*IW/Super: We’re very pleased to announce the first in a series of releases by 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 — just two of them in this update. 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, starting here with Eerie and Eerie Tales. We have one of the three known issues of Eerie and all four of the known issues of Eerie Tales (the IW numbering system was a law unto itself!)
PICTURED: ALL SOLD
EERIE #9 VF £90 Wally Wood cover from Avon’s Eerie #2 (1951) with slight alterations. Reprints Toby’s Tales Of Terror from 1952, pre-code horror. Outstanding copy with glossy cover, tight, firm staples and near white pages. Only very minor edge wear.
EERIE TALES
#10 FN- £15 Ross Andru cover. Reprints Spook #27 from Star (1953). Pre-code horror. L B Cole art.
#11 FN £20 Ross Andru cover. Reprints Purple Claw #3 from Toby (1953). Pre-code horror.
#12 VG- £10 Ross Andru cover. Reprints Avon’s Eerie #1 (1951). Pre-code horror. Fred Kida art.
#15 FN/VF £40 (Just Eerie on cover) Ross Andru cover. Reprints Star’s Blue Bolt #113 (1952). Pre-code horror. Jay Disbrow and Basil Wolverton art.