American Comics Update: Tales Of Suspense #3 & #4 1959
*Marvel: Back before the Marvel Age of Comics, before even the Big Panty Monster era, the nascent Marvel were producing a range of new titles (such as Tales Of Suspense and Tales To Astonish) mixed with titles carrying on from their Atlas versions (such as Journey Into Mystery and Strange Tales) which contained several science fiction and mystery stories per issue, mostly written by Stan Lee (sometimes with the aid of Larry Leiber, sometimes Leiber solo) and drawn by the crop of artists who would soon star in the Marvel Silver Age bullpen. Two early examples of Tales Of Suspense this week.
PICTURED: TALES OF SUSPENSE
#3 GD £100 Cover by John Buscema; interior art by Kirby, Ditko, Reinman, Heck and Sinnott. A worn copy with a good cover image. 3 cm upper spine split; small lower spine split with small chip off back cover spine and small corner off back cover left edge. Minor chipping along top edge, and lots of fine colour-breaking creases mostly in the cover corners. Staples are pretty tight and firm, and pages are a decent creamy shade.
#4 VG £215 SOLD Cover by Jack Kirby; interior art by Sinnott, Kirby, Burgos, Williamson and Ditko. Decent copy approaching mid-grade with a strong cover image with sharp colours. Intact spine with some creasing breaking colour along most of its length. Otherwise only minor edge wear with a tiny crease across bottom right corner and a short (interior) sealed tear at centre right edge. Good staples throughout and supple off-white pages.