*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, a complete run of the 7 issues of Danger, with each issue reprinting a different series of a 1940s/50s crime and adventure title with the odd bit of super-hero thrown in. Of particular note is #16, which features a previously unpublished issue of Yankee Comics, starring Yankee Girl. NB, the issue numbers shown form the complete series (as we always say, IW’s numbering system was esoteric, to put it mildly).
IN THIS UPDATE: DANGER ALL SOLD
10 VG/FN £6.25 Reprints Great Comics #1 (Novack 1945). New cover by John Severin.
11 VG+ £5.75 Reprints Danger #1 (Toby 1954). New cover by Ross Andru.
12 VG/FN £6.25 Reprints Red Seal #13 (Chesler 1945). New cover by Ross Andru.
15 FN- £7 Reprints Spy Cases #26 (Marvel Atlas 1950) New cover by Ross Andru.
16 VG £10 (PICTURED) Not reprinted, but unpublished/undistributed; probably intended for Yankee Comics (Dynamic 1941 series) #5. New cover by Ross Andru.
17 VG £5 Reprints Scoop #8 (Chesler 1944). New Ross Andru cover.
18 GD/VG £4 Reprints Guns Against Gangsters V1#5 (Novelty 1948). New Ross Andru cover.