Comic books published by Fawcett, graded by CBCS

Add to cart CBCS 5.5 $435.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #23-3812DEF-003 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($13.05) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Bernard Bailey. Stories and art by Bob Powell and Bernard Bailey. Classic pre-Code horror from St. John. In the English town of Trelawney, John gets caught in the ancient feud between two ghosts with ghostly attack dogs, in a story with art by comics legend Bob Powell. A safari captures the legendary white ape, but catching it and keeping it are two different things. Grave robber Charley is chosen by the dead themselves to be the new cemetery keeper. Ghost Hounds of Trelawney; The Nameless Horror; Horror on the Hill; Custodian of the Dead. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 0.3 $2,275.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Coverless. INCOMPLETE. Label #6500066-AA-016 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($68.25) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by C.C. Beck. All stories written by Joe Simon, penciled by Jack Kirby, and inked by Dick Briefer. Captain Marvel stars in an untitled adventure in which the Big Red Cheese battles Dr. Sivana's super-robot "Z!" Also features "Capt. Marvel Out West," an untitled adventure in which Captain Marvel battles dragon-men from Saturn, and "Capt. Marvel Battles the Vampire," in which Billy Batson learns about vampires from a book by H.P. Lovecraft! Also features two one page fillers, "Capt. Marvel's Pencil-Puzzle-Page" and "Bill Batson's Page of Games." 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 4.0 $901.00 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Minor side edge crack; Scuffing on front and back of case Label #19-2BC2507-001 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($27.03) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

1st appearance of the Monster Society of Evil. Cover pencils by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder, Al Liederman and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck, Al Liederman and unknown. Captain Marvel's smashing new mystery serial begins! When Captain Marvel tries to stop Captain Nazi from stealing a precious black pearl from an Indian princess, he learns that the Nazi has been sent by a mysterious criminal genius who has gathered several of Cap's deadliest enemies in "The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 1: The Pearl of Peril" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck. (1st appearance of Mr. Mind as voice on radio.) Captain Marvel also stars in: "Shipyard Sabotage" (appearances by Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Josef Goebbels and Benito Mussolini); "The Voodoo Show Boat" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck; and "The Revolt of the Comics!" with story by Otto Binder. Plus: Captain Kid in "Ski Champion" by Al Liederman. And: 2-page text story "Fog and Fury" by Nathaniel Nitkin. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 3.0 $249.00 Paper: Off white Slab: Scuffing on front of case Label #21-096B50E-006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.47) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder, Robert Kanigher, Bert Whitman and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck, Bert Whitman and unknown. After Captain Marvel defeats Mr. Mind's monsters, the villain escapes to China where his Japanese allies Doctors Hashi, Smashi, and Peeyu animate the Great Wall and turn it against the Chinese army. Billy is captured again and Mr. Mind spins a cocoon around him which prevents him from speaking his magic word in "The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 8: Battle at the China Wall!" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck. Captain Marvel also stars in: "Knighthood Flowers Again" with story by Otto Binder (Portland, Oregon city story); "The Reform of Roughneck Ryan!"; and "The Beautiful Baby Contest" with story by Robert Kanigher. Plus: Little Sneezer 2-pager "Fresh Air!" by Bert Whitman; 2-page text story "Send Me in, Coach!" by Tod Shaw; and Captain Kid in an untitled 2-pager. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 6.5 $305.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #0000709-AA-002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.15) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck, Pete Costanza and Al Liederman. Captain Marvel takes on Sivana in a colossal centennial thriller by Otto Binder, C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza: "The Plot Against the Universe Part 1: Dr. Sivana Strikes at Shazam"; "The Plot Against the Universe Part 2: The Invasion of the Rock of Eternity"; "The Plot Against the Universe Part 3: The Evil Element"; and "The Plot Against the Universe Part 4: The Marvelium Plot"! Don't miss this complete four-part comic novel, with appearances by Shazam and Tawky Tawny. Plus: Captain Kid in "The Music Master" with art by Al Liederman. And: Jon Jarl in the 2-page text story "World Within" by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder). 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 9.6 $1,000.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white File Copy. Highest graded. Label #7003440-AA-008 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($30.00) will be charged at checkout.

Captain Marvel and the Lts. of Safety (1950) #2 "Danger Takes To Climbing". 16 pages, full color.

