Comic books June 1944

Edited by Margery McKay (sometimes credited as G. Whiz). Stories and art by Rod Reed, C.C. Beck, Lee Falk, Phil Davis, Feg Murray, Clayton Knight, H. H. Knerr, Fran Striker, Charles Flanders, Floyd Torbert, Robert Storm, Mel Graff, Carl Anderson, Edwina Dumm, Chic Young, Bob Dunn, Frank Miller, Joe Musial, Billy DeBeck, Jimmy Thompson, Eugene L. Pollack, Tom Sims, and Bela Zaboly. Lee Falk's adventurer Mandrake the Magician gets top billing in this anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. Back-cover Tootsie Roll ad, "Captain Tootsie and the Haunted House," features art by Captain Marvel creator C.C. Beck (including an art credit, rare for any ad). Blondie, Mandrake the Magician, High Spots, Tippie and Cap Stubbs, The Lone Ranger, Heroes on Wings, Jan and Aloysius, Seein' Stars, Secret Agent X-9, Little Acorns, Thimble Theater starring Popeye, Henry, Private Breger Abroad, Barney Baxter in the Air, Dingle Hoofer und His Dog, and Dollar-A-Dither. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Berlin's Master Spy starring Human Torch, art by Jimmy Thompson. Hoggo's Great Secret starring Sub-Mariner, art by Allen Simon. Terry Vance untitled story, art by Bob Oskner. The Mysterious Peddler of Doom starring Miss America, script by Otto Binder, art by Charles Nicholas. Patriot untitled story, art by Nick Karlton. Angel untitled story, art by Gustav Schrotter. 60 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, Jack Sparling, and Al Carreno. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Captain Marvel Jr., Bulletman and Bulletgirl. Bulletman battles murderous mermaids. Nyoka the Jungle Girl faces the nefarious Hamid El Ratt in Part 2 of The Death Rug serial. Superspy Radar chases counterfeiters on orders from J. Edgar Hoover and FDR. Plus a PSA for wartime paper rationing featuring Bulletman. Captain Marvel Jr.: The Distorted Heroes; Bulletman: The Murderous Mermaids; Hoodoo Hannigan, Ch. XXIII: Blood on the Sea; Nyoka, the Jungle Girl: Death in the Desert; Radar: The Counterfeit Coup. 40 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $6.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 40%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 31, Issue 5 - March, 1944. Mechanical science and technology magazine. This issue's articles include; "Cycles Predict the Future" by Donald G. Cooley, "A Guy Called Ed" by J.A. Greenberg, "Secret Weapons" by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, "Sweating it Out" by Arch Whitehouse, "Sons of Martha" by W.D. Anderson, "The Squirt" by Willy Ley, and others . 6.75-in. x 9.5-in. 162 pages, BW/spot color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $6.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Slight.

Volume 31, Issue 8 - June, 1944. Mechanical science and technology magazine. This issue's articles include; "Life Begins at 140" by John Frank, "Terror Troopers" by E.H. Kelly, "Why Not Poison Gas?" by Willy Ley, "Britain's Back Room Boys" by Carl Wall, "Dr. Octane" by W.H. Kimball, "Long Tom" by Willy Ley, and others . 6.75-in. x 9.5-in. 162 pages, BW/spot color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $1,295.00 or Best Offer View scans CGC Qualified Paper: Off white Centerfold Missing. Label #4355722001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

52 pages. Book-length untitled story by Tarpe Mills. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart Fair $3.00 View scans Spine split 80%.

