield invents telescopic stilts to make himself tall, and uses them to fight crime as the superhero Rackman. Nightmare and Sleepy battle The Scorpion, who enslaves his victims, in their last appearance together in the Golden Age. Gun Master; Rackman; Nightmare and Sleepy; Fetlock Groans the Detective; Phantom of the River; A Cop Is Born; Boy King; Cornie Corner; The Secret of Krishnu; Swifty; Micro-Face. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
