Comic books December 1944

Cover art by George Storm. Untitled story, script by Alvin Schwartz, art by George Storm; Mr. Gruff's portrait has been painted by "the great artist" Henri Boltinoff, but while Buzzy and his pals are delivering it to City Hall to be unveiled, it gets defaced and they have to try to repair it. Untitled Prof. Pipp story, script and art by Jack Farr; humorous predictions of things that might happen when the war is over and the soldiers come home. Untitled Buzzy story, script by Alvin Schwartz, art by George Storm; Buzzy has to cancel a date with Susie to baby-sit his niece Julia. Shorty humor page by Henry Boltinoff. Untitled Alix in Folly-Land story, art by Tom McNamara. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart GD- 1.8 $22.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $18.75 View scan 3" Cumulative spine split. Centerfold detached at one staple.

Cover features teen movie star Joan Carroll. Stories and art by Sam Glankoff, Jack Sparling, Ruth Berman, Sylvia Ann Davies, Margueritte Bro, Ruth Tooze, Mary Lull, Martha Ross, Adam Allen, Louise Carlisle, Mary Brinker Post, Isabelle Corey, Elizabeth Nichols, Elena Chance, Jane Richards, Nancy Pepper, Alice Barr Grayson, and Margaret Sutton. A kids' anthology from the publishers of Parents Magazine, featuring stories, comics and advice aimed at 1940s teen girls. A teen correspondent for Calling All Girls interviews teen movie star Shirley Temple. A comics biography of female war correspondent Eleanor Packard. A comics biography of Resistance fighter Helen Gregory's work in Poland and America. Judy Wing; Mystery in Ward 13; Woman at the Wars; Mayor Martin's Daughter; Lunch with Shirley Temple; Movies of the Month; Double Exposure Mystery; It's a Beauty-ful Christmas; Lets Talk Things Over; Christmas Star; Pick Your Gifts from the Teen Trinket Tree; Sweet Stuff; It's Fun to Sew; Patriot, at Home and Abroad; A Silver World Tonight; Make Gifts with Glitter; Make a Wish Upon a Star for Christmas; The Victory Club; Girls in the News; Tricks for Teens. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Rojo. Stories and art by Art Moore, R. P. Floot, Dave Abel, Dick Wood, R. W. Hall, Jack Warren and Basil Wolverton. Kids' comics featuring early work by Basil Wolverton. Helpful Hank collects waste paper for the war effort; Monsooer Muskrateer visits a carnival; Scoop Scuttle goes to Inferior Court, in a story by legendary cartoonist Basil Wolverton. Circus Life is a continuing text feature about the workers in King Brothers Circus. Chile the Bullthrower; Little Bo Pig; Mopey Moose; Scoop Scuttle; Circus Life; Dumb Like a Fox; Buster, The Scrap-Happy Little Plane; Little Bo Pig; Helpful Hank; Monsooer Muskrateer. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Nina Albright, Rudy Palais, John Giunta, Manny Stallman, Charles Quinlan and Tom Van Buren. Issues #18-20 do not exist, or are part of other series. A patriotic WWII aviator hero whose motto is "Keep 'Em Flyin'!" Miss Victory faces an aerial dogfight against female Japanese pilot Susu Menka. Masked avenger Red Cross confronts the ghosts of a dead bomber crew. Plus non-fiction stories about the Civil Air Patrol and how to identify warplanes from the ground, hot topics on the home front during WWII. Cover by legendary artist L. B. Cole. Captain Aero: Japanese Sandman; Miss Victory: The Scheming Susu Menka from Tokyo; Next Door to Death; Song of the Moon; The Mighty Mite; Know Your Warplanes; Flying Minute Men; Captain Aeros Sky Scouts: The Red Badge of Courage; The Red Cross; Fighting Allies. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Includes: Syd Shores cover art; The Shadows of Death, Pencils by Vince Alascia, Inks by Al Bellman; Mystery of the Wingless Bat starring Human Torch; The Death That Came Out of Nowhere, art by Alascia; The Black Fortune text story; and The Sea Dragon, pencils by Alascia. 52 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

Untitled story, script and art by Frank Stevens; Captain Flight has an emergency landing on a hidden runway inside a mountain, hiding a secret plane factory. Untitled Secret Agent 2B-3 story, art by John Jordan; A man is offering Agent 2B-3 one million dollars for a new fighting aircraft. The Protection Slip Racket; Red Rocket finds a glove in the hand of a storekeeper murdered by racketeers. The Case of the Limping Nazi, script and art by Bill Boynansky; Bruce Corbett's brother is killed by a beast controlled by a Nazi gang. Untitled Rock Raymond story, art by Henry Kiefer. Untitled Deep-Sea Dawson story, script and art by Gordon Fisher. 52 pages. Cover price $0.10.

nn (No.1) UK Reprint - 68 pages

Volume 16, Issue 7 - December 1944. Children's Playmate Magazine features creative stories, poems, rebuses, recipes, activities, crafts, science experiments, and health articles for children. This issue is Christmas themed. 52 pages. Cover price $0.15.

