*Miscellaneous 1940-1959: A diverse representation of the range of genres on sale on the crowded newsstands of the 1940s and 1950s. We open with the crime/action anthology Crown Comics, with a nifty ‘cursed brides’ cover, a new issue of Comic Media’s Dynamite, featuring Pete Morisi’s hard-boiled eponymous detective, Timely’s ‘Classics Illustrated’ wannabe, ideal, with the tale of Richard the Lion-Hearted, Star’s Shocking Mystery Cases (crime thrillers with an L. B. Cole cover), Timely’s Sports Action, and two outstanding oddities: Vic Verity #1 from 1945 (pictured), by Captain Marvel co-creator C C Beck, VG+ at £69, and Your United States from 1946, an edu-comic cited by Wertham in his infamous anti-comics tome Seduction of the Innocent – GD/VG £30.