Comic books 1940, graded by CBCS

Add to cart CBCS 8.5 $5,800.00 or Best Offer Moderate professional restoration Paper: Off white to white Slab: Minor side edge crack Professional restoration includes: piece added to back cover, cover reinforced, spine splits sealed, tear seals to back cover, cover cleaned. Label #16-17447E6-008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($174.00) will be charged at checkout.

Hawkman (script by Gardner Fox, art by Sheldon Moldoff), the Sandman (script by Fox, art by Chad Grothkopf, not Creig Flessel), Gary Concord the Ultra-Man (only appearance; script and art by Jon L. Blummer as "Don Shelby"), the Flash (script by Fox, art by Everett (E.E.) Hibbard), the Spectre (script by Jerry Siegel, art by Bernard Baily), Biff Bronson (script by Albert Sulman, art by Joseph Sulman), the Hour Man (script by Ken Fitch, art by Baily), and Red, White and Blue (script by Siegel, art by William Smith). Two-page text story, "Exile to Jupiter" by Evelyn Gaines. Cover art (composite) by Creig Flessel, Hibbard, Blummer, and Baily. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 2.0 $595.00 Moderate amateur restoration Paper: Off white to white Amateur Restoration includes: small amount of color touch on cover, tear seal to cover with glue. Back cover married. Bottom edge of 2 center wraps trimmed. Moderate amount of tape tape and archival tape. Label #21-0BE0C52-002

Cover by Bill Everett. "Aman the Amazing Man" by Bill Everett; Chuck Hardy in "The Lant Beneath the Sea" by Frank Thomas; "The Iron Skull" by Carl Burgos; "Minimidget the Super-MIdget" by John T. Kolb; "Zardi the Eternal man"; "The Shark" by Lew Glanz; "Mighty Man and the Coal People" by Martin Filchock; "The Magician From Mars" by John Guinta and Michael Mirando; and a two-page text story, "Three-Ring Death" by Duke Carey. 68 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 2.5 $72.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #20-2C64B4A-003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.16) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson (sometimes credited as Jo King). Stories and art by William Ritt, Clarence Gray, Brandon Walsh, Nicholas Afonsky, Carl Anderson, Jack Burnley, R. J. Scott, Eddie Sullivan, Charlie Schmidt, Lee Falk, Phil Davis, E. C. Segar, George McManus, Otto Soglow, Eddie Rickenbacker, Clayton Knight, Romer Grey, Charles Flanders, Ruth Plumly Thompson, 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 rescues a woman from an attempted hit-and-run by thugs. Brick Bradford; Little Annie Rooney; Henry; Sport Features; Scott's Scrapbook; Radio Patrol; Mandrake the Magician; Thimble Theatre; Flash Gordon; Bringing Up Father; The Little King; Ted Towers, Animal Master; King of the Royal Mounted. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 7.5 $10,000 Paper: Off white to white Label #16-23F4BA7-001

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. "The Result of the Most Famous Battle in Comic Magazines," script by Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, and John Compton, art by Everett and Burgos; Trapped in a translite tube, only the intervention of Betty Dean saves the Torch and ends the battle between him and Namor. Human Torch untitled story, script and art by Carl Burgos; Torch must battle a gas syndicate who tries to raise the price of gasoline, and bombs any gas station refusing to go along. Sub-Mariner untitled story, script and art by Bill Everett; Because of Namor's seemingly inability to handle the Torch, he is suspended from all active service; Meanwhile, a group of hardened ice field seamen, led by Luther Robinson, seek out the Sub-Mariner to destroy him. The Angel untitled story, art by Paul Gustavson; The Angel must cope with weird "devils of the mist," who have been released from the bowels of the earth by a volcano, and who are kidnapping young women top side to sacrifice to that volcano. Electro, the Marvel of the Age untitled story, art by Steve Dahlman; Electro is called into service to battle an evil, now insane, ex-genius of brain surgery, stationed in an old castle somewhere off the coast of Cuba, who has successfully created artifical blood. Tiger Trail text story, script by Beach Allen, art by Ed Robins. The Masked Raider untitled story, art by Al Anders; A criminal who has fatally wounded a tax collector sees the Raider, and works out a scheme to convince the Sheriff that the Raider is the murderer...all as a blind to steal the tax money himself. "The Murder of a Man Without a Will," script by Ray Gill, art by Bob Oksner; While Terry Vance, the Boy of a Hundred Hobbies" works on an experiment, he hears a police call of someone murdered in a penthouse. Advenures of Ka-Zar the Great untitled story, art by Ben Thompson; A wanted criminal captures two Scotland Yard detectives and leaves them for dead, while he attempts to fly out of the jungle to freedom. 68 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 9.0 $15,495 or Best Offer Moderate professional restoration Paper: Off white to white Moderate/Extensive Professional Restoration Includes: Color touch on cover, pieces added to cover, tear seals to cover and interior, cover and centerfold reinforced, cover and interior cleaned, staples cleaned. Gerber 8. This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($464.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Bernard Baily. "The Spectre Strikes," script by Jerry Siegel, art by Bernard Baily; After murdering Corrigan, Benson and his thugs decide to kill the witness, Clarice, but before they can do this, a wraith-like Corrigan appears before them to exact justice. "Biff's Disguise," starring Biff Bronson, script by Albert Sulman, art by Joe Sulman. "The Mine Sweepers," starring Lt. Bob Neal, script by Robert Hirsch, art by Russ Lehman. "The Rocket Ship," starring King Carter, art by Paul Lauretta. "Submarine Pirates," starring Captain Desmo, art by Ed Winiarski. "Murder in the Ring," starring Detective Sergeant Carey, script and art by Joe Donohoe. "The Search for Half Breed Charlie," starring Sergeant O'Malley of the Red Coat Patrol, art by John Lehti. "The Fall of Billy Evans," starring Bulldog Martin, art by Bart Tumey. 68 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.0 $860.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #16-47F16A0-002

