Yellowjacket Comics #1 The Promise Collection Pedigree (Charlton, 1944) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $4,800.00

Sold: Nov 21, 2021

Yellowjacket Comics #1 Values

Publisher: Charlton, 1944

About Yellowjacket Comics #1

First appearance and origin of Yellowjacket. The first Charlton comic, as Frank Comunale officially becomes Charlton Comics in 1946. Diana the Huntress features begin. Includes an adaptation of "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Yellowjacket

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Characters: Yellowjacket [Vince Harley] (Intro; Origin); Judy Graves; Jake Mallon (gang boss)

Synopsis: A gang of crooks chasing a girl, enter the house of Vince Harley, crime fiction writer and beekeeper. The girl slips away and the gang decide to finish Vince off by dumping a hive full of yellow jacket bees inside his house. He is immune to bee stings, can even control them, and gets the idea of how to fight the gang in a yellow jacket outfit.

Pages: 9.000

Pencils: Ken Battefield

Notes: Battefield is credited on pencils on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the crude figures and faces are similar to his credited stories in this series.

Characters: Diana the Huntress (Intro); Hercules; Jupiter; Mercury; Discordia

Synopsis: On Mount Olympus, Zeus decides to let the gods come to the aid of the Allies in their fight against Japan and Germany. Diana is to help them in Greece.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Gus Schrotter

Notes: Gus is credited on pencils on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the art here is similar to his signed story in Heroic Comics #38. He has some special scrolls in the ears.

Title: The Black Cat

Characters: Pluto (black cat)

Synopsis: Adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Black Cat"

Pages: 7.000

Script: ? (adaptation); Edgar Allan Poe (story)

Pencils: Bill Allison

Inks: Bill Allison

Notes: The very open eyes and soft, rounded inking and also movement is similar to Allison's many credited stories, like Blue Circle Comics #2, Camera Comics #1, Cowboy Western #38.

Characters: Danny King (circus crime fighter; Intro); Russo (circus manager); Lucy Flair (aerialist); Whip Chandler (lion tamer)

Synopsis: A lion tamer is fired for being drunk, and Danny King gets his chance to handle the big cats and the avengeful ex-lion tamer.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Harold DeLay

Inks: Harold DeLay

Notes: DeLay is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and can be recognised by the "slow" movement of the rather short figures. Also faces and the layout style more like old book illustrations.

Title: The Man Who Should Have Died

Characters: Jack (sailor)

Synopsis: A sailor is taken captive aboard a Nazi U-boat and lives to tell his story.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Arnold Hicks

Inks: Arnold Hicks

Notes: Most probably Hicks' art. He is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

Characters: Juan Manito [Filipino Kid]; Felipe

Synopsis: The Japanese march into Manila and Juan takes up the fight against them.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Gerald Altman

Inks: Gerald Altman

Notes: The many skewed faces and figures combined with much black inking point to Altman, who is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	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	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	3	2	1	2	4	2	8	2	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	36
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	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	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	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	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	3	3	1	2	4	2	8	2	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	37

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