Auction in progress, bid now! Weekly Auction ends Monday April 1!

Comic books October 1948, graded by CGC

  • Item #58581007
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Front Cover
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Back Cover
    $18,500
    or Best Offer
    • Paper: White
    • Label #1482284001
    • This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($555.00) will be charged at checkout. It has been graded by mycomicshop's experienced graders.

    Make an offer

    You can buy this item by clicking "Add to cart" above and then completing checkout. Or, you may make an offer for this item. Once you make an offer, your offer is valid for 48 hours. The seller may accept your offer, decline your offer, or present you with a counter-offer. If the seller accepts your offer, you are required to purchase the item at the agreed upon price.

    More information about making an offer

    Please create an account or log in to make an offer.



    Listed as scarce in Overstreet. Cover art by Alex Toth. The Bridge of Peril starring Johnny Thunder, script by Robert Kanigher, art by Alex Toth. The Saboteurs of Science starring Dr. Mid-Nite, pencils by Arthur F. Peddy, inks by Bernard Sachs. The Man in the Mill starring The Black Pirate, pencils by Arthur F. Peddy, inks by Bernard Sachs. The Convention Crooks starring Green Lantern, script by John Broome, pencils by Irwin Hasen, inks by Bob Oksner; Green Lantern and Doiby face an apparent group of fun-loving conventioneers whose idea of a good time is to rob other convention goers. The Strangest War in History text story by John Broome [as John Osgood]. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

    If you add this item to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.

    17 mycomicshop users have this issue on their want list.
    1 mycomicshop users have added this issue to their want list within the past six months.

  • Item #57768100
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Front Cover
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Back Cover
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4153934005
    • This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($14.22) will be charged at checkout.
      Other items consigned by Poka

    Cover by Jack Hearne. Stories and art by James Wilcox, Al McWilliams, Milt Hammer, Harry Lazarus and Henry Kiefer. Sometimes listed as Blue Bolt #95. Early issues of Blue Bolt featured a super-hero of the same name who had the power to control electricity. Dick Cole and his fellow cadets set out to rescue Major Farr from kidnappers during an outing on the lake. Ace pilot Blue Bolt sets a trap for the mysterious Red Hawk of France. A comics biography of baseball great Ted Williams. Edison Bell tells young readers how to make stilts. Cover by Jack Hearne features perhaps the most dynamic fish-slap in fight history. Dick Cole; Blue Bolts and Nuts; Easy Cartooning: Lesson - 7: Comic Noses; Blue Bolt; Who's a Dummy?; Sergeant Spook; Ted Williams; Rick Richards; Edison Bell; Sled-Mobile. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

    If you add this item to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.

    12 mycomicshop users have this issue on their want list.
    1 mycomicshop users have added this issue to their want list within the past six months.

  • Item #58988696
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Front Cover
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Back Cover
    Published Oct 1948 by St. John.
    $1,599.00
    or Best Offer
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #4102699002
    • This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($47.97) will be charged at checkout.

    Make an offer

    You can buy this item by clicking "Add to cart" above and then completing checkout. Or, you may make an offer for this item. Once you make an offer, your offer is valid for 48 hours. The seller may accept your offer, decline your offer, or present you with a counter-offer. If the seller accepts your offer, you are required to purchase the item at the agreed upon price.

    More information about making an offer

    Please create an account or log in to make an offer.



    Cover by Matt Baker and Ray Osrin. Stories and art by George Tuska and Paul Gattuso. Mystery and adventure comics from St. John featuring heroic reporters. Jinx Jordan investigates the murder of wealthy Diana Von Kyll, and the killers abduct his girlfriend Ginny. Rod Holmes uses his X-ray vision and powerful eyebeams to search for a missing heir. Ventrilo and his allies - his sister Cora and his scientist brother, "Dr. Doom" - battle a snake cult in a small town. Lawson Hunt must save a key witness before a trial, in a story with art by future Marvel legend George Tuska. Another stunning cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Jinx Jordan: Gang Victim Avenged by Crime Reporters; Blue Monk: Dynamite Switch Foils Payroll Loot Payoff; Lawson Hunt, Newsman Balks Scheme to Kill Key Witness; Pseudo-Murder; Ventrilo: Murder Unmasks Snake Cult Chiefs Swindle; Rod Holmes: Poison Death Linked to Fake Heir Fraud; Mock Murder. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

    If you add this item to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.

    40 mycomicshop users have this issue on their want list.
    2 mycomicshop users have added this issue to their want list within the past six months.

