Captain Midnight (1942-1948 Fawcett) comic books 1946

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $299.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #4301298017 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and others. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. As WWII draws to a close, student Johnny Blair is joined by Captain Midnight for a crossover adventure involving a tampered test. After graduation, Johnny finally becomes an official member of the Civil Air Patrol. Midnight must trade minerals for lifesaving medicines in the closing days of the war in the South Pacific. The Tale of the Tampered Test; Your Invention Page; Mutiny on the Podunk, Jr.; Red Skye: Game of Cards; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Captain Midnight. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Sheldon Moldoff. Stories and art by Leonard Frank and others. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. As WWII draws to a close, CM seeks help from the "Blimp Patrol" in preventing the Axis from attempting "another Pearl Harbor - this time from under water." Sgt. Twilight tries to help a sheriff's posse track Eaglebeak Jukes and his gang. In a WWII story, Midnight investigates the Axis "Flame Planes." Plus a postwar PSA for continued paper conservation. The Blimp Patrol; Your Invention Page; Sergeant Twilight: Hunted Man!; Red Skye: Look to the Hills; Johnny Blair, in the Air; The Flame Planes. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and others. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Midnight attempts to secure the airspace over Asia in the closing days of WWII. Johnny Blair and two other Americans have been imprisoned by Axis forces, in one of several tales listed as "Official War Archives Story." (Most likely inventory remaining from the WWII era.) In a Frankenstein-like scenario, Sgt. Twilight creates a robot assistant, Egad, but then is threatened because it's much smarter than him. Plus a vintage ad for "Twinkilite" glow-in-the-dark paint. Captain Midnight Sweeps the Skies; Strato-Fact; Pilot Pete; Your Invention Page; The Jungle Empire!; Metal Monster!; Army Air Corps Slang!; Red Skye: China Mission; The Lotus Leaf Lamasery!; Johnny Blair, in the Air; The Menace of the Meteors. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Bill Woolfolk. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. CM intervenes when a cutting-edge tunnel under a river is targeted for sabotage...or is it the river itself that attacks? Midnight creates a device that interrupts electric power in a wide radius, a sort of EMP weapon 50 years early. Captain Midnight is called in to help railroad workers lay track across an impassible swamp. Tunnel of Terror; Path of Darkness; Odd But True Inventions; Pilot Pete; The Sleepy Madman; Red Skye: Debt of Death; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Swamp of Death. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk and others. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. CM investigates when the wheels mysteriously melt on defense-supply trains, and discovers what it has to do with Icky's missing perfume. Midnight goes to South American country "Chicolte" to help Casey James battle the bandit king El Poble and complete a transcontinental railroad. Midnight helps Chinese soldiers ferret out an Axis spy (even though the story was published in May 1946). Case Without a Name; Whipper-Snappers; Kanvasback Makes His Apologies; The Chicolte Crossing; Odd But True Inventions; Pilot Pete; The Case of the Vanishing Fossil; Red Skye: Insect Invasion; Strato-Facts; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Your Invention Page; Incendiary Doom. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and others. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. When CM gets wind of a criminal scheme, he knows that an evil mastermind he believed dead is still alive. Midnight's role in the WWII battle involving the Phantom Army of Palui is revealed. Captain Midnight battles an Axis soldier in a boxing ring during WWII. Plus a vintage ad for "Floress Fluorescent lipstick" (!). Touch of Genius; The Phantom Army of Palui; Sgt. Twilight--Man Or Maestro?; Red Skye: San Pablo Siesta; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Your Invention Page; Traitor Or Patriot? 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and others. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Forced down in a small town and sentenced to a chain-gang, Captain Midnight discovers it's nothing more than modern-day slavery under the rule of a plantation owner. Johnny Blair returns from the war in the Pacific, in a series that features real-life flight education. Midnight gets some help from an elephant while battling a modern menace in old India. The 20th Century Slaves; Odd But True Inventions; Pilot Pete; V Stands for Volcano; The Great Maglider!; Witless Witmore; Red Skye: Red Lands a Contract; Strato-Facts; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Your Invention Page; Deadly Business. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $290.00 View scans Cover coming loose at single center staple. Staple rust.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and others. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. CM's latest invention plows an entire field in seconds, but becomes a super-weapon when it falls into the wrong hands. During WWII, Captain Midnight battles an Axis superweapon that can pull B-29 bombers out of the air. Midnight uses his latest invention, a plastic boat, to track the theft of a secret military experiment. The Harvest of Infamy; Odd But True Inventions; Pilot Pete; Impending Doom; Whipper-Snappers; The Screwball Murders; Witless Witmore; Red Skye: Double Cargo; Strato-Facts; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Your Invention Page; Missing Gyro-Instruments. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and others. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Midnight's latest invention is the "Automatic Fisherman," but evil Ivan Shark wants it for criminal purposes. Richard Richard, Private Dick investigates after pencil leads disappear from all the pencils. Could the sinister pencil-sharpener salesman be behind it? A rival inventor who uses his talents for evil challenges Red Albright to a duel of inventions...to the death. Return of the Shark!; Pilot Pete; Impending Doom; Richard Richard, Private Dick: The Pencil Case; Sgt. Twilight Cooks a Mess of Trouble; Red Skye: Courage in Command; Strato-Facts; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Your Invention Page; Invention Duel to the Death!; Captain Midnight's Air Quiz. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $89.95 or Best Offer View scans 1" Spine split from bottom (chew). Water spotting, staple rust/migration, and soiling. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Bill Woolfolk. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Professor Zannever builds a better atomic bomb and asks Captain Midnight to help him safely test it, but Agent X gets wind of the invention first. Midnight's latest invention makes him bulletproof, and mob boss Maron (who looks like a Dick Tracy villain) is determined to find out what it is. During WWII, Midnight tests an invention that causes someone's personality to become its exact opposite. Classic cover by an unknown artist. The Stratosphere Treasure Hunt; Pilot Pete; Case of the Rolling Stone; Sgt. Twilight: The Water Machine; Red Skye: Flying Salesman; The Jekyll Ray; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Your Invention Page; Dippy Detours. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Leonard Frank. Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Richard Kraus. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Captain Midnight battles an oil-hungry criminal for the rights to Jinx Well, in a story featuring Midnight's latest invention, the "Trouble Suit."In a postwar story that reflects the events of the era, CM becomes involved in the trials of Nazi collaborators, or "Quislings," who have been caught and brought to justice. Captain Midnight's sidekick Icky gets a chance to move to an experimental city floating in the sky, but something isn't on the up-and-up. The PSA on the title page, which was for paper rationing during WWII, has been updated to support the USO. Dynamic cover by Leonard Frank. Captain Midnight Drills for Oil; Pilot Pete; Traitors on Trial; Whipper-Snappers; Sgt. Twilight: The Flying Hamburger Stand; Red Skye: When Courage Won; Utopia in the Clouds; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Your Invention Page; Giggle Gags. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Leonard Frank. Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Richard Kraus. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. A US intelligence agent is captured by Storm von Kloud, who wants to revive the Nazi Party after WWII. In a WWII story, CM investigates when defense workers fall ill on a South Pacific island, and discovers that Axis agents are poisoning popsicle sticks. Yes, you read that right. When a living dinosaur is found on a remote island, Captain Midnight races circus impresario Bingo Bates to keep it from winding up on display in a cage. Another top-notch cover by Leonard Frank. Fangs of the Werewolf!; Pilot Pete; Ice Cream Plague of Palmyra Island; Whipper-Snappers; Sgt. Twilight's Last Roundup; Red Skye: Gang War; The Flying Dinosaur; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Your Invention Page; Dippy Detours. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.