Comic books February 1943

Cover by Mac Raboy. Stories by Otto Binder and Tom McNamara. Art by Al Carreno and Tom McNamara. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. The forces of evil grant a sinister mortal powers to rival that of the Marvels, and the result is super-demon Sabbac, in his first appearance. Count Spectrum uses his power of invisibility to aid the Nazis in their attempt to take over the US. Captain Marvel's arch-enemy Sivana meets Marvel Jr. for the first time, but Sivana's got his "nimitive pills" that can weaken anybody, even Captain Marvel Jr. Captain Marvel, Jr. Struggles With Sabbac; The Invisible Count Spector; The American Way; Oofty Goofty: His Uncle Is a Cop; The Pills of Peril. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Jack Binder and Bert Whitman. Cover by Mac Raboy. Double Trouble In Tokyo starring Captain Midnight. Red Skye Over Egypt text story by Joseph J. Millard. Sergeant Twilight Nabs a Nazi; Captain Midnight and Sergeant Twilight go up against the Nazis. The Beasts That Flew Like Birds!; Captain Albright and his friends are flying to Alexandria, Egypt, when they spot a military plane out of control, which crashes. Case of the War Bond Bubbles humor story with Little Sneezer. The War Bond Plot; Captain Midnight battles Von Twerpitz. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 14, Issue 9 - February 1943. Features creative stories, poems, rebuses, recipes, activities, crafts, science experiments, and health articles for children. 6-in. x 9-in. 52 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $300.00 View scans Centerfold detached at one staple.	Add to cart GD 2.0 $89.00 View scans Cover and three center wraps detached.	Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $250.00 View scans Restored (see item notes) RESTORATION. Color touch. Centerfold detached at one staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant	Add to cart GD 2.0 $89.95 or Best Offer View scans Centerfold detached, tear in back cover. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow
Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $79.95 or Best Offer View scans 5" spine split from bottom of comic. Cover detached. Staples added (not manufacturing). Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Arabian Nights, 1st Printing, Classics Comics. (NO HRN, 2/43). Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $450.00 or Best Offer View scans 3 1/2" cumulative spine split (chew). Centerfold detached at one staple and loose at second. Cover oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Alan Mandel and Dan Barry. Stories and art by Alan Mandel, Tony DiPreta, Al Ulmer, and John Cassone. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Nightmare and his sidekick Sleepy investigate when Sunnytown's gravity suddenly gets turned off. Zippo uses his powered skates to investigate a doll factory that is smuggling steel to America's enemies during wartime. Twilight and Snoopy investigate suspicious doings at a museum, and encounter the villain known as The Porcupine. The Boy King: A Leader Against Crime!; Nightmare and Sleepy: The Upside-Down Town; Stupid Manny; Micro-Face; Detectives Have Brains; Zippo; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers; Twilight: The Quilled Death!! 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The classic weekly magazine featuring news and fiction. Approximately 10.75-in. x 14-in.; black and white; 48 pages on white paper. Cover price $0.10.

February 14, 1943. Comic Book Magazine was a weekly supplemental insert found in the Los Angeles Sunday Times that featured popular comic strips of the era. This edition features Speed Berry on the cover, plus Brenda Star, Mr. Ex, Hy Score, Dill and Daffy, Vesta West, Gertie O'Grady, Rocky, Daniel Boone, Bucks McKale, Spooky, Texas Slime, and Streamer Kelly. Horizontal format, 11-in. x 7.75-in., full color, 16 pages-all newsprint.

