Yellowjacket Comics (1944) #1

Charlton 1944–1946 series Cover date Sep 1944

Fair market value

Grade	CGC slab	Raw
9.8 NM/M	$480 $408–$552	$210 $179–$242
9.6 NM+	$374 $318–$431	$168 $143–$193
9.4 NM	$292 $248–$336	$134 $114–$155
9.2 NM-	$228 $194–$262	$108 $91.39–$124
9.0 VF/NM	$178 $151–$204	$86.02 $73.12–$98.92
8.5 VF+	$139 $118–$159	$68.81 $58.49–$79.13
8.0 VF	$108 $91.89–$124	$55.05 $46.79–$63.31
7.0 FN/VF	$84.31 $71.66–$96.96	$44.04 $37.43–$50.65
6.0 FN	$65.77 $55.90–$75.64	$35.23 $29.95–$40.51
5.0 VG/FN	$51.30 $43.61–$58.99	$28.19 $23.96–$32.42
4.0 VG	$40.01 $34.01–$46.01	$22.55 $19.17–$25.93
2.0 GD	$31.21 $26.53–$35.89	$18.04 $15.33–$20.75
Raw, ungraded	—	$65.00 $55.25–$74.75

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About this issue

Yellowjacket Comics #1 (1944) is issue #1 of Charlton's Yellowjacket Comics (1944–1946), with a cover date of September 1944. Written by Edgar Allan Poe and drawn by Bill Allison, Ken Battefield, Chu F. Hing and others.

Creators

Writer: Edgar Allan Poe
Pencillers: Bill Allison, Ken Battefield, Chu F. Hing, Harold DeLay, Arnold Hicks, Gus Schrotter
Inkers: Bill Allison, Chu F. Hing, Harold DeLay, Arnold Hicks

Characters

The stories

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 yellowjacket 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 yellowjacket outfit.

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.

“The Black Cat”

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

Three trivia facts with illustrations

Credits, characters and story details from the Grand Comics Database, CC BY-SA 4.0.