John Giunta cover. First comic book appearance of the Cisco Kid. Also includes Funnyman, Super Baby, and Faust Cover price $0.10.

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Hunchback of Notre Dame, 3rd Printing, Classics Comics. (HRN 22). Cover price $0.15.

Stories and art by Art Seymour, Ed Cronin, Tony DiPreta, and Maurice del Bourgo. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Nightmare and Sleepy were listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Boy King and Giant face Paris, a chess-playing android altered by a criminal into using its high-tech powers for crime and murder. Nightmare and Sleepy battle a baron obsessed with recreating the lifestyle and crimes of his medieval ancestors. Twilght and Snoopy (his trained parrot) pursue counterfeiters who are burning their money for some sinister reason. The Boy King and the Giant: That Paris Should Know the Boy King!!; Nightmare and Sleepy; Stupid Manny; Their Strangest Case; Twilight: Money to Burn!; Skinny McGinty; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $15.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Approximately 10.75-in. x 14-in.; black and white; 90 pages on white paper. Cover price $0.10.

Winter 1944-45. Super Rabbit. Football cover. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Everett E. Hibbard. The Subsea Pirates starring Wonder Woman, script by William Moulton Marston [as Charles Moulton], art by Harry G. Peter; Steve Trevor investigates a report that a school of mermaids have sunk a ship, and he ends up being captured by them. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]. Join the Junior Justice Society of America ad. A Tale of a City starring Green Lantern, script by Henry Kuttner, art by Paul Reinman; During a pre-Christmas radio program, racial and religious persecution raises its ugly head, prompting Alan Scott to use a life-and-death situation involving Doiby as an example of what America really stands for. Filipinos Are People--East-West Story, art by Dennis Neville. A Ride in the Sky starring Hop Harrigan, art by Jon L. Blummer. The Tale of the Winged Horse starring The Flash, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Jon Chester Kozlak. 84 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Untitled Captain Triumph story, art by Ed Dobrotka; Kim is appointed a representative of the Good Neighbor Bureau and is sent to South America as a goodwill ambassador where Captain Triumph immediately gets involved in political intrigue and an attempted coop. Slap Happy Pappy humor page by Jack Cole. Untitled Pen Miller story, script and art by Klaus Nordling. Riddle of the Lucky License starring Hack O'Hara, art by Jack Alderman. Bravo! starring Inkie, art by Janice Valleau. Rube Goldberg strip. Untitled Beezy story, script and art by Bernard Dibble. Untitled Floogy the Fiji story. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

The Oblong Box, script by Edgar Allan Poe (Original Story); An artist brings along an oblong chest aboard the ship "Independence." Master Marvin, script by George Kapitan, art by Al Fagaly. Untitled Graves Ghost Hunter story, script by B. Chrysler, pencils by Alex Blum; A man is killed by a ghost outside Mr. Graves house. Untitled Secret Agent RS-II story. Hopalong Bunny, script and art by Ellis Chambers. Untitled Sledge Storm story. Untitled Terry Britt Gang Buster story. Untitled Captain Blaze Steel story. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Anti-Hitler splash page which leads off the anti-Japan war story that follows.

Stories and art by Dick Wood, Art Moore and Rojo. Funny-animal antics featuring a morose feline and his clever rabbit pal. Waldo Rabbit gets Cryin' Lion a job at a carnival, but CL's not sure he can be ferocious while he's cryin'; Grease Monkey is a monkey mechanic who works on Allied bombers; Prairie Dog risks his life in a rodeo to impress a girl. Cryin' Lion; Stony and Bronto; Grease Monkey; The Story Teller; Groucho Gremlin; Prairie Dog; Cock Robinhood. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by George Roussos. Stories by Bill Finger, Jack Farr and unknown. Art by Ed Kressy, Dick Sprang, Jack Farr, Howard Sherman, George Roussos and Louis Cazeneuve. A group of con men take over operations at a county fair and begin bilking people, then they spot George Barrow, an ex-crook and escaped convict, whom they attempt to blackmail in the Batman and Robin tale "No One Must Know!" by Bill Finger, Ed Kressy (layouts) and Dick Sprang. Plus: Three-Ring Binks in an untitled story by Jack Farr; Slam Bradley in "The Clue of the Cat's Pajamas!" with art by Howard Sherman; Air Wave in "The Ride of the Valkyries" with art by George Roussos; and The Boy Commandos in "The Secret of Hill 118!" with art by Louis Cazeneuve (not by Simon and Kirby, despite the listed credits). Also: 2-page text story "Prison Break" by Jack Miller (as Jesse Merlan). 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Sam Cherry. Pulp magazine focusing on Crime and Detective stories. "Four-Way Funeral" by Ray Bradbury, plus other stories by Francis K. Allen, Frederick C. Davis, Day Keene, Donald G. Cormack, Harriet Crittenden, Don James, Robert Turner, and Ted Stratton. 7-in. x 9 1/2-in, 98 pages, black and white (text with illustrations). Cover price $0.15.

