Comic books August 1948

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $650.00 View scans This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($19.50) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by thegeneral Restored: C1 Paper: Slightly britle Restoration includes: small amount of glue on spine of cover. Label #2024122003

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"Meet the Split Benny Benny Dickson, Public Enemy # 1," "$100.00 Reward for Adolph Berg," "Joyce McAllister," "Boston's Black Spade," and "Vengeance of the Mounted." Classic Jack Cole cover and art. Drug story with hypo, opium den, and withdrawing adict. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Syd Shores, inks by Bill Everett. "The Killer Badman and the Colt-Hung Kid"; Two-Gun Kid rides Cyclone into what he thinks is a peaceful town but is suddenly corrected when he hears the sounds of gunshots; He witnesses a bank robbery seeing the shooter get away. "Guns, Gold, and Glory!", art by Syd Shores; Two-Gun Kid is checking into a hotel in Cactus County, Arizona where the clerk hands him a letter; It's from Two-Gun's friend Billy Bailey who writes that he is about to die and leaves Two-Gun his ranch in payment for once saving his life. "Gun Guard for Boot-Hill!"; The Sheriff is called out into the street because there is trouble with the incoming stagecoach; Rushing outside he finds that the shotgun rider has been killed, the third this week. "Good Luck to Me" text story. "Death in the Ring!", pencils by Syd Shores, inks by John Forte; The Two-Gun Kid stops at a blacksmith to get his horse shoed, and the blacksmith suggests that the Kid take a coach up to Cimarron City to see the big fight between Curly Collins and the champ Gus Matzo; The Kid decides to go and check it out for himself. The Two Gun Kid coloring page by Syd Shores. "Oil Is Where You Find It" starring Annie Oakley. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Untitled story: The beautiful Venus the Goddess of Love comes to Earth, much to the surprise of Beauty Magazine publisher Whitney Hammond. Also include in the issue: another untitled Venus story; a two-page text piece called "Male Mixup"; "Hedy's Picture Problem!"; and "Hey, Look!" Script and art by Harvey Kurtzman. Cover price $0.10.

Red Circle Cover Variant #1, cover art by Leonard Starr. Features 1st appearance of Venus and Hedy Devine. "Hey Look" by Harvey Kurtzman. NOTE: Leftover covers to Red Circle Comics #4 (April 1945 Rural Home Publications) were restapled over other early 1950s coverless distributor returned copies, with the result that today a great variety of "Red Circle" cover variants exist, with more being discovered. The value of such variants is governed by the comic within, with the result that values vary widely. This Venus #1 variant represents one of the most desirable of the variants yet discovered. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Howard Sherman. The Fangs of the Rattler, art by Howard Sherman. Captain Tootsie Traps the Circus Culprit Tootsie Pops ad, art by C.C. Beck. The Four Notches of Hate starring Vigilante, pencils by Mort Meskin, inks by George Roussos. Rodeo for Rogues starring Rodeo Rick, script by Gardner Fox, art by Howard Post. Brands and Branding Irons history of cattle brands. The Ghost of Zuni Canyon starring Cowboy Marshal, art by Ed Smalle Jr. Conqueror of Billy the Kid fact page with Pat Garrett. Ad for the Daisy Handbook and Daisy Air Rifles with Captain Marvel. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Bob Fujitani. Stories and art by Charles W. Winter and Jules Steiner. Outlaws, gunfighters, and tales of the Old West - some true, and others merely legends. Lakota chief Crazy Horse's brave fight to save the Oglala makes him a legend to friend and foe alike. John Wesley Hardin may have been one of the greatest gunfighters of the Old West, if we can believe John Wesley Hardin. Guerrilla soldiers of the Old South and the Old West, Quantrill's Raiders gave many outlaws their start, including Frank and Jesse James. Battle on the 4th of July; Chief Crazy Horse; Snake of the Southwest: The True Story of John Wesley Hardin; Bunny; Kit Carson: Eagle of the West; Little-Shut-His-Eyes; Badman's Poison: The True Story of Wild Bill Hickok; Wanted Out West; The Outcast: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill; Bedtime Story. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Sal Brodsky. Art by Sam Glanzman and others. Gun-blazing Western adventure from Fox Feature Syndicate. This issue features dangerous women of the Old West: Notorious dancer Velvet Rose and her outlaw lover Chet Hatch bring trouble to the ominously named town of Bloody Greens; Highwayman Jim Sikes is a thief and a killer, but his beautiful daughter Two-Gun Sal is ten times worse; Farmer's daughters Rita and Vivian Striker trade in their plows and gingham for pistols and stage holdups. The Saga of Velvet Rose and Her Dance of Death; Two-Gun Sal - Poison in Pigtails; Shootin' Duel; The Striker Sisters. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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#15 on cover. Numbering continues from Sunny, America's Sweetheart (1947 Fox) #14. In order of appearance: "John Ringo and Curly Bill, The Unholy Two" art by Jack Kamen; "Revenge!"; "Kiss of Death Kate" reprinted in Almanac of Crime (1948,1950 Fox Giant) #0; and "Gamblin' Gertie". "Fair to the Death" text story reprinted in Will Rogers Western (1950) #2. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Kary Keene back-up story by Bill Woggon. One-page Tootsie Roll ad, "Captain Tootsie Tames a Tornado" by C.C. Beck. Al Fagaly cover. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Bob Lubbers. Edited by J.F. Byrne and William R. Shelton. Stories and art by Bob Lubbers, Charles Sultan, Al Walker, George Evans, John Celardo and Maurice Whitman. Aviation-themed adventure, combat and history tales from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Reporter Jane Martin battles river pirates; Greasemonkey Griffin accidentally uncovers a hidden Nazi base in his final adventure; The Phantom Falcon tries to decide which of a late inventor's children is trying to do away with the other two. Action-girl cover by Bob Lubbers. Captain Wings; Jane Martin; Greasemonkey Griffin; Air Heroes of World War II; Phantom Falcon; Suicide Smith; Ghost Squadron. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Edited by Roy Ald. Cover by Chris Schaare. Stories by Chris Schaare, Carl Pfeufer, Marc Swayze, Richard Kraus, Bill Woolfolk, and Carl Pfeufer. Heroic adventure tales featuring such characters as Ozzie, Mr. Scarlet, Richard Richard Private Dick, Phantom Eagle, Willie the Worm, Penny Graves, and Tom Mix. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.