Comic Book Postal Auctions

Autumn 2013 Results

US Golden Age Comics

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Note: Prices Realised include 10% Buyer's Premium.

147

WAGS + US Funny Pages (1915-65)
1915-1947: 59 issues (mainly 1929-31) including the WAGS Special Edition 24 pages only out of 32 (1937) by T V Boardman with the Los Angeles Examiner, Evening Express, Sunday Times, Evening Herald, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune Funny Pages
1957-65: 27 issues including Detroit News, Baltimore Journal, Newark Sunday Star, Sunday Express, Tampa Tribune and Montreal Star
WAGS starring Hawk of the Seas by Will Eisner, Peter Pupp, Gallant Knight, Scrappy, Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Myra North, Sheena, Spencer Steel, The Clock Strikes. Sunday pages starring Terry And The Pirates, Tarzan, Felix The Cat, Blondie, Popeye, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Mickey Mouse and Prince Valiant (just to name a few!)
Light tan pages, all with mail folds, generally [vg] (86)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £332

148

Century of Comics (1933) Eastern Color
Milco-Malt promo giveaway. Generally believed to be the third comic published.
Starring Mutt & Jeff, Dixie Dougan, Joe Palooka, Reg'lar Fellas, Tailspin Tommy, Nipper, Toonerville Folks and Holly of Hollywood. 100 pages.
Bright cover with 1 inch top spine split, cream pages. Scarce [fn-]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: U/S

149

Contact Comics 7 (1945) L B Cole cover
Golden Eagle and Black Venus star
Bright covers, light tan pages, small chip to lower cover at spine and back cover corner [fn]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £77

150

Dizzy Don 22 (1946) Canadian
First full colour issue
Cream pages with slightly darker edges [vg+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £22

151

Special Edition Comics 1 (1940) Fawcett
First Captain Marvel story in complete Captain Marvel comic book
Small cover tears neatly and professionally closed, spine strengthened, new staples inserted but unclosed. Some date stamps to interior page margins
Apparent [vg+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £392

152

Super Comics (1947) 104, 105 starring Dick Tracy with King Comics 97 (1942) starring Flash Gordon, Lone Ranger, The Phantom and 1st King Comics appearance of Blondie
[vg/fn-/vg] (3)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £37

153

Roy Rogers Comics 1 (1948) Dell
Bright, fresh cover, cream pages with small top RH corner pieces torn away (a relatively common occurrence in the printing and cutting process in those days when plant guillotines were not regularly sharpened) [vfn-]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: U/S

154

Roy Rogers (1952-55) 59, 67, 70, 73, 85, 87
[fn-/vfn] (6)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: U/S

155

E.C. Lot 1 (1953-55)
Crime Suspenstories 14 [gd]; Shock Suspenstories 14 brittle pages [pr]; Vault Of Horror 29 heavy spine wear [fr-gd]; 40 covers loose [fr] (4)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £37

156

E.C. Lot 2 (1945-58)
Impact 3 [vg-]
Picture Stories from American History no number [vg-], Two-Fisted Tales 35 [gd-vg],
Weird Science-Fantasy 26 tape repairs to cover [gd] and Men In Black 4 (Harvey) [vg] (5)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £28

157

MAD (E.C.) (1954-55)
14, 18, 20, 21, 22
[fr/fr-gd/gd] (5)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £25

158

Marvel Family (Fawcett 1952-3) 76, 79, 84
76 tanning to back cover [vg-], 79 browning/tanning to both covers [gd+], 84 [vg-] (3)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £66

159

Three Dimensions E.C. Classics 1 (1954) with the original two 3-D viewers
Cover off top staple with one inch spine/cover loss. Cents [vg]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £91

160

John Wayne Adventure Comics 3, 5 (1950) Toby Press with The Searchers 709 (1956) Dell
Williamson/Frazetta art No 3. Cents copies
[fn-/vg+/fn-] (3)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: U/S

161

Mister Mystery 12 (1953)
Flaming eyeball cover
Worn spine, splash pages 1.5 x 1 ins top corner piece torn away along with a further 5 small margin corner pieces. Cents [gd+/vg-]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £191

162

Prize Comics Western (1953-56)
101-119 last issue
Starring American Eagle by John Severin and The Drifter by Mort Meskin. Cents [vg/fn-] (19)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £179

163

Superman 100 (1955)
Key issues cover
Overall general wear with some red colour loss at centre, cream pages, a few with some light print-dust residue. Cents copy [gd+/vg-]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £169

164

Mixed Humour Lot (1942-64)
Flintstones At NY World's Fair [vg]
Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies Comics 14 [vg-], Polly Pigtails 21 [fr] (3)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £6

 

The following 1950s pre-code horror, science fiction and adventure collection covers 66 lots including key issues of Adventure Into Terror, Adventures Into Weird Worlds, Baffling Mysteries, Hand Of Fate, Mystic, Phantom Lady, Panic, Weird Fantasy and Weird Science