Featuring the adventures of Rex Baxter, Lank the Yank, Nitro, Scotty MacDonald, Super Sub, Drummy Young, and Johnny Canuck. 20 pgs. B&W.

"The Lost Giant" a Doc Savage novel by "Kenneth Robeson.

December 1944. "The Lost Giant" by "Kenneth Robeson"; "Surinam Intrigue" by Stuart Friedman; "Cry of the Wolf Pack" by Charles D. Richardson Jr.; "Ugly Mug" by Q. Patrick; "Out of the Trough" by R.A. Emberg; and "Some Men are Brave" by Pfc. Tommy J. Dowling Jr. Digest size, 5-5/8" x 7-3/4"; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Terror of the Torch starring the Black Terror; vs. The Torch. The Punta Rebellion starring American Eagle, art by Maurice Gutwirth; vs. the Japanese. The Plasma Shipment Adventure starring Crash Carter, art by Bob Oksner; vs. Nazis. Ploopie Plays Cupid starring the Crime Crushers, art by Al Camy; intro of Virginia Giltrock; vs. Ricardo and his gang. Island Trap starring Sgt. Bill King, art by Maurice Gutwirth. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

True Crime Cases. Photo cover. 8.5" x 11.5", 68 pages, B&W Cover price $0.15.

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Add to cart Very Good $150.00 View scans Staple rust. Rust migration. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Edge damage. Foxing. Residue. Scuffing. Soiling.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $44.00 View scans

Add to cart Fair $38.00 View scans Staple rust. Rust migration. Spine split. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Scuffing. Soiling. Water damage. Amateur restoration and color touch.

Vol. 2, No. 1. Winter 1945. Billy DeVorss cover. Vintage men's interest magazine full of adult humor comics and tasteful pin-up pictorials. 8.5" x 11.5", 64 pages, B&W. -MATURE CONTENT- Cover price $0.25.

Christmas cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; and "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff. "The Bush Fork" text story by Jack M. Greene. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and Bill Brady. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Hoppy learns that King Neptune has been usurped from his underwater throne by Marvel Bunny's old foe, Perch the Pirate. Snake-oil salesmen try to trick the critters of Funny Animal Gulch into buying fake foot remedies, but Billy sets out to track them down. Chuck the Duck tries to convince Sherlock Monk that the "perfect gentleman" who hired them is actually the crook who stole the "invisible" diamond. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny; Billy the Kid; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: The Case of the Invisible Diamond; Uncle Don: Picker Uppers; Willie the Worm and Sammy; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Sherlock the Monk: The Wonderful Wolf; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by M.E. Peacock and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Robert Webb, Alex Blum, Ann Brewster, H.C. Kiefer, Lily Renee and Matt Baker. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. White invaders take control of a village wishing well for their own devices; A dying man's words frame Hooks Devlin for murder; Good-girl art aplenty as Senorita Rio tracks an heiress abducted by the Nazis. Inking likely done by famed good-girl artist Matt Baker, who started in comics at this time. Pre-Code cover by Joe Doolin is quite risque for its era. Rip Carson; Tiger Girl; Hooks Devlin; Kayo Kirby; 4-F; Shark Brodie; Senorita Rio. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Three untitled Fighting Yank stories, plus Hale of the Herald back-up story. Alex Schomburg cover. Cover price $0.10.

Flash stars in "Mastery of the Winds," written by Gardner Fox, art by Martin Naydel. Also includes: Ghost Patrol in "Mystery of the Missing Murderer" with art by Frank Harry; Johnny Thunder in "Johnny Thunder, Ace Reporter" by John B. Wentworth and Stan Aschmeier; "The Story of Ferdinand Magellan by M.C. Gaines and Don Cameron; and Hawkman in "Publicity Proves a Problem" by Fox and Sheldon Moldoff. Cover art by Naydel. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.