Stories by Toni Blum and Will Eisner. Art by Alex Blum, Louis Cazeneuve, Bob Powell and George Tuska. Cover by Ed Ashe. A strongman superhero from Fox Feature, descended from the Biblical Samson and sharing his weakness: having his hair cut. This issue includes reprints from Samson's early appearances in Fantastic Comics #1, 3, and Mystery Men Comics #2 and 6. A mysterious magnetic super-weapon is lifting ocean liners right out of the sea; Wing Turner is shot down while scouting for Nazi U-boats in the North Atlantic. Dynamic cover by Ed Ashe. The Coming of Samson; Wing Turner; Dragor; Samson and the Murder Ring; K-51 Spies At War. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 1.5 $1,750.00 Paper: Off white Cover detached. Front cover reattached to back cover with 9 pieces of tape. Centerfold detached. Label #18-110B82D-003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($52.50) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Lou Fine. Stories by Rodney Weems and Bert Whitman. Art by Emil Gershwin, Robert Webb, George Tuska, and Bert Whitman. An anthology of Golden Age adventure comics featuring sci-fi heroes and some of the very first superheroes. Electric-powered hero Electro becomes Dynamo, and uses his powers to trap a gang of gold thieves in gold electroplate like living statues; Marga the Panther Woman is kidnapped by a mad African ruler who wants to make her his queen; Navy Jones helps the undersea kingdom rebel against its corrupt Prime Minister. Another terrific cover by Lou Fine. Science Fights Crime!; The Eagle: The Mail Pirates; Dynamo: The Fort Knox Gold Robbery; Cosmic Carson: Master of the Ice Ray; Perisphere Payne: Attack On the Moon; Build a Fighting Plane; Build a Super-Locomotive; Marga: Uchunko, Ruler of the Jungle; Gold...1000 Miles Down; Dr. Doom: Battle of the Insects; Navy Jones: The Prime Minister Strikes Back. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 1.5 $2,269.00 or Best Offer Conserved Paper: Off white Amateur Conservation includes: Centerfold reinforced with glue. Cover and 2 center wraps detached. Front and back cover completely split and reattached with moderate amount of tape on cover. Label #23-3E84026-005 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($68.07) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Joe Simon, inks by Lou Fine. The Valley of Terror starring Flame, Dr. Belos, and Vulture Men. Rango the Witch Doctor starring Yarko. Shorty Shortcake story. Mutiny On Devil's Island starring Patty O'Day and The Nazis, art by Claire Moe. Clue of the Broken Buddha starring Dr. Fung. Guardian Angels Under Stormy Skies text story by Nathaniel Nitkin (N. N. Nathaniel). The Castle of Professor Z starring Tex Maxon the Phantom Rider. Masquerade of Swing starring Don Quixote. Spark Stevens story. K-51 Spies At War story. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Wonderworld Comics (1939) 20 CBCS 2.5

Paper: Cream to off white

Cover Reattached With Moderate Amount of Tape on Interior.

Label #18-2A9764E-073

The Kidnappers starring Flame. Zarhov's Monster starring Yarko. The Black Pearl starring Shorty Shortcake. The Bombing Gang starring Patty O'Day. One Minute To Death starring Dr. Fung. Smuggler's Syndicate text story, art by Nathaniel Nitkin (N. N. Nathaniel). Headed For a Noose starring Tex Maxon, art by Munson Paddock (Chuck Munson). Return To the Dark Ages starring Don Quixote and Adolphus Stalini. Shanghaied By Captain Swine starring Spark Stevens. The Jigsaw Puzzle Plot--K-51 Spies At War. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.