165

Adventure Into Terror (Atlas 1950-51) 43, 44 (Nos 1 & 2) Russ Heath art
43: miscut book, otherwise better. Cream pages
44: 2 small chips out, top front cover. Cream/tan pages. Cents copies
[vg/vg] (2)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £82

166

Adventure Into Terror (Atlas 1952) 8, 9
8: heavy creasing to RH side of back cover. Cream/tan pages, cents copies [vg-/vg] (2)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £48

167

Adventures Into Weird Worlds 1 (Atlas 1952)
Russ Heath art. Oxidation shadow to back cover, small tear by lower staple. Cream pages, cents [fn+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £217

168

Adventures Into Weird Worlds 2, 3 (Atlas 1952)
2: back cover stains; 3: small spine hole, tiny edge chip, front cover
Cream/tan pages, cents copies
[vg-/fn] (2)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £108

169

Baffling Mysteries (Ace 1951-55)
5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 14, 20, 26
Lower grade reading copies. All Cents [gd/gd-vg] (8)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £60

170

Baffling Mysteries (Ace 1952) 7, 9
7: 2 small spine holes, small piece out back cover. 9: small biro price to back cover. Cream/tan pages. Cents copies [vg](2)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £27

171

Baffling Mysteries 11 (Ace 1952)
Cream pages. Cents [fn+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £49

172

Baffling Mysteries (Ace 1952-53) 12, 15
12: small tear to mid spine. Cream pages. Cents [fn/vg+](2)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £56

173

Baffling Mysteries (Ace 1953-54) 16, 17, 21
16: ring stain, front cover; 17: pieces out lower front cover; 21: 3 cm spine split. All cents
[vg-fn/gd-vg/vg] (3)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £60

174

Baffling Mysteries 18 (Ace 1953)
Cream pages. Cents [fn/vfn]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £71

175

Baffling Mysteries (Ace 1954-55) 19, 22, 25
22: 'Marvel Chipping'. Cream/tan pages. All cents [vg+/vg/vg](3)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £82

176

Baffling Mysteries (Ace 1954) 23, 24
Bondage cover. 23: Back cover staining, cream pages. All cents [fn-/fn] (2)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £72

177

Hand Of Fate 8 (No. 1) (Ace 1951)
Small tear to top of spine. Good cover gloss. Cream pages. Cents [vg+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £41

178

Hand Of Fate (Ace 1952-53) 9-12, 19
Cream/tan pages. All cents [gd+/gd-vg] (5)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £49

179

Hand Of Fate (Ace 1952) 13-15
14: rusty staples. Cream/tan pages. All cents [vg-/vg] (3)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £44

180

Hand Of Fate (Ace 1953) 16-18
17: small tape repair inside front cover. Cream/tan pages. All cents [vg+/vg+/vg-fn] (3)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £49

181

Hand Of Fate (Ace 1953-54) 20-22
All cents copies. 22: covers and some pages completely split [fr], 20, 21 [gd-vg] (3)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £11

182

Hand Of Fate (Ace 1954) 23-25
23: 1" tear top of spine; 24: tanning/browning to cover interiors. All cents copies
[vg/vg-/gd-vg] (3)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £44

183

Fantastic Fears 8 (No. 2) (Ajax-Farrell 1953)
Off-white/cream pages. Cents [vg-fn]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £51

184

Fantastic Fears (Ajax-Farrell 1953-54) 4, 5, 8
5: 1st Ditko professional-a 'Stretching Things' Covers & centrefold loose [fr], 4, 8 all cents
[vg-/vg] (3)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £93

185

Jann Of The Jungle (Atlas 1956-57) 12-16
All cents copies [gd/vg] (5)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £62

186

Mystic (Atlas 1951-54) 7, 14, 29, 32
All cents copies [gd-vg/vg-] (4)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £73

187

Mystic 10 (Atlas 1952)
Cream pages. Cents [vg+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £36

188

Mystic 13 (1952)
Cream/tan pages. Cents [vg+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £22

189

Mystic (1952-53) 15, 17
17: tanning to cover interiors. Cream/tan pages. Cents copies [vg+/vg] (2)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £44

190

Nightmare 10 (St. John 1953)
Reprint of Ziff-Davis Weird Thrillers 2. Kubert cover, Kinstler, Anderson art
Piece cut from advert page, stories not affected. Chip out, top of spine. Apparent [vg-] without cut-out. Cents
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £5

191

Nightmare 12 (St. John 1954)
Kubert bondage cover. Edgar Allan Poe adaptation.
Cream pages. Cents [vg+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £34

192

Phantom Lady 13 (No. 1) (Fox 1947)
Blue Beetle also stars, Matt Baker art
Creasing to both covers. Neat owner name in pen to lower margin, pg 4. Cents [gd-vg]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £326

193

Phantom Lady (Ajax-Farrell) Vol 1 No 3 (1955)
Tanning/browning to cover interiors. Small edge chips, front cover. Cream pages/tan edges. Cents copy [fn]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £93

194

Phantom Lady (Ajax-Farrell) Vol 1 No 4 (1955)
Tanning/browning to cover interiors. Small tear by lower staple. Edge chips to front cover. Cream pages/tan edges. Cents copy [fn-]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £82

