*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, the #1 and only Dr Fu Manchu, which reprints the Avon 1951 one-shot, the Mask Of Dr. Fu Manchu with art by the wonderful Wally Wood, assisted by Joe Orlando and Sid Check; the new cover is by Carl Burgos. Back up is a Flash Harper, news photographer story by A C Hollingsworth. This is a nice clean copy with minimal edge wear and some small stress marks at the spine which don’t break colour.
PICTURED: DR FU MANCHU #1 FN £45 SOLD