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Rocket Comics #1

Feb 1940 · Hillman · 0.10 USD
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Rocket Comics #1 is an anthology featuring multiple adventure heroes. "Hurricane Hart" pursues a treasure at sea, ultimately escaping with it despite rivals' attempts to recover it. "The Phantom Ranger" features Betty pursuing a villain named Blackie through canyon terrain after he dislodges a boulder at her; the Phantom Ranger intervenes to protect Carson and confront the antagonist. "Buzzard Barnes and His Sky Devils" depicts military aviators at an estaminet in St. Omer, where Buzzard Barnes defeats a rival in a boxing match to prove his toughness and earn command of the Black Sheep squadron.

Contains 7 stories
The Runaway Rocket
16 pp
Rocket Riley (Intro)Professor Sterling (Intro)Griselda Sterling (Intro)Kurt Von Strangle (VillainIntro)Sam Yacco (VillainIntro)Octopus Men (VillainIntro)

When Professor Sterling's revolutionary atomic discovery powers a new rocket ship, international spy Kurt Von Stangle and his henchman Sam Vacco make their move—but a struggle inside the vessel sends the ship careening into space with Rocket Riley, the Professor, and his daughter Griselda trapped aboard. Marooned on an alien world and hunted by Von Stangle, the crew must contend with a far more terrifying threat: the native Octopus Men closing in from all sides.

Treasure of Death
6 pp
Da Gama (VillainIntroDeath)

Hurricane Hart faces off against the ruthless pirate Da Gama on the island of Trujillio, where a cryptic riddle guards the location of a fabulous buried treasure. As Hart struggles to decipher the ancient clue while evading his captors, he must race against both Da Gama's crew and the rising tide to claim the prize—if he can survive long enough to solve it.

Origin of Red Roberts, the Electro Man
8 pp
Red Roberts (IntroOrigin)Red Robert's mother and sister (Intro)The mayor and his gang (VillainIntro)
Devil's Gulch
8 pp
The Phantom Rider (Intro)Red Carson (VillainIntro)

When a dying miner stumbles into The Phantom Ranger's path with a desperate plea, the masked rider learns of a hidden gold mine in Devil's Gulch—and a young woman named Betty held captive by the ruthless outlaw Red Carson. The Phantom Ranger must track Carson through the wastelands, outsmart his gang, and rescue the girl before Carson forces her to reveal the location of her father's fortune.

The Coming of the Steel Shark
7 pp
Lt. Dick Jones (Intro)Jane (Intro)Tommy (Intro)The Steel Shark (VillainIntro)Cairn (VillainIntroDeath)
Hell in the Heavens
12 pp · War
Captain "Buzzard" barnes (Intro)Lacey (IntroDeath)Nordstrom (Intro)Killer Dake (Intro)Sky Devils (Intro)Colonel Flagg (Intro)Germans (Villain)

Captain "Buzzard" Barnes earns his troublesome Black Sheep squadron a dangerous mission: locate enemy super guns behind German lines and mark them for destruction at dawn. When Barnes takes the volatile Killer Dake on the perilous ground operation, the two must survive German patrols and the guns' devastating firepower to light the signal fires that will guide the bombers to their target. It's a test of grit, teamwork, and whether a hardboiled crew of misfits can pull together when it counts most.

Traitors Must Die
6 pp
Lefty Larsen (Intro)Gaspard (VillainIntro)Khali (VillainIntro)

Yankee legionnaire Lefty Larsen is framed for treason at Fort Drapeau, a remote outpost being systematically betrayed to the fierce Touareg tribe, and must go on the run to prove his innocence and expose the real traitor before the legion is slaughtered in an ambush. Racing against time, desert, and his own thirst, Larsen infiltrates the enemy stronghold to turn the tables on Gaspard and Khali before dawn breaks the legion's final assault.

ComicBooks.com Value

Our Model is In Beta
Raw (Good) $298
CGC 9.0 · 2 in census $6,353
CGC 8.5 · 1 in census $4,492*
CGC 8.0 · 1 in census $3,429*
CGC 7.5 none in existence
CGC 7.0 · 1 in census $2,322*
CGC 6.5 · 3 in census $1,986
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CGC 6.0 · 1 in census $1,357
CGC 5.5 none in existence
CGC 5.0 · 2 in census $1,261
CGC 4.5 none in existence
CGC 4.0 none in existence
CGC 3.5 none in existence
CGC 3.0 · 2 in census $930
CGC 2.5 none in existence
CGC 2.0 none in existence
CGC 1.5 · 1 in census $422*
* estimate — limited direct-sales data at this grade
Our model’s value — refined as new sales data arrives · CGC census counts shown where available

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