A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) comic books 1942-1944

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $15.25 View scan Cover detached (taped at spine and inner edges). Cover oxidation.

Stories and art by Bert Whitman, Milt Youngren, Frank Engli, Evans Krehbiel and Bulford Tune. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics #2. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured Tribune Syndicate newspaper comic strip reprints from the 1940s. Mr. Ex investigates after a child is hit by a car, but recovers suspiciously quickly; Bush Berry, a farm boy from Iowa, sets out to become a baseball pitcher for the big leagues; Dotty Dripple's hubby Horace argues with the neighbor about a rake. Mr. Ex; Lew Loyal; Rocky the Stone-Age Kid; Bush Berry; Dotty Dripple. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $41.00 View scan Chew.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $16.50 View scan Centerfold detached. One wrap detached at one staple. Staple rust.

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.