  • Item #60613831
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Front Cover
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Back Cover
    $40,000
    or Best Offer

    Make an offer

    You can buy this item by clicking "Add to cart" above and then completing checkout. Or, you may make an offer for this item. Once you make an offer, your offer is valid for 48 hours. The seller may accept your offer, decline your offer, or present you with a counter-offer. If the seller accepts your offer, you are required to purchase the item at the agreed upon price.

    More information about making an offer

    Please create an account or log in to make an offer.



    1st appearance of the Riddler. Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by Bill Finger, Otto Binder and unknown. Art by Dick Sprang, Charles Paris, Jimmy Thompson, Howard Sherman, Curt Swan and Steve Brodie. Having grown up an expert and a cheat when it came to solving puzzles, Edward Nigma decides to use this capacity to mystify the police and Batman...as the Riddler! Don't miss Batman and Robin in "The Riddler" by Bill Finger, Dick Sprang and Charles Paris. Plus: Robotman in "Robotman's Double Trouble!" by Otto Binder and Jimmy Thompson; Slam Bradley in "Dog for a Day!" with art by Howard Sherman; and The Boy Commandos in "The Dictator from Alcatraz!" with art by Curt Swan and Steve Brodie. Also: 2-page text story "To the Moon and Back." 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

    If you add this item to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.

    374 mycomicshop users have this issue on their want list.
    7 mycomicshop users have added this issue to their want list within the past six months.

  • Item #59739548
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Front Cover
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Back Cover
    $4,999.95
    or Best Offer
    • Paper: Off white
    • Back cover missing. Centerfold missing.
    • Label #4291366001
    • This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($150.00) will be charged at checkout.
      Other items consigned by humble cow

    Make an offer

    You can buy this item by clicking "Add to cart" above and then completing checkout. Or, you may make an offer for this item. Once you make an offer, your offer is valid for 48 hours. The seller may accept your offer, decline your offer, or present you with a counter-offer. If the seller accepts your offer, you are required to purchase the item at the agreed upon price.

    More information about making an offer

    Please create an account or log in to make an offer.



    1st appearance of the Riddler. Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by Bill Finger, Otto Binder and unknown. Art by Dick Sprang, Charles Paris, Jimmy Thompson, Howard Sherman, Curt Swan and Steve Brodie. Having grown up an expert and a cheat when it came to solving puzzles, Edward Nigma decides to use this capacity to mystify the police and Batman...as the Riddler! Don't miss Batman and Robin in "The Riddler" by Bill Finger, Dick Sprang and Charles Paris. Plus: Robotman in "Robotman's Double Trouble!" by Otto Binder and Jimmy Thompson; Slam Bradley in "Dog for a Day!" with art by Howard Sherman; and The Boy Commandos in "The Dictator from Alcatraz!" with art by Curt Swan and Steve Brodie. Also: 2-page text story "To the Moon and Back." 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

    If you add this item to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.

    374 mycomicshop users have this issue on their want list.
    7 mycomicshop users have added this issue to their want list within the past six months.

  • Item #59949328
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Front Cover
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Back Cover
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #4341429010
    • This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($13.35) will be charged at checkout.

    Cover by Joe Doolin and others. Edited by Joseph V. Daffron and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Jack Kamen, Robert Webb, John Forte, and Edmund Good. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Tiger Girl, white traders and Zalaka tribesmen all become involved in a dangerous quest to find the lost treasure ship of mad Capt. Hawkins; Hooks Devlin investigates the mysterious murder of the Great Zalini, lion tamer; Senorita Rio seeks the source of a strange gas that turns ordinary men into killers. Tiger Girl; Risks, Unlimited starring Rip Carson; Kayo Kirby; Hooks Devlin; Senorita Rio; Captain Fight. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

    If you add this item to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.

    10 mycomicshop users have this issue on their want list.
    2 mycomicshop users have added this issue to their want list within the past six months.

  • Item #59843554
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Front Cover
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Back Cover
    Published Oct 1948 by DC.
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #1132957003

    Flash stars in "The Vanishing Treasure Ship," written by John Broome, pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Bernard Sachs. Also includes: Ghost Patrol in "The Man Who Couldn't Miss" with pencils by Infantino, inks by Robert Oksner; Black Canary in "The Circle of Terror" by Kanigher, pencils by Infantino, inks by Sachs; Atom in "The Bullet Eater" with pencils by Paul Reinman, inks by Robert Oksner; and Hawkman in "The Human Fly Bandits" by Broome and Joe Kubert. Cover art by Joe Kubert. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

    If you add this item to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.

    18 mycomicshop users have this issue on their want list.
    1 mycomicshop users have added this issue to their want list within the past six months.

