*DC: A rare opportunity to collect a nice copy of All Star Comics this week, the home of the Justice Society of America, the Golden Age forerunners of the Justice League of America. The JSA in this December 1942/January 1943 issue comprises Hawkman, Dr Fate, Atom, Sandman, Spectre, Johnny Thunder, Dr Midnite and Wonder Woman. The story follows the usual pattern of the team together at the beginning and the end, with several chapters by different artists where our heroes embark on solo or team missions. The plot for this issue involves the JSA providing food for Europe as they battled the Nazis (plenty of Hitler panels within).
This copy from the Bute Collection is superficially a superb copy, with a totally intact spine (tiny nick at top), minimal wear, tight and flat with excellent staples and a vibrant colour cover with great reflectivity. There is a very, very slight mis-cut so that the cover is just off square. The top edge finish looks tight but we can see no evidence of trimming and the comic compares favourably with other contemporary issues in respect of its dimensions. We have awarded it an Apparent grade due to internal page damage. There are margin tears to several pages, resulting in many cases of thumbnail size chunks out, restricted to margins only. More seriously, there are slightly bigger chunks out of three pages and one small corner off. Two of these (only) eat into the text and we have shown the worst of that in extra images below. Priced much lower than a copy in such nice condition without these flaws would be. High resolution images are available on request. 
PICTURED: ALL STAR COMICS #14 Apparent FN £525 SOLD