Blue Circle Comics (1944) comic books
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Issue #1
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Stories and art by Bill Allison, Harold Delay, Jack Warren, and Henry Kiefer. Masked heroes face Axis forces in this WWII-era adventure series. A wave of hijackings is investigated by costumed hero Blue Circle, who is advised by a secret council of seven reformed criminals, in an innovative twist. Redheaded journalist Gail Porter talks a suicidal man down from a bridge, and helps the handsome stranger investigate gangsters in the city government, in an early action-girl story. Maureen Marine has Little Nemo-like adventures and becomes the new Queen of the kingdom under the sea, in a story with some lovely fantasy art by Harold Delay. Blue Circle: What Is the Blue Circle?; Gail Porter, Girl Photographer; The Toreador; Maureen Marine; Driftwood Davey; The Steel Fist; Black Killer; Slaphappy Grandpappy; Wacky Cracks. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #3
$7,600.00
View scans- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #4240892001
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- Lateral spine tear. Centerfold detached at single center staple. Water saturation, soiling, staple rust/migration.
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Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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Stories and art by Bill Allison, Leo Morey, Jack Warren, and Henry Kiefer. Masked heroes face Axis forces in this WWII-era adventure series. Redheaded journalist and action girl Gail Porter gets involved with Hans, a German POW who doesn't believe in Nazism, and figures it out when a fugitive war criminal switches places with him. Maureen Marine and Father Neptune discover a mysterious world within an ice cave while on their way to visit Davey Jones. Western hero The Toreador realizes that inept bandits are part of a plot to cause war between ranchers and farmers. Plus an anti-Hitler cover, possibly by Harold Delay. Blue Circle: The Soda Pop Murder!; Gail Porter, Girl Photographer; Toreador; Maureen Marine; Driftwood Davey; The Steel Fist; Smart Act; Slaphappy Grandpappy. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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$2,495 Blue Circle Comics #3 CGC 4.0 Rural Home 1944 Hitler As An Octopus Cover Clicking on the links to the eBay listings shown above and then making a purchase may result in MyComicShop earning a commission from the eBay Partner Network.
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Issue #6MARTINKANE
Blue Circle Comics (1944) #6MARTINKANE$149.00
View scan- William Gargan Junior Detective Club page detached. Pen markings on last page.
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Contents do not match cover. The sixth issue of this run consisted of a new cover used to recover different remaindered comics dating from the late 1940's to early 1950's and several variations exist. This variation contains the remaindered comic - Martin Kane - Private Eye #nn - and it was re-covered by the publisher, Rural, without page 1 of the first story. This was probably intended to be the third issue of the Martin Kane (1950 Fox) series, but it was never published. It includes the following Martin Kane stories: "Case of the Royal Rubies", "Ballad of Death", & "The King of Blackmail", plus a 2 page detective text story. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #6MURDERINC
Blue Circle Comics (1944) #6MURDERINC$142.00
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Cover by Harry Sahle. Contents do not match cover. The sixth issue of this run consisted of a new cover used to recover different remaindered comics dating from the late 1940's to early 1950's and several variations exist. This variation contains the remaindered comic - Murder Incorporated (1948 1st Series) #14 - and it was re-covered by the publisher, Rural, without page 1 of the first story. Murder Incorporated was one of the more notorious pre-Code crime comics. Despite the nickname, Jack Gregory is no gentleman. Adam Richetti is a bank robber notorious for joining forces with Pretty Boy Floyd in the 1930s, when both he and Floyd are implicated in the Kansas City Massacre. "Gentleman" Jack Gregory; Bill Hale...King of the Murderers; Jungle Thirst; Trigger-Happy Richetti. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
