Captain Midnight (1942-1948 Fawcett) comic books

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $2,100.00 or Best Offer View scans Conserved Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Minor side edge crack Conservation includes: cover cleaned, cover reinforced. Label #0710320012 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Art and cover by Jack Binder. The Murder Trap; Captain Midnight, making his first Fawcett appearance, battles Herr Luger. Secret Sub; Captain Midnight battles Schultze. Captain Midnight Rescues a Romeo; Captain Midnight battles Rica. Little Sneezer intro and origin story. Invisible Menace; Captain Midnight battles Baron Von Togo. Red Skye Over London text story by Joseph J. Millard. Ad for Paste the Axis" contest in Captain Marvel Adventures #15. Ad in which Captain Marvel introduces Captain Midnight. A list of radio stations running the Captain Midnight radio program. Ad for Whiz Comics. Ad for Spy Smasher comics. Ad for Master Comics. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.2 $2,495.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: White Label #0700771001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Art and cover by Jack Binder. The Phantom Bomber; Captain Midnight goes up against The Phantom Bomber. The Case of the Tokyo Turkey starring Captain Midnight. Adventure of the Giant Glider; Captain Albright displays a model of a new glider he has constructed to a group of military officials, a glider that can transport 50 military troops a reasonable distance, all without a motor. Death Has Many Faces text story by Joseph J. Millard. The Case of the Talking Fish humor story with Little Sneezer. The Prison Plot; Captain Midnight battles Black Mikado. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $140.00 View scans Corner chew, staining. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Art by Jack Binder and Leonard Frank. Cover by Jack Binder. Gremlins of Graham Field!!; An AAF pilot crash lands on a field after reporting to his superiors that the landing gear controls were stuck and he believed that gremlins had a role to play with that problem. Sergeant Twilight Writhes Again; Captain Midnight versus Sgt. Twilight. In the Land of the Midnight Sun; Captain Midnight battles Bushido. Monkey Business humor story with Little Sneezer. Scraps a Scrap Thief; Captain Midnight battles Baron Junkman. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $145.00 View scans Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

The Puzzle of the Flying Houses!; One night, as Captain Albright flies solo in his special P-38 he has invented, he sees a series of floating houses in the air, followed by a Nazi named Zauer who shoots him down. The Sound of Death text story with Red Skye by Joseph J. Millard. The Plane That Flies Backwards starring Captain Midnight. The Sinister Angels!; Captain Midnight is drawn into an eerie situation in the jungle along the Peru-Brazil border, when a native superstition of avenging mountain angels suddenly becomes reality. Untitled Johnny Blair, in the Air story. Bombs Out of the Sea starring Captain Midnight. War Bonds and Stamps public service announcement featuring Captain Midnight. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $599.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Pedigree: Davis Crippen "D" Copy Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s); Minor crack(s) front or back, under 1" Davis Crippen ("D" Copy). Includes COA. Label #0745076003 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $139.95 or Best Offer View scans Pieces of tape around staple, on a few interior pages, and interior cover. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Captain Midnight undertakes an attempt to fly around the world non-stop in 80 hours, a daunting task in the midst of World War II. Midnight seeks the truth behind the mystery plane that appears and disappears, and carries no cargo. Genetically engineered "human beetles" are used as a biological weapon by an Axis scientist. The Non-Stop Flight Around the World!; Deaths Dark Decoy; The Plane With a Load of Nothing!; Johnny Blair!; Captain Midnight Battles the Human Beetles!; Silent Sims; Captain Midnight and the Phantom Battlewagon! 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $130.00 View scans 1/2" Spine split from top. Water spotting.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Joseph J. Millard. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Captain Midnight combats a Nazi incursion into South Africa, still part of the "Commonwealth" at that point. In a superhero story that's a mini-lesson in economics, Ichabod learns that Axis saboteurs are behind the wartime inflation rate. When his plane is hijacked by men wearing bandages over their faces, CM learns the truth about The Legion of the Lost. The Kimberly Killer; Red Skye: Rat Trap; The Imps of Inflation; Johnny Blair, in the Air; The Legion of the Lost. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $145.00 View scans Staple rust.

Cover by Sheldon Moldoff. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Captain Midnight flies a dangerous mission against Hitler's headquarters in Austria, in a story that has him facing off against real-life Nazi Hermann Goering. CM tracks down Von Togo and his Axis School for Sabotage. Captain Midnight must use a hopelessly outdated plane to take down a Nazi threat. And a Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Captures Red the Terror!, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck. Captain Midnight Buries the Austrian Weather; Red Skye: Empty Guns; The School for Sabotage; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Sergeant Twilight Strikes Out (for Himself); The Flying Antique. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $44.00 View scans Near full length spine split (taped). Cover taped to first wrap. Centerfold detached.