195

Strange Fantasy (Ajax-Farrell 1952-53)
3, 8, 9, 14
9 is a rebound Harvey comic with Simon & Kirby (not published by Ajax-Farrell)
3: 2" spine split. All cents [vg-/vg-/vg/gd+] (4)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £82

 

The E.C. Section is here:

196

Crime Suspenstories 3 (1951)
Edge chip, front cover. 1 cm split, top of spine. Cream pages. Cents [fn-]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £49

197

Crime Suspenstories 6 (1951)
Hanged man cover. Previous owner initials in pen to front cover. Cream pages. Cents [fn+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £66

198

A Moon, a Girl... Romance 9 (No 1) (1947)
Spanking panel/story. Triangular wedge piece out of cover edge and pages (about 1 cm diameter) Cents [gd]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £37

199

Panic 1 (1954)
Small colour touches to spine. Off-white/cream pages. Cents. Apparent [fn]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £28

200

Panic (1954) 2, 3
Off-white/cream pages. Cents copies [fn-/fn-] (2)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £20

201

Panic (1954) 4, 5
4: cover detached at lower staple. Cream pages. Cents copies [vg+/fn-] (2)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £22

202

Panic (1954-55) 6-8
Cream pages. Cents copies [fn-/fn-/fn+] (3)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £44

203

Panic (1955-56) 10-12
12: repaired spine. Cents copies [fn/fn+/vg+] (3)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £38

204

Valor 1 (1955)
Light glue repair to mid-spine. Off-white pages. Cents copy. Apparent [vfn-]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £31

205

Valor (1955) 2-4
Off-white pages. Cents copies [fn/vg+/vg] (3)
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £49

206

Valor 5 (1955)
2" tear to right-hand edge, front cover. Small colour touches to spine. Cents copy
Apparent
[vg-]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £11

207

Vault Of Horror 17 (1951)
Number changed in pen to ‘No. 6’ inside lowerfront cover. Cream pages, cents copy
Apparent
[fn]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £53

208

Vault Of Horror 25 (1952) Canadian Edition
Edge tear, right-hand front cover, cents copy [vg-]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £17

209

Vault Of Horror 29 (1953)
Cream pages, cents copy [vg+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £41

210

Weird Fantasy 6 (1951)
Foxing to cover interiors. Cream pages, cents copy [fn]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £77

211

Weird Fantasy 8 (1951)
Off-white pages, cents copy
CGC grade 7.0 [fn-vfn] Book not encapsulated
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £145

212

Weird Fantasy 9 (1951)
Cream pages. Cents copy [fn-vfn]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £140

213

Weird Fantasy 10 (1951)
Cream pages. Cents copy [fn-vfn]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £141

214

Weird Fantasy 11 (1952)
Tiny edge tear, top front cover. Cream pages. Cents copy [fn-vfn]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £121

215

Weird Fantasy 12 (1952)
Cream pages. Cents copy [fn+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £81

216

Weird Fantasy 13 (1952)
CGC graded 7.0 [fn-vfn]
Comic not encapsulated
Off-white/cream pages. Cents copy
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £137

217

Weird Fantasy 14 (1952)
Frazetta-Williamson-a
Cream pages. Cents copy [fn+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £88

218

Weird Fantasy 15 (1952)
Triangular chip out of front cover, otherwise better. Off-white/cream pages. Cents copy [vg]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £17

219

Weird Science 15 (1952)
Cream pages. Cents copy [vg+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £44

220

Weird Science 16 (1952)
Off-white/cream pages. Cents copy [vfn-]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £193

221

Weird Science 17 (1953)
Used in 'Parade of Pleasure' pgs 81/82
Date arrival stamp, front cover. Off-white pages. Cents copy [vfn]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £198

222

Weird Science 18 (1953)
Cream pages. Cents copy [fn-vfn]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £132

223

Weird Science 19 (1953)
Used in 'SOTI'. Williamson/Frazetta-a
Cream pages. Cents copy [fn+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £132

224

Weird Science 20 (1953)
Williamson/Frazetta-a
Cream pages. Cents copy [vfn-]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £159

225

Weird Science 21 (1953)
Williamson/Frazetta-a. Edge chips, top front cover. 2" split at top of spine. Cream pages. Cents copy [vg]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £22

226

Weird Science 22 (1953)
Williamson/Frazetta-a. Rubbed mid spine, light oxidation shadow to back cover, cream pages. Cents copy [fn+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £133

227

Weird Science-Fantasy 23 (1954)
Off-white/cream pages. Cents copy [fn-vfn]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £100

228

Weird Science-Fantasy 24 (1954)
Chips out of top right hand edge of front cover. Off-white/cream pages. Cents copy [fn-]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £41

229

Weird Science-Fantasy 25 (1954)
1 cm split at top of spine. Cream pages. Cents copy [fn+]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £78

230

Weird Science-Fantasy Annual 1952
No back cover. 132 pages. Cents copy. The annual consisted of 4 coverless issues bound together. Rare [fr-gd]
Winning bid incl. 10% Buyer's Premium: £39

   

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