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Dear Compal Customers,

Our recent June auction sold every lot with notable winning bids for The first Broons Book at £4500 and Ron Turner's Daleks artwork exterminating £1500. Don Lawrence's Trigan Empire cover artwork also rocketed skyward at £1650. War years Beano comics from 1941 in the lower grades averaged £35-55 each whilst the Xmas Beano of 1940 presented £220. A Dandy 101 Fireworks issue with Adolf Hitler cover found £120 in [vg-] highlighting the value of these historic propaganda pieces (and more importantly still a good laugh). This was even more evident with the Oor Wullie artwork board by Dudley Watkins which saw the wee lad evacuatin' hissel' for £820.

The star of this auction is a Fine copy of The Dandy Book No 1, amongst the highest graded ever offered by us for sale. Continuing our Beano & Dandy war years collection we feature 1942 -1945 along with Dandy complete years of 1946 and 1947 at lots 79 and 80. Earlier decades are well represented in our bound volume collection where Sexton Blake and Union Jack titles have found recent heavy bidding. Film Fun, Radio Fun, Hotspur, Skipper and Wizard abound but the girls are not left out with The Schoolgirl and Schoolgirls' Own having several complete years on offer.

The Sixties are also stronger; TV 21, WHAM!, POW! (Spider-Matic Pistol at the ready), FANTASTIC, IT'S TERRIFIC are all here, some in complete runs, but Lady Penelope is set to overtake them all with a Rolls-Royce run on the outside. There may need to be an Olympian effort by The Broons, their 1960 Book in rare Very Fine Grade eagerly awaitin' the starter's gun. The Seventies look good with high grade No 1s of 2000AD, Misty and Spellbound, each with their free gifts intact. Original artwork from the same decade heralds a Christmas Faceache by Ken Reid, Clever Dick by Leo Baxendale and Frankie Stein by Robert Nixon - but watch out for the Toad-Creatures, they've invaded our back cover in Journey To The Stars by Ron Turner.

Our US section promotes a cents copy of Amazing Spider-Man #1, Avengers #1 and Silver Surfer's classic issue 4, CGC'd at 9.4. There's a House Of Secrets #92 CGC'd at 9.2 and Iron Fist #14 [nm] which join 70s and 80s runs of Avengers, Hulk, Iron Man, X-Men, Batman and Detective comics.

Malcolm Phillips
Director
Comic Book Auctions Ltd.

THE CLOSING DATE FOR THIS CATALOGUE IS 8PM TUESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER UK TIME.