Cover by Sheldon Moldoff. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Captain Midnight faces Axis forces in the remote South Pacific with help from his new submersible plane and the people of Pitcairn Island, descendants of the Bounty mutineers. When CM is captured and drugged by the mysterious Hermit, Icky and his friends must undertake a rescue mission. Captain Midnight investigates fires at Stonehenge and discovers an ancient druidic cult...or is it just a Nazi plot? Plus readers submit their own inventions for illustration, and a PSA on wartime paper rationing, Captain Midnight Fails and Succeeds. Wings Under the Waves; Red Skye: Blood on the Rising Sun; The Cult of Death; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Captain Midnight Fails and Succeeds!!!!; The Devil's Desk; Chief McArson; Your Invention Pages!; The Merchants of Evil. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $49.00 View scans 2.5" Cumulative spine split (taped). Cover coming loose at staple. Corner chew. Water damage.

The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Captain Midnight faces ghostly horsemen in the sky, in a story that is a PSA for wartime paper conservation and is actually narrated by a piece of paper! A robot and his sidekicks help Capt. Midnight overcome a phony spiritualist. Johnny Blair finally gets his first solo flight with the Civil Air Patrol, but he's not out of the woods yet, in a series that features real-life flight education. Captain Midnight Fights the Four Horseman of the Paper Eclipse; Your Invention Page!; The Skybound Spirits; Red Skye: All Cats Are Black; Johnny Blair, in the Air; The Case of the Stupid Pigeon. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $189.95 or Best Offer View scans 2" cumulative spine split. Staple rust, rust migration. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Captain Midnight loses his cool when Axis agents target Red Cross workers. Civil air patrol cadet Johnny Blair is gets a new instructor, "Hangar Harry," in a series that features real-life flight education. When Icky's alter ego Sgt. Twilight gets swindled by phony "Hollywood producers," Captain Midnight has to make sure Icky's dreams of stardom are realized. Plus a PSA on wartime paper rationing featuring Midnight's comic-relief sidekick, Sergeant Twilight. Sergeant Twilight Speaks His Piece!; The Double Crossed Red Cross!; Sergeant Twilight Goes Hollywood!; Red Skye: Mr. Ikito Is Ill; Dance of Death; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Peril at the Aerial Crossroads. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $99.95 or Best Offer View scan INCOMPLETE. Centerfold and piece missing, interrupts art and story. 5.5" Cumulative spine split (partially taped) and lateral spine tearing. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. In North Africa, Captain Midnight battles the Nazis' master saboteur. Johnny Blair learns about the hazards of wing icing, in a story that includes real-life aeronautics. Midnight's dopey sidekick Sgt. Twilight manages to rout Axis forces from a battleship despite himself. Plus a PSA on wartime paper rationing featuring the Marvel Family. A Special Message from the Marvel Family; AMG Cures an African Headache!; Sergeant Twilight and the Air-Raft!; Red Skye: The Rockets' Red Glare; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Your Invention Page; Fifty Years Too Late! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. In a story that begins with Captain Midnight accused of treason, he goes to work as an inventor for Axis forces. The latest enemy invention is a fence of steel cables to keep bombers from flying over Japan, but CM has an invention to top it: The Flying Buzz-Saw. An experimental malaria drug causes Captain Midnight's sanity to fray. Plus a list of stations carrying the Captain Midnight radio show. Adventure in Black Gold; Captain Midnight's "Fighting Air Insignia"; The Flying Buzz-Saw; Captain Midnight's Army Air Corps Slang; Red Skye; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Your Invention Page; Captain Midnight Fights His Own Mind; From One Side to the Other. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $340.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #3988720017

