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Danger Is Our Business #1

Jan 1953 · Toby · 0.10 USD
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This anthology issue contains multiple danger-themed stories. "Life on the Ocean Waves" follows U.S. Marines Spike Downy and Bat Battingsley as they serve aboard a ship where they encounter pirates led by the evil John Kidd who boards their vessel; after a battle, Captain Comet appears and confronts Kidd, revealing shared knowledge of matters concerning the planets. The opening story depicts dock workers and supernatural elements, with a young boy encountering what appears to be a ghostly or mysterious presence at a warehouse.

Contains 5 stories
The White Octopus
6 pp · Adventure
Fui JoeNoleaCaptain TraskManghamKoslaBushwaEhau

Fui Joe races against time when Captain Trask, a ruthless pearler, kidnaps his friends Ehau and Nolea to extract the secret of the legendary pearl beds guarded by the dreaded White Octopus. Forced to reveal what he knows, Fui Joe sets a deadly trap that turns the cursed lagoon itself into an instrument of vengeance.

Death on the Waterfront
7 pp · Adventure
The KidServoMike GarciaBenny

On the dangerous waterfronts of 1953, The Kid takes a desperate day job unloading cargo, only to get caught between a fugitive's escape plan and the vengeance of men he's wronged. When The Kid is forced to help deliver a mysterious case and then loses his clothes to a desperate stranger, a case of mistaken identity sets off a chain of violence that no one saw coming. Mike Garcia and his men close in as secrets from the past collide with present-day bloodshed on the docks.

Battle of Hastings 1066 A.D.
1 pp · Non-Fiction, History, War
King Harold of EnglandDuke William of NormandyEarl TostigHadrada

In the summer of 1066, King Harold of England faces invasion from two directions: Duke William of Normandy prepares to cross the Channel with his Norman forces, while in the north, Harold's own brother Earl Tostig has allied with Hadrada, the King of Norway, to attack England's eastern coast. After decisively defeating the Norwegian invasion at Stamford Bridge, Harold must race south to confront Duke William's army before the Normans can establish a stronghold, leading to a brutal clash at Hastings that will reshape the course of English history.

Life on the Ocean Waves
6 pp · Adventure
Spike DowdyBat BattingsleyGeorgette

When two Marines with a two-week liberty both decide to visit Georgette in Tokyo, their rivalry over who gets to see her first takes a wild turn—especially after a goat eats one man's wallet and a local offers them a chance at salvage money from an abandoned ship. Spike Dowdy and Bat Battingsley end up commandeering the vessel with more enthusiasm than actual seamanship, and their journey across the ocean becomes the kind of chaotic adventure only these two leathernecks could manage.

The Vicious Space Pirates!
6 pp · Science Fiction
Captain CometCaptain John KiddCommander Hughes

Captain Comet carries secret shipping-lane plans crucial to preventing interplanetary war, but when the notorious pirate Captain John Kidd attacks the passenger liner Starhope, the space pilot finds himself a prisoner on the pirate's hidden planetoid fortress of Xenor. With Earth's survival hanging in the balance and his captors determined to extract the plans by any means necessary, Comet must rely on cunning and ingenuity to turn the tables on Kidd's crew.

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Raw (Good) $9,947
CGC 7.0 · 1 in census $526*
CGC 6.5 · 1 in census $442*
CGC 6.0 · 1 in census $382
CGC 5.5 none in existence
CGC 5.0 · 1 in census $294
CGC 4.5 none in existence
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CGC 4.0 · 2 in census $218
CGC 3.5 · 3 in census $202*
CGC 3.0 · 4 in census $179*
CGC 2.5 · 1 in census $145*
CGC 2.0 none in existence
CGC 1.5 none in existence
CGC 1.0 · 1 in census $79*
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Reprinted in Danger Is Our Business #9 (1958), The Art of Al Williamson #[nn] (1983), Telling Stories: The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta #[nn] (2008), The Al Williamson Reader #[nn] (2008), Lurid Little Nightmare Makers #4 (2015)

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