Add to cart CBCS 6.5 $400.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #21-31C4038-018 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($12.00) will be charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, Bill Woolfolk, Howard Boughner, and Kurt Schaffenberger. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvels help a farmer whose land has been taken over by squatters, only to discover these are interstellar squatters from another world. When a young matador falls for a vacationing Mary Batson, she tries to figure out how to help him in the bullfight ring. OG Captain Marvel flies into space to help scientists survive on the world's first space station. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie's Counter-Spook, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck. Terrific cover, possibly by Pete Costanza. The Squatters From Space; Judge Smudge; Lazy Lee; Peewee Pete; Captain Marvel, Jr.: Crime Without Reason; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Mary Marvel: The Boy Matador; On the Job; Clarinet Clue; Captain Marvel: Danger at the Space Station. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 3.0 $400.00 or Best Offer Paper: Cream to off white Label #23-2F3D274-006 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($12.00) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by Jack Binder. Stories by Otto Binder and Howard Boughner. Art by Jack Binder and Howard Boughner. Superhero action with Mary Marvel, long-lost sister of the original Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Mary encounters the Color King, a strange supervillain who can control others' emotions with his mysterious color rays. Mary and her pal Herlock Sholmes try to Scooby-Doo their way to the truth about crooks in a supposedly haunted castle. Georgia Sivana steals an archaeologist's plan to revive ancient mummies, and creates an army of the evil undead. Plus a PSA featuring the 1945 version of the Pledge of Allegiance. Mary Marvel vs. the Color King; Vita Min; Ghost Games; Dizzy Daisy; Not Too Soft; Entombed!; The Swooning Crooners. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 1.0 $1,495.00 or Best Offer Paper: Off white Label #17-2C06FE4-012 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($44.85) will be charged at checkout.

Cover art by Mac Raboy. The Coming of Captain Nazi, script by Bill Woolfolk, art by Mac Raboy; Hitler introduces a new foe for the super heroes in America: Captain Nazi, who is sent to the United States specifically to destroy its weakling "heroes." The Black Dragon Society, art by Charles Sultan; Minute Man [Jack Weston] vs. the Black Dragon Society. The Curse of the Balandrachu starring El Carim, art by George Tuska. The Goat People and the Dragon, script by Otto Binder, art by Rafael Astarita; Captain Venture vs. King Leon. The Peacemakers starring the Companions Three. The Landers-Benson Range War, art by Ralph Carlson; Buck and Mike run smack into a range war, and have to make peace. Black Giant, the Man From the Grave starring Zoro, The Mystery Man. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.0 $200.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #0008872-AC-007

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Kurt Schaffenberger, Henry Kiefer, Howard Boughner, Carl Pfeufer and John Jordan. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Captain Marvel Jr. An escaped convict hides out in a secret compartment underneath a suburban house where even the owner can't find him, in a story (and cover) with art by longtime Superman artist Kurt Schaffenberger. Action girl Nyoka learns a secret that will change the mind of tribal chieftain Noma...if she lives long enough to reveal it. Western hero Tom Mix encounters outlaws who arrange fatal accidents for popular townspeople, then make off with the money the town raises for the family's benefit. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Strange House!; Muscle Hedd; Nyoka: The Lost Brother; Pilot Pete Gives the Bird; Ozzie and Babs: Coiffure Craziness!; Dizzy Daisy; Ben the Business Man; Marlow the Marshal; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: Flicker Fools; Vacuum Bloobstutter: No Holes Barred; Poetic Pete; Tom Mix: The Case of the Sheriff's Misfortune. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 7.5 $150.00 Paper: White Label #21-2A9BE4E-003

Stories and art by Rod Reed and Howard Boughner. Raised in the jungle by her scientist father, Nyoka faces its dangers like no man ever could. In a three-part story, Nyoka tracks a stolen goat that is sacred to an Indian maharajah. But the bad guys have taken the goat to Poison Creek, where one drop of the water means death. The Sacred Goat of Kristan, Part I: The Poison Creek; Trader Tom; Giggle Gags; Muscle Hedd; Part II: The Plot Thickens!; Continued Next Week; Lion-Hearted Leo, the Animal Trainer Spots a Leopard; The Striped Demon; Part III: The Final Attempt! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 8.0 $305.00 Paper: Off white Label #21-2F2E951-024 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.15) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Stories and art by Bert Whitman and Howard Boughner. Raised in the jungle by her scientist father, Nyoka faces its dangers like no man ever could. In a two-part story, artist Pierre Pallette is assigned to paint "headhunters," but his examples look too fake. So he asks Nyoka to guide him to real headhunters, but that mission is fraught with danger. Nyoka is invited by an Indian maharajah to watch elephants battle in his personal arena, in a story featuring a splash page of two elephants in boxing gloves. The Congo Headhunt! Part I: Painter Pallette's Predicament; Kid Gloves; Trader Tom; Part II: The Chopping Block; Lion-Hearted Leo, the Animal Trainer: Vacation for a Day; Facing Green Death; Chippy Chipmunk: The Daredevil; The Elephant Battle!. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 8.0 $520.00 Slight amateur restoration Paper: White Amateur Restoration Includes: small amount of color touch on cover and tear seal on back cover. Label #7007107-AB-006

Stories and art by Dave Berg, Alex Blum and Al Camy. One of Fawcett's most popular superheroes, Spy Smasher fights saboteurs, fifth columnists, Quislings and collaborators during WWII. In a sort of primitive version of The Da Vinci Code, Spy Smasher learns that Da Vinci desgined a destructive secret weapon and hid the plans in a code, and he must find it before the Nazis do. Spy Smasher faces gladiatorial combat in the Roman Arena. A draftee deserts rather than serve in WWII, and soon he's recruited by Axis agents, but Spy Smasher offers him a chance at redemption. Plus a story by future Mad "Lighter Side" artist Dave Berg. The Deserter; Krishnu, Prophet of Evil; Bright Flames of War; The Quest of the Secret Weapon; On Convoy Duty. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 3.5 $323.00 Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Scuffing to inner well of case Centerfold detached. Label #20-48E05B5-015 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($9.69) will be charged at checkout.