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and others. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Midnight investigates bombs that seem to aim themselves, and discovers Axis robot planes. Johnny Blair gets a lesson in parachuting, and so does the reader of this educational strip. A tiny man is an inventor ignored by the tall world, so he invents a tiny plane and becomes CM's latest foe, The Flea. The Bomb That Never Missed; Your Invention Page; Sergeant Twilight's Totem Pole; Red Skye: Booby Trap; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Captain Midnight Fights the Flea. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $299.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #4301298017 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and others. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. As WWII draws to a close, student Johnny Blair is joined by Captain Midnight for a crossover adventure involving a tampered test. After graduation, Johnny finally becomes an official member of the Civil Air Patrol. Midnight must trade minerals for lifesaving medicines in the closing days of the war in the South Pacific. The Tale of the Tampered Test; Your Invention Page; Mutiny on the Podunk, Jr.; Red Skye: Game of Cards; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Captain Midnight. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Bill Woolfolk. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. CM intervenes when a cutting-edge tunnel under a river is targeted for sabotage...or is it the river itself that attacks? Midnight creates a device that interrupts electric power in a wide radius, a sort of EMP weapon 50 years early. Captain Midnight is called in to help railroad workers lay track across an impassible swamp. Tunnel of Terror; Path of Darkness; Odd But True Inventions; Pilot Pete; The Sleepy Madman; Red Skye: Debt of Death; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Swamp of Death. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $290.00 View scans Cover coming loose at single center staple. Staple rust.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and others. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. CM's latest invention plows an entire field in seconds, but becomes a super-weapon when it falls into the wrong hands. During WWII, Captain Midnight battles an Axis superweapon that can pull B-29 bombers out of the air. Midnight uses his latest invention, a plastic boat, to track the theft of a secret military experiment. The Harvest of Infamy; Odd But True Inventions; Pilot Pete; Impending Doom; Whipper-Snappers; The Screwball Murders; Witless Witmore; Red Skye: Double Cargo; Strato-Facts; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Your Invention Page; Missing Gyro-Instruments. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $89.95 or Best Offer View scans 1" Spine split from bottom (chew). Water spotting, staple rust/migration, and soiling. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Bill Woolfolk. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Professor Zannever builds a better atomic bomb and asks Captain Midnight to help him safely test it, but Agent X gets wind of the invention first. Midnight's latest invention makes him bulletproof, and mob boss Maron (who looks like a Dick Tracy villain) is determined to find out what it is. During WWII, Midnight tests an invention that causes someone's personality to become its exact opposite. Classic cover by an unknown artist. The Stratosphere Treasure Hunt; Pilot Pete; Case of the Rolling Stone; Sgt. Twilight: The Water Machine; Red Skye: Flying Salesman; The Jekyll Ray; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Your Invention Page; Dippy Detours. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $86.00 View scans 1.5" Cumulative spine split. Centerfold detached at one staple and loose at other.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Richard Kraus. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Captain Midnight realizes that a forest fire is actually arson, but luckily, he needs to test out his new water-bomb invention anyway. An astronomer discovers gold on an asteroid in space, but after Midnight flies him there, he wants all the gold for himself. Pilot-in-training Johnny Blair is on his first night flight when he must figure out how to warn the engineer of a train below that the bridge is washed out. Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Saves the Sailplane, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck. An expertly composed cover may be the work of Charlie Tomsey. Captain Midnight and the Flame Fiend; Pilot Pete; Captain Midnight Visits the Golden Asteroid!; Whipper-Snappers; Sgt. Twilight, Muscle Man; Freddy Freshman; Red Skye: Gang War; The Battle of Thieves' Harbor!; Johnny Blair, in the Air; Your Invention Page. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Leonard Frank. Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Captain Midnight's latest invention is multi-colored skywriting, but a "mile-high madman" wants to stop it, for reasons of his own. A beached lifeboat gives Johnny Blair a clue to the missing cargo ship off the coast of South America. Midnight and Ichabod commence a very slow rescue of a Neptunian city from an advancing glacier. Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Saves the School Party, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck. The Rainbow Sky-Writer; Muscle Hedd; Your Invention Page; Dippy Detours; Boy Scout Bob; Red Skye: Flying Snatch; Whipper-Snappers; Johnny Blair in the Air; Captain Midnight Battles the Ice Age! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $175.00 or Best Offer View scans Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Leonard Frank. Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. When flying saucers launch an attack on America, CM discovers that Dr. Osmosis is behind it all. In South America, Johnny Blair and crew find the missing ship...and trouble. Refugees from postwar Europe try to set up a new colony in "San Fernando," but the San Fernandans are not happy about the new arrivals. Flying Saucers of Death!; Pilot Pete; Red Skye: The Has-Been; Whipper-Snappers; Johnny Blair in the Air; The San Fernando Fracas. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $210.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4326605013

The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. After their encounter with Midnight in the previous issue, Xog and his weird-looking aliens from Saturn launch an attack on Earth. Johnny Blair tries to figure out who set fire to his glider before the big meet. Attempting to build a TV tower on the highest mountain in Tibet, Midnight and Icky instead find trouble . Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Tames a Tornado, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck. Xog on Earth; Famous Planes; Your Invention Page!; Wilbur The Waiter; Red Skye: Yukon Peril; Sergeant Twilight and His Sky Typewriter; Johnny Blair in the Air; Peak of Peril. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Leonard Frank. Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Dick Kraus. The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Gaseous Saturnian supervillain Xog manages to turn Captain Midnight into gas as well, and he must figure out how to regain his human form. As Johnny Blair prepares for the glider contest, he's still trying to figure out who sabotaged his plane. Midnight and Icky get mixed up in a Hatfield-McCoy-style family feud. Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Traps the Circus Culprit, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck. Without a Body!; Pilot Pete; Johnny Blair in the Air; Your Invention Page!; Red Skye: The Vulture's Trial; Sergeant Twilight Fouled at the State Fair!; The Shotwells and the McHoggs. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.