Slam-Bang Comics #1 Mile High pedigree (Fawcett, 1940) CGC VF+ 8.5 White pages. From an overall freshness standpoint, Mile H...

Auction amount: $5,290.00

Sold: Jul 7, 2002

Slam-Bang Comics #1 Values

Publisher: Fawcett, 1940

About Slam-Bang Comics #1

Diamond Jack, Mark Swift and the Time Retarder, Warbird, Lucky Lawton, Lee Granger, and Jungle King begin. Gus Ricca cover and art. Hal Sharp art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Diamond Jack

Pencils: Gus Ricca

Inks: Gus Ricca

STORY DETAILS

(9 Stories)

Characters: Diamond Jack (introduction, origin); unnamed gangster leader (villain); unnamed gangsters (villains); The Witch (villain, introduction); Dragon of Smoke (villain, destroyed); unnamed rookie patrolman

Pages: 10.000

Pencils: Gus Ricca

Inks: Gus Ricca

Title: "Well, where have you been?

Pages: 1.000

Script: Jack Cole

Pencils: Jack Cole

Inks: Jack Cole

Letters: Jack Cole

Notes: Four gag panels and one gag strip. Creator identified by Frank M. Young? in a posting in the Comics History Exchange page on Facebook (19 June 2017).

Characters: Jim Dolan (introduction); Sally Alden (introduction); Tony Bond (introduction, death); Mrs. Bond; Spike Rossi (villain, introduction); Phantom Axe Murderer; unnamed Rossi's thugs; Joe (Rossi thug); unnamed police chief

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Gus Ricca

Inks: Gus Ricca

Characters: Marshal Lucky Lawton (introduction); Pal (Lucky's dog); Jane Curtis; Jeff Curtis (mayor of El Rio); Spiven (villain, death); Barren (villain, death); Dexter (villain, death); Brody (a deputy, villain, death); Reynolds (a lawyer, villain, death); two unnamed bandits (villains, deaths)

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Hal Sharp

Inks: Hal Sharp

Characters: Jungle King [Lee Granger] (introduction; origin); Eric (a talking lion); Ali (introduction, villain, death); Hassan (introduction); unnamed air crewman; unnamed pygmy warriors; unnamed pygmy chief

Pages: 10.000

Script: Manly Wade Wellman

Pencils: Jack Binder ?

Inks: Jack Binder ?

Notes: Script credit from Bob Hughes, through textual analysis: excessive use of passive voice and run on sentences held together by ellipses.

Characters: Hurricane Hansen (introduction); unnamed British admiral; unnamed ship raider crew; unnamed Kazilian submarine crew (deaths); unnamed Kazilian battleship crew (deaths); unnamed Britania crew

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Mike Suchorsky

Inks: Mike Suchorsky

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	1	1	0	2	2	1	2	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	21
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	3	1	1	1	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	14
Total	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	2	2	2	3	3	3	2	2	4	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	35

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