Cover by C. C. Beck. "The Vengeful Four," art by C. C. Beck; Three young men from different areas of the country (Texas, the Ozarks, and Brooklyn), all named Billy Batson, were reading Captain Marvels comic book adventures and happened to wonder if saying "Shazam" would work for them as well; As it happened, Tall Billy, Hill Billy, and Fat Billy were captured, along with the real Billy, by Sivana and his gang. "The Railroad Wreckers" starring Golden Arrow. "Crew of Criminals" starring Lance O'Casey. "Blitzing the Blitzys" starring Spy Smasher, art by Charles Sultan: vs. Otto Bund and Blitzys. "Death to the Traitor" text story, art by Carl Formes (as LaRac Semrof). "The Vital Defense Plans" starring Dan Dare. "Dr. Voodoo's Revenge," art by Mac Raboy; Hal and Nero escape from the giants and begin a long climb up a cliff face. "The Coming of Half-Man" starring Ibis the Invincible; vs. Half-Man. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.5 $1,000.00 Paper: Off white Label #00-7009333-AD-002

Cover pencils by C.C. Beck. Written by Otto Binder and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck, Harry Parkhurst, Dick Briefer, Emil Gershwin, Clem Weisbecker and unknown. Featuring "The Life Story of Captain Marvel" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck. Plus: Golden Arrow in "The Grizzly Bear Mystery" with art by Harry Parkhurst; "Jack the Second (Modern Giant Killer)" with art by Dick Briefer; "Spy Smasher Joins the Junior Spy Smashers" with art by Emil Gershwin; Hedda and Tails 1-pager by Victor Pazmino; Lance O'Casey in "Dukwadl, Maker of Zombies" with art by Clem Weisbecker; 2-page text story "The Fox Hole" by Nathaniel Nitkin; and Ibis the Invincible in "The City of Skeletons"! 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 5.0 $375.00 Paper: Off white to white Slab: Scuffing on front and back of case Label #17-4085E2E-011 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($11.25) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover by Sheldon Moldoff. Stories and art by Bob Powell and Sheldon Moldoff. Pre-Code tales of horror from Fawcett, a publisher not normally noted for grue. Ted dies in an accident, but is allowed to return to life until he finds his soul mate. A pro athlete finds an evil way to enhance his performance, by channeling the abilities of dead baseball stars. A gang boss's head is kept alive by a mad scientist to help his cronies plan their crimes. The Dead Lover Returns!; The Man Who Lost His Body; The Shrunken Head; The Resurrected Head. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 3.0 $900.00 Label #0008872-AA-002

Cover by Marc Swayze. Stories and art by Dave Berg, Otto Binder, and Marc Swayze. A Fawcett anthology with an emphasis on superhero adventure. In only her second appearance (after her debut in Captain Marvel Adventures (1941-1953 Fawcett) #18), Mary Marvel tracks sinister Santas stealing orphans' toys, and gets help from Mr. Scarlet, Pinky and the original Captain Marvel. Commando Yank must retrieve Dr. Nordlung and his plans for an "unsmashable tank" from the Norwegian castle of a Nazi "Quisling" - even if he needs the help of ancient Vikings to do it. In a turning point for the series, Mr. Scarlet and Pinky have been so effective at stopping crime that Scarlet's alter ego, Brian Butler, loses his job as DA. Plus an early story by future Mad "Lighter Side" artist Dave Berg. Mary Marvel: The Night Before Xmas; Last Ship from Marseilles; Mr. Scarlet: Make-Believe Mastermind; Phantom Eagle: Down Under; Commando Yank: The Terrific Toy; Spooks: Creepy Fantasy. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 6.5 $275.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #7001365-AA-012

Cover by Jack Binder. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Jack Binder, Dick MacKay, and Marc Swayze. A Fawcett anthology with an emphasis on superhero adventure. Mary Marvel tracks missing people to a mirror-maze run by Dr. Trapp, who wants to study the effects of being trapped in a mirror-maze on the human psyche. Mr. Scarlet is hired to find a treasure that's been hidden since the Civil War. Commando Yank tracks escaped Nazi war criminals to a county fair and a high-speed chase on a mountain road. Mary Marvel: The Mad Mirror Maze; Mr. Scarlet and Pinky: The Loot of Christopher Murden; Whipper-Snappers; Phantom Eagle: The Voices of Doom; Richard Richard, Private Dick: The Eye Glass Case; Penny Graves: Crime on the Square; Commando Yank: Death of the Fourth Reich. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.