Comic books May 1942

Add to cart PR 0.5 $90.00 View scan This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($2.70) will be charged at checkout. It has been graded by MyComicShop's experienced graders. Other items consigned by Bud Plant INCOMPLETE. Centerfold missing, affects art and story. Cover and center wrap detached.

The Unsung Hero starring The Black Condor, art by Lou Fine; A former fifth columnist named Hawks had tried to warn Senator Wright of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but he'd been out of commission and arrived after December 7th; However, Hawks also carried word of a second attack, this time on the Panama Canal. Untitled Spitfire story, art by Al McWilliams. President Orders Expulsion of 1200 Germans starring Don Q, art by Vernon Henkel. Slap Happy Pappy humor page by Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns]. Untitled Pen Miller story, art by Klaus Nordling. Rube Goldberg strips. Japanese Saboteurs starring Alias The Spider, art by Paul Gustavson. Untitled Tor the Magic Master story, art by Fred Guardineer. License of a Murderer starring The Clock, script and art by George E. Brenner. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

May 1942. 1st issue under this title (previously published as Hooded Detective). Detective and mystery stories by T. W. Ford "The Corpse Can't Cry", C. L. Boswell, Fred J. Ford, Zachary Strong, Cliff Campbell, Leo Hoban, "Undercover" Dix, and Mat Rand. 7" x 10"; black and white; 98 newsprint pages. NOTE: For previous issues see Hooded Detective (1941-1942 Columbia Publications) Cover price $0.10.

May 1942. Volume 4, No. 6. Painted cover by Cherry Samuel. True crime articles, stories and photos. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 114 p, B&W Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Dick Wood, Bernard Klein, Bob Wood, Frank Volp, Carl Hubbell, Bob Montana, Lin Streeter, Sidney M. Elias and Dick Briefer. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. As World War II heats up, masked crimefighter Daredevil joins the Army Air Corps, the precursor to the Air Force. Pat Patriot puts on a wartime defense benefit at the upscale Diamond Room, but all is not as it seems. Two stories with early art by Archie creator Bob Montana, including a superhero tale and a comedy short. Daredevil: War; Thirteen and Jinx: Mystery of the Everglades, Ch. 1; Sniffer; Crimebuster: New York Under Fire; Houdonnit the Great; Real American #1; London; Pat Patriot; Whirlwind; Stamps: The Niagara Falls; Claw: Death To the Allies! 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

1st appearance of Mr. Baffle in the Batman and Robin story "A Gentleman in Gotham," Spy in "The Stumbling Saboteurs," last Cliff Crosby, the Crimson Avenger, Air Wave, Larry Steele in "The Case of the Light That Blinds" (by Cliff Young), and Slam Bradley in "Case of the Wobbling Wizard!" Half-page ads for Batman # 11, Adventure Comics # 74, Star Spangled Comics # 8, and More Fun Comics # 79. A full-page ad features Superman # 16, Batman # 10, Green Lantern # 3, World's Finest # 5, and All-Flash Quarterly # 4. Cover price $0.10.

May 1942. Western adventure stories by Harry F. Olmsted "Tornado from Texas", Walt Coburn "Wet Cattle - Hot Guns!", T. T. Flynn "Those Fighting Gringo Devils!", Tom Roan, Van Cort, Bart Cassidy, and Tom W. Blackburn. 7-in. x 9 1/2-in.; black and white text with spot illos.; 98 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $18.75 View scan Cover detached. Staple rust.

Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, a text story, and an original Fearless Flint feature. In order of appearance: "Life's Like That" by Fred Neher; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Fearless Flint" by H. G. Peter; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Connie" by Frank Godwin; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; and "Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon. "Solar Holocaust" text story by Dick Calkins. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Coverless 0.3 $2.00 View scans

May 1942. Cover by Malcolm Smith. Stories: "Daughter of the Snake God" by J.Y. Cabot and W.P. McGivern, "Secret of the Golden Jaguar" by Robert Moore Williams, "Holy City of Mars" by Ralph Milne and Al P. Nelson, "Mr. Pym Makes a Deal" by John Broome, "Gather 'Round The Flowing Bowler" by Robert Bloch, "Mademoiselle Butterfly" by Don Wilcox, "The Magic Flute" by David V. Reed, "The Phantom Armada" by Stanton A. Coblentz, "Brother Michel" by Nelson S. Bond, "Mrs. Corter Makes Up Her Mind" by August W. Derleth, and "Return of Joan of Arc" by David Wright O'Brien. Illustrations by Ned Hadley, Magarian, Joe Sewell, Robert Fuqua, Jay Jackson, Pemble, L. Raymond Jones, and Rod Ruth. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 244 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

May 1942 issue. "The Yanks are Coming" by David Goodis, "Congo Flight" by David Crewe, and other action packed fighting stories. 114 pages. 9 1/2" by 6 3/4". B&W text with illustrations. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Coverless 0.3 $64.95 or Best Offer View scan This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($1.95) will be charged at checkout. It has been graded by MyComicShop's experienced graders. INCOMPLETE. Centerfold missing, affects art and story.