Issue 5 - "3 Girls and a Killer". Softcover Digest, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $2.00.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Dick Wood, Bob Wood, Alan Mandel, Carl Hubbell, Bart Tumey, Dan Barry, Basil Wolverton, and Dick Briefer. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. The Little Wise Guys battle a street gang called the Steamrollers, resulting in the shocking death of founding Wise Guys member Meatball. Rhyming reporter Scoop Scuttle braves a burning building and accidentally unearths an arsonist, in a story by comics legend Basil Wolverton. The Pirate Prince discovers just rulers who have been imprisoned in a dungeon by a dictator, in a story with art by Dick Briefer. Also featuring inks by future Flash Gordon artist Dan Barry. Daredevil; Thirteen and Jinx Smack the Saboteur; Sniffer; Dickie Dean; Scoop Scuttle; The Pirate Prince; Crimebuster: Sudden Death; The Claw. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Jerry Robinson. License for Larceny starring Batman and Robin, script by Joe Samachson, pencils by Bob Kane, inks by Jerry Robinson and George Roussos. Petals of Peril starring The Boy Commandos, script and pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon. The Adventure of the Wrong Numbers starring The Crimson Avenger, script and pencils by Jack Lehti, inks by `Charles Paris. The Target Murder starring Spy, art by Chuck Winter. Baptism of Fire text story by Tex Denton. Larry Jordan vs. Air Wave, script by Murray Boltinoff, pencils by Harris Levy (as Lee Harris), inks by Charles Paris. The Mystery of the Missing Monkey starring Slam Bradley, art by Howard Sherman. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 18, 1st Printing - "The Penguin Pool Murder". Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $95.00 View scans Paper: Cream 1" Spine split from top of book. Foxing. Soiling.

Volume 41, Issue 3 - February, 1943. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $22.00 View scans Paper: Off white

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $21.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 35, Issue 2 - February, 1943. 7" x 10", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $39.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 20, Issue 6 - February, 1943. 6.5" x 9", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Tom McNamara and Virgil Partch. During the 1940s, military hero Don Winslow was the star of a comic strip, a movie serial and a popular radio show in addition to this Fawcett comic. Don investigates the sinking of a harmless fishing vessel, and learns of a Nazi scheme to secure the plans for a submersible aircraft carrier. Don and Red rescue a shipwreck survivor from a life raft, little suspecting that he's involved in a plot against America. Don discovers that a treasonous yachtsman is using phony depth charges to refuel submerged Nazi U-boats! Plus background on the Don Winslow character and his appearances in other media. Cover by an unknown artist features Shazam, aka Captain Marvel, introducing Don Winslow to Fawcett readers. The Coast Guard Menace; Eaglebeak Spruder; Red Herrings in the Panama Canal; Too Old to Fight; Bombs over New York; Jetsam Joe; The Ash Can Cannon. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Official organ of the International Society of Junior Magicians, containing news and tips. 16 pages on newsprint.

Add to cart CBCS 4.0 $1,750.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #22-34A3EF4-003 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $300.00 or Best Offer View scans INCOMPLETE. 2 wraps missing at centerfold, interrupts art and story. Tape along length of spine. Staples added (not manufacturing). Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Untitled Black Terror story; vs. Macro and Mecanons. Untitled American Eagle story; once more the spirit of the minute-man rides abroad. Untitled Crash Carter story, art by Bob Oksner; Winston Churchill cameo. Untitled Liberator story; Prof. Nelson Drew is aided by ancient Egyptian Lamesis. In the Balkans starring Pepper Swift, art by Bob Oksner. The Radio Beam Mystery starring Larry North, U.S. Navy, art by Max Plaisted. Untitled Sergeant Bill King story, art by Maurice Gutwirth. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 22, Issue 8 - February 19, 1943. Human interest family centric publication that features short fiction stories, recipes and celebrity gossip. 24 pages, 8.5" x 11.25", B&W Newsprint.

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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; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Fearless Flint" by H. G. Peter; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "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; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "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; and "Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon. "The Dumb Donkey" text story by Claude Dunnagan. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $165.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Good $80.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $27.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

Robert Moore Williams, Robert Bloch.