8.5" x 11", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Vintage celebrity gossip tabloid with a focus on Hollywood during the golden-age of cinema. 8.5" x 11.5", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Contains funny animal stories. In order of appearance: "Marmaduke Monk"; "Let's All Play Golf" activity page; "The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat"; "Carrottop Cabot, The Rhyming Rabbit"; "More Monkeyshines" activity page; "Nutty Squirrel" art by Hal Lockwood; "The Song of Marmaduke Monk"; "Slick Chick"; "Tuffy Bear"; "Making Monkeyshines with a Pencil, Hey Kids! Lets Draw!" activity page; "Hillbilly Goat"; "The Puzzle Corner" activity page; "Aesop's Fables, The Fable of the Fox and the Crow"; and "Family Album" activity page. "Marmaduke Monk Goes Visiting" rebus story. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Sam Singer cover. Contains funny animal stories. In order of appearance: "Marmaduke Monk"; "Nutty Squirrel"; "Pete the Peke"; "Tuffy Bear"; "Funny Bunny and Woo-Woo Wolf"; and "Aesop's Fable, The Lion and the Mouse". "The Big Joke Contest" text story by Joe Blair. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Cliff Young. "When Archers Meet," script by Joe Samachson, pencils by Cliff Young, inks by Steve Brodie; Green Arrow and Speedy vs. Professor Million. "Trouble at Forty Below!", script by Don Cameron, pencils by Mort Meskin, inks by Joe Kubert; Johnny Quick vs. Zero Hawkes. "Pharoah's Lamp," script by Joe Samachson, art by Jon Chester Kozlak; A Mr. Tupper gains control over a valuable lamp that supposedly carries the curse of a Pharaoh, leading one Hairless Harry to attempt to get it and Dr. Fate out to prove the curse is phony. "Penguin Island!" starring Aquaman, script by Joe Samachson, art by Louis Cazeneuve; Uncle Archibald, tired of the world and its greed, retires to a south sea island to be alone, but his nieces and nephews won't leave him be. "Goo Goo the Great!" starring Dover and Clover, script by Whitney Ellsworth, art by Henry Boltinoff. "Nerves Take A Holiday" starring the Spectre, art by Bernard Baily; A neurologist invents a ray gun which paralyzes people's muscles, just the thing for a bank robber. 60 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Sheldon Mayer (credited as Bud Fisher). Stories and art by Al Smith (credited as Bud Fisher), Sol Hess, W. A. Carlson, Rod Reed and C.C. Beck. DC reprints the comic strip that defined the comic strip, featuring the original tall-and-short comedy duo. Also featuring the "topper" strip Cicero's Cat, and other strips from bygone days. Jeff goes on a hunger strike. Mutt and Jeff go fishing, but they're not as smart as the fish. This issue includes patriotic WWII messages at the bottom of every page - a real document of its time. Plus a Tootsie Roll ad, "Captain Tootsie and the Bumbershoot Jump," with art by Shazam creator C.C. Beck, and a PSA for the Fifth War Loan Drive starring famed WWI aviator Eddie Rickenbacker. Mutt & Jeff; Cicero's Cat; Simp O'Dill; Hop Harrigan. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 1 #11 - Summer 1944. Single panel cartoons and pinups. 10 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in., 30 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Vintage humor digest magazine that pokes fun at the relationships of men and women of the time. Digest, 5" x 7", 96 pages, B&W. -Recommended for ages 16+ Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CBCS 1.5 $1,804.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Scuffing on front and back of case Cover detached and completely split. Label #20-478E896-005 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Add to cart PR 0.5 $807.00 or Best Offer View scans Interior is complete. Back cover missing, front cover detached. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover art by Harry Sahle. Shield G-Man Club ad. Untitled story, script by Ed Goggin, pencils by Harry Sahle, inks by Janice Valleau; Archie is caught trying to play a prank on Reggie and is sent to the principal's office; Mr. Weatherbee uses his latest readings in child psychology and gives Archie responsibility for a school picnic aboard a boat. "Special Communique #15: Father Scarface, pencils by Clem Weisbecker; Father Scarface, a Buddhist monk, defends his Monastery from the Japanese with the help of Captain Commando. "Crime Is Always Careless" text story starring Black Hood by Roger Conway. "The House That Crime Built, pencils by Clem Weisbecker, inks by Pen Shumaker; Narrated by "the house that crime built," this is the story of Black Hood solving a crime at a house built in 1821 with a history of crimes being committed in it. "The Rajah's Silver Idol, " pencils by Clem Weisbecker, inks by Pen Shumaker; The Rajah's silver idol goes missing and it's up to the Shield to find out where it went. "America - First, Last, and Always" text story starring Black Hood by Scott Feldman. Untitled story, art by Carl Hubbell; Marco Loco meets pearl-diving headhunters. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Issue 62 - June 9, 1944. Early magic enthusiast fanzine with reader submitted homemade tricks for other readers to try at home complete with step-by-step instructions and illustrations where needed. 8.5" x 11", 4 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Volume 15, Issue 12 - June 1944. Vintage photo magazine featuring Reader submitted photographs, and pictorials focusing on Sports, Celebrities, Controversies, and Fashions of the time. Betty Grable pictorial, full page illustration by pulp artist H. Winfield Scott. 10-in. x 13 1/2-in., 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $53.00 View scans Paper: Cream Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $26.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 70%. Back cover detached 50%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Illustrations by Graham Ingels. "Morgue Ship" a short story by Ray Bradbury. Plus Wellman, Simak and Brackett!

Summer 1944. Stories by Leigh Brackett, Ray Bradbury, Clifford D. Simak, Albert DePina, Manly Wade Wellman, and Vaseleos Garson. Illustrations by Graham Ingels. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $460.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4348026004

Cover art by Jack Cole. Plastic Man story, script and art by Jack Cole. Destiny story. Flatfoot Burns story, art by Milt Stein. Blackmail and Blood starring Manhunter, art by Al Bryant. Stand By For Action starring Human Bomb, script and art by Paul Gustavson. Super Dog House starring Burp the Twerp, script and art by Jack Cole. Spirit story, script and art by Will Eisner. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Features include the Gumps, Smilin' Jack, Terry and the Pirates, Doctor Bobbs, Felix the Cat, Polly and Her Pals, Gasoline Alley, Elza Poppin, Gang Busters, Etta Kett, Toots and Casper, Lew Loyal, and Smokey Stover. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 27, Issue 1 - June, 1944. 6.75" x 9.75", 84 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

June 1944. Mechanical science and technology magazine. Includes: "Table Top War Movies" article on building film miniatures with George Pal photo. 6.75" x 9.5". 248 pages. B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 144, Issue 6 - June 1944. Articles on automobile, home, and workshop upkeep projects. 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 224 pages, PC/PB&W Cover price $0.25.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Mystery, horror and suspense from L.B. Cole's Narrative comics. British noblemen track a werewolf through the streets of London. A rampaging elephant avenges the murder of a trapeze artist during a circus performance. Detective Terry Moore and his sidekick Nosey investigate when a series of models are murdered after posing for the same painter. Blood of the Wolf; The Great Circus Murder, or, The Elephants Revenge; Dusty Dugan; Shark Bait; Divide by Two; Tag - Youre It; Jerry Jr.; Detective Terry Moore: Sudden Death; The Theatre of Doom; Retribution; The Fable of Daedalus and Icarus. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Untitled stories starring Yank & Doodle & Black Owl, Frankenstein (script and art by Dick Briefer), Ted O'Neil, Worldbeater and Unghh, and Airmale (script and art by Fred Morgan). The Most Haunted House In the World starring Flying Fist and Bingo, art by Fred Morgan. Bag the Axis starring Flying Fist and Bingo, script and art by Fred Morgan. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.