  • Item #60360511
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Front Cover
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Back Cover
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4351805002

    52 pages. Cover price $0.10.

    If you add this item to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.

    12 mycomicshop users have this issue on their want list.
    0 mycomicshop users have added this issue to their want list within the past six months.

  • Item #59844727
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Front Cover
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Back Cover
    • Paper: Off white
    • Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s)
    • Label #3794989003

    The Lethal Lollipops starring Human Torch, art by Ken Bald. Black Oil of Doom starring Sub-Mariner, pencils by Mike Sekowsky. Roll Out the Barrel text story. Doomed—One Town starring Sun Girl, art by Syd Shores. The Wound No Man Could See starring Captain America, inks by Al Gabriele. The Clown Who Couldn't Laugh starring Blonde Phantom, art by Al Gabriele. 52 pages. Cover price $0.10.

    If you add this item to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.

    14 mycomicshop users have this issue on their want list.
    1 mycomicshop users have added this issue to their want list within the past six months.

  • Item #47729756
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Front Cover
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Back Cover
    $395.00
    or Best Offer
    • Paper: Tan to off white
    • Only graded copy.
    • Label #1488634013
    • This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.85) will be charged at checkout.

    Make an offer

    You can buy this item by clicking "Add to cart" above and then completing checkout. Or, you may make an offer for this item. Once you make an offer, your offer is valid for 48 hours. The seller may accept your offer, decline your offer, or present you with a counter-offer. If the seller accepts your offer, you are required to purchase the item at the agreed upon price.

    More information about making an offer

    Please create an account or log in to make an offer.



    Cover by Al Camy. Stories and art by Al Camy, Bob Butts, Louis Dresser, and Bob Jenney. Like many of DS Publishing's crime comics, Pay-Off transformed slowly from violent pre-Code gangster stories to milder mysteries featuring heroic detectives. Reporter Margo Mason investigates "The Mystic Eye" when a wealthy jeweler is targeted by a fortune-teller because of his well-known superstitions. After a disfiguring accident ruins her career, a fashion model gone mad targets other models for murder. Joe and his partner go on a robbery-murder spree, but one thing sets Joe apart from smarter crooks: he keeps a diary. The Mystic Eye; Case Of the Missing Bullets; Killer Dillers; Carbon Copy Death; Double Identity; The Tell-Tale Nails; The Hat Box Murders; The Pennsylvania Bluebeard. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

    If you add this item to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.

    0 mycomicshop users have this issue on their want list.
    0 mycomicshop users have added this issue to their want list within the past six months.

  • Item #57290799
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Front Cover
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Back Cover
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #4111999014
    • This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($50.97) will be charged at checkout.

    Cover art by Matt Baker. Bullets For Ballots! starring Phantom Lady, art by Matt Baker. Ace of Spades! starring Phantom Lady, art by Matt Baker. Booked for Murder! text story. Willy Vogel, the Gray Phantom—A True Crime Story. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

    If you add this item to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.

    37 mycomicshop users have this issue on their want list.
    3 mycomicshop users have added this issue to their want list within the past six months.

  • Item #60016940
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Front Cover
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Back Cover
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4144408017

    Street and Smith, October 1948, cover price 0.10, 52 pages. Cover by Bob Powell. The Shadow in "The Shadow in Danger!" adapted from the 1945 Shadow radio play by Stedman Coles. Art by Bob Powell. Nick Carter in "Mystery Comes to Market;" Doc Savage in "The Television Peril," art by Bob Powell; Nick Carter in "Nick Carter and the Radar Racket;" The Shadow in "Dream of Death," art by Powell; and the Shadow in a two page text story, "The Impossible Murder!" Cover price $0.10.

    If you add this item to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.

    10 mycomicshop users have this issue on their want list.
    0 mycomicshop users have added this issue to their want list within the past six months.

  • Item #52908684
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Front Cover
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Back Cover
    Published Oct 1948 by Marvel.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Slab: Scuffing to inner well of case
    • Label #3772655002
    • This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($104.97) will be charged at checkout.

    "Way Out West!" Thanks to trickery by Della Mason (publisher Whitney Hammond's jealous secretary), Venus goes to Cactus City. Luckily, the plan backfires and works out in the favor of Beauty Magazine. Also includes: "Venus Stops the Presses!"; "Between Two Worlds"; "Birthday Blues!; and "Murder in Miniature." Cover price $0.10.

    If you add this item to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.

    20 mycomicshop users have this issue on their want list.
    3 mycomicshop users have added this issue to their want list within the past six months.