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We were proud to offer The Beano No 1 with its free gift Whoopee Mask, as originally sold by us in our live auction in February 1999. To our knowledge at that time it was the only No. 1 free gift in existence and today that is still the case. Lot 3 also includes the Beano No. 1 Flyer, a copy of The Times newspaper where the sale appeared on the front page, the original auction catalogue and The Beano No.2000 with its back page reprint of the first Beano’s front cover.

Beano Nos. 3, 6 and 9 are also here along with a strong collection of KG Murray Australian reprints including Batman No 1, 12 further early issues, Super Adventure No 1, Superboy and Superman early issues as well.

The Woodard Archive continues to offer British gems from the 1950s-60s with bound volumes of Tiger and Buster and scarce complete early years of Cherie, Diana, Hurricane, Bunty and 1970s TV Action + Countdown, Emma, Fantastic, Terrific and Thunder, most of the above with their free gifts.

Our artwork collection includes The Broons original Jig-Saw box design from 1943 by Dudley Watkins and the key Treasure Island board from Topper No. 7 also drawn and signed by Watkins, showing Flint’s treasure map. There’s a Dan Dare / Eagle cover by Frank Bellamy, another by Harold Johns and Greta Tomlinson, further Charley’s War pages by Joe Colquhoun, The Beano’s Shipwrecked Circus strips by Paddy Brennan, Happy Family, Old Mother Riley and Terry-Thomas strips all from The Bob Monkhouse Archive. Finally, who could be without a double-page artwork of The Bash Street Kids by David Sullivan at lot 121?

Our US Golden Age section is led by Batman 97, Durango Kid 1, Horrors 12, Superman 20, Wonder Woman 36 and World’s Finest 26 with a strong Canadian ‘whites’ selection including Freelance, Robin Hood, Grand Slam and Three Aces, all by Double ‘A’ publishers with Circus Parade Comics No. 1.

The Silver Age excels with Amazing Fantasy 15, Avengers 4, Silver Surfer 4, Strange Tales 107, Tales of Suspense 39, Tales To Astonish 41 & 44, Thor 225 and X-Men 1. More keys than The Bash Street Kids can throw a stick at.

Postal bids need to be with us by FRIDAY 30 AUGUST and we will enter them on your behalf in thesaleroom.com/Comic Book Auctions website closing on Sunday 1 September from 2 pm.