Volume 5, Issue 2 - February, 1943. Cover by Robert Gibson Jones. Science Fiction and Adventures stories. This issue features "Yesterday's Clock" by David O'Brien. and "Return of the Whispering Gorilla" by David V. Reed. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 244 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). A witch offers to send Hoppy and Millie back in time to the era of King Arthur and the Round Table. Monkey detective Sherlock Monk seeks the "invisible man" behind a crime wave - could he be connected to hypnotist The Great Hypo? Billy the Kid seeks horse thieves after Sheriff Oscar is arrested for buying a stolen horse. Plus a puzzle page (and cover) promoting War Bonds and Stamps, fundraising efforts for WWII. Boys and Girls Victory Puzzle Page; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Knights of Splendor; Benny Beaver; Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck; Uncle Don: Loose Talkers; Oliver the Owl: Air Raid Wardens!; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Willie the Worm. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Gill Fox. "The Black Atom"; Doll Man faces the Black Atom, who has the ability to vanish in a puff of smoke. Untitled Mickey Finn story, script and art by Lank Leonard. "The Man Nobody Loved," script and art by Toni Blum; Zero, Ghost Detective vs. Eloise the vampire. "The Mechanical Gangster," script by Sy Reit, art by Al Stahl; Blimpy (aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain) vs. The Mechanical Gangster. "There Ain't Gonna Be No Santa Claus" starring Spider Widow and the Raven, script and art by Frank Borth. "The Plot to Dynamite the Clover Club," script and art by Phil Martin; Swing Sisson vs. Art King. "The Fate of Kino" starring Spin Shaw, script and art by Bob Powell. "Enter Alababa," script and art by Paul Gustavson; During an adventure in North Africa, Rusty Ryan picks an Arab named Alababa and a zoot-suited African named Pierpoint Lee to join the Brigadiers. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - February, 1943. 8.5" x 11.5", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $300.00 or Best Offer View scans Interior is complete. Extensive accumulation of defects. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

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Cover art by Dan Zolnerowich. "Bayonets For the Banzai Breed" starring Rip Carson, art by Dan Zolnerowich. Untitled story, art by Nick Cardy (as Nick Viscardi); Senorita Rio has a mission to destroy a secret Nazi airfield in Panama. Untitled Kayo Kirby story, pencils by Art Peddy. Untitled Dusty Rhodes story, pencils by Robert Webb. "Torpedo Squadron 8," art by Richard Case. Untitled story, art by John Cassone; Chip Collins goes to Germany to help the German resistance against the Nazis. Untitled Hooks Devlin story, art by Rafael Astarita. Untitled Shark Brodie story, art by Art Peddy. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Flash stars in "The College of Criminal Knowledge," written by Gardner Fox, art by Lou Ferstadt. Also includes: Ghost Patrol in "Twister Turvy" by Ted Udall and Frank Harry; Johnny Thunder in "Homecoming" by John B. Wentworth and Stan Aschmeier; The Whip in "The Man Who Wouldn't Work" by Wentworth and Homer Fleming; "The Story of Daniel" by Montgomery Mulford and Don Cameron; "Jack and the Beanstalk" by Ed Wheelan; and Hawkman in "Go Get It" by Fox and Sheldon Moldoff. Cover art by Ferstadt. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $15.00 View scans Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.

Volume 43 Issue #3 - Feb. 1943. Fiction, model-making articles, schematics, cartoons and factual essays make up every issue of Flying Aces. Cover by Alex Schomburg. "Chateau Theory" by Joe Archibald, "The Gremlins Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out" by C.A. Ward, "Is a Silent Plane Hitler's Secret Weapon?" by David Cooke, "If Japan Attacks Siberia" by Lucian Zacharoff and much more. Bedsheet format 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 82 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Coverless $84.95 or Best Offer View scan INCOMPLETE. Missing seven wraps in total. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

"The Case of the Woman Who Couldn't Die!"; There is a shortage of diamonds for American war production work; And American generosity is called upon; However, The Clown wants those diamonds for his own use. Untitled story, art by Harvey Kurtzman; Lash Lightning and Lightning Girl vs. Basilo Tosca (The Maestro). "Dead Man's Coulee" text story by Cliff Howe. Untitled story starring Unknown Soldier, Captain Arthur K. Wermuth, Lieutenant J. T. Bulkeley, General MacArthur, General Wainwright, Tex Chalker, Johnny Houlihan and Yamashita. Untitled story; Captain Courageous is finding Japanese saboteurs on the mainland, while Niki Fuju, a young boy now living in a Japanese WW2 interment settlement misses his dog. Untitled Mr. Risk story, art by Harvey Kurtzman. For Victory public service announcement to buy war bonds and stamps in order to win the war, art by Lou Ferstadt. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.