*IW/Super: We continue with our series of updates from that most esoteric publisher IW/Super. IW Publications was a short-lived comic book publisher in the late 1950s and early 1960s, named for the company’s owner Israel Waldman. Comics were published under both the IW and Super imprints and were notable for publishing unauthorised Golden Age reprints of other company’s properties. Usually these companies were out of business, but not always. Basically, it seemed to be whatever they could get their hands on that determined the esoteric nature of their output. Thus you get super-heroes, war, romance, western, funny animals, crime, horror, science fiction and just about every genre within their pages. Full details of what was reprinted in what are listed in our website catalogue. NB usually with newly-drawn covers. Over the next few months, we’ll be presenting a series of issues from this publisher; this week, all three issues of Mystery Tales, which reprint three different pre-code horror issues from various publishers. They’re numbered #16-18 (we told you that the IW numbering system was esoteric, right?)
IN THIS UPDATE: MYSTERY TALES ALL SOLD
#16 FN+ £17.50 (PICTURED) Reprints Tales Of Horror #2 (Toby 1952). New cover by Ross Andru. Art by Fass, Dresser, Hollingsworth & Elkin.
#17 VG/FN £12.25 Reprints Eerie #14 (Avon 1951). New cover by Ross Andru. Art by Norman Nodel.
#18 VG £10 Reprints Strange Terrors (St John 1952) New cover by Ross Andru. Art by Kubert, Nicholas, Tuska, Sultan.