Flash stars in "The Man Who Harnessed the Sun," written by Gardner Fox, pencils by Everett E. Hubbard, inks by Harold Wilson Sharp. Also includes: Ghost Patrol in "Introducing the Ghost Patrol" by Emanuel Demby and Frank Harry; Johnny Thunder in "Spooks" by John B. Wentworth and Stan Aschmeier; The Whip in "Bank Holdup" by Charles Reizenstein and Homer Fleming; King in "The Writer and the Witch" by Fox and Harry Lampert; "Jailbreak" by Ed Wheelan; and Hawkman in "Case of the Human Plants" by Fox and Sheldon Moldoff. Cover art by Moldoff. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Bedsheet Format Cover price $0.20.

Cover art by Dave Berg. Untitled Magno and Davey story. "The Terror of the Deep" starring Unknown Soldier. Untitled story; Enraged that his fellow student cadets made fun of him because of his wolf-like features, Adolf Krimetz nursed hate, vengeance and rebellion at his fate...until years later, he had the opportunity to exact his revenge on his tormentors, who had become generals in the U.S. armed forces; Turning himself into a wolf from the waist up, Krimetz used his superior strength, agility and fierceness to strike at his foes until Lash Lightning stepped into the picture. "Senor Colt's Payday" text story by Brant House. Untitled Captain Courageous story, art by Harry Sahle; Man-eating locusts attack. Untitled Blitz Buster story; The foul schemes of Hitler's fifth columnists. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Origin and 1st app. Woody Woodpecker in Oswald story. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 8 - May 1942. Classic Men's humor magazine chock full of jokes, one liners, and single panel gag illustrations. 10 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in., 36 pages, B&W. NOTE: This magazine was printed with a hole that goes through the entire issue. This is not a defect, it was this Magazine's signature feature. Cover price $0.10.

Origin and first appearance of Music Master. "The Purple Zombie" and "Mann of India" features end. Contains five original features accompanied by comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Hydroman" by Bill Everett; "Star Flashes" by Charles Bruno; "The Music Master" by Stephen Douglas and Bill Everett; "Man O'Metal" by H. G. Peter; "Flyin' Jenny" by Russell Keaton; "Reg'lar Fellers" by Gene Byrnes; "The Purple Zombie" by Tarpe Mills; "Dare-devils of Destiny" by Frank Rentfrow and Don Dickson; and "Mann of India" by Tarpe Mills. "A Man's Job" text story by E. Albert Willard. Indicia states "Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics". 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Edited by Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Will Eisner, Jerry Iger, Lee Ames, Mort Leav, Alex Blum, Charles A. Winter, John Cassone, and Robert Webb. An influential anthology starring jungle hero Sheena, featuring early art by legendary comics artists in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Sheena faces a band of kill-crazy cannibals; Time-traveler Stuart Taylor visits famously wealthy King Croesus in ancient Persia; Agent ZX-5 aids the French Resistance during WWII. The Hawk; Weird Stories of the Supernatural; Bobby; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; Pee Wee; Uncle Otto; Midnight the Black Stallion; Tom Dick and Harry; All American; ZX-5 Spies In Action; Inspector Dayton; Lightning. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Dan Zolnerowich. "Juggernaut of Doom," pencils by Dan Zolnerowich (p 1) and Rafael Astarita (pp 2-14); A treasure hunter persuades the Wambus' witch doctor to help him kidnap the chief's son and demand as ransom the tribe's sacred ruby; The chief refuses to reveal the location of the ruby and is killed by the treasure hunter. Untitled story, art by George Appel; Ghazia, lusting after Fantomah's throne disguises the spotted men as mummies and sets them on the city of Khefra; Fantomah calls on the ancient gods of Egypt to turn the Spotted Men into real mummies and they crumble into dust as Ghazia flees the city. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Wambi leads an anthropologist and his fiancee to the Monga village; The villagers are suspicious of the white people and imprison them and Wambi's ape friend Ogg. "Golden Buddha" text story. Untitled story, art by George Carl Wilhelms; Tabu prevents Arab bounty hunters from taking an innocent man. Untitled story; Andy's dreams lead the gang to an Arab determined to keep the English out of the desert. Untitled story, art by Al Walker; Boko saves Simba from native hunters by appearing to invoke a solar eclipse. Untitled story; Saga, an Amazon queen challenges Camilla for the title of "queen of the jungle"; Camilla manages to triumph by figuring out the secret of Saga's so-called "black magic." 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson (sometimes credited as Jo King). Stories and art by William Ritt, Clarence Gray, Fran Striker, Brandon Walsh, Nicholas Afonsky, Carl Anderson, Jack Burnley, R. J. Scott, Eddie Sullivan, Charlie Schmidt, Lee Falk, Phil Davis, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly, George McManus, Otto Soglow, Eddie Rickenbacker, Clayton Knight, Charles Flanders, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Frank Miller, 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 lands on an unexplored island while seeking the Flame Pearls; The Phantom recognizes a series of daring air robberies as the work of his old foes, the all-female air pirates called the Sky Band. Brick Bradford; The Lone Ranger; The Phantom; Little Annie Rooney; Henry; Sport Features; Scott's Scrapbook; Hall of Fame of the Air; Sentinel Louie; Radio Patrol; Mandrake the Magician; Thimble Theatre; Flash Gordon; Bringing Up Father; The Little King; Barney Baxter in the Air; Sappo; Stamps: The Adventures of Don Miguel; Family Portraits: Scribblers; The Enchanted Cat. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $15.00 View scan Rusty staples and water damage.

May 4, 1942. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: U.S. milk production; Malta; Chinese Air Corps; Joan Fontaine and Olivia De Havilland; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 112 pages. Cover price $0.10.

68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.