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Young King Cole (1945 Novelty/Premium/Curtis) comic books 1948

  • Vol. 3 #9
    Young King Cole (1945 Novelty/Premium/Curtis) Vol. 3 #9
    • Staple rust and migration

    Cover by Wayne Boring (credited as Jack Harmon). Stories and art by Hy Gage, Milt Hammer, Nina Albright, and Wayne Boring. Bespectacled, eccentric detective "King" Cole Jr. takes over his father's detective agency. Investigating the murder of a broker, Young King Cole winds up strapped to a barber's chair and menaced by a homicidal hairdresser. Toni Gayle stumbles on a crime in a Texas border town, in a story with art by Superman artist Wayne Boring. Goatee'd criminologist Dr Doom (no relation to Victor) encounters killers amid the upper-crust of the city's elite. Toni Gayle action-girl cover by Superman artist Wayne Boring (credited as Jack Harmon). Young King Cole; Toni Gayle; Hammertoones; Blackmail; Foxy; Inspector Klooz: Crime On the Half Shell; Dr. Doom. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Vol. 3 #10
    Young King Cole (1945 Novelty/Premium/Curtis) Vol. 3 #10
    • Cover detached at one staple. 3.25" cumulative spine split. Oxidation.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Pete Riss, Milt Hammer, Will Hammell, Joe Certa and Art Helfant. Bespectacled, eccentric detective "King" Cole Jr. takes over his father's detective agency. While seeking a small-town bank robber, Young King Cole is committed to a mental hospital - or is it all part of his plan? Toni Gayle investigates after an actress is killed on camera in a TV studio. Detective Larry Broderick suspects an heiress's pearls have been dipped in poison and are slowly killing her. Young King Cole; Toni Gayle; Hammertoones; Larry Broderick Detective: The Case of the Poison Pearl; The Promise; Inspector Klooz: Crime in the Catskills; Dr. Drew the Zoo Man: The Case of the Slaughtered Ostriches; Boitram the Boiglar. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.